This would be a great way to supplement dense text for comprehension purposes and for learning new vocabulary. Learning moments are different for different people, this makes it one-size-fits-all.
Except, people with OCPD would click everything through, just to see if they missed anything, and really not make much headway into reading at all.
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#62My "telescopic" thoughts on making this an interview question. When completely expanded, it does not have a grammatical flow in some parts because I couldn't edit text once created and I did not want to start from scratch.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or maybe just write the article, and present the most-important bits first, starting with the headline. Then, the first paragraph or so would cover the important points, and as you kept reading, it'd get less and less important.
That's exactly how all news stories are written. Unless you were making a joke.
Sadly, it's pretty trivial to disprove this by counterexample.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you for the TLDR. I wondered whether the text would just keep expanding forever... In some ways I am sad that it did not.
The only way to make it expand forever would be to support recursion. Would be interesting what texts you could come up with that. Kind of a textual Mandelbrot set.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you for the TLDR. I wondered whether the text would just keep expanding forever... In some ways I am sad that it did not.
The only way to make it expand forever would be to support recursion. Would be interesting what texts you could come up with that. Kind of a textual Mandelbrot set.
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#66This is great. All too often I've posted some rant, knowing it must be very concise to get the point across to soundbite readers, yet wanting to provide details to address obvious criticisms, yet having to somehow find a balance between minimal meme transfer vs. encyclopedic thoroughness overwhelming the basic meme. Hope this can be turned into a blogging/commenting tool.
There's got to be an easy HTML template for doing this without linking to an external website.
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#67 $('._b').click()