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Post by techtalsky »

aidenn0 wrote: post #35

If I worked at a place where I felt that reading HN would get me fired, there would be lots of other problems.

It's not really about reading HN getting you fired, it's just about perception management. People walk behind my desk. I'm salaried and so free to manage my time, but some people like the CTO are kind of peep-ey. I'd rather minimize the number of times someone who might care walks by and I'm doing something non-worky.

Once a bad perception happens, it's hard to counteract it, so it's better to just work a little to manage it. If I have something I can use to kill time while I'm blocked on something, while not worrying about how it looks, I kind of appreciate it.

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Post by BrandonM »

thomasfl wrote: post #65

Finally something useful hacker news. I have been reading way to much hacker news lately, and my colleagues have started to take notice. Next month I hope someone could make a html source code theme for hacker news.

Right-click -> View Page Source in Firefox

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Post by scythe »

otherwise wrote: post #31
NathanKP wrote: post #26

I would imagine that a fairly large percentage of the Hacker News community probably works for themselves or as freelance contractors. The main problem is not that of hiding your browsing from an employer, but having the self control to work rather than browsing.

With 100 upvotes in the first hour, I would imagine a fairly large percentage of the Hacker News community thinks this is useful. Or (more likely) funny.

It's not just amusing -- it's a clever, unique and interesting solution to a common problem, however pyrrhic[1] the victory might be.

[1] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory

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Post by scythe »

NinetyNine wrote: post #69
jdp23 wrote: post #4

This is great. But why isn't it async?

The only way I can see to do it is constantly scraping HN's pages(unless there's an API?). On another note, having source code on your screen randomly shift and change large blocks of itself might be suspicious, defeating the purpose of this.

He was joking about the comment "//why isn't this async?" which appears in every entry.

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Post by Xuzz »

NinetyNine wrote: post #69
jdp23 wrote: post #4

This is great. But why isn't it async?

The only way I can see to do it is constantly scraping HN's pages(unless there's an API?). On another note, having source code on your screen randomly shift and change large blocks of itself might be suspicious, defeating the purpose of this.

There is not an official API. However, there is a partially complete API available from the guy who made iHackerNews at http://api.ihackernews.com/ -- it works well, but stuff like voting is disabled.

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Post by NinetyNine »

scythe wrote: post #74
NinetyNine wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only way I can see to do it is constantly scraping HN's pages(unless there's an API?). On another note, having source code on your screen randomly shift and change large blocks of itself might be suspicious, defeating the purpose of this.

He was joking about the comment "//why isn't this async?" which appears in every entry.

Oh, I seem to have missed that.

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Post by dbuizert »

Why would you get fired over browsing websites that fall within the set guidelines by your employer? If a website like HN doesn't fit in there, you got screwed over and time to find a new job.

An employee should have the freedom to browse the web with limited restrictions. If that is not the case then it is a violation of the employees creativity and could hurt the employer in the long run since his/her employees are bound to limited creativity on the job sight.

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