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Re:Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design by fifnir on Monday July 09, 2018 @05:32AM (#17489008)
Do the words "provide value" make anyone else puke in their mouth a little bit?
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Re:Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design by conanbatt on Saturday July 14, 2018 @11:47PM (#17533693)
Who is against value??? What do you even mean??
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Re:Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design by fifnir on Monday July 16, 2018 @01:31PM (#17543095)
I'm not against value, I'm against the term "provide value" because (to me, and I'm probably a huge minority in HN) it is a term loaded with capitalist meanings.

We don't talk about providing value in academia, I assume they don't talk about providing value in philanthropic organizations or political movements. Whenever I hear the term it essentially means "to make money".

I appreciate that this is my personal interpretation of this though

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Re:Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design by conanbatt on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @06:30PM (#17562576)
> We don't talk about providing value in academia

I am not surprised. The requirement to provide value in academia would go very much against getting any funding for it.

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