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I once attended a seminar by Balaji Vishwanathan. He said in that seminar that once he had the opportunity to meet founder of HackerNews, and he asked him why h
by godelmachine 9y ago
I once attended a seminar by Balaji Vishwanathan. He said in that seminar that once he had the opportunity to meet founder of HackerNews, and he asked him why he doesn't do anything about the look and feel of the site? The founder replied,"I want the site to be as ugly as possible". He implied real hackers like things ugly.
- krapp 9y ago>He implied real hackers like things ugly. Maybe be likes things ugly, and believes real hackers should be like him. Either way, I think he's incorrect. Or else the people who have been complaining about the design and layout here for years aren't "real hackers."
- jacobedawson 9y agoIt might be implying that "real hackers" end up doing things their own way if they want to e.g. style overrides / pwas / 3 million different hacker news feeds, etc