This is almost 20 years old technology has changed a lot since then.
Email clients hide quotes by default and also quote by default.
People don't treat email the same (who has the time to summarize/edit the quote anymore).
Gmail has made top posting the default which means most users will top quote.
Threading is a bit better.
Feel free to continue bottom posting but remember not to quote the whole damn thing and remember to keep the quote short enough that I hopefully don't have to scroll down to see what you added. I personally find top posting easier to follow with modern threading.
It may be better to see if you can find someone who is blind and studied mathematics to some degree to see how to proceed.
I know most universities have an accessibility department which might make it easier to take a math class than trying to read a book with obscure concepts.
A lot of thin fonts look bad in Windows especially chrome. So you could probably make a safe bet that if a font is thin on OSX then it will be much thinner (sometimes unreadable) on Windows.
If you want to use thin fonts only use them for the titles (but even here it looks like that causes problems).
Who cares if something is rude. Rudeness shouldn't be the deciding factor for taking something down.
Is it rude to name your program/repo god[1]?
Is it rude to use foul language[2]?
Is it rude to write code in something that isn't ruby?
Who decides whats rude enough to be taken down and what isn't? Why should I believe my text is safe when someone found another text rude enough to be taken down.
PHP isn't static but NearlyFreeSpeech has been a good host for me (cheap and easy as long as you don't mind ssh). They do have php and mysql if needed.
If actually static (just html and other static files): S3 might be a better choice.
I don't know about renting but perhaps check the return policy on a few websites (Amazon is usually pretty good) and try one of those after buying it and if you don't like it return it.
You may not always say something novel or unique but I have enjoyed some of your posts immensely and if you aren't writing you may never write the next post that greatly affects someone.
Well in firefox you can't do searches like cache:news.ycombinator.com or site:news.ycombinator.com (Edit: in the address bar)
I also prefer the way firefox acts with suggestions in the search and address bar being separate, I often find myself messing up where I meant to go because I thought pressing enter would take me to a site but instead goes to a search.
Firefox is easy for me because the address bar acts differently.
Depending on how you want your blog to work (say you want to serve ads, or some other feature) you'll get stuck unable to do what you want with wordpress.com. [1]
Self hosting WordPress is usually a good option but if money is a problem it will mean more work managing your install, if money isn't much of a problem take a look at the many managed hosts (wpengine, wpsynthesis, zippykid).
You also get more options with theming and plugins if you host WordPress yourself.
If you just want to blog, a free wordpress.com, a blogger blog, or a tumblr should all serve you well enough.
You might want to invest in your own domain name though, as *.example.com isn't the best way to bring people in.
I think the author is taking the wrong thing away from this, all those little realisations are things that if he comes across in the future he will have a better understanding of what to do.
In other words rather than become embarrassed after realising a months work boiled down to just a few lines think about how much you learned to get to those few lines.
Email clients hide quotes by default and also quote by default.
People don't treat email the same (who has the time to summarize/edit the quote anymore).
Gmail has made top posting the default which means most users will top quote.
Threading is a bit better.
Feel free to continue bottom posting but remember not to quote the whole damn thing and remember to keep the quote short enough that I hopefully don't have to scroll down to see what you added. I personally find top posting easier to follow with modern threading.