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Interesting stuff on his main blog too. http://www.pocketnix.org

Also "As may be apparent by the theme of this site and its currently broken CSS for articles , I am an avid console user, most of my machines don't have X11 installed" might explain the site presentation.

Kind of odd that "What is a container?" comes near the bottom of the page. But 100 bonus points for never mentioning Docker.

D+ for the presentation but the content gets an A.

It really is a nice overview of the options without being overly prescriptive about what option to pick.

Disagree. Reminds me of the old, cute (and still useful) internet (geocities, web rings etc).

Doge is just a currently popular meme thing though. Although I stay away from stuff like this, I am pretty sure it is already 'over'.

I like this, I thought containers were just some stupid fad of the day. But this explains what they are and makes me thinks ahhhh! Of couse they will still be overused and so on :)

Feels nice being on a computer that doesn't have Comic Sans. I just see the default sans-serif font for my system. Fonts aside, this is a nice resource. A number of good articles that I read to understand how containers work are collected here. I'll have to ask the author to include GNU Guix in the implementations list once our next release is out the door.

Guys, you know you can change the font right?

in chrome, right click on page->inspect element-> uncheck font-family.

this is pretty good, I've always thought that docker is solving an education problem but fixing the education part is a better thing that 'just use docker' since not understanding a system can be very problematic in future.

https://twitter.com/rmoriz/status/481005981317734400

Can there please be a 100% doge version of this page :( I was really hoping for an ironic doge treatment of typical startupy tools and their unnecessary websites

Doge jokes? Is it 2013 again?

I hate to admit that I mindlessly upvote doge-related submissions and comments. Very shaem

As I'm an old man, and have no idea what the kids are up to, I thank the internet that knowyourmeme.com exists.

As I'm a young man who seldom browses 4chan, I'm thankful I hang around communities of people who do, to fill me on all the dank memes.

It's more of a subculture than a generational zeitgeist. By the time you see it among your Facebook friends, much less HN, it's far removed.

I would have almost upvoted this submission, but as it is often the case, the title on HN is complete meaningless garbage.

A much better title would be "Such container - an attempt to document the ins and outs of containers on Linux.". This way I would instantly know what the article is about... I wish there would be some way to add a tldr to the title.

This is really the one thing I hate about HN nowadays. Usually at least a third of the submissiond have completely meaningless titled. For example currently there are "Jitterdämmerung" and "A letter from Transnistria" on the front page. How am I supposed to know what those are about without clicking on them?

(Sorry for the rant...)

Perhaps the mods have been asleep lately? Glad that I am not the only who has noticed how clickbait-ish, or nondescript, some titles are.

This is a subject I really want to know about. But the presentation of this this page is (no better word for it) obnoxious. I wonder why the author did it. Annoyingly the 'reader' feature of Safari doesn't work on this page.

The author didn't even have the decency to make it Comic Sans.

Edit: guess this is an iOS issue...

The font stack is "Comic Sans MS",cursive,sans-serif so if you don't have Comic Sans, your browser picks a font described as "cursive" and then falls back to the default sans font.

It seems on mobile Safari it presents in a nearly unreadable script font (well readable but with much effort). On the desktop however it shifts to Comic Sans, which is perfectly fine for reading!

https://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdoger.io%2F should work

I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I really can't see past Comic Sans to read the actual content.

Some websites seem to use Comic Sans in particular so that folks just looking for form would go away: http://www.libressl.org/ (OpenBSD's OpenSSL fork) ;)

edit oh no, it seems LibreSSL changed the font! :( But I quite remember it being different (or perhaps it was another website related to the OpenBSD foundation)

They use it in their papers: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/libtls-fsec-2015/mgp00001.html

Interesting. At least their logo is still Comic Sans :)

http://www.libressl.org/images/libressl.jpg

My advice: simply remove Comic Sans from your computer.

But my email signature!

It's an arms race just as vicious as the adblocker situation. If people block it, eventually it'll show up as as webfont...

Safari and Firefox have "reader mode" buttons built-in. Chrome has one too, but you have to enable it. For the desktop version, add --enable-dom-distiller on the command line. For the mobile version, chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode-toolbar-icon

Comic Sans is an awesome font. People act like it is an attack on their eyes, but harder to read fonts make information easier to retain: http://www.futurity.org/hard-to-read-fonts-easier-to-retain/

A quote from that: "Those who read about the aliens in an easy-to-read font (16-point Arial pure black) answered correctly 72.8 percent of the time, compared to 86.5 percent of those who reviewed the material in hard-to-read fonts (12-point Comic Sans MS or Bondoni MT in a lighter shade)."

It's not hard to read though. It's just overused, misused, and only serves to annoy typograpy nerds

Not just comic sans. It's that dog, the image, the meme too. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the author said "what can I do that will irritate people the most".

I'm partially complaining because it irritated me (out of selfishness), but mostly saying "why would you do that?" (out of curiosity).

>why would you do that?

Why not?

Just because the personality of the author disagrees with your sensibilities you have to appose them to the point other people have to read a comment concerning your self irritation to the authors style of presentation.

If you feel content shouldn't be on this website you can downvote it.

Edit1: Don't flag on-topic subjects (sorry mods)

Careful with the flags. By all means flag off-topic stuff but don't flag on-topic stuff of the site because you don't like it.

I thought it had been done intentionally to make a point. Maybe I'm wrong and the author just likes dogs and comic sans. I thought it was an interesting avenue for discussion.

Why do you associate my asking questions with wanting to censor things? I don't. I'm perfectly happy with this page being on the web and this discussion existing.

I just thought it would be interesting to find out why it is the way it is.

>Why do you associate my asking questions with wanting to censor things?

I challenge your need to share selfish pointless opinions that don't contribute to the subject matter at hand. But then in a way I do advocate censorship, namely that of your off topic opinions.

Comic sans is one thing, an extremely light cursive script is another. It's not hard to read, it's impossible.

Plus eleventy. I wanted to read it but couldn't after a couple of paragraphs. It forced me to look into how I can adjust fonts to my liking, which isn't something you want as an author. So annoyed, much confusion

I just read it, so it isn't impossible.

I stand corrected.

I actually keep a Chrome Snippet for such cases.

    var getFont = function(url) {
        var link = document.createElement('link');
        link.rel='stylesheet';
        link.type='text/css';
        link.href = url;
        document.head.appendChild(link);
    }

    getFont('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans|Roboto')

    var sheet = (function() {
        var style = document.createElement('style');
        document.head.appendChild(style);
        return style.sheet;
    })();

    sheet.insertRule('body { font: 400 16px/24px Roboto,sans-serif!important; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; }', 0);

This would have been so much more enjoyable if the text hadn't been comic sans and some stupid meme that my grandmother still says to me wasn't shoehorned in.

oh man, just open up your console and change the body{ font-family: ... } CSS :P

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