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Re: Richard Stallman's Personal Site

#11

Post by shmerl »

hjek wrote: post #7
crispytx wrote: post #2

Lol, it's funny when you see how bad computer geniuses websites can be! Just proves that you can't know everything when it comes to programming. (Viewed on my Android Phone)

In conversations about webdesign, I usually always mention HackerNews and Stallman's political blog: http://stallman.org/archives/polnotes.html Minimalist, all the content is linkable, and they both work even on Links or Opera Mini. I'd prefer this over some fancy layout that don't degrade gracefully, e.g. requiring JS to display static content. It's not everyone who have fast internet and fast laptops.

You can even easily read it in Lynx :)

Re: Richard Stallman's Personal Site

#12

Post by sotojuan »

crispytx wrote: post #2

Lol, it's funny when you see how bad computer geniuses websites can be! Just proves that you can't know everything when it comes to programming. (Viewed on my Android Phone)

Stallman doesn't maintain his site and hasn't programmed seriously in a while (read that somewhere on the site). Most old hackers made their site in the 90s and haven't bothered updating it.

Same with professors. The most "advanced" website from a CS professor I've had used Bootstrap.

At least it works fine and is readable.

Re: Richard Stallman's Personal Site

#13

Post by kybernetikos »

hjek wrote: post #7
crispytx wrote: post #2

Lol, it's funny when you see how bad computer geniuses websites can be! Just proves that you can't know everything when it comes to programming. (Viewed on my Android Phone)

In conversations about webdesign, I usually always mention HackerNews and Stallman's political blog: http://stallman.org/archives/polnotes.html Minimalist, all the content is linkable, and they both work even on Links or Opera Mini. I'd prefer this over some fancy layout that don't degrade gracefully, e.g. requiring JS to display static content. It's not everyone who have fast internet and fast laptops.

Some other classics:

DJBs site: http://cr.yp.to/djb.html

Fabrice Bellards site: http://www.bellard.org/

Donald Knuths site: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/

Re: Richard Stallman's Personal Site

#14

Post by davesque »

crispytx wrote: post #2

Lol, it's funny when you see how bad computer geniuses websites can be! Just proves that you can't know everything when it comes to programming. (Viewed on my Android Phone)

On the contrary, I personally think user agent styling is the most appropriate for an old school heavy weight like Stallman.

Re: Richard Stallman's Personal Site

#16

Post by simonswords82 »

The source code is very straightforward too. Commented out sections of the website with dated reminders to uncomment them. I guess he must look at his source code frequently enough that these reminders work?

Very simple but effective mechanical turk I guess?

e.g.

   
   
   It's the Grav-Mass season!
  Grav-Mass
   is the celebration of physical laws. 
December 25

   Isaac Newton's birthday.
  ¡Feliz Gravidad!
   
   
   
   -->

Re: Richard Stallman's Personal Site

#17

Post by w1ntermute »

hjek wrote: post #8
tzs wrote: post #3

> SCROTUS demanded that Greenpeace, 350.org and the Union of Concerned Scientists hand over privileged legal communications about investigating Exxon's global heating fraud. Does anyone know WTF "SCROTUS" is? My first guess would be that it has something to do with the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and that Stallman disagrees with them over something and so calls them SCROTUS instead of SCOTUS. However,…

Sleazy Congressional Republicans Of The United States

Source: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-mar-jun.html#26_May_2016_...

Re: Richard Stallman's Personal Site

#18

Post by hjek »

kybernetikos wrote: post #13
hjek wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In conversations about webdesign, I usually always mention HackerNews and Stallman's political blog: http://stallman.org/archives/polnotes.html Minimalist, all the content is linkable, and they both work even on Links or Opera Mini. I'd prefer this over some fancy layout that don't degrade gracefully, e.g. requiring JS to display static content. It's not everyone who have fast internet and fast laptops.

Some other classics: DJBs site: http://cr.yp.to/djb.html Fabrice Bellards site: http://www.bellard.org/ Donald Knuths site: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/

With Bellard's page it's surely not just because he "couldn't be bothered with JavaScript" or something, because 4th link boots up Linux in a browser window.

I wonder if there is some law on the inverse relationship between between bells+whistles and relevance of content.

Re: Richard Stallman's Personal Site

#19

Post by hjek »

shmerl wrote: post #11
hjek wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In conversations about webdesign, I usually always mention HackerNews and Stallman's political blog: http://stallman.org/archives/polnotes.html Minimalist, all the content is linkable, and they both work even on Links or Opera Mini. I'd prefer this over some fancy layout that don't degrade gracefully, e.g. requiring JS to display static content. It's not everyone who have fast internet and fast laptops.

You can even easily read it in Lynx :)

I gave up Lynx in favour of Links2 because problems reading HackerNews. Try navigating to news.ycombinator.com without the https:// and Lynx will freeze completely.

Re: Richard Stallman's Personal Site

#20

Post by timdiggerm »

aji wrote: post #9
tzs wrote: post #3

> SCROTUS demanded that Greenpeace, 350.org and the Union of Concerned Scientists hand over privileged legal communications about investigating Exxon's global heating fraud. Does anyone know WTF "SCROTUS" is? My first guess would be that it has something to do with the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and that Stallman disagrees with them over something and so calls them SCROTUS instead of SCOTUS. However,…

Stallman's big on puns so that wouldn't surprise me. He calls Uber "Goober"

This is part of what makes him unreadable
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