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Re:Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit:The Surprising Learned from ... by themarkn on Saturday January 06, 2018 @04:59PM (#16087715)
Most of the actual content (the letters etc) on the Berkshire Hathaway site is in PDFs. Many are long documents with no navigation built in that are very awkward to read on mobile... As much as it's a nice example of a functioning barebones UI, it's not overall a great experience if it's main thing is serving PDFs. Unless I'm missing something, which I wouldn't mind learning, of course.

I agree with you about just leaving the damn keyboard alone though.

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Re:Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit:The Surprising Learned from ... by fermienrico on Saturday January 06, 2018 @05:50PM (#16087930)
Perhaps BH is a bad example.

How about these:

http://text.npr.org/

http://lite.cnn.io/en

http://valentinpapon.com/

More at the following link, but I warn you some of the websites go to a great extent in the favor of functionalism/brutalist expressions to the point where the damn thing is completely unusable. Cool though, very.

http://brutalistwebsites.com/

Also note the recurring themes:

  - Monospaced fonts
  - Full saturated blue #0000FF everywhere
  - unexpectedly large fonts
  - Retro 80's vibe (cursors, fonts, gifs, etc.)
:-) I find all of this very interesting.
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Re:Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit:The Surprising Learned from ... by themarkn on Sunday January 07, 2018 @08:54AM (#16090857)
Those are definitely better examples! And I take your point that we may be in a period that will be looked back on as overkill when it comes to design.
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Re:Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit:The Surprising Learned from ... by ec109685 on Monday January 08, 2018 @06:01AM (#16095958)
For some reason, I can’t scroll http://valentinpapon.com/ on iOS.
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Re:Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit:The Surprising Learned from ... by themarkn on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @06:43AM (#16114256)
Wow, I just though that was the end of the content but you are right!
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