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flowereateron What is LaTeX and Why You Should Care

It would be great if someone out there did a blind test of Word vs LaTeX layout. It doesn't seem like it would be that difficult -- just get a few pages of text from Gutenberg and render it in both Word and LaTeX.

flowereateron Ask HN: Good Aeron knock-off/alternative?

Second the steelcase leap. It has a nice "recline mode" which I make copious use of. Make sure you get the version 2.

flowereateron FTC halts domain-name registration scam

what, and they only had to pay back $10,000 of the millions of dollars they took?

flowereateron What you say about others says a lot about you

A similar article from 4 years ago: http://tastyresearch.com/2006/10/12/people-take-on-the-trait...

flowereateron What is LaTeX and Why You Should Care

Ligatures, kerning, hyphenation, etc. can be enabled in Word: http://jeffhuang.com/better_word_papers.html

It's just not on by default which is a shame.