reddit

markdown

Toward a Better Markdown Tutorial

It's always surprised me when people, especially technical people, say they don't know Markdown [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown]. Do you not use GitHub? Stack Overflow? Reddit? I get that an average person may not understand how Markdown is based on simple old-school plaintext ASCII

By Jeff Atwood ·
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lisp

Reddit: Language vs. Platform

My previous entry, Twitter: Service vs. Platform, was widely misunderstood. I suppose I only have myself to blame, so I'll try to clarify with another example. Consider Reddit. The Reddit development team switched from Lisp to Python late in 2005: If Lisp is so great, why did we

By Jeff Atwood ·
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