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lukehorvat

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lukehorvat··on Peter Thiel, Tech Billionaire, Reveals Secret War with Gawker
The only independent online media outlet left in the world? What an absurd statement.
lukehorvat··on Pending Comments
Orwellian.
lukehorvat··on Show HN: Use any text as a domain name
Who says you have to learn English?
lukehorvat··on Dogescript
Comedy is dead.
lukehorvat··on Paying For Privacy?
How does using Amazon's services make you any less of a "product"?
lukehorvat··on My Product Has Failed
Raka{sheets} <-- that's how you failed.
lukehorvat··on GitHub Flow in the Browser
If there is nothing to build. Not everything version-controlled with Git has to be runnable software.
lukehorvat··on We're killing it, bro
Blog spam. Go away.
lukehorvat··on Flood Washington with 1984
Stop being a baby.
lukehorvat··on Twitter? It’s Not Fun Anymore
No.
lukehorvat··on Bitcoin reaches an all-time trading high of over $33
One word: deflationary.
lukehorvat··on The Serenity of a 5pm Bedtime
Hilarious.
lukehorvat··on Host webpages on Google Drive
The cool thing is you can still use Git with this approach. See: http://bigtrapeze.com/2012/08/25/using-google-drive-as-a-git...
lukehorvat··on It's Official: XNA is dead
I'm curious - what exactly do you not like about C#?
lukehorvat··on Speaking up
Please, tell me, why there is always one individual who reads an article like this and goes "but what about teh menz!?"
lukehorvat··on I want the world to scroll this way
I like having control over my scrolling and being able to see the structure of a document at first glance. One can often quickly locate where the "meat" of a document will be just by looking at its structure, and scanning the first line of each paragraph.

I also frequently go back and re-read previous lines when I'm reading, because I sometimes just don't absorb things on first-pass. The auto-scrolling line needlessly introduces an urgency to the reading experience that I don't particularly enjoy. Sure, you can pause it, but then that is something you consciously have to think about doing while reading. "Free scrolling" doesn't introduce any extra thinking, because you do it subconsciously most of the time.

So, no, I don't find this particular useful or innovative.

A better solution? A scrolling system that tracks your eye movements in conjunction with a sophisticated AI to adapt to your preferred scrolling behaviour over time.