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by m52go 9y ago
TL;DR: that was a mistake in 1.0, and it was quickly removed in 1.1. The #2 feature request was to show Chrome's Top Sites list somewhere on the page (you know, those sites Chrome shows by default on the New Tab page). So I implemented
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Hey, yeah I'm going to implement something more automated to find quotes. I have nothing against doing that. Only relying on submissions is unsustainable. As long as quality remains high and variety is verifiably strong, it doesn&#x2
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Thanks for suggestions. 1) agreed, will implement this in a future release. 2) books cache for ~10 seconds for this reason, but yes i see why history would help. it's a popular request so i'll also add this in a future release.
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Thanks! Latency is unintentional. I can put an option to get rid of the loading animation in the next release.
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Bring on the naysaying! Regarding value: this is a complex subject. Within bubbles, I think value outside bubbles is often unfairly minimized. See American politics, for example. Most Democrats think ALL Republicans are stupid science-hatin
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Interesting, I might give that a try. Some Kindle highlights are publicly available on https://kindle.amazon.com/ ...but that site feels abandoned and is hit-or-miss for most books.
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You're right to be skeptical. I noted elsewhere in the thread that I plan to open access to that information when it makes sense. This is a weekend project and I really didn't expect this much attention this soon! But you made me
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How so?
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What's your browser+device? Works for me on Android 7 on Firefox and Chrome.
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That's why I'm making every effort to expand the sources of these suggestions by crowd-sourcing them as much as possible...while also maintaining a collection of topical, temporal, geographic, and other metrics on my side to ensur
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Yeah I'll look into doing that. This is my ~4th attempt (after countless iterations) of book-related projects and I have yet to find a reliable API for useful book data.
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Here you go, just updated the site: http://100millionbooks.org/standalone/
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Done.
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Thanks for checking it out. Snippets cache for ~10 seconds. Also keep in mind the library of snippets isn't huge yet, and selection is totally random, so there will be repetition.
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Wow, simplicity strikes again. So obvious, can't believe I overlooked it. Will do!
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I made this a while ago but it never caught on: https://s3.amazonaws.com/peruse/app/launchstorm.mp4 My hunch is that people don't want to go out of their way to discover stuff. Hence the extension...we'r
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Thanks. It's funny you say that, because I made this after making a 1-page website and then a mobile app. People liked those, but engagement cratered because people had no reason to open up a whole new website or app just to discover n
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by m52go 9y ago
Yeah it opens on all new tabs right now. I'm not sure how one could limit that...maybe by time of day? Thanks for checking it out!
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- After being burned on numerous projects/ventures (one of which actually used the very database this extension now uses!), I'm not thinking of profitability and scalability right now. Best case scenario: this earns $1-2k dollars
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I really really want to support Firefox, and there is a way to override new tab pages, but a work-around and not official (at least, that's my understanding). I saw somewhere that official support should be coming in Firefox 57. I plan
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Haha yeah, will need to speed that up somehow. Most quotes I've seen on the web are more like vague aphorisms instead of insightful ideas. I personally prefer (and think people will benefit much more) from the latter. FEEDBACK EDIT: un
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Show HN: 100M Books – Open a new tab, discover a new book(100millionbooks.org)
289 points by m52go 9y ago|100 comments
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Thinking aloud...I wonder if the ancient Greek methods of sortition and ostracism have any place in building teams at companies. Obviously election (selecting people from a group) is hit-or-miss anyway...so maybe reverse-election (eliminati
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> MIT is an institution of higher learning. MIT Technology Review is not an institution of higher learning. It's a magazine supposedly focused on reporting about science and technology. > When the president says that climate chan
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Not sure since I don't watch much ESPN either but this is a trend across media properties. I just saw MIT Technology Review tweet something about Trump's politics...didn't make me very happy.
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Big props for taking one for the team. Becoming critical of "climate change" just happened to me recently. I've been critical of the usual suspects like foreign policy, finance, media, etc. for a while, but climate change was
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Despite its imperfections, which in my cursory understanding are largely academic, Telegram is an amazing messenger. It's very quick, feature-rich, and developer-friendly. Perhaps best of all, it's a nonprofit. So I can expect, wi
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by m52go 9y ago
Qubes OS is built for this exact purpose...too bad its hardware support isn't very good yet. But it's very promising.
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Show HN: Brevity Bowl — Sharpen your writing with short, playful games.(brevitybowl.com)
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> If you could hire women engineers for 80% of the equivalent man, then all companies would wan't to hire every other companies women at 90% of equivalent because they would still be getting a deal and the women would get a big pay

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