Ask YC: Why is YC's layout table based?

Re:Ask YC: Why is YC's layout table based? by divia on Friday January 18, 2008 @03:21PM (#100473)

This came up a while ago. pg's answer was "Because we're smart enough to realize that html is object code?"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154

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Re:Ask YC: Why is YC's layout table based? by ayc on Friday January 18, 2008 @03:57PM (#100500)

That is. Table is 'not optimized object code' compared to lists. So you should ask: why your object code is not optimized (and it slow loaded and slow rendered on my PC :).

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Re:Ask YC: Why is YC's layout table based? by palish on Friday January 18, 2008 @06:22PM (#100600)

Premature optimization is literally a waste of life.

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Re:Ask YC: Why is YC's layout table based? by ayc on Saturday January 19, 2008 @11:42AM (#100906)

Do not waste a life! You should use optimizing compiler ;)

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Re:Ask YC: Why is YC's layout table based? by emmett on Friday January 18, 2008 @04:01PM (#100506)

How old is your computer? I've found news.yc load times are close to instant.

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Re:Ask YC: Why is YC's layout table based? by mrtron on Friday January 18, 2008 @04:59PM (#100541)

Haha...I can imagine its a quad core, 4 gigs of ram and running vista.

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Re:Ask YC: Why is YC's layout table based? by ayc on Saturday January 19, 2008 @11:45AM (#100908)

Right!

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Re:Ask YC: Why is YC's layout table based? by run4yourlives on Friday January 18, 2008 @05:50PM (#100561)

>How old is your computer?

On the internet, it shouldn't matter. :)

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Re:Ask YC: Why is YC's layout table based? by ayc on Saturday January 19, 2008 @11:44AM (#100907)

My computer is fast :) I told "YOU should ask: why your object code is not optimized (and it slow" (instead of "why you use tables").

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