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Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by JadeNB »

renlo wrote: post #208
JadeNB wrote: post #205

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> Hi kranner I didn't mean to offend you. Or misrepresent the culture with a memoji. Sorry. If you feel it's out of order, then I can change it too. But what is more crucial for me is what Sangeeth said. And that is more important to me. By the way, all testimonials are real. 100% I think that the general idea is that either you're guessing at the appropriate representation of the testifying users, or that they've pi…

In addition to pronouns, let's include emojis that we feel identify ourselves

> In addition to pronouns, let's include emojis that we feel identify ourselves

I assume that was sarcastic, but why not? Do you have any right to choose the emoji to identify me? I mean, you surely have every right to editorialise with an emoji that you think reflects my behaviour, but, if you're going to quote me below a symbolic representation, then I think it's different. If one has to use an emoji to identify someone—and it's not at all clear to me that it's necessary—then, after all, we're talking about who has reached out; why not just ask them?

(For example, surely—right?—we can agree that it would be bad to say "a user from India gave this testimonial:", or whatever—unless the place of origin is relevant, and you actually know it. I don't see much difference between these two.)

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by dr_kiszonka »

hexomancer wrote: post #139
phpnode wrote: post #137

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I think yours infringes the patent ;)

Alright, I modified it to be like the original comment.

I have some trouble making it work in Chrome and Firefox (Win 10). Your parent's code does work, so maybe you introduced a bug when editing the code?

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by oauea »

DiggyJohnson wrote: post #202
dymk wrote: post #195

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It’s just an emoji, not a Memoji ( https://emojipedia.org/man-wearing-turban-medium-dark-skin-t... ) It’s probably a review written by somebody with a brown skin tone. Page authors don’t know the social intricacies of what constitutes Sikhs and chose this one as “close enough”.

There’s probably some sort of important lesson here…

Yes, such as stop fixating so much on race or ethnicity and instead appreciate the product for what it is.

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by oauea »

JadeNB wrote: post #221
renlo wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In addition to pronouns, let's include emojis that we feel identify ourselves

> In addition to pronouns, let's include emojis that we feel identify ourselves I assume that was sarcastic, but why not? Do you have any right to choose the emoji to identify me? I mean, you surely have every right to editorialise with an emoji that you think reflects my behaviour, but, if you're going to quote me below a symbolic representation, then I think it's different. If one has to use an emoji to identify so…

> Do you have any right to choose the emoji to identify me

If it's posted on my website, then yes. It might not be polite or advisable, but I absolutely have the right to misgender you as well.

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by dr_kiszonka »

I really quite like both the idea and the website.

Suggestion: on the EN version of the website, you could consider linking to EN App Store pages, e.g.,

  https://apps.apple.com/app/fiery-feeds-rss-reader/id1158763303
instead of

  https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/fiery-feeds-rss-reader/id1158763303

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by oauea »

renato_casutt wrote: post #52
rapnie wrote: post #34

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Yes, I agree. I guess this technology isn't for everyone. This is a real bummer. They did not have to patent and trademark this method, which in principle is such a basic mechanism. Just had to productize their service really well so they'd take the lead in monetizing.

I am alone and I put all my money, time and work into BR. Visible is only a small part. But I think everyone decides for themselves what is best. But thank you for the critical feedback.

You put all your money, time and work into bolding the first few letters of a word?

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by oauea »

renato_casutt wrote: post #95

I am very glad that Bionic Reading is being discussed in HN. I am aware that it cannot help everyone. But I also get a lot of feedback from people who are helped a lot by this reading mode. Imagine you have problems with reading. You don't realize what a huge hurdle that is until you talk to people who are affected. Being ashamed in front of society. The problem of learning new things. Being called stupid. And these…

You did such a service to society by patenting this. Bravo.

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by hexomancer »

dr_kiszonka wrote: post #222
hexomancer wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alright, I modified it to be like the original comment.

I have some trouble making it work in Chrome and Firefox (Win 10). Your parent's code does work, so maybe you introduced a bug when editing the code?

you need to manually run bionifyPage() after executing the script.

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by hexomancer »

w-m wrote: post #213
hexomancer wrote: post #136

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I made a version which works in all web pages, it is still very hacky though: function bionifyPage(){ function bionifyWord(word) { if (word.length == 1) { return word; } var numBold = Math.ceil(word.length * 0.3); // return " " + word.slice(0, numBold) + " " + + " " + word.slice(numBold) + " "; return " " + word.slice(0, numBold) + " " + " " + word.slice(numBold) + " "; } function bionifyText(text) { var res = ""; if…

Could you make one that reduces the opacity of the second half of the word, while keeping the same boldness for the complete text, to compare the effect?

I have made a chrome extension that does that: https://github.com/ahrm/chrome-fastread

You can customize the css attributes of highlighted text and rest of the word using the two input texts.

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