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> Using this guy's insane logic, we could get rid of all craftsmen, because nobody notices the details anyway. Hyperbolic much? > Why exactly is Rubygems givi
by schneems 11y ago
> Using this guy's insane logic, we could get rid of all craftsmen, because nobody notices the details anyway.
Hyperbolic much?
> Why exactly is Rubygems giving idiots access to it's source code?
It's open source https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems all idiots have access to the source code, even you.
I think the words you're looking for are "Thanks for taking the time to make Rubygems faster, and for doing a write up on it to show the costs and benefits of using a webfont. Now I see that style can come at the cost of performance. I'm curious what the speed differences would have been if they had gotten rid of the 10 unused font variations and kept the current webfonts."
Even better would have been "I ran the benchmarks for my suggested change and found it to be nearly as fast, I don't think we should sacrifice all visuals for the sake of performance, here's a link to my PR to Rubygems to re-instate the webfonts with a script on how to reproduce my findings. Thanks everyone for all your free open source work, and for sharing what you've learned."
I get what you're trying to say, blowing it out of proportion and being highly critical of people doing free work for you in their free time while doing nothing to remedy the situation isn't going to help anyone.
- Angostura 11y agoNo, what he is trying to say is that the approach that was taken appears misguided. The speed improvement is largely gained by not downloading unwanted font variants. All the work mucking about with the designer's body copy style isn't going to have much effect - unless I'm missing something.