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Xkcd book tour announced - meet Randall Sept 22nd at Y Combinator

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Re: Xkcd book tour announced - meet Randall Sept 22nd at Y Combinator

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Post by RyanMcGreal »

fallintothis wrote: post #16
kn0thing wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're also doing a [reddit-powered interview with Randall]( http://www.reddit.com/comments/9ihy8/ask_randall_munroe_xkcd... ) - he'll answer the top 10 questions at the SF event (if you can't make it, we'll be live [on justin.tv]( http://justin.tv/reddit ). Geek Reading starts at 7 p.m. at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. Please RSVP to events@eff.org. Admission is $30, and attendees must be 21+.

Somebody's used to reddit's markdown syntax. :)

Why doesn't HN use markdown?

Re: Xkcd book tour announced - meet Randall Sept 22nd at Y Combinator

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Post by timcederman »

fuzzmeister wrote: post #20
kn0thing wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's on the Green Line, isn't it?

Just past Chestnut Hill, actually.

I catch the green line out just past Chestnut Hill every day and there certainly isn't a Brisbane, Australia out there, or I'd be at Gelateria Cremona every day.

(I'm from Brisbane originally)

Re: Xkcd book tour announced - meet Randall Sept 22nd at Y Combinator

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Post by SwellJoe »

RyanMcGreal wrote: post #21
fallintothis wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Somebody's used to reddit's markdown syntax. :)

Why doesn't HN use markdown?

HN does use Markdown...it's just a very incomplete implementation. Since HN is written in Arc, there would have been no off-the-shelf parser, and I assume pg opted to use the simplest subset that would work. There also seems to be an aversion to fancy-pants stuff on HN, so it may be intentional. Why get clever when clarity isn't improved by doing so? (That said, I kinda miss having full Markdown link support.)

Re: Xkcd book tour announced - meet Randall Sept 22nd at Y Combinator

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Post by JacobAldridge »

timcederman wrote: post #23
fuzzmeister wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just past Chestnut Hill, actually.

I catch the green line out just past Chestnut Hill every day and there certainly isn't a Brisbane, Australia out there, or I'd be at Gelateria Cremona every day. (I'm from Brisbane originally)

I actually took my now-wife to the Gelateria Cremona on one of our first dates. Had completely forgotten it existed ... I sense a return sometime soon.

Re: Xkcd book tour announced - meet Randall Sept 22nd at Y Combinator

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Post by RyanMcGreal »

SwellJoe wrote: post #25
RyanMcGreal wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why doesn't HN use markdown?

HN does use Markdown...it's just a very incomplete implementation. Since HN is written in Arc, there would have been no off-the-shelf parser, and I assume pg opted to use the simplest subset that would work. There also seems to be an aversion to fancy-pants stuff on HN, so it may be intentional. Why get clever when clarity isn't improved by doing so? (That said, I kinda miss having full Markdown link support.)

Thanks for the explanation; but I don't really think that hyperlink anchors, block quotations and lists (ordered and unordered) qualify as "fancy-pants". :)
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