Watch a VC use my name to sell a con (2011)

Re:Watch a VC use my name to sell a con (2011) by quchen on Monday June 03, 2013 @06:43PM (#5816563)

If you turn off stylesheets, you can even read the text.

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Re:Watch a VC use my name to sell a con (2011) by igorgue on Monday June 03, 2013 @07:07PM (#5816678)

Sigh... This meme of criticizing UX instead of the article is getting old on HN.

Email jwz your suggestions. Also have you seen his homepage? http://www.jwz.org/ OMG, it's like... So horrible hurts my eyes, god who would care about what jwz says with that design!

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Re:Watch a VC use my name to sell a con (2011) by bitwize on Monday June 03, 2013 @08:00PM (#5816889)

Real hackers care about typography, design, and UX.

On HN you're not a real hacker until even your tweets have a colophon.

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Re:Watch a VC use my name to sell a con (2011) by jleader on Monday June 03, 2013 @10:18PM (#5817307)

Thanks, I just entertained myself for several minutes imagining jwz's reaction to being told he's "not a real hacker on HN"!

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Re:Watch a VC use my name to sell a con (2011) by bitwize on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @10:25AM (#5819569)

Well, he only ever uses Macs nowadays, so he's almost there :)

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Re:Watch a VC use my name to sell a con (2011) by angersock on Monday June 03, 2013 @07:42PM (#5816836)

Are you kidding? This style is awesome.

In all seriousness, what issues do you have with it?

Reading it on my tablet at night means I don't get blinded by a light background, and the green is something my eyes deal with easily. Honestly, I think his site looks better than most of the same vanilla layouts we see here posted every day.

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Re:Watch a VC use my name to sell a con (2011) by bitwize on Monday June 03, 2013 @08:01PM (#5816897)

Agreed. Early experience with a Model 16 entrained my eyes to appreciate green on black. Jwz is doing it right, reminding us of where we came from.

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Re:Watch a VC use my name to sell a con (2011) by LowKarmaAccount on Monday June 03, 2013 @07:08PM (#5816690)

There's an excellent add-on for Firefox called "No Color" that I use whenever I come across sites like these. One click makes it readable again.

I'm not affiliated with the developer in any way.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-color/

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