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The absence of upper-case letters is disturbing on this website. I am not sure of the purpose, is it a stylistic thing? It does not confer style to me. It is a

The absence of upper-case letters is disturbing on this website. I am not sure of the purpose, is it a stylistic thing? It does not confer style to me. It is a kind of forced laziness, the kind of laziness that takes an extra effort. Going against the grain for no other good reason than that it is against the grain. It is like living in a foreign country for 10 years and not learning the language at all - it takes a bigger effort to not do it, than to do it. While everyone might write emails or other messages in all lower-case, this is an article that is meant to be read by lots of people. Upper case letters actually do exist for a pretty good reason, they let you read much faster, by letting your eyes parse sentences more easily.

lmarinho 13y ago
What amazes me is that I read the whole article and only noticed this after reading your comment. Now I'm disturbed too.
Spoom 13y ago
The annoying thing to me is that the text itself is all lowercase, while they could have done the same thing, reversibly, in CSS, with text-transform: lowercase.
coolnow 13y ago
I never thought i'd be this pedantic but the article really is difficult to read for me due to the lack of proper punctuation, namely upper-case letters. For comments, i don't mind, but for decent length articles that take more than a minute to read, it gets annoying and it removes my focus from what the words are conveying, to how the words are conveyed.
- dscb 13y ago
  I find it funny that you find the lack of upper-case letters makes it difficult to read, when you missed have the words you should have capitalized in your comment.
  - tadfisher 13y ago
    Muphry's law?
coldcode 13y ago
Unless you are ee cummings, basic english syntax is sort of required. Even programming languages are hard to compile if you don't follow the syntax.
hvs 13y ago
This was discussed the last time this site came up on HN. It didn't help that the article was basically about how he laughs at users complaints. I'd take everything he says about people with a grain of salt. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6120475 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6120475

lmarinho 13y ago

What amazes me is that I read the whole article and only noticed this after reading your comment. Now I'm disturbed too.

Spoom 13y ago

The annoying thing to me is that the text itself is all lowercase, while they could have done the same thing, reversibly, in CSS, with text-transform: lowercase.

coolnow 13y ago

I never thought i'd be this pedantic but the article really is difficult to read for me due to the lack of proper punctuation, namely upper-case letters. For comments, i don't mind, but for decent length articles that take more than a minute to read, it gets annoying and it removes my focus from what the words are conveying, to how the words are conveyed.

dscb 13y ago
I find it funny that you find the lack of upper-case letters makes it difficult to read, when you missed have the words you should have capitalized in your comment.
- tadfisher 13y ago
  Muphry's law?

coldcode 13y ago

Unless you are ee cummings, basic english syntax is sort of required. Even programming languages are hard to compile if you don't follow the syntax.

hvs 13y ago

This was discussed the last time this site came up on HN. It didn't help that the article was basically about how he laughs at users complaints. I'd take everything he says about people with a grain of salt. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6120475 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6120475