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213 karma · joined July 27, 2013

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/obeid; my proof: https://keybase.io/obeid/sigs/6t5uqjOpl_P235uGIPqi1M6_oI_M61mQrCsK34pJAm8 ]
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obeid··on Standard Markdown
I mentioned this on twitter to @defunkt (https://twitter.com/_beid/status/507269600401440768)

I don't agree that it should be defined in markdown, RTL languages should be detected by the parser and be outputted within a block-level element, P is good, with dir="rtl" as you mentioned.

obeid··on Ask HN: What language should I learn first?
Python
obeid··on Pinboard 2014 Expenses
Is Pinboard still maintained by just one person?*

(*)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8069474

obeid··on Ask HN: What are some amazing web products made by one person only?
I mean still run and maintained by only that one person who started it.
obeid··on Ask HN: What are some amazing web products made by one person only?
I will list one of my own favorites, Draft, by Nathan Kontny.
obeid··on Earnest – A writing tool for first drafts
When testing a new writing app, I tend to write a stream of consciousness kind of thing. Here's what I wrote to test the app. "This is an experiemnt with Earnets. I'm not quite sure how this works. This is another sentence. The word count is notn being updatineed ... oh I ejust realized the stupid logic of this application. Cool app, bruh."
obeid··on Ubuntu 14.04 released
Peeps, don't fuck with Ubuntu on Mac hardware unless you have reFind installed. Always useful to have the installation files on the mac as well as the ubuntu drive.
obeid··on TurboTax Maker Intuit Funnels Millions to Lobby Against Easier Tax Returns
WHAT? a corporation that capitalized on the government's incompetence is doing everything in their power to make sure things stay the same.

No come on you guys, April first was two weeks ago.

obeid··on TurboTax Maker Intuit Funnels Millions to Lobby Against Easier Tax Returns
WHAT? a corporation that capitalized on the government's incompetence, is doing everything in their power to make sure things stay the same.

No come on you guys, April first was two weeks ago.

obeid··on Developer quits GitHub due to harassment
It wouldn't matter, nothing credible will come from an anonymous account that was created an hour ago.
obeid··on Whatever Happened to MSX Computers?
A whole lot of Arabic Language technologies; machine translation, OCR and a bunch of government-scale contracts. http://www.sakhr.com/index.php/en/

Being from Kuwait, Sakhr was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title of the post.

obeid··on Show HN: My Internet life
Pretty unusable on Chrome on my Android tab.
obeid··on Allahcoin – Peer-to-peer Islamic currency
"10% of the gain will be donated to the muslim brotherhood foundation."

Am I they only one alarmed by this?

obeid··on Inkpad: Vector illustration app for the iPad, now open source
I was actually talking about clones of closed-source applications.
obeid··on Inkpad: Vector illustration app for the iPad, now open source
Very common, and even worse apple can only give two shits about what the original developer thinks.
obeid··on f.lux has been updated to a new version
Have you tried the xflux daemon? It's a command line version for X. http://justgetflux.com/linux.html
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