"Every programmer I know has heard of these..." - Absolutely. The frequency of these "lightweight" articles has increased of late (e.g. Linode,Slicehost gets n

"Every programmer I know has heard of these..." - Absolutely. The frequency of these "lightweight" articles has increased of late (e.g. Linode,Slicehost gets newest release of Ubuntu, JavaScript starter link, etc.). May be this is an indication of the changing demographics here on HN. It is called Hacker News and calling Consolas, BitStream Vera as alternative is just "newbism".