After zooming in a couple of levels I found the site pretty readable. Then again I'm using ClearType which looks horrible but at least has high clarity for old farts/cheap monitors like the one I use at work.
Related point. The navbar text looks terribad on Windows. Zooming in a couple of levels makes it pretty decent. Catering towards bad software sucks but is necessary in the face of market share if you're running a business.. :/
Urgh. I vastly prefer font rendering on Linux (Freetype). Those OSX screens look fuzzy and horrible. Although I'm at work atm and have a crappy low-DPI monitor.
I hate PHP and don't even want to talk about it but I did skim through the docs for Smarty. The rationale is that PHP sucks as a template engine, so why not create a new one and use PHP for the model-controller/whatever.
Maybe that seems perverse, but you have stuff like Node.js in existence that oddly enough solves some problems quite nicely, so maybe it works for PHP guys. I'll never see the appeal compared to other languages though.
edit: That being said, the final result looks kind of horrible to me.
I don't think it implies Charlie agreed at all, it actually implies the opposite. That's quite an ugly statement.
I'd personally be very hesitant to partner with Adam after reading this, considering how this incident played out. Well... who am I kidding, if I had the opportunity to found the next Quora I'd jump on it, but I'd be watching for knives the whole time..
This is strange. I've never been a Mac person. I've built and modded PCs since I was a teenager. I didn't really remember the Cube and have googled it just now.
(back in the day Macs were for oldies who didn't know what the hell they were doing on a computer so Apple products didn't really register with me at the time)
My first impressions are that it looks like a plastic rubbish bin.
Related point. The navbar text looks terribad on Windows. Zooming in a couple of levels makes it pretty decent. Catering towards bad software sucks but is necessary in the face of market share if you're running a business.. :/