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I’m not blaming anybody for anything, and I understand that some people enjoy endlessly tinkering with their setups. What I don’t understand is why this particu

I’m not blaming anybody for anything, and I understand that some people enjoy endlessly tinkering with their setups. What I don’t understand is why this particular topic has become so popular recently (I’ve seen so many posts about it) for two reasons. 1) The difference between the best (according to your own taste) font your IDE offers off the shelf, and the best font you can find anywhere in existence seems marginal to me. 2) Optimising for readability and then introducing cursive to your IDE seems like two diometrically opposed ideas to me. I’m not trying to be a Luddite or a hipster. Do what makes you happy. I just don’t get this trend and can’t help but think it’s a waste of time, especially if productivity is one of the supposed goals of this.

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Semiapies 7y ago
I suspect you've devoted more effort to these posts than most people here have to picking fonts.
- AmericanChopper 7y ago
  Perhaps expressing a view that something is a waste of time is naturally a waste of time itself. That could be an interesting philosophical position to take, but I don’t think it contributes much to the discussion in this case. Perhaps I’m discussing the merits of the topic at hand to satisfy my own intellectual curiosity.
  - macintux 7y ago
    Interspersing aspersions against those who have different priorities is rarely a good way to “discuss the merits” of the topic at hand. “Do people have so few problems to work on that this has become a reasonable use of their time?” “completely beyond reason” I don’t care a great deal about the topic, but it offends me when people with a passion for technical materials are disparaged for their interest.
    - AmericanChopper 7y ago
      I haven’t made a single ad hominem here. The opinions I expressed were directed exclusively at the topic being discussed.
      - macintux 7y ago
        Ad hominem, no. Disparaging the interest, yes. It’s possible to explore a topic without the disparagement but you keep reverting to the “waste of time” theme, which doesn’t indicate an interest in learning or persuasion.
        AmericanChopper 7y ago
        Ideas should be protected from criticism to avoid disparagement?...
        macintux 7y ago
        No, but a discussion the merits of fonts they find interesting is not enriched by a troll who hides behind the fig leaf of “discussing the merits of the topic at hand to satisfy my own intellectual curiosity”. You’re free to do as you wish, but HN discourages your hobby, and thus the downvotes. I just regret the time I’ve spent feeding it.
  - Semiapies 7y ago
    "Perhaps expressing a view that something is a waste of time is naturally a waste of time itself." That might be, but that's not at all what I said. I noted that for all your talk of all the time spent picking fonts, you're spending more time on this than most coders actually spend looking at and picking between coding fonts. (Thst is, see a font mentioned, look at a sample of it, and make a quick decision whether it looks any better than what they're using - and that decision usually being that it isn't.) To call your efforts a "waste of time" is pointedly your choice of phrase, not mine.

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Semiapies 7y ago

I suspect you've devoted more effort to these posts than most people here have to picking fonts.

AmericanChopper 7y ago
Perhaps expressing a view that something is a waste of time is naturally a waste of time itself. That could be an interesting philosophical position to take, but I don’t think it contributes much to the discussion in this case. Perhaps I’m discussing the merits of the topic at hand to satisfy my own intellectual curiosity.
- macintux 7y ago
  Interspersing aspersions against those who have different priorities is rarely a good way to “discuss the merits” of the topic at hand. “Do people have so few problems to work on that this has become a reasonable use of their time?” “completely beyond reason” I don’t care a great deal about the topic, but it offends me when people with a passion for technical materials are disparaged for their interest.
  - AmericanChopper 7y ago
    I haven’t made a single ad hominem here. The opinions I expressed were directed exclusively at the topic being discussed.
    - macintux 7y ago
      Ad hominem, no. Disparaging the interest, yes. It’s possible to explore a topic without the disparagement but you keep reverting to the “waste of time” theme, which doesn’t indicate an interest in learning or persuasion.
      - AmericanChopper 7y ago
        Ideas should be protected from criticism to avoid disparagement?...
        macintux 7y ago
        No, but a discussion the merits of fonts they find interesting is not enriched by a troll who hides behind the fig leaf of “discussing the merits of the topic at hand to satisfy my own intellectual curiosity”. You’re free to do as you wish, but HN discourages your hobby, and thus the downvotes. I just regret the time I’ve spent feeding it.
- Semiapies 7y ago
  "Perhaps expressing a view that something is a waste of time is naturally a waste of time itself." That might be, but that's not at all what I said. I noted that for all your talk of all the time spent picking fonts, you're spending more time on this than most coders actually spend looking at and picking between coding fonts. (Thst is, see a font mentioned, look at a sample of it, and make a quick decision whether it looks any better than what they're using - and that decision usually being that it isn't.) To call your efforts a "waste of time" is pointedly your choice of phrase, not mine.