You think someone's obituary is maybe not the place to discuss something like that?

Why not? It's the only moment in time when people are interested in the life achievement of a person. There will never be enough interest for a second discussion that balances his achievements with the negative consequences.

As a society, where else could you show that people shouldn't ignore negative consequences when they seek their success?

Compared to the life of a person, graphics standards seems like a trivial issue. It's like wanting to talk about how he didn't come to complete stop at stop signs while driving.

I'm curious to know how directx has been so bad for humanity.

For one I recommend you read John Carmack interviews from the time directx was being developed. Straight from the horse's mouth. I can assure you, things before directx were not pretty.

Since he contributed to XBox, and each game console since Atari days has used its own API, he couldn't have help to prevent something that never existed in first place.

And as everyone is saying, there are better things to remember and look on a person's life work that is sadly no longer among us.

While I also hate that happened, it is not clear he had to do with it and it is not the moment to bring this up.

The parent refers to is:

http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/01/Why-you-should-use-OpenGL-an...

See FUD part.

Another option is to leave your will to the smartest HN comment from the following year. It would set off a tough race

IPO when?

Too early for that. OP needs to show a yearly net loss of at least a few million before doing that.

When you think about it this way, $0 MRR is a good outcome: all my unfinished side projects are successful startups.

Follow a normal SaaS growth curve this will IPO in 25 years!

Hacker News[1] is pretty much a one-person (dang) business

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/

> A tiny CSS in JS library that requires no tooling.

> Installation: npm install stylewars

so that was a lie?

You are actually right - I should update the readme with unpkg information:

import { css, classes } from "https://unpkg.com/stylewars@1.6.0/dist/bundle.esm.min.js";

Here we go https://github.com/sunesimonsen/stylewars#unpkgcom

Considering Woz's history of not having produced anything of value, it is clear what this coin will be worth

>You wrote a notebook, not a book.

Many authors are using notebooks as a way to edit and publish books. The tooling is getting better.

>Also your example pages have oversized images

Yes, humans sometimes make mistakes when they create things.

>and still you only have 130 pages of content, yet you are charging an extreme amount for it.

I believe the author is free to have as many or few pages as they want, and charge as much or less as they want. You are obviously free to choose.

just to clarify, I don't think "oversized image" was a mistake on author's part, but a deliberate attempt to inflate book size, hence the rest of my sentence

Thank you dang! (considering being critical gets you banned, this is the only comment you can make in this thread)

There are plenty of ways to be critical on HN and people do it all the time. The best way to be critical is to supply missing information, explain how to do something more effectively or see it more accurately—then we all learn something. The main thing we don't want is people putting each other down or being gratuitously mean.

It is a feature. As a frequent user, I would rather have it on plain HTTP as well. Aside from the performance benefit, it also helps if people monitoring my internet traffic (my ISP, NSA, Putin, Zuck etc.) reads Paul Graham and they may get enlightened. May not seem much but it is actually one of the few steps humanity is taking towards world peace.