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by bowerbird 12y ago
excellent! thanks! -bowerbird
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by bowerbird 12y ago
another interesting topic that floats by on hackernews, with no upvotes (except mine) and no comments (except mine). does anybody have any suggestions for a smarter site? -bowerbird
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4 stages of writing longform, and interface ramifications(zenmagiclove.com)
2 points by bowerbird 12y ago|0 comments
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by bowerbird 12y ago
i've developed a system. should be out "real soon now". but if you want something that's been out for a while, and has been shaken down pretty well, try leanpub.com. there's also pressbooks.com, and penflip.com, an
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by bowerbird 12y ago
ya know, i've see you pointing to this before. and i should have realized then how cool it is. but it only occurred to me now. good job, dude! i will be in touch with you. -bowerbird
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by bowerbird 12y ago
perhaps you meant penflip's loren, not the original poster? if so, then yes, what i'm saying exactly is that _loren_ could have saved himself time and trouble, in the long run, by coding a purpose-built system, instead of hacking
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by bowerbird 12y ago
i wasn't saying this person should've built a new system. indeed, what i said is, if you already know git/hub, use it, as you can sidestep its problem areas, to get what you need. but in the long run, github won't work f
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by bowerbird 12y ago
don't know why you're getting no discussion here. couple typos: "the the" and "this is can". -bowerbird
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by bowerbird 12y ago
um... leanpub.com has been around for several years now. and they only introduced the github integration this month. so you can't really say that is "_exactly_ what it's about." or even that it has yet had much of a sha
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by bowerbird 12y ago
if you already know git (or github), it'll work for books. but i doubt it's the best change-tracking system for them. too much irrelevant crap, and it doesn't cut to the heart of those things that actually need to be done for
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by bowerbird 12y ago
hi. bowerbird here, checking in with you two. i haven't forgotten you, just been working on smoothing out the latest wrinkle in my thinking, which i do believe has made a huge improvement. i'll get some stuff to both of you, quit
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by bowerbird 12y ago
on the other hand, i know photographers in art/advertising -- working for some of the biggest companies, like apple -- who brag that "not one pixel goes out without being touched". -bowerbird
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by bowerbird 12y ago
> I grew up just as computers were becoming mainstream, > the spread of the internet coincided with my teens, > saw the rise of “Web 2.0” during college i usually eat up these stories. but your vague phrases, on both sides of
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by bowerbird 12y ago
loved this program when i was working with book-scans! it saved me _so_ much time and hassle! my best wishes! -bowerbird
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by bowerbird 12y ago
not what i thought it would be. -bowerbird
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by bowerbird 12y ago
markdown was _released_ 10 years ago, that's true. but it's not entirely accurate to say it was "invented". let me be more clear: markdown was _not_ "invented". gruber was blogging with movable type, which was
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by bowerbird 12y ago
i think most people will tell you that it _is_ easier. first, it's one character, as opposed to three or four. and, as you get into longer tags, like "em" or "strong", so grows the amount of excess typing you'l
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Strapdown.js – instant and elegant markdown documents(strapdownjs.com)
1 points by bowerbird 12y ago|0 comments
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by bowerbird 12y ago
-3 on that one. i forget this is the tech hangout for the wanna-be-rich. so now i'm sitting here trying to decide whether i can come up with something that will make you all understand how the super-duper-massively-rich have rigged the
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by bowerbird 12y ago
it's 100% accurate, and a dead-on description of the truth. because the truth is that effort failed to produce anything. i'm very sorry that it bothers you. but it is _the_truth._ it is _the_whole_truth_, and it is _nothing_but_th
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by bowerbird 12y ago
even 0.1% overstates the real number of the ruling class. google tells me there are some 1600+ billionaires today. those are the guys (and a few girls) who are really dirty. you can't get (or stay) that rich without hurting people. thi
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by bowerbird 12y ago
ok, that didn't take long. can't open your .epub file. it doesn't validate, and i wonder if anyone can open it. so that's a major problem that you will need to solve... unzipped it to find out why, and discovered it was
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by bowerbird 12y ago
got 'em, and will take a look at them, and e-mail feedback. -bowerbird
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by bowerbird 12y ago
wow! minus-4 on that post! hey, _i_ wasn't responsible for the fact that atwood's call resulted in _nothing_happening._ i was one of the people who hoped that it would! but the hard cold truth is that it went nowhere. it produced
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by bowerbird 12y ago
jamesbritt said: > getting the PDF just right was important to me. i respect that. how were you generating the .pdf? * > Since the user can set the font and text size > the idea of page size goes pretty much out the window.
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by bowerbird 12y ago
what happened to what effort? the one that failed to produce anything? well, that's easy: it failed to produce anything. -bowerbird
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by bowerbird 12y ago
pagination and breaks can be problematic in e-books, especially in conjunction with illustrations/captions. but one shouldn't need to move stuff to indesign, as most e-book viewer-apps support css "page-break" now. anoth
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by bowerbird 12y ago
"surprising" is one thing. but it's downright _scary_ how people get so _zealous_ once they firmly believe they are "objectively right". i don't know if i'm happy or sad this tendency has been adopted by t
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by bowerbird 12y ago
> in our spare time over the past 3 days. nice work. you went in with a clear head. congratulations. i will watch your further development. -bowerbird
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by bowerbird 12y ago
i saw ratings all along the scale; that is still the case. and i don't know, in advance, how "happy" people here are, so even if there _was_ some skew, i couldn't interpret it. and if i did, it might be "experimente

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