Hacker Monthly #3 [pdf]
hackermonthly.com
hackermonthly.com
Lesson learned: summarize the strong signals in dynamic data. Not everyone looks for changes 10 times a day.
On a related note, is there a RSS feed of the top daily HN links? It would be great to review past articles and comment threads when I get back from vacations and business trips
Good job.
edit: for the rss feed, see http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
The printing quality (from the last two issues) is great and it's amazing to have it as an actual physical magazine.
I've submitted the link to HN if anyone fancies voting it up, it seems a bit silly to have the direct PDF link be the only link on the front page when the whole point of the thing is that it is an actual magazine: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565184
I know a flat-rate envelope costs something like $5 to mail internationally, and it can hold a lot of magazines.
Has anyone put Hacker Monthly on their Kindle? How does that gorgeous PDF translate to the Kindle?
But I can also just take your word for it if you don't feel like taking and posting pictures.
I have taken some pictures as example :
#3 on PDF, vertical layout http://i.imgur.com/6w80g.jpg #3 on PDF, horizontal, with some complex graphics : http://i.imgur.com/RfeUH.jpg #2 epub, horizontal layout, smallest font size: http://i.imgur.com/c39gL.jpg
Possibly because he adjusted the font size by a point. For 8.5x11 PDFs you really need a Kindle DX or iPad.
Reading was decently nice, but loading was a tiny bit slow and using the rocker instead of the next page button was a bit annoying when reading zoomed-in content. (I'd think that would be better on the K3's d-pad, though)
(I just noticed that some of the text is readable in the whole-page view in the screenshots - on the actual device, it's a tiny bit blurry)
You need to see the opportunity and execute it well. Great job, once again.
Side note: I just discovered the "Reflow" view in Adobe Reader. It converts the PDF to a single column for easy viewing at a large magnification. The layout gets messed up sometimes but it's alright for me. My problem before was I had to scroll up and down a couple of times on a page to read all the contents (3 columns) in fix width view.
Some others have brought it up, but any chance for Kindle (normal size) optimized version? I'd pay for that too if it was reasonable, but this is just screaming for me to sideload and read in my downtime. I'll make do with the pdf, but having a Kindle optimized version really seems like a win.
Among other things it would add a curiosity element among the readers.
Does the graphic on page 31 render oddly for anyone else? I have random characters all over the image, it doesn't seem correct. ( Using Preview.app on Mac OS X 10.5.8 )
> Yea, it does for me. I think the issue might be with Preview. I opened it with Adobe Reader, and it worked fine.
> screenshot: http://cl.ly/701481461d7fdf060e01
Edit: No problem, I downloaded it from Scribd (although I didn't want to have to auth with Facebook).
Some things are just not meant to be in audio.
There were many equations and such. I also had a stack of semi-soft plastic sheets and a rubber-padded clipboard; drawing on the sheets with the rubber underneath allowed for finger-parsable drawings.
Whether to attempt to an audible version of an equation versus making a drawing was the big decision. It was faster if I could read an equation, but I wasn't always sure I was getting it quite right. OTOH, having a large stack of "etchings" was not so good either, and the details had to be marked well enough to feel.
I asked the guy once how he could "see" computer screens; he said there was a device that had a matrix of a bazillion pins that was used to create an image of the screen for him to run his fingers over.
Why is this called Hacker Monthly again?
Besides hacking isn't limited to programming anymore than artistry is limited to painting.
Other than that, I personally would be interested in a monthly magazine that focused on interesting programming related things.