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This was the subject of a really nice NYTimes "Letter of Recommendation" recently https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/magazine/letter-of-recomm...

Hey - would love to be added :) id is n0nick. Thanks!!

Woah. When I last (tried to) start reading Ulysees, almost a year ago, I thought about this: An online "book club", allowing users to join in reading classics and participate in discussions on top of the text. That would have certainly helped me continue reading the book. Eventually I put the book back on the shelf, and wrote down the idea in my ~/ideas.md.

Your 'read' page [1] is exactly as I pictured it. Looks like an interesting, important effort. Kudos!

[1] http://www.infiniteulysses.com/ulysses/3

> The one unconventional suggestion is the idea of a correspondence between the characters of the source text and the HTML text.

Did you get a chance to check out fellow HN homepage link Paperman [1][2]? It offers exactly what you propose: Double-clicking on the results frame highlights the relevant line in the source, and vice versa. This could easily be adapted to match your suggestion.

[1] http://paperman.patricklorio.com/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8507310

This seems to correlate to a Hebrew expression "buying a cat in a sack", meaning taking something without confirming its quality. Indeed, same legend is presented as the source for this expression as well.

Took me a couple minutes to find a link to a demo site: http://gitbucket.herokuapp.com/

EDIT: credentials are root/root

I'm guessing programming language of the project.

^ This. Exactly!

Thanks for articulating the thought process I'm having almost every day right before lunch time.

Someone whose stock property ("paper") can be valued as > $1M, i.e. If they sell their TWTR stocks now they will be 'actual' cash millionaires.

+1 for reslate :)

I use it combined with a hyper key mapping (similar to OP) and enjoy it very much.

my config file: https://github.com/n0nick/dotfiles/blob/master/slate/slate.j...

> Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn were all among the 10 biggest IPO’s ever

Twitter's IPO? Not quite yet...

Still alive: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/

The sea of useless social buttons and links made it impossible for me to read this on a phone. I hate it when blogs do that. https://www.dropbox.com/s/cmz5rd0l8lu1g36/2013-09-25%2020.46...

Not totally unintentional, since it was created by a website dedicated to app discovery... But yeah, I discovered some new interesting apps myself :)

> You read code when you're programming. The only difference is the mix of characters you'll see near each other. General readability matters -- when is it OK for a regular font to be unclear about which character (a zero or 'O') you're looking at?

The difference in mix of characters reflects on the design decisions made for the font type. Target use is important. Some types are great for titles, some for text bodies, some for logos. It makes sense to me that code is another category.

Yes, readability is important, but it's not binary. The level and aspects of readability required for a novel body are not the same as for an article title.

Differentiating between zero 0 and uppercase O is critical for code (and work terminals, and perhaps data tables), but IMHO isn't interesting when designing for text bodies. Same goes for 'rn' and other issues that have ever annoyed only programmers.

Pretty cool! Reminds me of the UI on medium.com (selecting text on view mode allows sharing and commenting, and on edit mode pops up a floating format toolbar).

I really like your idea, but what about content being changed/updated, instead of deleted?

For some use cases it would make sense to show the cache (when the original quote is no longer there), while for other it'd make sense to forward (some style update, or an important addition).

How do you think can such service handle this?

"I don't know what I could do with the money. I'd just start another social networking site. I kind of like the one I already have."

This is a brilliant quote, evidence for Zuck's true passion to his work and product. Inspiring.

Off the top of my head, this move also means that most, or at least some, of the Opera developers who worked on its rendering engines, will now be contributing to WebKit and V8.

This might mean even faster development cycles for WebKit, the integration of new features that were not on top of Google's and Apple's lists, and some new complications introduced to the inner politics of the WebKit and V8 projects.

It's a quote from the server's homepage http://ftp.arl.army.mil/

Sweet! :) I love your responsiveness here on HN, pretty impressive.

That's awesome, now put a link to a license that legally defines how can one use them, to avoid legal confusions.

May I suggest CC http://creativecommons.org/ ? :)

Very cute idea.

I might be missing something here, but - where's the license to the photos? These would obviously be useful for commercial purposes, but I have to see some usage license for it.

The thing is, I actually did install most of the software you mentioned, and most of them just ask you for some credentials and run the db initialisation and population themselves. WordPress goes so far as to do that via a post-upload web interface, which is a superb UX IMHO, and something I remember writing into my own open-source PHP projects 10 years ago [1].

I really don't mean to disrespect but I think in the age of Rails and ORMs, these sort of tasks can be implemented even easier for the user and cleaner for the integrating apps.

That being said, I realise that GitLab relies heavily on some system-heavy dependencies (cough gitolite), and whoever wrote the installation guide is probably a system guy that didn't want to hide any of the details behind some automatic script. I just suggest that this should be the "Installation for Advanced Users" doc that's the alternative to some automated process.

[1] figuring this out made me feel very old.

I haven't tried running it on my development machine; last time I tried installing it, it was on the server we use at work to host our git repositories.

Since it was already a dedicated server machine (which we even use sometimes to host some small web apps), I thought I had my work cut out for me.

It was the amount of system work required (sudo-ing, chmod-ing, installing mysql because we only used postgres before, creating users) that made me give up eventually.

I want to give GitLab another try, so I'll see into using Vagrant for that. But I still believe some install scripts would be very much appreciated and help the project gain popularity.

Btw, re Python - I still see the paragraph "Make sure you have the right version of Python installed" on: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/4-0-stable/doc/ins...

Silly me trying to use newlines in HN :) Hope the comment is still readable.

First of all, thanks a lot for the quick response.

Let me apologise in advance for complaining on an open-source project instead of trying to contribute.

Anyway, my personal feelings were that some of the dependencies could have been avoided (or perhaps set to some default value), at least for the community edition that I'm supposed to get up and running on an existing server machine.

Some examples: * Requiring Python (for a Rails project!), * Asking me to create special system users for the processes, * Setting paths, keys and chmods manually (and not in some install.sh process), * Configuring a database and access to it (this could easily use a default setting that pro users could edit manually).

From the comments around here, I realize that maybe I looked at the project in the wrong way and it should be installed either as a standalone service or as a virtual machine. If that's the case, I think a short Readme or Install doc explaining that would be very helpful for most users.

GitLab looks awesome, both features and design wise, but the installation process is so tedious and complicated that I quit in the middle of it more than once: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/4-0-stable/doc/ins...

This is feedback I heard from fellow developers as well.

I'm curious as to whether the maintainers are planning to simplify the list of dependencies and installation steps in the upcoming versions.

Cool, I'll open an issue on GitHub and I hope I'll have time to do some research for this over this weekend or the next one.