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Their minimalist website is awesome: https://terraformindustries.com/ https://terraformindustries.com/ complete with plain text chemical equations. "Why does o

Their minimalist website is awesome: https://terraformindustries.com/ https://terraformindustries.com/ complete with plain text chemical equations. "Why does our website look like this? At TI we believe we can change the world by displacing fossil hydrocarbon production at global scale. Like our website, our machines are simple so we can build millions of them as quickly as possible. Our website embodies our cultural commitment to allocating resources where they solve the most important problems."

cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago
“Like our machines, our website looks awful on a phone.” Someone could’ve spent literally 5 minutes making this look reasonable on the world’s most popular web browsing device form facto, whilst still retaining the site’s retro virtue signalling aesthetic, AND it wouldn’t have taken away from their ‘core mission’ or whatever. If you don’t care, don’t have a website at all.
- dullcrisp 3y ago
  Who left you in charge?
- mulmen 3y ago
  Sometimes the children really are wrong.
- ihumanable 3y ago
  On my phone the website looks essentially identical to how it looks on my desktop browser. Does it look different on yours. It's just a plaintext website with white text on a black background and it's fast to load and easy to read for me. What's wrong with it?
  - mplewis 3y ago
    The text is too small to read on a phone without scrolling sideways.
- kalkr 3y ago
  man wtf does virtue signaling even mean anymore
  - yareal 3y ago
    Hint: it never meant anything.
- hackerlight 3y ago
  Unstated benefit of the website is it repels the right people.
- Lvl999Noob 3y ago
  I only looked at the linked article and the homepage so maybe diagrams and such look worse, but those pages look fabulous on phone to me. I wish more sites looked like this one.
- tsukurimashou 3y ago
  using a phone to browse the web is really sad
beachy 3y ago
I particularly love this: > Are you an excellent recruiter? We get a lot of inbounds. To help us qualify your ability to match our needs, please send us your strongest candidate, a singular champion, as an exemplar of your talent hunting skill. After a lifetime of doing HR software this sparks thoughts about a scoreboard/ranking system for agencies with exactly this kind of "you've got one chance - don't blow it" scenario. Maybe once you've provided 5 great candidates you're allowed a dud or two.
- basil-rash 3y ago
  To me that just sounds like “we don’t want to pay you anything but do all the work for us anyways”. Is it supposed to be some tongue in cheek way of saying “fuck off if you’re a recruiter we don’t give a shit”? Or are they instead asking for a historical example of a good hire you facilitated? It’s akin to saying “Oh you’re a systems software engineer? Prove it by designing and implementing our entire system for us, we won’t pay you for it, we just want to know you can do it”.
  - beachy 3y ago
    I don't think it's a fuck off message at all. That would be just "fuck off". Why encourage recruiters if you didn't want to deal with them? To me it says "don't just shotgun me with every rando candidate you have - I'll give you one chance, make it count". It's exactly the sort of thing you might say to a pushy recruiter you met at the bar who wants in to your business. To succeed, they must a) have a good candidate and b) understand your business (so they know that candidate is right for you). And I'd say there's an enormous difference between what a software engineer does (spend months or years designing and implementing a system that is for a single "customer") to what a recruiter does (spend 1 hours of conversations/emails in qualifying a candidate who can be shopped out to any of a number of customers.).
    - basil-rash 3y ago
      But if the recruiter has already gone through the work of vetting the candidate, why would the company not just talk to the candidate directly and “cut out the middleman”, so to speak? What guarantee does the recruiter have that providing the company this holy grail candidate will be met with anything more than “wow good eye, thanks!”
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lrem 3y ago
This is basically https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ But you know what, http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ They already have a style element in there. The whole thing becomes readable by just adding a width property. Much better when centered. Done.
thesmok 3y ago
I've fixed the letter A in their logo: https://gist.github.com/smotesko/ac65667cbc748a72ecddb350d69c4e88 https://gist.github.com/smotesko/ac65667cbc748a72ecddb350d69...

cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago

“Like our machines, our website looks awful on a phone.” Someone could’ve spent literally 5 minutes making this look reasonable on the world’s most popular web browsing device form facto, whilst still retaining the site’s retro virtue signalling aesthetic, AND it wouldn’t have taken away from their ‘core mission’ or whatever. If you don’t care, don’t have a website at all.

dullcrisp 3y ago
Who left you in charge?
mulmen 3y ago
Sometimes the children really are wrong.
ihumanable 3y ago
On my phone the website looks essentially identical to how it looks on my desktop browser. Does it look different on yours. It's just a plaintext website with white text on a black background and it's fast to load and easy to read for me. What's wrong with it?
- mplewis 3y ago
  The text is too small to read on a phone without scrolling sideways.
kalkr 3y ago
man wtf does virtue signaling even mean anymore
- yareal 3y ago
  Hint: it never meant anything.
hackerlight 3y ago
Unstated benefit of the website is it repels the right people.
Lvl999Noob 3y ago
I only looked at the linked article and the homepage so maybe diagrams and such look worse, but those pages look fabulous on phone to me. I wish more sites looked like this one.
tsukurimashou 3y ago
using a phone to browse the web is really sad

beachy 3y ago

I particularly love this: > Are you an excellent recruiter? We get a lot of inbounds. To help us qualify your ability to match our needs, please send us your strongest candidate, a singular champion, as an exemplar of your talent hunting skill. After a lifetime of doing HR software this sparks thoughts about a scoreboard/ranking system for agencies with exactly this kind of "you've got one chance - don't blow it" scenario. Maybe once you've provided 5 great candidates you're allowed a dud or two.

basil-rash 3y ago
To me that just sounds like “we don’t want to pay you anything but do all the work for us anyways”. Is it supposed to be some tongue in cheek way of saying “fuck off if you’re a recruiter we don’t give a shit”? Or are they instead asking for a historical example of a good hire you facilitated? It’s akin to saying “Oh you’re a systems software engineer? Prove it by designing and implementing our entire system for us, we won’t pay you for it, we just want to know you can do it”.
- beachy 3y ago
  I don't think it's a fuck off message at all. That would be just "fuck off". Why encourage recruiters if you didn't want to deal with them? To me it says "don't just shotgun me with every rando candidate you have - I'll give you one chance, make it count". It's exactly the sort of thing you might say to a pushy recruiter you met at the bar who wants in to your business. To succeed, they must a) have a good candidate and b) understand your business (so they know that candidate is right for you). And I'd say there's an enormous difference between what a software engineer does (spend months or years designing and implementing a system that is for a single "customer") to what a recruiter does (spend 1 hours of conversations/emails in qualifying a candidate who can be shopped out to any of a number of customers.).
  - basil-rash 3y ago
    But if the recruiter has already gone through the work of vetting the candidate, why would the company not just talk to the candidate directly and “cut out the middleman”, so to speak? What guarantee does the recruiter have that providing the company this holy grail candidate will be met with anything more than “wow good eye, thanks!”

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lrem 3y ago

This is basically https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ But you know what, http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ They already have a style element in there. The whole thing becomes readable by just adding a width property. Much better when centered. Done.

thesmok 3y ago

I've fixed the letter A in their logo: https://gist.github.com/smotesko/ac65667cbc748a72ecddb350d69c4e88 https://gist.github.com/smotesko/ac65667cbc748a72ecddb350d69...