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Comment by chaosmachine | Hacker News Reader

This is a great post, but why not stick it on a blog (posterous?) or something less ephemeral than what's essentially the comments section of a news aggregator?

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I see HN a bit different than you do I think. To me HN is already a pretty good resource for information like this, I think I have more threads here bookmarked than from any other site I frequent.

It's a veritable gold mine for information.

Another thing you get when you post stuff on some blog somewhere that is really written exclusively for HN is that the comments will split between the two pages.

Like this it's all in one place. It's not like I need the pageviews.

I guess the upside of having it on a blog is you can edit it later, add links, real formatting, etc.

As a reader, I'd say you come across more credible by posting here, since I know that you're not linkbaiting for ad revenue.

The low-contrast faint text on tan makes it annoying to read. Would be nice to see higher contrast, and perhaps narrower column, for long posts like this.

It is a bit straining. If you're on mac cmd+opt+ctrl+8 helps a little.

good tip! I wonder why cmd-opt-ctrl doesn't have any other numerical bindings... it seems like there's an opportunity to create a usability convention, but instead, this function is sitting by itself on an island named "8".

I think most of us end up using this:

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

I think that blogs is something HN could implement, I mean it could take advantage of something like posterous for it. Just to give people who don't really want to run a blog but want to write the occasional long form post on HN.

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