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Daniel Kehoe
Personal blog · danielkehoe.com · on HN as DanielKehoehistorywebstartups
Daniel Kehoe's personal blog at danielkehoe.com covers history, web and startups. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Daniel Kehoe's website. Founder of Yax.com. Author of the book 'Learn Ruby on Rails.'
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I got to thinking more about this and posted an essay to my blog [1]. Looking back, I wonder if browser developers could have applied the algorithms that Tex uses and perhaps web pages would look slightly more elegant. We take for granted the world around us. Web browsers work a certain way; web pages display the same space between sentences as between words. We forget that many things we take for granted are the pr…
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on “Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors”Submitted First Encounters with the Web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm Daniel Kehoe, and I participated in the brief www-talk "Space after Periods" discussion thirty years ago (as Daniel Miles Kehoe). I wrote a blog post three years ago, "Personal History: Punctuating the Web (1993)," that offers more context and perspective on the discussion. [0] We discussed this on Hacker News three years ago when Microsoft Word began flagging double spaces after a period as errors. [1] That bri…
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on “Space After Periods (1993)”Submitted Personal History: Punctuating the Web (1993) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIn 1991, I wanted to write about the WWW for NeXTWORLD magazine. Tim Berners-Lee replied to my email, saying he was reluctant to widely publicize that code for the web was available for free, as management at CERN had not yet agreed to release it publicly. The web grew slowly the first two years. At the time, I really didn't understand his hesitance, but in hindsight it was for the best. Two years ago, I wrote about…
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on “The web’s most important decision”Submitted Resources for women doing startups as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clever Recruiting Techniques: A Flyer at a San Francisco Cafe as a story · 1 points
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