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How are you supposed to take an article with this title seriously, on a website that makes heavy use of modern CSS (flexbox, grid,...), has a Twitch stream link

by c7b 4y ago

How are you supposed to take an article with this title seriously, on a website that makes heavy use of modern CSS (flexbox, grid,...), has a Twitch stream link and even embedded Twitter (with JavaScript)? This is 'Do as I say, not as I do' at a quite extreme level.

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pvg 4y ago
How are you supposed to take an article with this title seriously You read it and if you have anything interesting to say about its content, you write that. Picking apart the implementation details of the site itself just brings the unseriousness to HN which is why the site guidelines ask you not to do that sort of thing. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- c7b 4y ago
  Website design is arguably not tangential to a discussion about website design, which is the only thing that the guidelines discourage. If someone indulges on a beef steak while talking about something, that would be tangential in most circumstances, except when the talk is about the benefits of veganism. You're creating a strong dissonance between your message and your mode of delivery. What the guidelines do discourage, however, is commenting on whether the article has been read.
  - pvg 4y ago
    It's tangential to the ideas expressed in the content beside being a really predictable and repetitive (notice how it's in three separate bottom comments in this thread) gotcha on top of 'how can I take it seriously' itself being just a bombastic trope. is commenting on whether the article has been read. They do, which is why I didn't.
    - c7b 4y ago
      > It's tangential to the ideas expressed in the content One of the ideas expressed in the content is to use HTML tables for styling and aligning content - using grid and flexboxes flies in the face of that suggestion.

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How are you supposed to take an article with this title seriously, on a website that makes heavy use of modern CSS (flexbox, grid,...), has a Twitch stream link

by c7b 4y ago

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pvg 4y ago
How are you supposed to take an article with this title seriously You read it and if you have anything interesting to say about its content, you write that. Picking apart the implementation details of the site itself just brings the unseriousness to HN which is why the site guidelines ask you not to do that sort of thing. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- c7b 4y ago
  Website design is arguably not tangential to a discussion about website design, which is the only thing that the guidelines discourage. If someone indulges on a beef steak while talking about something, that would be tangential in most circumstances, except when the talk is about the benefits of veganism. You're creating a strong dissonance between your message and your mode of delivery. What the guidelines do discourage, however, is commenting on whether the article has been read.
  - pvg 4y ago
    It's tangential to the ideas expressed in the content beside being a really predictable and repetitive (notice how it's in three separate bottom comments in this thread) gotcha on top of 'how can I take it seriously' itself being just a bombastic trope. is commenting on whether the article has been read. They do, which is why I didn't.
    - c7b 4y ago
      > It's tangential to the ideas expressed in the content One of the ideas expressed in the content is to use HTML tables for styling and aligning content - using grid and flexboxes flies in the face of that suggestion.