<rant> This is hard to read, at least in firefox. Why the hell can't the author keep the font consistent throughout the article?(interview).
Its ok to print a picture or a two. But 5+ images, why ? </rant>
In terms of the images - they were all from the original interview article (linked in my post).
P.S. I am not sure what gave the impression that the interview was about Ruby, as "Ruby" is not mentioned in the title.
I'm on Firefox 21 on Windows 7 here but that's not the issue.
I find it hard to read simply because of the random spattering of bold-face and indentation.
My OS is Centos 6.1(32 bit) and the browser is Mozilla Firefox 10.0.1 .
I am sorry if this sounds aggressive. But very rarely do we get the chance to interview some amazing men. When you do(or even translate), please don't mess up.
Few days ago, a Donald Knuth interview appeared. It was a good read. May be I got carried away.
Sorry anyway.
Secondly, he probably uses that as a starting point because that's when he produced the work he is known for. He isn't saying computing didn't exist before this date, it's just a frame of reference. "Back when I first invented Ruby 20 years ago...". What is wrong with this? Would you rather "Back when Guido invented Python 20+ years ago..." or "20 years ago"? It's an irrelevant detail.
If you're on CentOS 6.1 and your browser is Firefox 10, why are 5 images on a page such a problem? I didn't think it made things any harder to read at all and certainly didn't affect performance.
The increase of font size on the answers puts emphasis on the answers. I don't think this is a good idea but the intention is good and did not make the document anymore painful to read.
To finish, my eyesight isn't great and I read the article without my glasses.
Please man, you can deliver criticism without being a jerk. It's purely subjective and delivering with such disrespect makes you look arrogant, as though your opinion is law.
I also failed to correlate the "rant about some technical problem in a web browser (or whatever)" with "starting something from 1993".
However, everything is showing up pretty nice on my machine (Firefox 11.0 running on Ubuntu 10.10).
There was nothing in the title or article to indicate it would be.
>> "I don't know why Matz always starts his computing/programming journey from 1993 ?"
He mentioned it once when referencing how long Ruby had been around. He wasn't telling his personal journey, he was talking about the future of computing.
What a strange criticism. On the one hand, he really doesn't talk about specific points in the past very much in this interview. One of the few times that he does, he mentions programming languages designed 50 years ago.
On the other hand, Ruby is the main thing Matz is known for, and the main thing he has focused on. It makes sense that his observations about computing would be tied to his experience with Ruby.