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Comment by davidblue | Hacker News Reader

Love how absolutely engorged and broken this web page is to dramatically depict a style that - were the article actually just published in plain text - would be what... a millionth the size? Should have known better than to be surprised that the "source code" one can "download" and "look through" is in a goddamned PDF.

I do truly wonder if the fact that he was publishing a PDF as downloadable "code" even caused him any pause lol.

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Shipping highly optimized assembler for a program made to work on computers with 4KB RAM as a ~100 MB PDF is quite the flex.

I must admit that while it's computationally quite wasteful, the web page does look quite neat.

You can’t even use reader mode on the site because of the text effect. It will cut off after the first few paragraphs since the others have the effect applied.

Regardless of what anyone thinks of the website, it's likely that the only way the code exists is that ream of paper. While Bill Gates could easily have bought an OCR reader to make a text file of it with the loose change in his couch, I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to just scan it in and provide that scan.

The article rendering hurt my eyes, and then it was a pdf of the source code! :-(

If only Microsoft owned a place to post source code...

That would be either OneDrive or for the real l337 adminz: B:\

Git is for Linux and other cancers.

OneDrive? Look at mister corporate moneybags here. Sharepoint!

SharePoint is where the real money and fun stuff is at.

How do you think the likes of Delta and McDonalds manage their intranet and document storage? OneDrive is just a glorified SharePoint feature.

P.S. Joking only partially, and not much at all.

Yeah, it's pretty awesome, right?

REAL windows enterprise companies worth their salt use a shared drive on \\global.

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