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Ask HN: How Would You Explain HN to a Two-Year-Old?
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Re: Ask HN: How Would You Explain HN to a Two-Year-Old?
#42> He didn't get it, which makes sense since it isn't really a "place" and there are no visible "people" here. Looks to me like the two-year-old is the one explaining it to you .
This is definitely true. Every time an explanation falls flat, I realize how I don't really understand the thing I am trying to explain...
Re: Ask HN: How Would You Explain HN to a Two-Year-Old?
#43I just saw you ask this question yesterday. On your profile it says indeed that this thread is a day old. But here it says it's two hours old. And all of the old responses from yesterday have had their timing reset, "10 minutes ago" -- I definitely remember that boffin comment from yesterday because it made me look up the word. What happened?
You're right. I didn't write my comment today (it was either yesterday or the day before). Yet, I see it says I wrote it 12 minutes ago. Weird.
After I explained what HN is to my son he hacked into the db and started messing with time stamps
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're right. I didn't write my comment today (it was either yesterday or the day before). Yet, I see it says I wrote it 12 minutes ago. Weird.
After I explained what HN is to my son he hacked into the db and started messing with time stamps
But seriously that is strange
Re: Ask HN: How Would You Explain HN to a Two-Year-Old?
#45"A horrible place where people go to misunderstand eachother"
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#47"You know how, in daycare, you read stories, talk with your friends and play?"
"HN is like daycare for me! I come here to read stories and talk to my friends, but my friends live all over the world."
Re: Ask HN: How Would You Explain HN to a Two-Year-Old?
#48I would say it's a place where people who spend a lot of time on the internet try to gain status by posting comments which they expect to be upvoted.
Re: Ask HN: How Would You Explain HN to a Two-Year-Old?
#49If a 2 year old understands stories, HN is a place where people read stories, share stories, talk about stories and pick their favorite stories.
If a 2 year old is interested in HN, it might be because he/she is trying to see what's more interesting than them.
Re: Ask HN: How Would You Explain HN to a Two-Year-Old?
#50> He didn't get it, which makes sense since it isn't really a "place" and there are no visible "people" here. Looks to me like the two-year-old is the one explaining it to you .
This is definitely true. Every time an explanation falls flat, I realize how I don't really understand the thing I am trying to explain...
That's why you catch bugs when you document code, or explain it to others in a review process.