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Something I've used time and again when I was still primarily using Windows: Jarte (https://www.jarte.com/). It's small, portable, and works well with RTF files.

Apparently, it can also work with .DOC and .DOCX files (https://www.jarte.com/features.html), but I've never tried it myself.


> Michael Fogus (blogger, Closure book author, and all around language nerd) wrote a fascinating article called "fleunpunkt lisps" (forgive spelling)

Was it "Fluchtpunkt Lisp" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45838440-fluchtpunkt-lis...)? I tried searching for it, but this is probably the closest I've seen.


Here it is. You'll see that phrase a bit lower in the page. https://leanpub.com/readevalprintlove001/read

it was issue number 1 of the newsletter.

http://readevalprintlove.fogus.me/

Read-Eval-Print-λove is an N-monthly newsletter of original content and curation about the Lisp family of programming languages and little-languages in general.


Yeah, that is it. My German spelling is no bueno.


Not sure if these fit what you're looking for, but there are a couple of disassemblers for Z-Code files:

- Disinformation: http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/infocom/tools/

- Reform: http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/infocom/tools/re...


> I use Thunderbird - The only desktop client which has both Windows/Linux versions (with identical UIs)

There's also Sylpheed (https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/) and Claws Mail (https://www.claws-mail.org/).


Thanks, I've also noticed the two programs, but poor HTML support for both of those is kind of a bummer...

If I were just using email with developers I would not care about sending/receiving only text emails, but unfortunately the real world is a bit more complicated than that...



Available to everybody by clicking on the link labeled “past” at the top. I don’t know why you chose to highlight those specific four submissions – only one of those received any comments, and that one got a total of three comments.


Not that it matters, but this was the submission that garnered, I believe, the most traction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6547912

On topic: I was just mentioned this book to a coworker last week. I highly suggest Scott Adams' book How to Fail at Almost Anything and Still Win Big.


What's happening is it's getting a lot cheaper to buy votes on Hacker News. People have offered to do it for me to get the O(n) search papers I resubmit every quarter to the front page. Folks assure me "it's way cheaper than it used to be!"


Why would anyone do that? In particular, why would anyone pay to get an article on HN that has been there before?


Why does anyone pay money to promote anything when often you can simply deal directly with the aggregator: the illusion of authenticity and relevance.


Indeed. The submission's title should then be changed perhaps to "Bato - the Ruby programming language in Filipino/Tagalog," or perhaps "Bato - Ruby made Filipino/Tagalog."



Hear, hear.


Until you start hankering for "rebase" or any other history-altering commands. However, if you don't generally use them, Fossil should be able to suit your VCS needs well enough.


Veracity[0] also had the same "distributed bug tracking" feature built in. Too bad the Sourcegear guys gave up on developing it further.

[0]: http://veracity-scm.com/


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