Wonderful read. Silly suggestion: Could it be Y-axis?
Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
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Re: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
#122This is one of those posts that reminds me why I love this site so much.
Re: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
In a way it is disappointing... Almost certainly, the person who drew this axe is still alive today. There are ~8 billion people alive today, so it is a simple matter of figuring out who to ask. Yet, while everyone might be only 6 handshakes away from everyone else (on average), we do not have sufficient human connectivity to locate this person, even with hundreds of people putting at least a little thought/effort in…
I'd pay good money to watch a cinema verité documentary capturing the moment when the graphic artist encounters the StackExchange page and reads each comment in turn, while the camera slowly zooms in closer and closer on their eyebrows as they alternately furrow and rise up in surprise.
Why do I hear Curb Your Enthusiasm music?
Re: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
The best part about that RegEx answer is the moderator's note at the bottom. > Moderator's Note > This post is locked to prevent inappropriate edits to its content. The post looks exactly as it is supposed to look - there are no problems with its content. Please do not flag it for our attention. From back in the day when Stack Overflow was fun.
Hi lolinder, welcome to HackerNews. Your comment implies that Stack Overflow isn't currently fun. You are of course well within your rights to make that assertion. However, I find that your comment may be improved by removing any implication that Stack Overflow isn't fun. So I invite you to explain your reasons and maybe consider future improving edits to your post.
Here is a comment that must be helpful because it got upvoted, but it's impossible to understand because the sibling comment it replies to is hidden somewhere at the bottom of the comment list.
Re: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
#125Re: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
#126First comment on the answer: > This is quite the most extraordinary stack exchange answer that I've ever seen. And I couldn't agree more. Well worth perusing if you (like me) usually only check the comments on HN.
No, although this answer is awesome and very well researched, it cannot match the famous answer to the question about parsing HTML using regular expressions :-) : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open... . BTW, I got curious about the highest scored answer and this meta answer explains how to find it: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/266570 . The highest scored answer is this one: https://stack…
“Even Jon Skeet cannot parse HTML using regular expressions.”
Re: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd pay good money to watch a cinema verité documentary capturing the moment when the graphic artist encounters the StackExchange page and reads each comment in turn, while the camera slowly zooms in closer and closer on their eyebrows as they alternately furrow and rise up in surprise.
I am quite positive none of that happen, or would happen. Mistakes do happen, including picking the wrong clipart and publishing it.
They found a 2nd, different clipart, from the same original artist, with a different Y with the same Axe.
That proves that the original (Chinese) artist actually thought that the image is associable with Y, and they were paired before going on the ball, not someone (other than the original artist) picking the wrong image to go with a letter.
Re: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
#128Apparently this was discussed here while the investigation was ongoing, and an HN user (thedrake) was responsible for finding the ball on alibaba: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14672359
Be sure to read that link with showdead.
thedrake’s victorious final comment “ SOLVED!!!!!! I spent several hours looking for an axe or a hatchet or an Ubåt…” is dead.
Possibly because of a heuristic aimed at killing spam posts with too many links.
Re: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
#129Yxa
Re: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
#130Isn’t there an obvious answer that the y means “yellow” and refers to the color of the axe?