bluecat22

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by bluecat22 8y ago
So there is no technical limitation of HTML itself compared to XML (doc format)? That HTML would be a just as good replacement for XML (.doc format) if someone tried to make a word processor for it?
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by bluecat22 8y ago
I meant if someone were to create a word processor in 2018, with the least amount of work, shouldn't they use HTML as the format of the document? Assuming no need to backwards compatibility with any other doc formats.
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by bluecat22 8y ago
Is it technically superior/inferior to HTML as a document format for a word processor?
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Ask HN: Why did Microsoft not use HTML instead of .doc as Word doc format?
6 points by bluecat22 8y ago|15 comments
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by bluecat22 8y ago
I think the issue will be that either your Mac will be unsupported for OSX Mojave or at most in an year or so while your machine physically will still be in good working condition.
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by bluecat22 8y ago
Because in the space of open source operating systems, we realistically only have Linux Kernel. With each new release of Linux kernel, the internal kernel interfaces that device drivers use, change. So whatever binary kernel driver the vend
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by bluecat22 8y ago
I think the idea of dumber phone introduces with it another notion, since the phone is seen more as a utilitarian tool(not for entertainment), then it should not have to be replaced frequently. With the above concept the entire discussion t
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by bluecat22 8y ago
See that's why I see CentOS as not necessarily a very good thing. It dents into the idea of making money with open source product.
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by bluecat22 8y ago
Most people won't but somebody else will make the builds and then offer those builds. Example: CentOS
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by bluecat22 8y ago
Can you elaborate why setting up a simple search engine based on common crawl was not useful?
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by bluecat22 8y ago
Look into commoncrawl.org which provides a free web index which you can query against. Now that cloud is available, you could in theory download the index and load it into Google's big query or AWS and run your experiments.
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by bluecat22 9y ago
This looks like a problem to be solved with something like a google search engine for all internal pages and wiki. Perhaps we should start machine learning to start auto tagging discussions in Slack with the context they're being done