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by neoveller 14y ago
Every collaborative story needs an amphetamine-driven cynic to cause a little bit of chaos.
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by neoveller 14y ago
You sound like you really understand the pain-points pretty well, and while we have a few ways we're considering solving this one, I would love to pick your brain about it. Would you mind shooting me an email at mike@pen.fm?
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by neoveller 14y ago
For one, google docs has a free-form dynamic that doesn't really prevent people from cannibalizing each other's work. PenFM, like its predecessor Neovella, enforces a turn-based writing collaboration. But that's entirely just in terms of ho
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by neoveller 14y ago
http://www.pen.fm/read/A-Chance-Autumn-Encounter-PNefec68b4f... Demo of our reading experience
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by neoveller 14y ago
Yeah, the video was designed in a way to capture the experience rather than the tech. What isn't fully exposed: - what you see is what you get. whenever you want, you can download the story in epub, mobi, or pdf format. while you might have
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by neoveller 14y ago
Thanks for posting this, edwardog! Glad someone felt compelled to. I'm the guy behind PenFM. AMA.
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by neoveller 14y ago
After some thought, I have decided to revamp our logo: http://i.imgur.com/AkEyD.png What do you guys think?
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by neoveller 14y ago
I'm not going to argue with you--we have a better service. Would you mind sending me a URL to an image of your octopus? He seems to be in hiding.
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by neoveller 14y ago
Thanks, I tried soooooo hard!
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by neoveller 14y ago
That's a very good point. I've long considered tracking last-loaded position and using local storage to reload the last-unloaded scrollTop position. I could simply track that on the sidebar collapse to maintain it. Good feedback! Thank you!
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by neoveller 14y ago
You guys really did create a wonderful UX for a very separate market segment. Admittedly, we did draw some conceptual inspiration from your reader. In my defense, I will say that UX/UI is very constrained by a set number of factors which ma
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by neoveller 14y ago
Good call, and easy enough. Added spacebar support live, and the scroll should be twice as fast as previous. Let me know if that's more livable. Thanks!
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by neoveller 14y ago
I'm a little baffled by this report, but I don't at all suspect it's inaccurate. I'm on the same version of Chrome on OSX on a macbook air (where I developed the custom scrollbar). Programmatically, I'm using the "scroll wheel"'s delta incr
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by neoveller 14y ago
That's actually some really kickass feedback that we now have no choice but to implement! Thanks pfraze!
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by neoveller 14y ago
Good catch! Thanks a lot.
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by neoveller 14y ago
Hey everyone, I'm Michael, a product engineer at Hyperink. Over the past month or so, I've been developing a rich, social reading experience for our content, freeing us from the stranglehold of MOBI and EPUB file formats. Today, Jeff Atwood
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Show HN: Jeff Atwood's "Effective Programming" on Hyperink's new Crowd Reader(hyperink.com)
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by neoveller 15y ago
Also this: http://livelovely.com/
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by neoveller 15y ago
But if Carl were as blind as a bat, how could he see the city he indirectly developed from... a blimp?
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by neoveller 15y ago
Something on the web has more value when it is viewed by more individuals than otherwise, correct? Early anonymous communities did provide some kind of value to their members, but they comparatively provide more value today when more indivi
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by neoveller 15y ago
Identity comes from the concept of identification/classification. These are notions which evolved with modernism in Western society, or the ability to measure things exactly for the sake of predicting and knowing. There is no exact meaning
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by neoveller 15y ago
I did not mention the name Christopher Poole anywhere. Capitalizing on his pen name was within his argument's wishes.
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by neoveller 15y ago
Reddit and Digg were successful independent of Facebook. Their scale of success was not. Prove me wrong. As for your example, you dodged a bullet. That girl was not prepared for the level of Internets and self-incrimination that is you. I'm
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by neoveller 15y ago
Your UPP is what enabled you to make an account just to respond to this thread. Maybe we're unclear on definitions here. UPP facilitates the desire to make comments whether read by anyone or not, because it is made so abundant by technology
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by neoveller 15y ago
Correct. I wrote a post which avoided controversy by analyzing the social evolution of identity instead of taking a stance on the issue which cannot be backed by a model. To make this relevant, I involved Moot's point and showed how it is m
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by neoveller 15y ago
After reading and responding to the comments, I want to add an overall, more clear message: The argument is that without rigid identity on the web, anonymity and pen names could not really take off and receive audience. Many individuals' fi
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by neoveller 15y ago
I don't think you are wrong in your overall point. My post was an analysis of the social evolution of self-expression. That was its direction. Your points relate to the actual utility of having no identity. The merits of your points (while
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by neoveller 15y ago
I am indeed arguing that Facebook's very existence and the effect it had, insofar as it greased the wheel of Internet use, is a huge part of why Reddit can exist at the scale it does. Reddit is a better-organized web forum, which are not ne
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by neoveller 15y ago
I mention Reddit and in the post. I remark that it has to do with autobiographical memory, which is a very postmodern force. But it would have a hard time gaining a userbase if something like Facebook and Myspace had never existed. The latt
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by neoveller 15y ago
To connect the dots here: I think both Moot and I employ a sort of essentialist rhetoric to get attention, the same way you would write something enormously more controversial under a pen name. A more strict interpretation of Moot's argumen

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