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It says something about the disparity of intellectual depth in the community that Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged shows up next to books actually worth reading like SICP, GTD, or Cialdini's Influence.
I will however complain that I shouldn't have to recaptcha myself if I took the time to enter my email address, find the email, and click confirm for it. What benefit is there to recaptcha-ing that?
My complaint is in hopes that they will remove that recaptcha for other users who happen to like their privacy and don't let their browser sell everything to mailchimp.
Edit: I will correct myself in that it looks like they may not have a choice according to https://mailchimp.com/help/about-recaptcha-for-signup-forms/
It says something about the disparity of intellectual depth in the community that Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged shows up next to books actually worth reading like SICP, GTD, or Cialdini's Influence.
I think you can strike lines between technical and fictional books. In doing so, I would expect a difference in quality since the avg HN lurker is a technical person.
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I think you can strike lines between technical and fictional books. In doing so, I would expect a difference in quality since the avg HN lurker is a technical person.
Pretty much this. The average HN lurker will be reasonably sophisticated when it comes to technical subjects, but they are incredibly naive when it comes to all of those humanities subjects they skipped in university. When it comes to politics, economics, philosophy and other such subjects the average HN response vacillates between the extremes of either outright dismissal or arrogant pronouncements that are such a c…
Yip, but not nearly a naive as the humanity students are about technical subjects.
If we are going to fix anything, we need to force our arty friends to finish with some understanding of how the world works.
And by "how the world works" I mean the things that would remain unchanged even if every human vanished.
Like, to be topical, exponential growth.
This looks great. I like how it is setup and I find the value it offers to be swell. I will however complain that I shouldn't have to recaptcha myself if I took the time to enter my email address, find the email, and click confirm for it. What benefit is there to recaptcha-ing that? My complaint is in hopes that they will remove that recaptcha for other users who happen to like their privacy and don't let their brows…
Testing an email alias of mine in incognito mode _looks_ like it's gone for me. Thanks again for bringing this up.
[0] https://mailchimp.com/help/about-recaptcha-for-signup-forms/...
Have a few books on the way now :)
Nice! How is the site itself built? Is it a static page or do you have some sort of backend? I did something very similar for a local podcast that gives book/movie/music/etc recommendations a while ago: https://enpassant.tk/ . It is statically-built with Ruby.
The site is a Phoenix app (Elixir's popular web framework) with PostgreSQL. The pages are just Phoenix templates and I let Cowboy, the default HTTP server for Phoenix, serve the app directly... so it's not sitting behind NGINX or any similar web server that's frequently used as a reverse proxy.
I used Bulma as for the CSS, just to try something I haven't used before.
The only line of JS is in the dropdown menu's onChange tag, to submit the "form" when you select a book category.
I like the UI on En Passant! Really clean - great use of icons so I know what the media type is at a glance as I scroll.
This looks great. I like how it is setup and I find the value it offers to be swell. I will however complain that I shouldn't have to recaptcha myself if I took the time to enter my email address, find the email, and click confirm for it. What benefit is there to recaptcha-ing that? My complaint is in hopes that they will remove that recaptcha for other users who happen to like their privacy and don't let their brows…
Clicking on the confirmation is only proves that you own that email. I could easily automate all of the steps that you said except captcha.
This looks great. I like how it is setup and I find the value it offers to be swell. I will however complain that I shouldn't have to recaptcha myself if I took the time to enter my email address, find the email, and click confirm for it. What benefit is there to recaptcha-ing that? My complaint is in hopes that they will remove that recaptcha for other users who happen to like their privacy and don't let their brows…
This is exactly what a robot would say. Clicking on the confirmation is only proves that you own that email. I could easily automate all of the steps that you said except captcha.
So now a robot is on a mailing list. Why is that a bad thing? You may only want human eyeballs I suppose if you were somehow making a profit off knowing your audience was all humans a la broadcast radio advertising rates based on estimated audience size, but OP is using amazon affiliate links, not ads, so that argument is out of scope?
This looks great. I like how it is setup and I find the value it offers to be swell. I will however complain that I shouldn't have to recaptcha myself if I took the time to enter my email address, find the email, and click confirm for it. What benefit is there to recaptcha-ing that? My complaint is in hopes that they will remove that recaptcha for other users who happen to like their privacy and don't let their brows…
Hey myu701. Thanks for the link. I unticked the setting mentioned a bit lower on that page[0] to disable reCaptcha. It's not clear to me if that changes it for their landing page. Testing an email alias of mine in incognito mode _looks_ like it's gone for me. Thanks again for bringing this up. [0] https://mailchimp.com/help/about-recaptcha-for-signup-forms/...
Edit: It no longer recaptchas me, thanks!