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Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by alttab »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #73
swanson wrote: post #22

Black text on a grey background? How can anyone expect to read this? We don't all have retina displays and use OSX. http://contrastrebellion.com/

I have a Macbook 15-inch 2.7GHz with Retina display, it baffles me that it is 2013 and there are still people who don't have one yet. I mainly do my programming by SSHing to it and using Vim on my ipad.

> I mainly do my programming by SSHing to it and using Vim on my ipad.

I've both actually done this, and told people about it on HN. I'm ashamed.

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Post by zck »

chimeracoder wrote: post #63
brk wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely, if you care about those numbers. I think my average karma is pretty low, but that's not why I'm here.

Well, no, right now average score is meaningless. But if having a higher average score means that you have a stronger voice, as OP suggested, then people will start to care about those numbers. I assume the goal is to encourage high-quality discussions (including extended discussions/back-and-forth), in which case average comment score will work against that.

If you measure something, people will try to increase it. Just by presenting the number, people are encouraged to maximize it.

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Post by scoot »

orangethirty wrote: post #77
vectorpush wrote: post #18

The usernames made me chuckle, my favorite is "DefaultSearchIsWikipedia". Also, you forgot at least one archetype: the enthusiastic rant from an oblivious hell-banned poster.

vectorpush - you have been banned. No one can see your comment. ;)

Samuel_Michon, I can't reply to your comment directly, but just to let you know, you're hell-banned, and no-one can read your comment.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by jiggy2011 »

dageshi wrote: post #72
Xcelerate wrote: post #8

I disagree with the author. This isn't exactly a parody thread. A parody is "an imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialise an original work" [1]. For one thing, I would hardly call Hacker News comments "original work", and a simple creation like this hardly captures the full scope and breadth of comments on here. Furthermore, I'm not really sure why this belongs on HN, because it's not very technical, a…

I'm sorry, you seem to believe you can just throw around these opinions of yours without evidence. I demand you provide me with multiple peer reviewed scientific papers from journals of note to backup your so called claims. Frankly there's no point in even continuing this conversation until you do and we should just assume that I'm right and you're wrong.

Don't support the scientific paper racket. Instead have this link to a joel spolsky post from 2001 about why the web is dead. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000296.html

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Post by [deleted] »

leeoniya wrote: post #36
DannyBee wrote: post #26

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I'm curious what you came up with. I used to work on Google Moderator, which was a project created to solve this problem for non-threaded discussion (which is even worse), and we had some neat solutions. We displayed comments to users to be voted on, and ended up using a variant of wilson confidence intervals not just to rank, but to figure out which comments we should display to users to be voted on.

where i ended up was, it cannot be solved within a single view. there needs to be some form of split side-by-side view for the discussion, each prioritizing replies differently - by freshness, votes, weight or other metrics. another idea was to create a heat-map based on reply velocity to give a third dimension to the whole thing. replies need "simmer" time at the top to aggregate enough votes. if there is one huge r…

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Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by jiggy2011 »

alttab wrote: post #91
jiggy2011 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a Macbook 15-inch 2.7GHz with Retina display, it baffles me that it is 2013 and there are still people who don't have one yet. I mainly do my programming by SSHing to it and using Vim on my ipad.

> I mainly do my programming by SSHing to it and using Vim on my ipad. I've both actually done this, and told people about it on HN. I'm ashamed.

want my dotfiles? I added a cool hack that lets you do hjkl by rubbing your penis on the ipad screen. You have to map it with your DNA though.
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