More good things and bad things
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		@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ because variable pitch fonts are infinitely more pleasant to read.
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The only redeeming quality is how well these work over slow links.
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Pop-ups
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Anything that shows up and changes the consequences of the user's actions, if it
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doesn't appear as an _immediate result_ of the user doing something, is pure
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evil.  Sadly, this is sometimes hard to avoid, or the cost is too high.
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ASCII
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Outdated, made for teletypes.  Unicode mostly just adds more complexity (and
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@@ -35,7 +41,7 @@ I don't like, perhaps even banning certain characters where possible.
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Centralisation
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Try to build things so that they survive outages--resilient, robust, and even
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anti-fragile.  Admittably, this principle is hard for humans to follow.
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anti-fragile.  Admittedly, this principle is hard for humans to follow.
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Speaking of which, project Haven has no public mirrors yet.  Not that it matters
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thus far... but eventually we should at least set up mirrorring to repo.or.cz,
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@@ -93,9 +93,21 @@ I despise Markdown for its choices, and I don't want to suffer while writing.
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Granted, I can see some faults in AsciiDoc as well, notably with how hard it is
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to parse and process, but I haven't found anything better yet.  One day I might
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create a processor for a slightly modified subset of it.  Until then,
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libasciidoc is what I'll be using for all markup.
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libasciidoc is what I'll be using for all markup, and I'm immensely thankful to
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its authors for their work.
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Plan 9, Go
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Pervasive simplicity.  Sometimes it's annoying but overall you get the feeling
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you have the entire platform under your control.
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Pervasive simplicity.  Sometimes it's annoying (one could say '`misplaced`')
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but overall you get the feeling you have the entire platform under your control.
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Oberon OS
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An exercise in vertical integration, going as deep down as the CPU.
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Also something completely different from what you can find today, exploring
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a new way of controlling the computer.
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Smalltalk
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The application is a live system, powered by a simple programming language.
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You can change anything you want, and see the results instantly.
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