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Pasting block quote for mobile users: "Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub; It is the center hole that makes it useful. Shape clay into a vessel; It is the spa
by theoh 8y ago
Pasting block quote for mobile users:
"Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub;
It is the center hole that makes it useful.
Shape clay into a vessel;
It is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a room;
It is the holes which make it useful.
Therefore profit comes from what is there;
Usefulness from what is not there."
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - Chapter 11
(translation by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English)
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(YC people: it is very telling that you can't find the will/resources to fix this blockquote on mobile problem. I would say it is damning of the whole ethos of YC/HN, in fact, but I'm marginal.)
- shawn 8y agoThe blockquotes are fine. It’s for code, not quotes. And they have better things to focus on.
- repsilat 8y agoOn mobile you can read about 20 characters before hitting the edge of an iframe. It isn't even good for code.
- theoh 8y agoOne dev intern could tinker with HN's codebase to improve it. It's not as if YC is a startup that has to have a laser focus on one main chance. This is big business now.