Because it does not sound better.

>Wait for the next release and the same guy is probably going to be complaining about changes to the current UI. Off course he will. It's his point. He alreadey stated that it is not the ui that is bad. It's the practice of constantly changing things for no good reason that is bad.

You're both begging the question of whether this was in fact done for no reason other than to change things. It's rather unlikely that someone at Google spent time and money developing something for no reason – that post would have been interesting if it'd actually discussed why things changed and why the reasoning behind those changes was wrong rather than simply assuming it.

Mandatory XKCD comic: http://xkcd.com/927/

You beat me to it. :-)

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No, it is not. Compared to other places like facebook or twitter or the world it's feminist heaven. Open your eyes.

No you're not. I don't get it either.

I really like his minimalistic writing style. Wish other authors (especially americans) would follow his example. Not every simple fact needs an anecdote.

This! Some people love to write a thousand words to give you 10 words of actual information.

Is "Email Marketers" a euphemism for "spammers"?

I would buy you hacker news gold for this rant. So true.

This is really great.

I for one hate the drag component in platform games. It makes them always feel very sluggish and imprecise. Most of the Mario games are unplayable for me because of this behavior.