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Comment by jrockway | Hacker News Reader

Good article, but why does he take screenshots of his email and attach them to the post instead of just cutting and pasting the text into the post?

I personally have no trouble reading it, but pictures of text are not very easy to read for some people.

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It adds an air of authenticity, allowing you (maybe a little bit) to see things as he does. Also, the pictures break up a very long post.

I like the pretty colors.

Also, Blogger is fucking evil, and it eats the > from quoting e-mails, which sometimes is a very time-consuming bug.

By the way mad apologies but I'm actually banning my own blog from my view of Hacker News, using a Greasemonkey script in Firefox. I would seriously kill people to defend my right to post gifs instead of cutting and pasting text, even though I realize it's ridiculous. Reasonable people can disagree, but for the rest of us, there's Greasemonkey.

Try this: ban yourself from commenting on anything on HN. Just opt yourself right out of the forums. I tried this on reddit, and it was an incredibly liberating experience.

Congratulations on pointing out the emperor's lack of clothing.

I have a question for you. If the VCs are the Medicis of the modern age what would our Da Vinci look like? Or our Michelangelo?

How would we recognize greatness amongst us?

Were they recognized at the time?

Michelangelo did get one of the most prestigous jobs of his time, but what about the rest of the now-recognized great artists - were they more popular than the hacks of their day?

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