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silverreadson From Dec 9 free users are limited to 15 tracks

well damn because I have about 20

silverreadson Ask HN: What should be taught in high school?

how to store info, how to document info, how to use info.

basic datatypes in common languages and databases, document webs structures (the web, wikis, helpdesk knowledgebases, hypercard), basic macros in common desktop tools.

silverreadson Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

Last week I wrote a shell one liner to find all the chapter titles in a book's ToC, grab the line numbers for each chapter start in the text, and head/tail the text into individual chapter files. These files are then sent to me via jabber one per morning and discarded.

I just finished part 1 of a tale of two cities this way.