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by caryhartline 3221 days ago
If you're wondering why that page looks the way it does, well:

> <html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
3 comments
hnlmorg 3221 days ago
It's easy to snigger at the code generator used for that site yet the signal to noise ratio for the content itself (which, if we are completely honest, is the metric that really matters) is still better than half the sites that use trendy frontend frameworks and passes JS lint.
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quickben 3221 days ago
It's short, informative, and up to the point.
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tigroferoce 3221 days ago
To give some context, I have studied with that professor and I can say that the guy is not super up to date with presentation technology: at the time (its was 2004) he was still using hand-written transparencies projected with an overhead projector. The readability was close to zero.
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_ZeD_ 3221 days ago
BTW: if OpenBSD choose comic sans for their presentation a reason should be

-- cfr: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9240906

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