Nickb 20k • Hacker News Board

Re: Nickb 20k

#21

Post by felixmar » Tue, Sep 02, 2008, 10:07 PM UTC

raheemm wrote: post #13

Congrats Nickb - his stuff is good. Does he have a bio?

Re: Nickb 20k

#22

Post by yagibear » Tue, Sep 02, 2008, 10:35 PM UTC

pg congratulates pseudonym nickb [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152388]? I wonder what the number of upvotes for this means...

Nevertheless, 20k certainly represents a valuable contribution.

Re: Nickb 20k

#23

Post by icey » Tue, Sep 02, 2008, 10:53 PM UTC

IsaacSchlueter wrote: post #20

jmatt wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it rolls over due to 2s complement then it'll be -32768. What the -1 comment is refering to is a casting problem. Or int into byte, etc. Versus unsigned to signed.

Oh, duh. Brainfart. -1 would be 11111111 not 10000000. While I doubt that HN's scoring would suffer from signedness bugs, if it did, getting your score down/up to -1 would be the ultimate. It would be an interesting easter egg to build into the system, tho :)

It shouldn't do that; AFAIK it's using PLT Scheme's numeric stack.

Re: Nickb 20k

#24

Post by iamelgringo » Wed, Sep 03, 2008, 12:29 AM UTC

nickb wrote: post #10

Thanks pg for the site!

Not bad for a sock puppet: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152428

:)

Re: Nickb 20k

#25

Post by rms » Wed, Sep 03, 2008, 2:57 AM UTC

Congrats Nick!

Re: Nickb 20k

#26

Post by nickb » Wed, Sep 03, 2008, 3:54 AM UTC

simplegeek wrote: post #18

Thank you and please reveal yourself now :)

Hah! My identity is not actually secret at all :) But you're right, I'll put up a link to my bio/blog soon enough.

Re: Nickb 20k

#27

Post by nickb » Wed, Sep 03, 2008, 3:54 AM UTC

felixmar wrote: post #21

raheemm wrote: post #13

Congrats Nickb - his stuff is good. Does he have a bio?

http://www.paulgraham.com/bio.html :)

Sigh... pg and I are different people. Really.

Re: Nickb 20k

#28

Post by kajecounterhack » Wed, Sep 03, 2008, 5:12 AM UTC

Congrats to Paul Graham's evil twin, sock puppet...whatever you wanna call it, haha

Re: Nickb 20k

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Post by unalone » Wed, Sep 03, 2008, 5:40 AM UTC

nickb wrote: post #27

felixmar wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.paulgraham.com/bio.html :)

Sigh... pg and I are different people. Really.

I almost downvoted you for that lie, but I decided that it would be a misuse of the downvote.

Re: Nickb 20k

#30

Post by rewind » Wed, Sep 03, 2008, 7:03 AM UTC

nickb wrote: post #10

Thanks pg for the site!

Damn, 29 points (as of me posting this) just for saying thanks. You're some kind of karma magnet or something.

Okay, now reply "thanks" to my reply and let's see how many you get ;)