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Re:The Future of Markdown by stickfigure on Friday October 26, 2012 @12:58AM (#4700924)
You've never been enraged by poorly written tools or technologies? There have been times I wished I could reach through my monitor and throttle some well-meaning idiot for wasting hours or days of my time.

Imagine that you're a mechanic working on a motor that uses the ProprietaryNew fastener (hex heads? so 20th century!). Unfortunately, the only ProprietaryNew wrenches are made out of cheap metal, and the sockets strip with regularity. You can't imagine saying a few nasty words about the parentage of everyone in ProprietaryNewCo?

Re:The Future of Markdown by jopt on Friday October 26, 2012 @03:06AM (#4701187)
Gruber has a long-standing money-back policy
Re:The Future of Markdown by icebraining on Monday October 29, 2012 @08:02AM (#4711865)
What about a time-back policy?
Re:The Future of Markdown by jarek on Friday October 26, 2012 @01:52AM (#4701019)
You have not yet attained the Zen of HN :(