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Re:Teeny Tiny Mansion: text adventure game formally proven t... by zellyn on Monday April 17, 2017 @04:25PM (#14134110)
It appears to be a direct link to a README in a subversion repository. Are you arguing that all README files should be markdown or something?

http://www.clifford.at/svninfo.html

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Re:Teeny Tiny Mansion: text adventure game formally proven t... by sgustard on Monday April 17, 2017 @06:46PM (#14135082)
Here you go, a markdown-formatted version of the article.

https://markdownshare.com/view/bc431de6-16e7-44db-ad52-705a2...

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Re:Teeny Tiny Mansion: text adventure game formally proven t... by lucio on Monday April 17, 2017 @08:45PM (#14135671)
seeing that, I still prefer the plain text, unprocessed MD
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Re:Teeny Tiny Mansion: text adventure game formally proven t... by komali2 on Monday April 17, 2017 @04:30PM (#14134154)
Not really arguing anything. Just curious if there was a specific reason to do this over maybe throwing together a basic HTML page before submitting to a news aggregator.

I'm not making a judgement call, I'm trying to learn.

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Re:Teeny Tiny Mansion: text adventure game formally proven t... by forgotpwtomain on Monday April 17, 2017 @04:36PM (#14134190)
> Just curious if there was a specific reason to do this over maybe throwing together a basic HTML page before submitting to a news aggregator.

Articles or links can be submitted by anyone not necessarily content authors.

Further I think a lot of people here (myself) included are quite happy with plain-text (it loads fast, it works well with various font/screen sizes) - note also that the README is in fact markdown formatted, so feel free to open it in your reader of choice.

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Re:Teeny Tiny Mansion: text adventure game formally proven t... by komali2 on Monday April 17, 2017 @04:58PM (#14134370)
>README is markdown formatted

Is it? How do you see that? Or is that a different link?

Why doesn't my browser render markdown?

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Re:Teeny Tiny Mansion: text adventure game formally proven t... by wruza on Monday April 17, 2017 @07:57PM (#14135473)
It is. You have to be familiar with markdown flavors. No, same link. Browsers do not render markdown by design (there is no single standard anyway).
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Re:Teeny Tiny Mansion: text adventure game formally proven t... by zellyn on Monday April 17, 2017 @04:53PM (#14134330)
Yeah, looks like the submitter was not the author.
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