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It feels more like one side of an IM conversation than an essay, what with the missing periods and stilted spacing

reneherse 14y ago
I feel for the guy, for if you read between the lines of the latest news about Tumblr and one or two of his recent blog posts, he was obviously ousted by his board. So maybe it was a very difficult post to write. However, I'm still astounded that this quality of writing could come from a company president.
- spoiledtechie 14y ago
  Definitely sounds like an ousting rather than wanting to step down.
  - tg3 14y ago
    And based on the recent decision to start selling advertising, it sounds like it's related to his inability to produce a top-line, or perhaps his aversion to the prevailing winds at the board about the timeline and methods to produce revenue.
  - mvkel 14y ago
    Do you think it was the board, or Karp?
burgerbrain 14y ago
The inconsistent substitution of 'with' with 'w/' confuses me. Why do people even do that? On qwerty I know I find '/' to be much harder to strike than 'ith'.
- wahnfrieden 14y ago
  People do it because it's two fewer keystrokes.
  - burgerbrain 14y ago
    Is it actually easier though?
    - wahnfrieden 14y ago
      On my keyboard at least, yeah.
ianterrell 14y ago
My guess is that the missing periods at paragraph breaks indicate he wrote this on an iDevice. Space-space: period added. Enter-enter: no period added.
- burgerbrain 14y ago
  That seems like a fairly sever oversight. Is there a reason for that behaviour?
- calloc 14y ago
  Why an iDevice? Does Android add periods by default? (Space space doesn't on most Android devices, neither does Enter enter). He could have written this on any mobile computing platform. That being said, he did use short hand texting "speech" with his "w/".
  - burgerbrain 14y ago
    Presumably if he was adding periods manually, he wouldn't have skipped them at the end of paragraphs.
  - ajross 14y ago
    Quick test on a text field in chrome on my Galaxy Nexus shows the same behavior listed above: two spaces automatically ends the sentence with a period, but two carriage returns does not.
pcrh 14y ago
It reads like a speech, rather than a letter.

I feel for the guy, for if you read between the lines of the latest news about Tumblr and one or two of his recent blog posts, he was obviously ousted by his board. So maybe it was a very difficult post to write. However, I'm still astounded that this quality of writing could come from a company president.

spoiledtechie 14y ago
Definitely sounds like an ousting rather than wanting to step down.
- tg3 14y ago
  And based on the recent decision to start selling advertising, it sounds like it's related to his inability to produce a top-line, or perhaps his aversion to the prevailing winds at the board about the timeline and methods to produce revenue.
- mvkel 14y ago
  Do you think it was the board, or Karp?

burgerbrain 14y ago

The inconsistent substitution of 'with' with 'w/' confuses me. Why do people even do that? On qwerty I know I find '/' to be much harder to strike than 'ith'.

wahnfrieden 14y ago
People do it because it's two fewer keystrokes.
- burgerbrain 14y ago
  Is it actually easier though?
  - wahnfrieden 14y ago
    On my keyboard at least, yeah.

ianterrell 14y ago

My guess is that the missing periods at paragraph breaks indicate he wrote this on an iDevice. Space-space: period added. Enter-enter: no period added.

burgerbrain 14y ago
That seems like a fairly sever oversight. Is there a reason for that behaviour?
calloc 14y ago
Why an iDevice? Does Android add periods by default? (Space space doesn't on most Android devices, neither does Enter enter). He could have written this on any mobile computing platform. That being said, he did use short hand texting "speech" with his "w/".
- burgerbrain 14y ago
  Presumably if he was adding periods manually, he wouldn't have skipped them at the end of paragraphs.
- ajross 14y ago
  Quick test on a text field in chrome on my Galaxy Nexus shows the same behavior listed above: two spaces automatically ends the sentence with a period, but two carriage returns does not.

pcrh 14y ago

It reads like a speech, rather than a letter.