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The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington

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Re: The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington

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I loathe Inc.'s site. The interstitial pop-up. The toolbar. Terrible, really. But I enjoyed the piece.

For some reason on page 2 some javascript kept scrolling the page all the way down like every 20 seconds... so annoying. I ended up copying the text to a text editor.

I had the same problem and then I switched on Safari's Reader feature -- problem solved.

Re: The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington

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post #7
post #6

I loathe Inc.'s site. The interstitial pop-up. The toolbar. Terrible, really. But I enjoyed the piece.

For some reason on page 2 some javascript kept scrolling the page all the way down like every 20 seconds... so annoying. I ended up copying the text to a text editor.

You should really try readability:

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

It make reading articles on the web much nicer.

Re: The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington

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> I’d love to have three monitors, but Macs support only two. You can drive three monitors from a Mac Pro: http://blog.acceleroto.com/2010/08/28/buying-and-setting-up-... And here's a Macbook Pro driving 4 screens: http://daggle.com/macbook-pro-multimonitor-4-monitors-at-onc...

Or you could use synergy to connect two macs together. You can even copy and paste between them.

Re: The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington

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I really enjoyed that article. What strikes me is how driven and hard-working Michael Arrington is. Actually, 'compulsive' comes to mind. Which prompts me to think that successful entrepreneurs aren't motivated to succeed... they're compelled to succeed.

I would even call it a calling. Of course you need to be a little careful about following a calling. I really enjoyed this blog post on it:

http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/04/09/corrupted-callings-the...

Re: The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington

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And with this my opinion of Arrington shifts from "hey, he's kind of a self-important dick" to "huh, this guy is an introvert who's confident and passionate about his work, kind of like me."

Guy's all right. And my hat's off to him for building something truly powerful from scratch.

Re: The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington

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I loathe Inc.'s site. The interstitial pop-up. The toolbar. Terrible, really. But I enjoyed the piece.

Pop-up? Toolbar?

People laugh at me when I say that I disable Javascript and only enable when I absolutely need it. Thanks for letting me laugh back. :-P

Re: The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

For some reason on page 2 some javascript kept scrolling the page all the way down like every 20 seconds... so annoying. I ended up copying the text to a text editor.

You should really try readability: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ It make reading articles on the web much nicer.

Wow. I didn't know this existed. You sir have made my life better today. Thank you.

Re: The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington

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> I’d love to have three monitors, but Macs support only two. You can drive three monitors from a Mac Pro: http://blog.acceleroto.com/2010/08/28/buying-and-setting-up-... And here's a Macbook Pro driving 4 screens: http://daggle.com/macbook-pro-multimonitor-4-monitors-at-onc...

Or you could use synergy to connect two macs together. You can even copy and paste between them.

I use Teleport on the mac... it's a bit more user-friendly as it has a proper preference pane.

Re: The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington

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> I’d love to have three monitors, but Macs support only two. You can drive three monitors from a Mac Pro: http://blog.acceleroto.com/2010/08/28/buying-and-setting-up-... And here's a Macbook Pro driving 4 screens: http://daggle.com/macbook-pro-multimonitor-4-monitors-at-onc...

He can use also a TripleHead2Go from Matrox:

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/

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