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This site doesn’t tell its encoding (neither via HTTP nor via meta tags), so my Firefox displayed the first sentence as “There are lots of ГЎ la carte software...”.

Also, I don’t understand why the article was written, every software developer makes their own decisions that not everyone will like — isn’t that obvious?

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> This site doesn’t tell its encoding

Same problem here. So much for the master chef with a decade of experience...

This is just his blog. He's the chef of a framework, not an avowed HTML guru.

Have you seen the design for YCombinator.com? 1998 called and it wants its Arial font, <table> and <center> tags back. By your logic, YCombinator is worthless for helping Web startups launch.

Yes, but frameworks are supposed to solve issues like UTF8 encoding by setting up sane defaults automatically. If I wanted to deal with solved problems myself, I wouldn't be using a framework.

Also, YC's crappy HTML doesn't make the site less useful for visitors. This blog's poor unicode support does.

If you wanted your password reset for the first couple of years, didn't you have to email pg personally?

haha

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