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I'm all for free software. Really, I am. I just have a problem with the idea that free software is absolutely the only way to go. I have no problem with people who refuse to run non-free software. I have a problem when they insist that I'm doing it wrong by running Windows.

Sent from my Fedora-running laptop.

Cheers to you for not just trying to force your own creation down people's throats. D is a cool language, but you're right, it's a bit complex for a beginner.

Note that it is underlined in yellow. The color of the underline is what denotes it as a literal, not the color of the text itself.

Honestly? Data works. It makes companies billions of dollars. Machine learning and AI are getting increasingly good at parsing the data that already exists. It makes sense that companies, who have always made money on data, would invest in something that promises to make them even more money, and has demonstrated the ability to do just that.

You're absolutely right. I meant to say "a bunch of trolls" but wasn't paying attention. I just meant that if she _was_ a real person, and she certainly felt like it to high school me, she was exciting and not just a little intriguing.

It's either a joke or a gross misunderstanding of Brutalism. I mean, it uses JQuery, for crying out loud. That's not a slight against JQuery, per se, just saying that "Brutalism" would imply a use of raw materials in construction. To extend the metaphor, using JQuery would be like using wood over the bare concrete of a building to make things "better" for the user.

Fair point. I didn't mean to imply it was an intentional design choice, just that it was "selected for" by the "nature" of the platform (ha!). And with regard to "beauty", I just meant that it was almost elegant in a way that modern design tries to do away with.

For instance, if a site didn't have a proper search function, but had a pretty logical URL scheme, you could often find what you need by trying a few permutations in the address bar. The limitations of the system meant web "designers" (I'm using that term loosely) had to build fairly organized and unintentionally "Brutalist" sites if they wanted to be used by any large number of people.

Hope that made sense, I'm still waiting for my coffee to kick in.

I think that early web (say, pre-Web 2.0) was the epitome of Brutalist design. Because resources were limited, you had to make the most of what you had, leading to that no-nonsense, sparse style. I think it's beautiful, in its own way.

Ah, Netochka Nezvonova. I remember being supremely attracted to her in high school. By all accounts, she was either insane or just a troll, but there was something alluring about her, like the article mentioned.

A large part of why I ended up where I did in life has to do with that early-2000s internet culture. I never realized how seeing sites like these could bring so much nostalgia.