Comment by edw519 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by edw519 | Hacker News Reader

1. Choose any web page you want to read (My choice is usually something from Hacker News).

2. Ctrl-A.

3. Ctrl-C.

4. Open your IDE or text editor (I prefer textpad with black background and lime green foreground.) Bonus points if there's already some code in there.

5. Ctrl-V.

6. Read away at your heart's content. If anyone sees your screen from a distance, it looks like you're working.

7. Guilt = 0. I spend most of my time "thinking" about work when I'm not at work. When I report to work in the morning, I usually have a flurry of pent up code to write that I thought about at home the night before. But I stay at the office all day long whether or not I actually have something to code. I always hit my deadlines. It all evens out.

I smell an opportunity for a "readability" style bookmarklet using a monospaced font and a blinking cursor at the bottom of the screen. F11 gets rid of the browser chrome and you're set.

The general idea was embodied in Ghostzilla and its successors, none of which I have actually used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostzilla

It's called lynx.

Man I feel old.

Back to my Gopher session...

How about just running lynx in a terminal buffer in emacs? That should work just great for Hacker News.

I always browse using elinks on an ssh session. Virtually indistinguishable from work.

You don't work on your internet connected computer. I call shenanigans. ;)

You don't work on your internet connected computer.

At home, true. But I don't have to worry about what others think when I'm working at home.

This technique is for when you're not at home, but at your employer's or client's site, which probably applies to many people here. I don't even remember the last time I was in someone else's office not connected to the internet.

I'm just teasing you. I never would have even thought of doing that...

My approach has always just been filtering up front: I've always been lucky enough to work in places where programmers are actually understood and appreciated.

Variation on this with better rendering (in emacs):

   C-u M-! w3m -dump "http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2042350"

Or just use M-x w3m.

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