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Comment by luckydata | Hacker News Reader

this article is so pedestrian I'm puzzled why it's featured so highly here.

Well you would be surprised. I had to explain to several people why it is important to align numbers to the right, and why ordering of the columns can't be done unless you understand how customer works.

I shared his original article with bunch of UX people and most of them had said they learned a lot from it.

Yes, articles like it (and some much more pedestrian) have made the front page in the last year or so, and I'm not sure why. Possibly I just didn't notice them before. Or maybe I'm getting smarter! :D

Maybe it’s people like me who fled Reddit. I’m sorry!

If you're serious, read the Guidelines (link at bottom of the page) for submissions. HN is for intellectual curiousity - table formatting basics don't qualify, IMHO, but I speak only for me.

I found the link interesting, that is why I clicked on it and upvoted it. Perhaps some of us here are interested in good UX design, particularly for hard-to-get-right areas like dense data tables. What satisfies your intellectual curiosity may not be the same for someone else.

Ironically, everyone in this thread complaining about the submission not being appropriate for HN are violating the guidelines.

It's not that UX design is uninteresting, but that the OP was very basic and thus not creative, expert or insightful (IMHO).

> What satisfies your intellectual curiosity may not be the same for someone else.

I pretty clearly said the same in GP.

I was equally scrolling for the big reveal only to leave very unsatisfied

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