Ask PG: What's your take on the Yahoo! situation?

Post by SwellJoe » Fri, May 16, 2008, 4:33 AM UTC

byrneseyeview wrote: post #21

SwellJoe wrote: post #20

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You must be new here. Links on the site fall off the stack eventually--but when you reload the page, new ones are made. It's a "feature" of the architecture pg used to build the site (continuations based). So, if you sit idle on any of the comment pages for more than a few minutes it becomes unavailable. You have to start over on the main page and dig your way back down. I imagine this is not a fundamental flaw of a…

No, no. I mean the title of the article ended with "[dead]".

Post by byrneseyeview » Fri, May 16, 2008, 5:02 AM UTC

SwellJoe wrote: post #22

byrneseyeview wrote: post #21

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No, no. I mean the title of the article ended with "[dead]".

I must be new here. I've never seen that happen.

Post by as » Fri, May 16, 2008, 5:40 AM UTC

pg wrote: post #17

kirubakaran wrote: post #15

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When we were going to say hi to you on the pre-Startup School dinner, we were joking that we should corner you and ask ALL the questions we have, existential or otherwise ("why am I here", "what is the meaning of life", "what is the best color" etc) :-)

we invited you; it's a mistaken metaphor; ff6600

Post by rplevy » Fri, May 16, 2008, 6:45 AM UTC

as wrote: post #25

sutro wrote: post #3

Ask PG: What should I have for lunch? PG seems to have become a gnomic magic 8 ball of sorts. I can only hope for his sake that he's built Eliza-like behavior into HN such that his responses to all "Ask PG" questions are fully automated.

Why do you hope for his sake he's built Eliza-like behavior into HN such that his responses to all "Ask PG" questions are fully automated?

Post by sajay » Fri, May 16, 2008, 6:52 AM UTC

rplevy wrote: post #28

as wrote: post #25

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Why do you hope for his sake he's built Eliza-like behavior into HN such that his responses to all "Ask PG" questions are fully automated?

When did you first know that you hope for his sake he's built Eliza-like behavior into HN such that his responses to all "Ask PG" questions are fully automated?