I totally fubared the formatting in that post. The first problem is the asterisk in "fXckwits" (replaced with an 'X' here). I thought the formatting rules were that text surrounded by asterisks would be bolded, _if_ the asterisks were surrounded by whitespace. Parsing bug?
I tried to fix in one edit, apparently my edit timeout window's expired, so the post stands as is slightly borked.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2806018
I totally fubared the formatting in that post. The first problem is the asterisk in "fXckwits" (replaced with an 'X' here). I thought the formatting rules were that text surrounded by asterisks would be bolded, _if_ the asterisks were surrounded by whitespace. Parsing bug?
I tried to fix in one edit, apparently my edit timeout window's expired, so the post stands as is slightly borked.