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This site is pretty great. I would love to re-learn some of the basics in this format. Here are some previous discussions since this content has hit the front
by PaulMest 7y ago
This site is pretty great. I would love to re-learn some of the basics in this format.
Here are some previous discussions since this content has hit the front page a couple of times:
* 5 years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8472157 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8472157
* 7 years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4807091 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4807091
- kkarakk 7y agoi was gonna say the website design is weird(why pdfs to download instead of pngs?) but considering it's 7 years old it's held up well
- ratsimihah 7y agoOh that could be why the font isn't the most readable either.
- PaulMest 7y agoI have no affiliation with the author and this is the first I'm seeing the content, but I'd guess its's because PDFs can be vector-scalable and never lose their quality as you scale up/down and PNGs cannot.
- jacquesm 7y agoAnd they can be printed.
- canofbars 7y agoYou can print a png
- jacquesm 7y agoSure you can. But it isn't nearly as certain to generate the same kind of output when changing printers; platforms or programs. PDF at least does that part well and I totally support the authors choice and think .png would be a terrible format for this. They're meant to be posters, pdf is entirely appropriate.