And here's the final they posted - http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/60332693287/introducing-our-new... - along with a now laughable quote about it from the post 30 days ago:

> The new logo will be a modern redesign that’s more reflective of our reimagined design and new experiences.

When I started going to the Starbucks near my old office instead, within a week they knew my name, they know my [custom] drink, they know what I do and what my plans are for the weekend without sounding fake or pretentious and despite being one of the busier locations in the city. For me, it's customer experience, and Starbucks really emphasizes that in their training process. My taste buds preferred the local shop, but my money went to the company where the employees actually looked up at me and smiled and engaged me.

I also know they have really great benefits for their employees and with sites like mystarbucksidea.com, they at least pretend to give credence to the ideas of their customers (although they've implemented quite a few of them, they've been incredibly stingy about buying hemp milk).

Depending on your drive, you can waste anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 hours+ a day commuting to and from, as oppose to using that time more efficiently or memorably.

Are there benefits to working from some office settings? Sure, but trying to claim he's less of a man for doing so is really the lowest and most absurd claim she could make. If she can't see that him being his own boss is better and more effective for him than having one, she's missing the point, the privilege and the potential.

> Do NOT Use Black on White

> The only reason I don't visit Quora is bad typography. Yeah, I am that crazy!

Meanwhile, OP's body copy is a heavy slab-serif, his headers are a custom sans-serif without any margins or visual differences besides 6px in size. Using something like http://www.gridlover.net/, you can accomplish better readability and hierarchy.

He suggests type based on what's available on your OS despite the fact that those should be your fallbacks, not your defaults now. We've got a brilliant library of web type that look good and sites like http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/ + http://font-combinator.com/ + http://daneden.me/type/ help to figure out what emotion you're going for.

He also completely ignores the weights and families available with Helvetica that truly make it superior to Arial that you can call for most OS X users, and fallback with Arial for Windows folks. http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/better-helvetica/

That said, if it was something more malicious than what you mentioned, then it would be worth looking into.

> the first 10 seconds of the page visit are critical for users' decision to stay or leave. The probability of leaving is very high during these first few seconds because users are extremely skeptical, having suffered countless poorly designed Web pages in the past. People know that most Web pages are useless, and they behave accordingly to avoid wasting more time than absolutely necessary on bad pages.

> To gain several minutes of user attention, you must clearly communicate your value proposition within 10 seconds.

> http://www.nngroup.com/articles/how-long-do-users-stay-on-we...

The author is assuming a few things: (a) that most visitors to your site are there because they intended to be and don't need their hand held to get to the next step, (b) that there is only one 'next step' to send them to, and (c) that your short description is a list of bullet-points as opposed to a sentence or two.

For one, I don't think we can assume the intent and understanding of most users. I visit more sites daily that I don't have a clue about than those that I do, but maybe I'm a small percentage. Secondly, depending on the product, I think bullet points can be just as effective as a short blurb (especially if you have a tagline that does a good job summing things up). Pinboard (http://pinboard.in/) is a great example of this.

Grow up.

> The point is to appeal to your group, not to appeal to all of society.

The point is your group is flawed, and that flaw legitimately keeps newcomers out and cause well-intentioned contributors to leave. There's absolutely no reason why the community should have the stance "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

Competition is only going to make you better. Taking the time to help someone will also help you. Having the support of your peers for being courteous does far more for you in the long-run than intimidating them into submission does. But I guess that's "feminizing men" vs. holding them accountable as not only adults but as advocates and respectable members of the community.

We've seen all sorts of ShowHNs where the person who made it wasn't ready to post it yet, but someone got ahead of them. They rush into the comments to do due diligence, but sometimes the damage is already done. Now if the author wanted to post it again once it is finally complete, they'll likely end up with comments like "Didn't we see this already?" and potentially get less click-throughs considering. We've seen blog entries torn to shreds and the author show up hours late to a dead thread, hoping to do any necessary damage control or simply answer questions that could have changed the entire flow of conversation.

Not being fully in control of where my content ends up and not being able to be in every conversation about what I write is a big contributor to why I don't write at all. When someone posts my content here, it's assumed that it's to be taken seriously or that it is worthwhile. Despite that not being the case, people respond as though it is, and thus we find ourselves in this situation.

Even if there was some sort of tag like #nohn or something to highlight the fact that if discussion on the issue should be kept on the site because, as it wasn't intended to be a HN-worthy piece. That way, if it's posted anyways (as I don't believe in blocking the URL entirely), the author's intent is clear.

While I've learned a lot here, most of the time I've been stagnating and it's depressing and infuriating.