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To save anyone from coming here to complain: yes, the title makes literally zero sense. Apparently this is a new trend with Marco.

The article is about what proportion of visitors to Marco's site have HiDPI displays.

If you read the footnotes, he's purposely trolling HN with the title, based on yesterday's discussion.

He also (intentionally) misidentifies HN user "scottjad" as "scootjad," which keeps making me chuckle.

He addresses the source of the title in a footnote [1]. It comes directly from one of the HN comments on his last post.

[1]: http://www.marco.org/2014/03/16/and#fn:pnIY0sNQi1

This post is almost as good as your previous hits "Or", "Not, and "Xor"

I think the results are clear: assuming everyone is high-DPI and designing accordingly is not only a safe bet — it’s a requirement.

I'm not sure it's a requirement just yet. Just because people have a high-DPI display doesn't mean they will reject any site that does not take advantage of it.

Don't get me wrong, you absolutely should. But it's not in the "do or die" territory just yet - us tech types skew these results massively, especially on desktop.

(Puts on troll overcoat)

Marco is someone who would say a coffee warming metal pebble is a requirement. Adjust your perspective accordingly.

Actually he wasn't a big fan of those. http://www.marco.org/2011/08/10/coffee-joulies-review

The problem is that high-DPI doesn't mean high bandwidth, and sometimes serving those 3g mobiles with an eye-candy resolution image causes the site to load very slow for them. You will probably want to load low resolution pictures anyway and then if the screen has sufficient DPI load the full resolution afterwards.

The fight continues. http://www.twitter.com/marcoarment/status/445294785772142593

'And' here it is. marco loving your sense of humor ;) and by the way a good read too.

You know what's awesome about this article? He calls it HiDPI, not Retina.

Marco his site is full of pretentious link-baiting populist trash. I am surprised to see some people even take him as an authority other than as a notorious Apple-shill.

This three-character fluff title to bait even more clicks to his blog full of void is the final nail to the coffin. In two seconds I can think of a dozen better titles ("Use Analytics to track high-DPI-screens", "Custom variable for high-DPI-screens in Google Analytics", "Look at me I was on the frontpage of Hacker News", "I am so edgy, I will just give my article a nothing-saying three-character title").

The worst part is that due all the attention he gets from this, he and other people will somehow be under the impression that this was a successful endeavor. Bad publicity is publicity too, something like that. Please.

He's not "bait[ing] even more clicks to his blog". He's reacting to a HN comment from his previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7405846. He even linked to it in the footnote.

Obviously you've already made up your mind about Marco and consider anything he ever writes to be garbage, but claiming that a title like "and" is click-baiting is completely nonsensical. As is complaining about his writing without even paying the slightest bit of attention to it.

The title is a direct response to a(n) HN comment made in response to the last front-page hitting post.

See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7405846

It was even linked in a footnote to the article (if one reads that far).

So the title is intentional, non click-baity and a humourous riposte. Care to change your analysis?

Is Marco putting out ground-breaking, must-read content on a regular basis? No. But he does occasionally make a good point. What I'm more interested in understanding is why you are so filled with hatred for him? He seems to attract well more than his fair share of vitriol. Why the hate?

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