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by thebaer 8y ago
Haven't tried it in a while, but there's this: http://www.carsten-mielke.com/redquits.html
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by thebaer 8y ago
Haha well they certainly don't make the covers of magazines very often, but I don't know that they're as rare as you think. The people behind Basecamp, Balsamiq, and tons of other smaller companies are able to build "old
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by thebaer 8y ago
Exactly. I'm doing this with the company I've been building [0] and it works. While it's taken a while being completely bootstrapped, we make enough money to grow and focus on our users. No one is obligated to track and stalk
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by thebaer 8y ago
Right, you can't just take a free-to-the-user (paid by advertising) product, slap a fee on it, and expect people to pay for it. Instead products need to be user-centric from the start, with business models that align users and the comp
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Show HN: Make Facebook Browsable(github.com)
3 points by thebaer 8y ago|0 comments
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The Case for a Zuck-Free Facebook(wired.com)
5 points by thebaer 9y ago|0 comments
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by thebaer 9y ago
Exactly. Personally I'm following the same steps with a blogging platform I'm building [0], but avoiding that third step in it and my future products, and it's working out so far. A lot of it comes down to financial incentive
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by thebaer 9y ago
Absolutely -- feel free to submit a GitHub issue and I'll take care of it: https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA
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by thebaer 9y ago
So it works on custom domains like hackernoon.com [0] [0]: https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA/blob/master/content.js#L66
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by thebaer 9y ago
Hey, creator here. This is also available for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/make-medium-r... And feel free to suggest any improvements, or submit a pull request on GitHub! https:&#x
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by thebaer 9y ago
As someone else mentioned, this is so it works on custom domain publications, but you can verify in the source nothing nefarious is going on. It's also on the list of issues to fix: https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA&
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by thebaer 9y ago
Do you know the admin there? I requested a login but still haven't gotten the confirmation email, and no one's on IRC.
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by thebaer 9y ago
It might be possible in code to hide it on your own instance, but it'll still be there in the various Mastodon clients, other instances, etc. Without knowing the codebase (but having used the software) it looks like it'd be a majo
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by thebaer 9y ago
> How do I have an identity when I consistently invite other people - often strangers - to affirm my experiences? This sums it up so perfectly. It precisely explains what I've always failed to when people ask, "why didn't
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by thebaer 9y ago
I like it. Tools with a different take on a regular problem like this are always useful, and can make people more creative under new constraints. It sounds like a tool that needs to exist and one I'd love to try out. If you haven'
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by thebaer 9y ago
You'll get a different (less annoying) experience if you're logged in. However if you haven't logged in on a Medium site (these [0][1] might be some), you'll get the annoying sticky bars. [0] https://hackernoo
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by thebaer 9y ago
How would you like to see it improved?
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by thebaer 9y ago
Yep, a user stylesheet would easily do the trick. And a nicely-packaged extension makes it accessible to more people, especially non-technical users.
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by thebaer 9y ago
Love it. If you file a GH issue I'll remember, and add that as an option.
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by thebaer 9y ago
In theory I agree, but reality makes that difficult to adhere to. To me, 15 minutes throwing a browser extension together is worth not being assaulted when I end up on a Medium-powered site. Same reasons I use an ad-blocker.
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Show HN: Make Medium Readable Again(github.com)
193 points by thebaer 9y ago|153 comments
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by thebaer 9y ago
The problem isn't with devices or necessarily "screen time" but with the types of software on these devices. Social media is just 21st century TV -- that's why it's harmful. The platforms that are ad-driven and engi
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by thebaer 9y ago
The EFF has a nice site set up exactly that way: https://dearfcc.org
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by thebaer 9y ago
As a fellow mobile developer, I highly prefer Android's non-visual option with human-readable and -editable XML. I always find myself editing layouts textually and then just using the visual editor to preview how things look. Interface
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by thebaer 9y ago
I started by building something simple that would appeal to a tiny group of people I understood: a pastebin service only available over telnet [1]. I posted it on /r/linux, which led to some good conversations and open sourcing wh
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by thebaer 10y ago
Right. The advertising-supported internet was good for a while, in my mind, only so that we could see just how bad it can be for the end user, and we can move on to better business models. > I'd rather have a few channels or sites o
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by thebaer 10y ago
> The FCC provided no evidence to substantiate the proposition that broadband providers respected consumer privacy any less than other members of the internet ecosystem. Without knowing entirely what they're referencing, I would say
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by thebaer 10y ago
Exactly. And that communication can (and does) happen in an infinite number of changing forms, which is amazing.
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by thebaer 10y ago
I meant "this" as in people creating simple tools and services for everyone. I meant your pure plain text service would've been a nice addition to the web. Everyone who creates things online brings their own ideas to the tabl
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by thebaer 10y ago
They definitely are, but it's still an interesting, useful project. As someone also building and running a "plain text" service, I know there's a lot you can do with such a simple product, if you care to. [0][1] It'

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