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Re:Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (usi... by xlnt on Thursday April 17, 2008 @08:39PM (#166841)
i never liked acrobat reader on windows much. maybe that's it? or people just don't know where to host their pdfs. or don't know how to make pdfs.
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Re:Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (usi... by rms on Thursday April 17, 2008 @08:51PM (#166846)
Definitely... the .pdf readers in OSX and Linux work much better.

The .pdf reader in Windows that feels the most like a *nix .pdf reader is Foxit PDF. The Foxit PDF editor is also pretty nice, it lets you edit .pdfs at a relatively low level of markup and spacing.

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Re:Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (usi... by amichail on Thursday April 17, 2008 @08:50PM (#166845)
So maybe the popularity comes out of ignorance?
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Re:Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (usi... by xlnt on Thursday April 17, 2008 @08:51PM (#166847)
yes. but that's not necessarily a bad thing to say about scribd. if scribd makes it easier for people to not know anything about how to use computers, then that's valuable to lots of people.
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Re:Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (usi... by amichail on Thursday April 17, 2008 @09:29PM (#166865)
Scribd should win some award for being the most counterintuitive successful startup. It's hard to imagine that computer science majors came up with this idea!
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Re:Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (usi... by xlnt on Thursday April 17, 2008 @09:33PM (#166866)
youtube doesn't do much besides make a few things easy: make a file web accessible and convert to another format and provide comments and some text people can paste to embed it, and i guess favorites and a bit more -- all the kinds of things scribd has i think. plus give away free storage space and bandwidth, which scribd does too.
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