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Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by quuquuquu »

golfer wrote: post #174
tosser350 wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google seems to care more about manipulating the masses than they do performance/profit. The fact they admit to passing over objectively better candidates to hit quotas proves this. I'd say what you mention is probably a side effect of that.

"admit to passing over objectively better candidates" I'd love to see your citation on that claim.

The poster is maybe referring to James Damore's interview with Joe Rogan, where he claims that Google executives admit to diversity procedures in hiring.

Disclaimer: I have no opinion on this topic. I am merely speculating the potential source of info.

Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by 0x0 »

pvg wrote: post #185
0x0 wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then why is it not on a subdomain of cnn.com? Anyone could copy their logo and their content.

Because it's a separate site? I have no idea. It takes 30 seconds to convince yourself it's theirs, though, so I'm not sure what you're asking me.

How did you manage to convince yourself it's theirs?

Why couldn't they just put it on lite.cnn.com?

If you try to look up the whois for cnn.io, you only get:

  Registrar: CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
  Registrar IANA ID: 299
  Registrar Abuse Contact Email:
  Registrar Abuse Contact Phone:
  Name Server: NS-24.AWSDNS-03.COM
  Name Server: NS-630.AWSDNS-14.NET
  Name Server: NS-1845.AWSDNS-38.CO.UK
  Name Server: NS-1268.AWSDNS-30.ORG
There is nothing here that indicates this is legit CNN?

Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by aiyodev »

jackschultz wrote: post #189

Someone pointed out below, but in a comment way down in the thread, but CNN is actually who's behind this: https://twitter.com/CNN/status/906821174805630976 I'm not sure if the reason behind this is because of possible weak phone connections or that the hurricane is a good way to promote the text only site, but either way, huge shoutout to CNN for going forward with this themselves. I've thought for a while about scr…

This is what CNN looked like on 9/11:

http://i.imgur.com/tqnVwp6.jpg

All the major sites switched to something like this when the internet slowed to a halt. I assume they've always had a minimal version ready in case something like it happens again.

Re: Text-only CNN

#194

Post by germanier »

corgihamlet wrote: post #144
kalleboo wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Swedish public broadcaster still keeps their Teletext[0] service running. One of the cleanest way to get your news (especially on a TV where load times are zero). You can access it on the web as well https://www.svt.se/svttext/web/pages/100.html [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext

Same thing for Germany! http://www.ard-text.de/

It even has a mobile app and it is the fastest loading news app I know of and it loads even with the slowest connection. Due to restrictions of the medium, the text is short and to the point. As there are no analytics with Teletext, clickbait has never arrived there. More sites should follow that model.

Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by mattacular »

It's great that they included an easy toggle to Spanish language. If you're trying to learn Spanish and already know English or vice-versa being able to read topical news every day and switch back and forth easily for both languages is a great tool!

Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by fphilipe »

kalleboo wrote: post #133
SubiculumCode wrote: post #41

When Google first came out and we tried it there were two things we liked about it. The first: Good search results. Yeah everyone knows that right. But young people today might have forgotten the second reason we liked Google search back then: The Second: A clean page with a single logo and search field. It loaded quick. There were no banners everywhere, no bs. HackerNews has that feel. It is clean, information dense…

The Swedish public broadcaster still keeps their Teletext[0] service running. One of the cleanest way to get your news (especially on a TV where load times are zero). You can access it on the web as well https://www.svt.se/svttext/web/pages/100.html [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext

Same for Switzerland: http://www.teletext.ch/

Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by morganvachon »

SubiculumCode wrote: post #41

When Google first came out and we tried it there were two things we liked about it. The first: Good search results. Yeah everyone knows that right. But young people today might have forgotten the second reason we liked Google search back then: The Second: A clean page with a single logo and search field. It loaded quick. There were no banners everywhere, no bs. HackerNews has that feel. It is clean, information dense…

A while back I did a comparison of the code behind the major search engines' landing pages, and found that DuckDuckGo is by far the cleanest, simplest, and most accessible, yet they still manage to make a living on text ads in their results.

Another easy way to see the difference is to load each site up in a text-only browser like links. You'll find that DDG has the cleanest interface there, too.

I still use Startpage most of the time due to the generally better search results, but DDG is my backup and sometimes finds things Startpage (i.e. Google) doesn't.

Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by Jgrubb »

throw89825 wrote: post #102
fletchowns wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's so fast, feels like it's hosted locally

if you click Topics -> News[0] it takes 2.7 seconds. They should throw that subdomain behind https://memcached.org/ (and not use php lol). Unrelated, seems like I can't listen to podcasts. There's an tag (which doesn't use data unless you click on play if you set preload="none" [1]), so that's an interesting choice. $ curl http://thin.npr.org/t.php?tid=1001 [...] Total wall clock time: 2.7s $ ping thin.npr.org [...]…

You don't put things behind Memcached. You put Memcached behind things.

Re: Text-only CNN

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Post by gravypod »

aiyodev wrote: post #193
jackschultz wrote: post #189

Someone pointed out below, but in a comment way down in the thread, but CNN is actually who's behind this: https://twitter.com/CNN/status/906821174805630976 I'm not sure if the reason behind this is because of possible weak phone connections or that the hurricane is a good way to promote the text only site, but either way, huge shoutout to CNN for going forward with this themselves. I've thought for a while about scr…

This is what CNN looked like on 9/11: http://i.imgur.com/tqnVwp6.jpg All the major sites switched to something like this when the internet slowed to a halt. I assume they've always had a minimal version ready in case something like it happens again.

I'd pay $5/month for a reputable news site to provide this all year long.
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