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I hate it when people call these dumb loose pages a book.

Just like cotton in a bag isn't a comforter, a website with itsy-bitsy manuscript is not a fucking book.

So ...

> Poking fun?

Not at all.

Another metaphor for the fear of retribution:

Everything on that article is hyperlinked properly except for the tweet from Snowden. Although I do give WP some credit for their original stories on surveillance by NSA/other agencies.

> "Want to read everything"?

How is NSA wanting to read everything (if they don't already) any different from Chinese authorities reading everything?

Different my foot.

Looking at the quality of discussion here it seems we're living in that dumbfuck's paradise. For they say: when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

There is little difference in intent, monetary pursuit, lust of power, size of investment and scale of techniques used by either centre of powers. For exactly the same purpose.

Oh, I forgot to mention the NSA did I? Or let us talk about it's "fundamentally different" because it is always China behind all the wrongdoings against the Internet, my friends.

But wait, keep the mechanics/micro aside. Tell me is there a difference in policy or what either systems want to achieve?

None.

Trust me CNN, it is hardly different from how we wage a war on the Internet (CISA, CISPA, TPP and what not). Do you not use that ton of cruft on your site with similar designs?

I'm pretty sure I saw them around in 2011 so I don't understand why report wrong age of the company here? Note they did a seed round of $3 million in 2012.

It took over a minute on mine; but I'm sure they're hammered right now.

70 seconds to load a chapter? That's a terrible benchmark for even for some of the heaviest websites out there!

This may not be a popular opinion but I (and many ordinary readers like me) see that link as a website. Not a book.

It feels heavy and overwhelming to see a large number of 3D diagrams and visual depictions on just one web-page. Having to scroll down to read the full chapter with all that animation and "motion" is probably a bad move too. Given that this is supposed to come off like a book you can probably ditch the scroll.

Ideally, you'd want to give away few concepts in small easy-to-understand chunks with just 1 or 2 figures per page. And let the reader flip/click over to the next section like it happens with an ibook or kindle book or even a real physical book.

IMHO the idea of ripping apart a book at its spine and forcing the loose design of websites over it is a complete no-go for avid book readers. Especially for the mobile and tablet users (probably even for the desktop users!, why else would everyone insist to download PDF, ePub or other artifacts?). But I'm sure that a section of developers over here wouldn't agree with my opinion. So take it all with a pinch of salt.

Also just the place where I'd let the designers take over.