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Re:Hypercard – Way Too Early by flomo on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @03:16AM (#7384373)
Sorry, I wrote a fairly long reply and HN told me my link had expired and the text was lost. Perhaps too long then :)

In any case, Notes ended up sucking, anyone who saw what happened can toast to that.

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Re:Hypercard – Way Too Early by lutusp on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @03:33AM (#7384410)
> Sorry, I wrote a fairly long reply and HN told me my link had expired and the text was lost.

Some suggestions. First, if you've typed longer than a minute, make a backup copy of your reply, even go so far as to compose it in a separate text editor, then paste the result into HN. Second, if you encounter the dreaded "link expired" message, select all (Ctrl+A) then copy (Ctrl+C) the content of the entry window, then press browser refresh, then paste (Ctrl+V) the text you just copied. Then click "Reply."

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Re:Hypercard – Way Too Early by flomo on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @03:55AM (#7384465)
Hypothetically, if you stumbled upon some folks arguing about Lotus Notes R3, wouldn't you assume they knew the standard windows shortcuts?

(Trick question, R3 only had ctrl-insert etc OS/2 shortcuts!)

In any case I apologize my paste-buffer foibles denied you my three paragraphs of immense wisdom regarding the good & bad of an obsolete end-user friendly distributed database system that went out of style a couple decades ago.

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Re:Hypercard – Way Too Early by lutusp on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @12:47PM (#7386705)
> Hypothetically, if you stumbled upon some folks arguing about Lotus Notes R3, wouldn't you assume they knew the standard windows shortcuts?

Lowest common denominator, as they say. When I encounter someone who loses his content on the HN interface, I make some simplifying assumptions. :)

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