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Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by mirkules »

dang wrote: post #14

All: it's not clear yet whether we should have "Screenshot Saturday" and "Idea Sunday" as regular features, or whether they should be weekly if we do. Happy to hear arguments pro and con, though perhaps not in this thread. (Edit: On second thought, we might as well discuss it here and keep it at the bottom.) If are going to have these regularly, we'll ask the whoishiring account to post them automatically. That's the…

I love the idea, and it makes me push myself harder when I see submissions that are light-years ahead of my project. It's almost to the point of intimidating how good some of these are..

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by Renaud »

tomek_zemla wrote: post #104
yan wrote: post #91

My WebKit hack from two years ago that splits the rendering area into N joined columns, such that you scroll content Up->Down->Left->Right. https://vimeo.com/59463521 The intuition was that screens are almost all wide-screen, but content is all narrow, due to readability. This was an attempt to add a mode to browsers that can let you use more of your screen real estate. I have a draft of a blog post from a year ago e…

It's an interesting concept and intuitively it might seem desirable to fit in more text/information on the screen, but after some thought I think it would diminish user experience. The supporting arguments come from the principles of graphic design and book publishing. Digital screens are very much evolution of print. Two examples. Think of the well designed art books or hard covers. Large pages with significant area…

That view seems a bit restrictive. There are cases where having more on screen is useful and actually helps readability, in particular for technical and scientific documentation.

Reading an article or a story is pretty much a linear activity: you progress onward and never have to go backward. In that case, readability is very much influenced by a page layout that reduces noise.

For other types of documentation, the surroundings of what you are reading are important, and having to actually move the page up/down or flip pages on a book makes you easily loose context.

So maybe this n-column reflow is not for everything or everyone, but if it was an option available in my browser, I know I would use it quite often.

Another thing to note: newspapers and magazines have multiple columns of text, and they are still very readable. So that n-column layout in a browser might not even be bad for reading articles on website that don't have busy side panels.

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by marlin »

joshmn wrote: post #5

In early March I whipped up http://Listen2EDM.com because I was tired of searching for new music manually through SoundCloud, GrooveShark/Spotify still sort of required discovery, and Pandora just didn't fit my personal pain-point. While social media stats are meek, it's averaging about 32000 minutes played back each day (~400 uniques/day; ~2000/week). This has motivated me to develop it further and make the UI a bit…

awesome site! this'll be my coding playlist for a while!

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by NamTaf »

y3di wrote: post #64

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7u3f9rllmb1jbx/Screen%20Shot%2020... A utilty for finding and exploring internal rhyme schemes in poems and songs. I made this in order to better show people just how complex a rap artist's rhyme combinations can get. This was created with CMU's pronunction dictionary ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Pronouncing_Dictionary ) The screen shot shows a subset of the rhyme combos found in the…

You should incorporate the metre of the music itself to help wtih identifying rhymes. For example, the middle chunk of your example is missing the full picture of the rhyming from the 'reality' part onwards, specifically where it's missed 'he won't have it, he' with 'have it, he' being on the same beat as 'reality' before it.

I think the timing will help you a lot rather than just trying to notice punctuation. After all, music is about the rhythm.

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