▲ 827 ▼ Aaron is no longer considered as cofounder by reddit. He fought for free speech. (lemmy.world) submitted 3 years ago by Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world 215 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 11 points 3 years ago (2 children) One of the cofounders of Reddit. Killed himself. Here's his wiki. Aaron Swartz permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Querk@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) What an appropriate homage - linking to one of markdown's originator's Wikipedia page using markdown. "In 2002 Aaron Swartz created atx and referred to it as "the true structured text format". Gruber created the Markdown language in 2004, with Swartz acting as beta tester ... Markdown: Swartz was a major contributor to John Gruber's Markdown,[249][250] a lightweight markup language for generating HTML, and author of its html2text translator. The syntax for Markdown was influenced by Swartz's earlier atx language (2002)" from wikipedia permalink fedilink source parent [–] quicksand@lemm.ee 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Oh wow holy shit that link thing worked permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] quicksand@lemm.ee 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) Brackets for the words you want. Immediately followed by parentheses. I'm sure this confuses some British folk but that's a problem for another day permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Psythik@lemm.ee 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) From a technical standpoint it irritates me that it's not the URL in brackets and the words in parenthesis. But I also got used to it over 10 years ago so it is what it is. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] quicksand@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago I'm curious why it is technically wrong. My only knowledge of programming is Matlab and a Coursera course on Intro to Python, so I have no idea why it would matter one way or the other. What is the technical standpoint you are referencing? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Querk@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) What an appropriate homage - linking to one of markdown's originator's Wikipedia page using markdown. "In 2002 Aaron Swartz created atx and referred to it as "the true structured text format". Gruber created the Markdown language in 2004, with Swartz acting as beta tester ... Markdown: Swartz was a major contributor to John Gruber's Markdown,[249][250] a lightweight markup language for generating HTML, and author of its html2text translator. The syntax for Markdown was influenced by Swartz's earlier atx language (2002)" from wikipedia permalink fedilink source parent
[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Oh wow holy shit that link thing worked permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] quicksand@lemm.ee 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) Brackets for the words you want. Immediately followed by parentheses. I'm sure this confuses some British folk but that's a problem for another day permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Psythik@lemm.ee 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) From a technical standpoint it irritates me that it's not the URL in brackets and the words in parenthesis. But I also got used to it over 10 years ago so it is what it is. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] quicksand@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago I'm curious why it is technically wrong. My only knowledge of programming is Matlab and a Coursera course on Intro to Python, so I have no idea why it would matter one way or the other. What is the technical standpoint you are referencing? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) Brackets for the words you want. Immediately followed by parentheses. I'm sure this confuses some British folk but that's a problem for another day permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Psythik@lemm.ee 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) From a technical standpoint it irritates me that it's not the URL in brackets and the words in parenthesis. But I also got used to it over 10 years ago so it is what it is. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] quicksand@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago I'm curious why it is technically wrong. My only knowledge of programming is Matlab and a Coursera course on Intro to Python, so I have no idea why it would matter one way or the other. What is the technical standpoint you are referencing? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) From a technical standpoint it irritates me that it's not the URL in brackets and the words in parenthesis. But I also got used to it over 10 years ago so it is what it is. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] quicksand@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago I'm curious why it is technically wrong. My only knowledge of programming is Matlab and a Coursera course on Intro to Python, so I have no idea why it would matter one way or the other. What is the technical standpoint you are referencing? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago I'm curious why it is technically wrong. My only knowledge of programming is Matlab and a Coursera course on Intro to Python, so I have no idea why it would matter one way or the other. What is the technical standpoint you are referencing? permalink fedilink source parent
