Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"?

Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people wh... by edw519 on Thursday April 23, 2009 @09:37AM (#575554)

No. I have perfected a lightning-like alt-tab.

For longer threads, I cut and paste into my text editor. The keyword highlighting looks kind of funky but no one who walks by can tell it's not code.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people wh... by ryanwaggoner on Thursday April 23, 2009 @11:47AM (#575831)

Thank you for reminding me why I don't have a job anymore. I always hated that bullshit of someone looking over your shoulder.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people wh... by wallflower on Thursday April 23, 2009 @11:58AM (#575874)

Or you can use text to speech and headphones

NextAloud has impressive voices, including a sexy British one

http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo....

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people wh... by Jem on Thursday April 23, 2009 @10:42AM (#575687)

There's a surprising amount of things this works for - I reply to emails, type up blog entries (and comments), etc all inside an open document in my text editor.

Of course, I could just work a little harder.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people wh... by eru on Thursday April 23, 2009 @11:13AM (#575758)

With emacs you can do this natively.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people wh... by thalur on Thursday April 23, 2009 @11:56AM (#575866)

What, working harder? :p

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people wh... by eru on Thursday April 23, 2009 @12:35PM (#575969)

I heard that's possible, too.

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