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I'm sorry, clearly I should've done even more work for you so you wouldn't have to do anything. Now I have, or at least, I spent two minutes looking thorugh th

I'm sorry, clearly I should've done even more work for you so you wouldn't have to do anything. Now I have, or at least, I spent two minutes looking thorugh the existing thread to find the link already there. So here, just for you, a direct link to a PDF that you can view online and without any extra work: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/578454/3932344-40-Sleep-Hacks-The-Geeks-Guide-to-Optimizing-Sleep.pdf http://dl.dropbox.com/u/578454/3932344-40-Sleep-Hacks-The-Ge...

henryci 16y ago
But now I have to go online to download the bits. And how am I going to read it in bed? If you'd be less self-serving and think about the rest of us for a change you and print the article out that would be appreciated. It's only 50 page but it would probably be better to get it bound as well. I expect this by end of day, please.
duck 16y ago
I have to ask though... why submit this again to HN when all of these other download methods were linked on the other thread already? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1953637 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1953637 These two threads basically show what I have always said... PDFs are wrong for the web (and any 'tool' that displays them).
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
  In short, because the other submission has a link to the scribd site, and the direct links were buried. But submitting this separately I gave people a chance to decide whether they want to access the direct version(s), or the scribd one. Ideally a site that eventually replaces HN, or an update to HN, will have a single location where similar submissions can congregate, and then we get a single discussion thread. In this case we could then have put the direct links as alternative sources, and retained a single discussion location. But we don't have that, so I provided an alternative source that was close to the surface, instead of buried in a thread.
- ErrantX 16y ago
  It lets people vote with their feet... Which they seem to be doing :)
RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
Actually, on re-reading this I realise I've replied to snark with snark, which I think is a bad thing and I try never to do. Apologies. It's too late to delete or edit it, so I'll have to let it stand, but I'm sorry for replying in anything other than an explicitly positive and constructive tone.
- TGJ 16y ago
  But funny enough, your comment was voted up.

henryci 16y ago

But now I have to go online to download the bits. And how am I going to read it in bed? If you'd be less self-serving and think about the rest of us for a change you and print the article out that would be appreciated. It's only 50 page but it would probably be better to get it bound as well. I expect this by end of day, please.

duck 16y ago

I have to ask though... why submit this again to HN when all of these other download methods were linked on the other thread already? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1953637 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1953637 These two threads basically show what I have always said... PDFs are wrong for the web (and any 'tool' that displays them).

RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
In short, because the other submission has a link to the scribd site, and the direct links were buried. But submitting this separately I gave people a chance to decide whether they want to access the direct version(s), or the scribd one. Ideally a site that eventually replaces HN, or an update to HN, will have a single location where similar submissions can congregate, and then we get a single discussion thread. In this case we could then have put the direct links as alternative sources, and retained a single discussion location. But we don't have that, so I provided an alternative source that was close to the surface, instead of buried in a thread.
ErrantX 16y ago
It lets people vote with their feet... Which they seem to be doing :)

RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago

Actually, on re-reading this I realise I've replied to snark with snark, which I think is a bad thing and I try never to do. Apologies. It's too late to delete or edit it, so I'll have to let it stand, but I'm sorry for replying in anything other than an explicitly positive and constructive tone.

TGJ 16y ago
But funny enough, your comment was voted up.