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Re: The best of $user on HN, with eBook export

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Post by edw519 »

evanrmurphy wrote: post #8

Nice job! Feature request: Make the queries linkable. I think people would appreciate being able to have permalinks for themselves or HN leaders like tptacek, patio11 and jacquesm. It would also be very interesting to see how the results for edw519 size up against his own curated comment list: http://edweissman.com/53640595 -- Update: Thanks to bitovod for implementing the feature. There's now an ongoing list of the…

The biggest differences:

1. Grouping into chapters. Ranking by score loses context.

2. Sorting and grouping comments together to give it some kind of flow.

3. Eliminating comments I wish I hadn't made.

4. Substituting cuss words.

5. General edits to eliminate errors and help the comments stand a little better on their own.

6. Grouping jokes together. They belong in a separate chapter.

7. Adding a forward, introduction, and table of contents.

8. 100 comments didn't seem like enough. 256 seemed right.

My version took me 3 weeks. This version takes one click. You can't beat that.

Re: The best of $user on HN, with eBook export

#12

Post by redpill27 »

evanrmurphy wrote: post #8

Nice job! Feature request: Make the queries linkable. I think people would appreciate being able to have permalinks for themselves or HN leaders like tptacek, patio11 and jacquesm. It would also be very interesting to see how the results for edw519 size up against his own curated comment list: http://edweissman.com/53640595 -- Update: Thanks to bitovod for implementing the feature. There's now an ongoing list of the…

Done.

http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?username=tptacek&limit=75

Re: The best of $user on HN, with eBook export

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Post by Locke1689 »

Alex3917 wrote: post #10

A more accurate headline would be "Witty quips and pithy one-liners by $user, and ASCII art by edw519"

Yup. My top comment is a one-liner aphorism about the US and China, while one of my favorite comments (encouraging people to get into OS & kernel development http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=740718) is way down at the bottom. C'est la vie.

Re: The best of $user on HN, with eBook export

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Post by evanrmurphy »

redpill27 wrote: post #12
evanrmurphy wrote: post #8

Nice job! Feature request: Make the queries linkable. I think people would appreciate being able to have permalinks for themselves or HN leaders like tptacek, patio11 and jacquesm. It would also be very interesting to see how the results for edw519 size up against his own curated comment list: http://edweissman.com/53640595 -- Update: Thanks to bitovod for implementing the feature. There's now an ongoing list of the…

Done. http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?username=tptacek&limit=75

Impressive turnaround! :)

This is also good for your site. You'll get more links now because people can link to the particular things they're interested in rather than just the homepage.

Re: The best of $user on HN, with eBook export

#17

Post by hugh3 »

trickjarrett wrote: post #13
Shamiq wrote: post #2

This is a disconcerting self-community interaction analysis tool. I don't like my top comments at all.

I was surprised by this as well, my top comments were on the whole, rather forgettable.

Apparently the best thing I've ever said was a complaint about an inaccurate headline.

The seventeenth-best thing I've ever said was that "Gorillas aren't monkeys" with a somewhat later edit in which I complain about how many people are modding me up for such a pointless nitpick.

And the fortieth-best thing I've ever said was:

Of all the fantasies I've ever heard which involve a hotel room, a comely young lady, fifteen thousand dollars and all-you-can-drink cranberry juice, that's the dullest, I'm sorry.

I have no idea what the context was, but it sounds way better out of context.

Really though, the biggest problem with this is that it overwhelmingly contains recent comments due to karma inflation.

Re: The best of $user on HN, with eBook export

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Post by evanrmurphy »

redpill27 wrote: post #12
evanrmurphy wrote: post #8

Nice job! Feature request: Make the queries linkable. I think people would appreciate being able to have permalinks for themselves or HN leaders like tptacek, patio11 and jacquesm. It would also be very interesting to see how the results for edw519 size up against his own curated comment list: http://edweissman.com/53640595 -- Update: Thanks to bitovod for implementing the feature. There's now an ongoing list of the…

Done. http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?username=tptacek&limit=75

Using your new feature to keep a list of the leaders: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2662721
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