Download as PDF skips all people/document mentions.
I expected some alternative text or link, but it skips.
Screenshot of the Introduction to Quip PDF: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14308170/quip.png
Introducing Quip
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Totally agreed -- I'm skipping it for now. "View my contacts" would have been one thing, but "manage"? Be nice if one could try the tool and invite friends later.
We don't save your contacts. We use it to find existing contacts on Quip. Sorry it isn't an option. -- Bret
Why not offer a $1.99 version without having to create an account. Everything these days is "create an account", "allow access to contacts", "sync with FB" - gets annoying.
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#53This looks great and I'm hopeful that it will do well. Having said that I can't help but think how strange it is that the launch of another word processor is novel enough to reach the front page of HN. I understand that the co-founders are big names in the valley but a word processor? Perhaps I'm missing something but the technology here seems anything but front page worthy.
It's a novel way of implementing a word processor and from the screenshots looks like a good start. I'm getting pretty tired of these "how does this belong on HN" posts. Face it, most things in computer science have been invented before. The interesting thing is how well a product has been executed. Should we not have linked to the announcement of Facebook or Dropbox when they were announced, just because social netw…
> Face it, most things in computer science have been invented before.
It'll be hard to convince me that in only 400 years of its existence we've managed to exhaust the majority of our capacity to expand computer science.
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#54how is this wildly different than evernote? is it support of multiple types of documents (spreadsheets etc)? i was looking at the bullets under "what quip does differently", and i feel like evernote addresses all of those things. what am i missing?
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#55sooo... trello meets google docs?
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#56I don't understand why do all (and I mean ALL) screenshots have to be on an Apple device? Are you selling iPads or iPhones? Shouldn't your focus be on your product and not on Apple's product?
Perhaps in the beginning somebody could be fooled that if you like awesome Apple products your product will be awesome as well. Or that because iThingies near perfection your service is also going to be highly polished. Obviously, that is more often false than true - you're a damn startup and the products on the screenshots are sometimes little more than MVPs (not in this case, I guess).
What is wrong with just a screenshot?
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#57Meh, MS Word is a horrible piece of software, but it does its job, how is this different? Collaboration? Good luck convincing the business world only with that, they have been emailing files for 20 years and they have been reading paper for over a century. Really, good luck. Then, format? Open, closed? Are we again proposing creating documents on proprietary formats after all the issues we saw with .doc and friends?
One of the problems I have with word is that the paper paradigms still dominate everything there.
An word processor that is more rooted in the digital age have a fair shot if executed correctly.
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#58How your website looks when accessed over my 3G connection:
Annoyingly, all your images are loaded first (and judging from the load times, they're not that small).
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#59I don't understand why do all (and I mean ALL) screenshots have to be on an Apple device? Are you selling iPads or iPhones? Shouldn't your focus be on your product and not on Apple's product? Perhaps in the beginning somebody could be fooled that if you like awesome Apple products your product will be awesome as well. Or that because iThingies near perfection your service is also going to be highly polished. Obviousl…
Doesn't look as nice. Apple sells. You don't reinvent the wheel when it's running well.
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#60I wish developers would experiment with new ways of "typing" on touch-screen devices. And I put typing in quotes because maybe writing on touch-screen devices should take on a new form. This "disruptive shift" would not be complete without a better way of working on tablet.