Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

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Post by dang » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 5:30 PM UTC

kaladin_1 wrote: post #99

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone. I am grateful for this platform, the moderators and all contributors. Thank you Dan. I remember when I was new here. I was impressed and equally challenged by the achievements of people here. One of my first questions was how I could get a good remote job. Dan replied and informed me about the Whoishiring account. He sounded very positive and even wished me good luck. I felt so motivated…

Yay! I love it when HN has positive effects on people's real lives. It did that for me too, long before I became a moderator here. Thank you, PG.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

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Post by dang » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 5:31 PM UTC

Godel_unicode wrote: post #25

eru wrote: post #12

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"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

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Post by dang » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 5:32 PM UTC

thepasswordis wrote: post #58

SequoiaHope wrote: post #50

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Please don't get personal.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: also, please don't call names - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29338611 is not ok here, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

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Post by dang » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 5:35 PM UTC

tjpnz wrote: post #80

To all those saying it's a strictly American affair I would point out that Japan also has it's own version on the same week. Happy Labor Thanksgiving Day everyone!

What is the Japanese version of Thanksgiving? I had no idea.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

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Post by prohobo » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 5:35 PM UTC

imran0 wrote: post #200

prohobo wrote: post #143

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Hackernews works. I respect the mods and appreciate their work keeping everything running. We're living in increasingly volatile times, and while a lot of us are stubborn and hard of hearing - myself included - and people like Jonathan Blow like to hate on that, I still think this forum is a bastion for real discussion and understanding on all kinds of topics.

It's bizarre how many times I've come across someone just randomly hating on Jon Blow. I don't know what this guy does to attract such attention considering his relatively niche space of work.

I'm not hating on him, I like him almost as much as John Carmack. I think he brings criticism on himself though because he's very negative on some topics, obviously not making friends. While he's doing his niche work he's shooting off strong opinions all the time.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

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Post by bob1029 » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 5:45 PM UTC

There is no other place like this on the internet.

I would like to thank everyone who visits this site and participates in these excellent conversation threads.

Extra special thanks to dang for keeping all of these cats in 1 bag.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

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Post by missedthecue » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 5:54 PM UTC

mynegation wrote: post #81

Thank you Dan Gackle for making this site my happy place, the only place on the internet that I read every day. Thank you all for posting and upvoting the interesting stories. Thank you for replying to my comments. Thank you for upvoting them. Thank you for downvoting them, too. I come here to learn and be amazed at knowledge, creativity, and kindness.

As someone who has been rapped across the proverbial knuckles by dang for making unnecessarily combative or snarky comments, I too want to thank him for making this a great place.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

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Post by bufordtwain » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 6:05 PM UTC

busymom0 wrote: post #94

eric4smith wrote: post #35

As an Immigrant to the USA, I did not get the whole thanksgiving thing. But then as I had a kid there, I warmed up to it. Then now I've been living abroad for almost 10 years without returning home to the USA and if I did not see this post I would not even have remembered. It's strange how we can so quickly adjust to holidays from different countries in just a few years -- while forgetting the ones back home so easil…

In the same boat myself. I immigrated from india to Canada many years ago and since then, Christmas is the only one I can actually remember and usually celebrate. The other traditional ones like Diwali, Durga Puja, Holi, Eid etc are all forgotten to me unless my family reminds me of it.

UK immigrant to the USA here. I heard about and celebrated Diwali for the first time this year (by going out for Indian food). I'm up for any and all holidays. Especially ones that involve food and no other commitments :) Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

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Post by newbamboo » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 6:09 PM UTC

hellbannedguy wrote: post #179

josh2600 wrote: post #22

Hackernews is simultaneously the most cantankerous and, imho, highest quality response on average public forum on the net. I absolutely love it here and sincerely appreciate this place. I feel like I’ve grown up on this site in so many ways. I am continually humbled by not just the consistent quality of content but also the comments. It’s a testament to the moderators that this site has maintained this level of quali…

I agree on everything, but the moderation. Personally, I have seen very few times where their assistance is even needed. I have seen them squash interesting debates. I had one guy email me, and tell me at home to stop commenting so much. (Never forgot that one, and there are no TOS. I will probally pay for those last two sentences? Then again if HN is what it claims, maybe not?) What makes this place special is there…

Didn’t really read you post but this jumped out at me, “Hacker News is by far the best site for technical discussion.”

Indubitably true.

Frankly, even if I’m forever shadowbanned, I can’t think of a better place on the net. It reminds me of the old net, the best parts. The current fashion and culture change a bit over the years but not too much. It’s hard to not mess up a good thing but they do well to do that here, even if there’s a strong pro-CCP bias evident at times in some of the moderation.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

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Post by newbamboo » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 6:15 PM UTC

benjaminwootton wrote: post #163

mynegation wrote: post #81

Thank you Dan Gackle for making this site my happy place, the only place on the internet that I read every day. Thank you all for posting and upvoting the interesting stories. Thank you for replying to my comments. Thank you for upvoting them. Thank you for downvoting them, too. I come here to learn and be amazed at knowledge, creativity, and kindness.

I always assumed dang was an Asian name. Didn't realise it was a Dan G :-)

Knowing his name is Gackle I still suspect he is of Asian descent. Because Asians are cool. They have western names if they are mixed. Nothing at all wrong with that.