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Re:Dear GitHub by pvorb on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:59PM (#10905468)
That's why you shouldn't use Google Docs for such an article (even if it comes in the form of a letter). Nobody expects the concept of pages on the web (as in books, not as in web page).
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Re:Dear GitHub by simoncion on Thursday January 14, 2016 @09:00PM (#10906565)
Comments like these baffle me and I have to wonder

* Are "we" in such a huge hurry that we don't look at our scrollbar to see if there's more to the document that we're viewing?

* How did "we" get so incurious that we don't even attempt to scroll down to see if there's more information to read?

I mean -seriously- the intended audience for this particular open letter is technical people.

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Re:Dear GitHub by jacalata on Friday January 15, 2016 @03:55AM (#10908052)
Did you....not read the open letter? Or not realize that the scrollbar for this one goes all the way to the end of the page, and then there's an inline link saying 'see more signatures'?
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Re:Dear GitHub by simoncion on Friday January 15, 2016 @04:10AM (#10908098)
When I read the letter, I saw that it extended across two printed pages. Were these printed pages not the pages to which pvorb was referring to?

After re-checking the link:

Ah! See, the document that you are looking at is hosted on Github. At the time of my comment (~six hours ago), it was a two-printed-page document hosted on Google Docs. dang comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10907271 (four hours ago) that he changed the link from the Google Docs document to the Github document.

(And now that I know that, the wave of downvoting makes a lot of sense. (even though pvorb explicitly says that he's looking at a document hosted on Google Docs))

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Re:Dear GitHub by pvorb on Friday January 15, 2016 @11:57AM (#10910482)
Yep, I've been looking at the Google doc. Basically I think it's just a bad way of publishing things online.
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Re:Dear GitHub by pvorb on Friday January 15, 2016 @11:47AM (#10910398)
Often browsers don't show a scroll bar at all like on my phone, if you're not actively scrolling.

And yes, most of the time "we" are in such a hurry. At least I am most of the time. Time is limited.

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