rdwallis

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by rdwallis 13y ago
I created MagicScroll. BeeLine doesn't detect line breaks. Instead it puts a span around every character and sets its color manually. Anyway the individual spans cause issues for MagicScroll but it should be relatively easy to retrofit
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by rdwallis 14y ago
Your comment highlights exactly why comment scores should not be shown. If you use comment scores as a proxy for agree/disagree you are much more likely to downvote comments you don't agree with even if they add to the discussion.
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by rdwallis 14y ago
Your submission history suggests that you are involved in the development of at least 2 of the 7 extensions. (buffer and tldr.io) Are any of the other extensions your work? It's disingenuous to pretend to impartially recommend products that
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by rdwallis 14y ago
Reach out to your most active users and ask them if they want to help moderate for you. Give them premium content or even just cool badges that other users can see in exchange. Make it personal. Email them and ask for their advice. Listen
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by rdwallis 14y ago
Sadly, when people are offered money to steal babies they steal babies.[1] The moral outrage is important because it increases the cost of the action but removing the incentive is generally a more effective way to change behavior. [1] htt
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by rdwallis 14y ago
There are tons and tons of use cases for sharing code between server and client. Why would you want to write things twice? The only reason it is not more common is that programming is generally done in different languages on the server an
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by rdwallis 14y ago
I don't find the argument that famine relief does more harm than good compelling. Can you list some examples of this type of harm? Are they outliers or is it normal for this kind of aid to hurt its recipients?
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by rdwallis 14y ago
Cool stuff. You should adapt the scrolling speed to the number of characters in each comment if you're able. It's hard to do but it'll improve things tremendously. Full disclosure, I'm waging a war against your bookmarklet's scrolling effec
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by rdwallis 14y ago
Emphasizing that you're a way to manage bash aliases rather than just aliases might go a long way to clear things up. I thought for a few minutes that you might be a way of managing my facebook, twitter or hn profiles.
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by rdwallis 14y ago
In the first paragraph of your post you should mention what alias does. Or at least make your value more clear on the rest of the page. I don't immediately understand what your product does from the small hard to find "manage your aliases
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by rdwallis 14y ago
Thanks can you email me at support@magicscroll.net. I can't reproduce the error so I'll need help testing the fix.
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by rdwallis 14y ago
I don't know about courses but I read The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman more than 10 years ago and it profoundly changed my life. Obviously it doesn't only deal with UI design but I really recommend it if you're looking for a p
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by rdwallis 14y ago
Should be fixed now.
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by rdwallis 14y ago
Actually this doesn't really work. Mainly the problem is when the top page hasn't scrolled at all, for example if you're just using pagination, it creates a meaningless shadow.
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by rdwallis 14y ago
Not requiring signup makes development massively harder but I think it's worth it. All of the websites competing in my space require a signup except mine. Their products may be way better but I don't bother to check and neither do my users
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by rdwallis 14y ago
Are you on a netbook or otherwise slow computer? I'll see what I can do to add some breaks to the page rendering loop. I get the impression that the Firefox version needs a bit of work.
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by rdwallis 14y ago
Agree but the new interface is jaring enough. I wanted to use bog standard colors. For the ebook reader on the main page at magicscroll.net you can set it to use Ethan Schoonover's solarized colors: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized w
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by rdwallis 14y ago
That looks great. I'll see if I can update it tomorrow.
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by rdwallis 14y ago
I tried this. It doesn't work as well. Same with making the line thicker or putting a margin above and below it. The code's open source if you want to fiddle with it: https://github.com/rdwallis/MagicScrollWebReader
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by rdwallis 14y ago
Is this on the page itself? Or is it when using the bookmarklet?
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by rdwallis 14y ago
Any chance you can send a screenshot of the truncated text to support@magicscroll.net?
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by rdwallis 14y ago
This is a lot easier to learn than dvorak.
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by rdwallis 14y ago
pdf is not reflowable. So I don't think it's possible while still adhering to the pdf standard.
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by rdwallis 14y ago
The scrolling changes based on whether you're using a Magic Mouse or not. With the Magic Mouse it won't snap to the line.
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by rdwallis 14y ago
If you use the extension or the main site ebook reader you can set it to scroll at a specific word per minute speed. It works really well over long texts and often your screensaver will come on before you need to adjust anything. It's norma
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by rdwallis 14y ago
Thanks, the arrows are a relic from the ebook reader on the main site. With that I specifically wanted users to discover the scrolling only by accident after they were already familiar with the pagination. I tried it without allowing the s
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by rdwallis 14y ago
Just anecdotal but magicscroll.net is a pretty popular ebook reader. Though that might be inspite of the scrolling rather than because of it. For everyone who doesn't like it immediately please try it for a few days if you're able. I'm wor
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by rdwallis 14y ago
It doesn't scroll on touch devices. You do get the pagination though.
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by rdwallis 14y ago
Yes, this is hard to keep track of even after window resizes which changes how many words appear on each page. To do it I'd need to store info about page position in local storage. which is possible with the extension but might be a bit to
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by rdwallis 14y ago
I found some stickyness on Firefox 18. I've deployed a fix but I put a 24 hour cache in front of the page before posting it to hn so it'll probably only update for you this time tomorrow.

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