rdwallis

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   by rdwallis 14y ago

   Thanks. Can I ask what OS are you using and what mouse?
2. 62.▲
   by rdwallis 14y ago

   The bookmarklet & chrome extension are partly based on readability.js. The code is open source and available at https://github.com/rdwallis/MagicScrollWebReader if you want to have a poke at it.
3. 63.▲
   I want the world to scroll this way(magicscroll.net)

   832 points by rdwallis 14y ago|299 comments
4. 64.▲
   by rdwallis 14y ago

   Singletons are easy to implement, simple to understand and have no performance penalties. They don't need to be defended. If they work for your project, use them.
5. 65.▲
   by rdwallis 14y ago

   For those using selecting to track reading position, I built a chrome extension that specifically solves this problem. I haven't started promoting it yet because of a bug in incognito mode but it's available at: https://chrome.google.com/w
6. 66.▲
   by rdwallis 14y ago

   I'm waiting for a bug in incognito to be fixed before I start promotion but I built a chrome extension that specifically solves this problem if you'd like to try it out. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/magicscroll-web-re...
7. 67.▲
   by rdwallis 14y ago

   If you subscribe to: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!forum... They'll email you when issues occur and info becomes available. It took about 30 minutes after the crash for me to receive an email which seems very reas
8. 68.▲
   by rdwallis 14y ago

   Java primarily, I'm experimenting with Go at the moment.
9. 69.▲
   by rdwallis 14y ago

   Yes, I've had my phone number as SSID for the past three years and have yet to have anyone call it. I think it'll need to hit a critical mass before it's useful. People don't expect SSID's to have useful information so they don't look for i
10. 70.▲
    by rdwallis 14y ago

    Looks really good. If you add GAE integration, you'll convert me immediately. I'm on a very slow connection and it's much faster to do a git push than to deploy a compiled application.
11. 71.▲
    by rdwallis 14y ago

    Well yes, if you publish your phone number then people will be able to see it. You're right about the flat number / street number situation though. It might be good to add that to the SSID as well. Loud music seems like a perfect use case f
12. 72.▲
    by rdwallis 14y ago

    It would be great if everyone just put their phone number as the SSID. Phone numbers are unique and let others contact you if they want to use your wifi for some reason. Would probably help neighbors get hold of each other in emergencies as
13. 73.▲
    by rdwallis 14y ago

    I assume the author was just trying to set up the premise before getting to the meat of the article but the opening paragraph claim that Americans are more sensitive about discrimination than anybody else is probably false and more than a l
14. 74.▲
    by rdwallis 14y ago

    I use a one time password system for magicscroll.net There's a lot of peace of mind in knowing that my users' passwords won't ever end up on pastebin but overall I regret the decision. I get a couple of emails a week from users who don't un
15. 75.▲
    by rdwallis 14y ago

    I built a mineral oil PC a couple of years ago. I epoxied the motherboard mount from an old computer case to some wood and then stuck the wood to the inside of a cheap fish tank. I installed the computer sans harddrive and then poured in 1
16. 76.▲
    by rdwallis 14y ago

    Your code solves the external side effects problem but using the primitive also allows the time to be finalized eg: private final long creationTime = System.currentTimeMillis(); so it still has advantages over making the field a Date object
17. 77.▲
    by rdwallis 14y ago

    At least in Java, storing a date/time as a primitive improves immutability and is a good pattern. You don't expose the underlying long value publicly so you end up with something like the following: private long primitiveDate; public Date g
18. 78.▲
    by rdwallis 15y ago

    GWT doesn't work well with Maven. Support has improved recently but is still terrible. I may just be hitting a lot of outlier samples but Google Java projects seem antagonistic to Maven (I've used GWT, GAE and GData). GData's really bad;
19. 79.▲
    by rdwallis 15y ago

    The Hobbit is not public domain.
20. 80.▲
    by rdwallis 15y ago

    Really cool idea. How are you planning to deal with copyright issues?
21. 81.▲
    by rdwallis 16y ago

    Thanks for the input. I think the most significant problem with the example books is not their position on the page but the couple of second delay before they appear. I'll definitely fix this in the next few days. As for caching the exampl
22. 82.▲
    by rdwallis 16y ago

    This is my first post to HN. Since this is a Hacker Community I thought you all might be interested in some stats and info about the project: --- I think MagicScroll's doing pretty well in terms of uptake but I don't have any kind of tracki
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    My ebook reader app just passed 6000 users.(magicscroll.net)

    3 points by rdwallis 16y ago|3 comments