How to Write Usefully: http://paulgraham.com/useful.html
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hey, why leave the right half of the page blank?
It's not half; it's as much as you want, depending on how wide you make the browser window.
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Ah yes zoom in zoom out. Was thinking default should connect text rending to browser more, but honestly, I love that your site style never changes, just the words. Also am curious, do you value controlling the line break?pic.twitter.com/ursQ1tkL5e
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I don't care about where linebreaks end up, but I wouldn't want there to be too many characters per line. That's a typesetting error.
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How about fixing the longstanding threaded messages UI issue on HN posts. The fact that successive replies to comments keep moving to the right, like Pascal's triangle. NNTP and email clients solved it ages ago. All you have to do is adopt and adapt it, AFAIK. LMK if wrong.
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I call it the Hacker News Right Side Effect, like the Off Side Rule about programming languages.
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