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Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

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Post by chiefalchemist »

someweirdperson wrote: post #86
mosselman wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I detest this meme where supposedly every hour you have is translatable to money. It isn't as if you can sell every hour of your time whenever you feel like it. If it were that way, you'd be able to say: "I pay $1500+ for going to the toilet each month": > A software engineer who makes $100,000 a year, working 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, makes about $50/hour. So let's say 1 hour of toilet time per day on average, s…

> "I pay $1500+ for going to the toilet each month" It's a little less (I don't need that long), but most importantly, my boss is paying for most of that.

Don't shit where you eat? Instead, shit where you work?

Makes sense ;)

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

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Post by OJFord »

ghostly_s wrote: post #91
msravi wrote: post #46

This is what iGoogle used to be! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGoogle You could add your own RSS feed, weather, etc and it used to be awesome. Used to be my "home" tab for many years, before google decided to do away with it. It appears there's a "replacement" now. https://igoogleportal.com/ Definitely going to try this one out

> It appears there's a "replacement" now. https://igoogleportal.com/ Very non-obvious that this is not affiliated with Google, I'd think twice about giving it your credentials. Honestly surprised it hasn't been C&D'd based on the URL alone.

Seriously? I'd say from the domain alone it's clearly nothing to do with Google. (I mean, not to my mother, but here.) Clicking through it looks nothing like a Google page or logo etc. - and I don't even use them (except YouTube and rather de-Googled Android) so I'm not that familiar.

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

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Post by pc86 »

OJFord wrote: post #102
ghostly_s wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It appears there's a "replacement" now. https://igoogleportal.com/ Very non-obvious that this is not affiliated with Google, I'd think twice about giving it your credentials. Honestly surprised it hasn't been C&D'd based on the URL alone.

Seriously? I'd say from the domain alone it's clearly nothing to do with Google. (I mean, not to my mother, but here.) Clicking through it looks nothing like a Google page or logo etc. - and I don't even use them (except YouTube and rather de-Googled Android) so I'm not that familiar.

Other than the logo you could absolutely be fooled into thinking that homepage is an official Google property, especially if you're a non-technical user.

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

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Post by breck »

This is awesome! My friend Nick and I ran a site like this a long time ago called qduke.com that we eventually sold to the student newspaper after we graduated. We entered the Duke Startup Challenge with that idea — the best start pages on the Internet. But our tech wasn't as good as yours is. Didn't have that much programming experience at the time.

I love how its open source and you use local storage. If there's anything I can do to help feel free to reach out!

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

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Post by cpcallen »

dndvr wrote: post #94
cpcallen wrote: post #62

Hmm. It just shows me a blank page, like about:blank, only it uses 112% CPU. That doesn't seem very useful. Oh, I see: looking in the console is an infinity of error messages, mostly "Error handling response: Error: Failed to read the 'localStorage' property from 'Window': Access is denied for this document." Yeah: yet another page that can't load correctly with cookies disabled—only this one also manages to drain my…

- not that common a scenario - this uses localStorage which is similar to cookies but not the same thing - for a site that extolls 'all the data is saved in your browser', how should it cope with a browser with storage disabled? - How do you log in to HN with cookies disabled?

Disabling cookies quite naturally disabled local storage as well, since localStorage can be used to identify and track a user as surely as a cookie can, at least if they have JavaScript enabled.

I selectively enable cookies on websites that I wish to remember me as required. The vast majority of websites are perfectly capable of loading and operating without cookies / localStorage (though more recently a lot of them will keep popping up annoying cookie banners on every page load, since they can't remember I asked them not to use cookies if I don't let them set a cookie to remember that fact, ironically enough).

There are numerous sites that are not _useful_ without cookies, but even the majority of those detect that cookies are disabled and explain that they are required, and most of the rest do something broken but basically understandable like generating a XSRF-detected error or redirecting one back to the login page over and over again.

Even the small minority that fail to do anything at all and just sit there showing a blank page are at least harmless.

Doing nothing useful _and_ using >100% CPU would therefore seem to entail either an unusually high level of incompetence, a wanton disregard for good practice (i.e. graceful degradation) or outright malice.

I'll choose to apply Hanlon's razor and assume it's the former until proven otherwise.

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