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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
Thanks. I made it for another website last week, and decided to reuse here.
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Alt is a simpler and prettier interface to NewsBlur(davidjohnstone.net)
14 points by davidjohnstone 13y ago|13 comments
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
The nice thing about NewsBlur is that it exposes the API so that, if you want, you can make a completely new front end for it. This is what I did: http://www.altfeedreader.com/
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Show HN: A simpler and prettier interface for NewsBlur(altfeedreader.com)
2 points by davidjohnstone 13y ago|0 comments
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
The story: Back when Google announced they were killing Reader, I built most of a feed reader. I never quite finished it, mostly because I realised I didn't want to support an entire system. I wanted something to show for the effort I
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
The story: Back when Google announced they were killing Reader, I built most of a feed reader. I never quite finished it, mostly because I realised I didn't want to support an entire system. I wanted something to show for the effort I
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Show HN: I built a feed reader on top of the NewsBlur API(alt.herokuapp.com)
1 points by davidjohnstone 13y ago|0 comments
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
> “I have read and agree to the Terms” is the biggest lie on the web. We aim to fix that. I deliberately worded it on my website as "By clicking the register button you are accepting the terms of service", under the assumption
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
Apart from the commercial model that these will use (what they'll cost to make use of, etc.), the thing I'm wondering about is how visible they'll be at sunrise/sunset. Google is saying that they'll be barely visibl
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
On my "somebody should create this, and I might eventually" list is an open source, P2P, optionally server-backed, encrypted Dropbox replacement. Bittorrent's Sync almost gets there, but isn't open source. I haven't
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
I always assumed it was deliberate. Ten years ago !!!!!1112threefour was a thing.
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
You realize it's a joke, right?
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
It looks nice, and at this point in time, this is what I'll probably be using next month. A few things: * Is there a way to scroll through all items in the same way that Google Reader does, rather than having to go to the next item by click
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
That red is very red on my wide gamut monitor.
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
The page title hasn't been shown on the window chrome for some time on Windows. I don't remember when it changed, but Firefox's UI hasn't changed for a little while.
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
I like it, but I agree with the complaints here that it causes a large loss of information density because it's so spaced out. So, I had a play around in Chrome Dev Tools and came up with this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/41899939/
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
If I'm reading https://pin.net.au/pricing correctly, they're charging four percent extra for conversion, which sounds like it means they end up costing 7% + 30c for payments in USD.
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
The light isn't from sunlight reflecting off the wall. It's too... directional? It's also too bright, and the colour might be too warm. I'm not entirely sure how to explain it, but I've done enough photography to recognise that as an artifi
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
To my eye, the Gaza photo appears to be illuminated by an off camera flash above and to the left of the camera. The man at the front on the left has a very bright left side of his face, and a very dark right side (also notice the shadow and
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
Australia has an author's death plus fifty years copyright expiration for books where the author died in or before 1954. Unfortunately, I think we're "catching up" to the US with our copyright laws. There's http://gutenberg.net.au/ (no fo
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
Indeed, according to a 1998 survey of members of the National Academy of Sciences [1], the group of philosophers had about the same number of atheists, more theists and less agnostics. 1. http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/file002.ht
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
Of course, we're having an election sometime this year, and the Liberal's — who are probably going to win — are planning on making the NBN slower and cheaper[1] (100Mbps by utilising the existing copper network, rather than fully replacing
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
I really should make some time and do the final 5% (and get it online) on a feed reader I spent a couple of weeks building a few weeks ago…
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
I've made this comment here before, but the possibility of this happening concerns me. The 51% attack is a known potential issue of Bitcoin, but the more subtle problem is that Bitcoin is essentially a sort of democracy where voting power i
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
I have a niche cycling site[1] that I successfully launched[2] (and by that, I mean that I posted a link to it when it didn't have many users) here. By successful, I mean it spent a while on the front page, got 61 upvotes and 78 comments, a
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
The interesting thing here is that Bitcoin isn't set in stone to forever exist exactly as it does today — it depends on the majority of miners not modifying the protocol. I'm talking about what's essentially a 51% attack, but rather than it
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by davidjohnstone 13y ago
Comic Sans was made for this.
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by davidjohnstone 14y ago
But you do make money! When the value of Bitcoin goes up, your wealth increases because the entire Bitcoin economy is worth more, even though your fraction of it remains constant. Or, to look at it another way, imagine that Bitcoin was the
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by davidjohnstone 14y ago
I'm no economist, but isn't this blurring the lines between what an asset is and what a currency is? Isn't a currency fundamentally a perfectly liquid asset? As for previous commenters, the fact that the value of a Bitcoin might be worth te
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by davidjohnstone 14y ago
There are two aspects to it: As epaga points out, if you lose access to your wallet (forget password, hardware failure without backups, somebody dies without leaving the password to their heirs) there is no way to retrieve that money. Secon

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