A man who cleans up after plane crashes

mst wrote: post #3

I really can't figure out how the HN code didn't dedupe this. Stunningly impressive job by whichever PR agency placed the story (and fascinating to read as well).

Uhh... it was on the Longreads recommended reading for this week and figured I'd share. I submitted last night, looks like someone else submitted later today and I got the karma for it. So it goes

Re: A man who cleans up after plane crashes

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Post by foota » Mon, Dec 26, 2016, 12:17 AM UTC

DiabloD3 wrote: post #2

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13253884

Not a dupe, the other one didn't garner sufficient attention.

Re: A man who cleans up after plane crashes

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Post by loopdoend » Mon, Dec 26, 2016, 2:11 AM UTC

What an annoying site on mobile. While reading, advertisements load and shift your view to some place in the article you've never seen before.

Is this style of monetization supposed to make me want to buy a magazine?

(No, I didn't finish reading it. I don't care anymore. Definitely not the "worst job in the world".)

Re: A man who cleans up after plane crashes

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Post by mst » Mon, Dec 26, 2016, 2:11 AM UTC

salatin wrote: post #4

mst wrote: post #3

I really can't figure out how the HN code didn't dedupe this. Stunningly impressive job by whichever PR agency placed the story (and fascinating to read as well).

Uhh... it was on the Longreads recommended reading for this week and figured I'd share. I submitted last night, looks like someone else submitted later today and I got the karma for it. So it goes

Yeah. The question is why we ended up with two submissions rather than an upvote for one of the two as I thought normally happens. I'm just curious, I've never seen that before.

Like I say, still interesting. Also: I meant the PR agency who arranged for a glowing profile in the first place. See also Paul Graham's writing about that.

Re: A man who cleans up after plane crashes

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Post by danso » Mon, Dec 26, 2016, 2:35 AM UTC

loopdoend wrote: post #6

What an annoying site on mobile. While reading, advertisements load and shift your view to some place in the article you've never seen before. Is this style of monetization supposed to make me want to buy a magazine? (No, I didn't finish reading it. I don't care anymore. Definitely not the "worst job in the world".)

Have to agree with you, even if it is orthogonal to the excellent content. I kept thinking that the story hadn't fully loaded, and the jankiness was a result of new assets popping in. After the fifth time of accidentally clicking on an ad and losing my place, I quit. What I had read up to that point was great though.

Just another example showing how fucked the media industry currently is, in that its executives and leaders don't actually dogfood their own product on digital. There's no way a competent editor or publisher would put up with that reading experience, if they had actually experienced it by reading the story via mobile. But because the story looks great in print, they probably don't care how it isn't on the web site.

Re: A man who cleans up after plane crashes

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 26, 2016, 5:06 AM UTC

salatin wrote: post #4

mst wrote: post #3

I really can't figure out how the HN code didn't dedupe this. Stunningly impressive job by whichever PR agency placed the story (and fascinating to read as well).

Uhh... it was on the Longreads recommended reading for this week and figured I'd share. I submitted last night, looks like someone else submitted later today and I got the karma for it. So it goes

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Re: A man who cleans up after plane crashes

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Post by Nexxxeh » Mon, Dec 26, 2016, 7:21 AM UTC

loopdoend wrote: post #6

What an annoying site on mobile. While reading, advertisements load and shift your view to some place in the article you've never seen before. Is this style of monetization supposed to make me want to buy a magazine? (No, I didn't finish reading it. I don't care anymore. Definitely not the "worst job in the world".)

Firefox for Android, and uBlock Origin. I used the "picker" thingy and just zapped the annoying bits.

! Mon Dec 26 07:09:28 2016 http://www.gq.com/story/man-who-cleans-up-plane-crashes www.gq.com##.mobile-header-container

! Mon Dec 26 07:15:55 2016 http://www.gq.com/story/man-who-cleans-up-plane-crashes www.gq.com##.mobile-header

! Mon Dec 26 07:16:45 2016 http://www.gq.com/story/man-who-cleans-up-plane-crashes www.gq.com##.show.component-sub-header

I don't know if theirs anything equivalent for iOS.