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slater
on March 30, 2022
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WHATWG: 140 Characters Discourages Intelligent Dis...
To me, that sentence sounds more like someone with a chip on their shoulder, and oddly unprofessional for an organization like WhatWG.
(edit: n.b., not calling you out)
kragen
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Professionals never could have achieved what WHATWG did; professionalism was responsible for the catastrophic pre-WHATWG logjam in W3C. What WHATWG needed was a hacker. And it wasn't an anonymous "someone"; it was specifically Hixie.
fivelessminutes
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To be fair the fact that's all we had to say, due to a character limit also on HN, proves the article author's point very nicely.
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(edit: n.b., not calling you out)