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Post by hayksaakian »

epsylon wrote: post #113
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…

Spot-on. PG talked about this subject in relevant essay . [1] [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/relevantessay.html

I actually clicked that link in hope that Paul graham had value to add to this discussion.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by btilly »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Another site that I was on had the ability to fold up everything that you'd already read, and only show you the new content. It made keeping up with active discussions utterly trivial. Of course a first time user still sees everything.

I think they changed the underlying code, but http://forum.iwethey.org/forum/main.iwt still looks the same. So you can experiment with the idea there.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by minopret »

kmfrk wrote: post #70
Cushman wrote: post #43

The parody is funny. The comments here are hilarious . I fear I will never again be able to tell if an HN commenter is just jerking my chain, no matter how sincere they seem.

Poe's Law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law /s ... or is it?

Cole's law.

(is mostly shredded cabbage)

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by jewbacca »

Claudus wrote: post #114
simonsarris wrote: post #21

Good god this was funny, right down to the usernames. But now its time to be very HN about it. > Rats, top comments will be impossible to beat. Actually I think I have a solution to this, though its just guesswork. I'm not particularly well known here (or anywhere), but either people actually like the words I say, or I simply have yet to make a complete ass out of myself. (I think one of these is more plausible, but…

Rats, top comments will be impossible to beat. I can probably piggy-back off a top comment, though, those comment threads aren't long yet...

Piggybacking off a piggyback comment to take the discussion back on topic:

    There is further parody content in the URLs of the 'reply' links
Didn't realize until stalking through to the author's commentary on his personal blog: http://bradconte.com/hacker-news-parody-thread.html, because the relevant replies (including the author's own: ctrl+f "B-Con") were too far down this thread to ever see without foreknowledge.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by WalterGR »

mattstreet wrote: post #130
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…

So meta, I can't even tell which of the comments replying to you are in on the joke.

I accidentally downvoted you - meant to upvote. Sorry about that.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by commanda »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #100
alttab wrote: post #91

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> 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.

See, dotfiles like yours are why there's not more women in technology. As a feminist, I demand that your dotfiles be made inclusive by also accepting input from boobs.

Also, who uses h and l anymore? It's 2013, you should be using w and b.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by [deleted] »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #137
alttab wrote: post #134

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you should have checked github first. I'm using dotfiles that allows me to hjkl by tea-bagging, which requires less precision than my "stylus". Its called "dotmynuts," and its really active - 400 pull requests in the last 10 minutes.

Already rebinded those to toggle insert mode.

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