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Commented on PSA: Why there won't be a third book in the Halting State trilogy
Imagine how Walter Jon Williams felt when Deep State was released just prior to the "Arab Spring" uprisings, where his "near-future fiction" novel seemed like more a template for the existing revolution than work of fiction. You'd think the media...
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Commented on CMAP: "Why do you use Microsoft Word?"
Here's hoping eventually the new breed of cloud-based, Markdown-friendly collaboration platforms -- like Draft or Editorially -- gain a little traction in the publishing world. Markdown is about as easy as it gets, and while both systems are very easy...
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Commented on The regular holy war ...
Unity seems to have been designed by people who don't open multiple windows in the same application. I mean, who'd do that? In any case, those of us who make a living with Linux salute you for the testimonial, though...
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Commented on Why Microsoft Word must Die
Didn't Word 5.1 (Mac) offer the useful option of slowing the document's scroll speed -- a feature they then took out. It seems the Interwebs have spawned a lot of new tools for researchers and programmers, but it's done damned...
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Commented on Lies, damned lies, and popular beliefs
Here in the USA, I'd suggest a lot of entities simply have an interest in a frightened populace -- the police, the government, politicos in general, the military, security businesses, gun manufacturers, whole swaths of the media, etc. Is this...
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