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Actually more like http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ :-)

isomorphic 11y ago
Sure, but the Google Analytics loader code on either of those is larger than all of the HTML boilerplate and CSS combined. At least the first one has snarky HTML comments!
- dexterdog 11y ago
  But most people either have that code cached or blocked.
vacri 11y ago
First thing on loading that link was "yuck, the contrast is fucked", and sure enough, item #2 is "less contrast is good". About the only good point on the list in that link is line width. But all the items about formatting text combine to make it so that there is so much less information on the screen. I'd much prefer to read the other website.
lmm 11y ago
No, medium isn't quite so horribly narrow as that one, and most academic sites didn't do the narrow thing at all.
pjc50 11y ago
Now can we have bettermotherfuckinghackernews.com too? Which behaves sanely on Android?
pdm55 11y ago
Simplicity! I'm in love. Thanks. Actually, your simple design is not the only one to make my day. I have finally found a guy who puts all the HTML5 etc. on the one page. He's a physics lecturer. He has dead easy html files that illustrate Newton's Cannon, using canvas and javascript. Finally, I am "getting" it. See http://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/html5/ http://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/html5/. (And the bonus was to see that, with uniform circular motion, the acceleration is towards the centre of rotation. I mean I really need things explained simply without any extras getting in the way.) Of course, I had to play with it to understand it. But the beauty was that, with the source code all there on the one page, I could easily make changes and see the effect immediately. Thanks Dan Schroeder. PS I need to remind myself that posting pdf files is another straightforward way to get information online.
- PuffinBlue 11y ago
  Oh this isn't my design, though I do like it! The guy who made it is: https://twitter.com/drew_mc https://twitter.com/drew_mc

Sure, but the Google Analytics loader code on either of those is larger than all of the HTML boilerplate and CSS combined. At least the first one has snarky HTML comments!

dexterdog 11y ago
But most people either have that code cached or blocked.

vacri 11y ago

First thing on loading that link was "yuck, the contrast is fucked", and sure enough, item #2 is "less contrast is good". About the only good point on the list in that link is line width. But all the items about formatting text combine to make it so that there is so much less information on the screen. I'd much prefer to read the other website.

lmm 11y ago

No, medium isn't quite so horribly narrow as that one, and most academic sites didn't do the narrow thing at all.

pjc50 11y ago

Now can we have bettermotherfuckinghackernews.com too? Which behaves sanely on Android?

pdm55 11y ago

Simplicity! I'm in love. Thanks. Actually, your simple design is not the only one to make my day. I have finally found a guy who puts all the HTML5 etc. on the one page. He's a physics lecturer. He has dead easy html files that illustrate Newton's Cannon, using canvas and javascript. Finally, I am "getting" it. See http://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/html5/ http://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/html5/. (And the bonus was to see that, with uniform circular motion, the acceleration is towards the centre of rotation. I mean I really need things explained simply without any extras getting in the way.) Of course, I had to play with it to understand it. But the beauty was that, with the source code all there on the one page, I could easily make changes and see the effect immediately. Thanks Dan Schroeder. PS I need to remind myself that posting pdf files is another straightforward way to get information online.

PuffinBlue 11y ago
Oh this isn't my design, though I do like it! The guy who made it is: https://twitter.com/drew_mc https://twitter.com/drew_mc