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Or it's an interesting insight into how the mind works of the person who reads that mail. Clearly, Ram is only trying to get around the rules because there's a bug in the iPad version of iOS.

Apple probably knows that it's their bug, and can probably reproduce it easily. But they also know that they have to keep their rules about unapproved apis consistently administrated.

So, it's a massive exception (in the throwing an exception sense) rather than an exception (in the sense of getting an allowance to the rules), so it gets handled at the top.

It's interesting to see how a company handles issues like this. I've had similar end much worse.

With what measurement, out of curiousity?

I recently did a survey of those sites, and a large number of those links are links to other similar paid products that have more or less relevance to what they're linking to or are of the '$5/month virus check' variety.

what gems are being a problem? there are frequently equivalents to the gems with similar APIs that do work with rails3. The rails community tends to be fickle and switch to 'next big things' a lot, which causes a bit of churn like this over time.

anyway, if you list them we might be able to make some suggestions.

I work really hard on my side projects in the winter, and enjoy the summers. There are only so many summers in one's life and it's good imho to enjoy them.

To what extent do the non-technical masses spend a lot of time writing formulas? That seems to be a big gating factor on the audience for this.

Is there an unmet need (other than formulas) that is solved by writing documents in latex? obviously, a lot of the tags in HTML 1.x/2.x are derivedish from LaTeX so this has worked out well for at least one person previously. On the other hand, as Yan points out, DEK and company are smart people who have given this a lot of thought.

things that will get you downvoted include statements like "wtf, you apparently don't know..."

1) impolite. 2) your comments should concentrate on what you can add to the convo, not what others haven't.

I mean, it also doesn't help that your statement was incorrect (P-system as mentioned), but being rude in what is ideally a civil forum dedicated to a stated purpose is not helpful.

One of the interesting things you see in undeveloped countries is that people squat in a position that is hideously uncomfortable if you're used to using a chair.

Here's a somewhat nutty article on it called "third world squat": http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_trai... but it is an actual thing that people and it makes for a different muscle development than chair-dwellers have.

if you're planning on making wall street-level profits, the incremental server farm costs are probably pretty small by comparison

I used to prefer OmniFocus, but I've lost enough data using it that I have switched entirely to Things. Makes me sad as I am a huge fan of OmniOutliner.

I had an officemate back in the mid 90s who was on this schedule for several years (he was a researcher able to set his own schedule for office time) and it worked quite well for him. He seemed to enjoy it and talked at length about how it was closer to the natural circadian cycle for people (which is a claim I don't know about.)

He did great work during that period; obviously this is just another anecdote but there you go.

Latin Alphabet and Arabic Numerals.

Right, which is why the Pirate party is doing it as part of their official political activities.

US Constitution, Article I, Section 6, Clause 1.

[Members of Congress] shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony, and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their attendance at the Session of their Respective Houses, and in going to and from the same, and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

Parliamentary immunity is not an concept isolated to Sweden.

there was one that did this on HN a couple of weeks ago.

There are a number of sites that do stuff like this, and I think that the way in which this one is superior is that the tab key functions in more or less the expected fashion.

i have both interviewed and given an interview using a different one of these, and there's nothing more frustrating on either side than listening to someone swear under their breath at the tab key switching up the dialog boxes and hitting the space key like it was going out of style.