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Re: Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes

#271

Ive been a dev for over 2 decades but I still cant grok bitwise operators - anyone have a reference that may help with that?

Reading didn't do the trick for me. It clicked when I started writing code to accomplish tasks, like assignments or coding puzzles, that required bitwise operations.

I can't find any of my undergrad coursework online but here's an alternative that looks like a nice intro https://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs107/cs107.1194/l...

Re: Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes

#272

Cute, but I don't think it really adds much to the site. The content of the comment is much more important to me than whoever posted it. In a way, even the usernames are superflous.

For me the use case is: someone leaves a comment that's ambiguous, someone asks for clarification, some people respond _what they think that original commenter meant_, finally originally commenter solves the doubt.

I find myself Control+F the name of the original commenter to see if he/she has replied, because I'm interested in _that_ response — not so much of the interpretation of others.

Re: Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes

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Hah! I got a really cool little icon that looks almost like the cassette tape pirate logo of Piratbyrån back in the day. I have old t-shirts with that logo. MAKE. THIS. PERMANENT! On the functional side, this really helps you see who is who in a long threaded discussion. Your eye is much quicker at following the little color icons than their names.

>MAKE. THIS. PERMANENT! I second this. (Also I wanted to see what my avatar looks like, sry)

Truly unacceptable. (I look like an alien head!)

Re: Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes

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post #245

Hah! I got a really cool little icon that looks almost like the cassette tape pirate logo of Piratbyrån back in the day. I have old t-shirts with that logo. MAKE. THIS. PERMANENT! On the functional side, this really helps you see who is who in a long threaded discussion. Your eye is much quicker at following the little color icons than their names.

Perhaps I'm a little fighter jet from an 8-bit arcade?

Or a guy with a tophat! Dig it.

Re: Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes

#280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It should be fairly straightforward to turn this into a browser addon, give users a choice and offload the people behind HN.

Could we just add it to HN Special? https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/hn-special

Doesn't work on FF does it?
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