Is the formatting for news.yc documented anywhere, btw?
If it is, link plz.
Is PG neglecting his users?! And how is this?! So he's a bad teacher, not following his own advices. That's sad.
He is kinda busy, you know. This isn't a business. If he had neglected users at Viaweb that would be different.
(I just find it curious that any single user here has to guess how to do proper formatting.)
Probably not. All I know: using one star on each sides of something for italics, two for bold, and if you put a space at the beginning of a line, you get fixed-width font (for code).
and links get auto <a href>'d if you use the full http:// address
No bold here; two stars just cancel each other out.