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Poll: What is your age?

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Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by vl »

DigitalSea wrote: post #45

I don't know how accurate the results will be from this poll. I seriously doubt there are 36 users on HN over 90 (not entirely implausible, but most likely not the case). For anyone wondering I just turned 25, so in the 21 to 25 bracket and voted accordingly. Another fact worth pointing out is that you can vote more than once, so you can vote your real age and then vote on every other age to game the poll if you want…

Well, at least he is going to know what people from HN that choose to answer polls say about their age.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by adlpz »

cstuder wrote: post #131
adlpz wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My mind just got blown. For some reason, I never thought of this possibility.

It's not my real birthday, it's just the one I use on the net. Like waterlesscloud I hop it will break something somewhere. Or at least amuse a fellow engineer. Somebody else however suggested using 31st december 1969. Now that's just evil...

31st Dec 1969 23:59 UTC, Ouch

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by marvin »

davidjohnstone wrote: post #81
pg wrote: post #67

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I'll have to think of something extra for them too. Any ideas? Bear in mind that about half the users under 10 are also over 90, so whatever it is can't conflict with extra large fonts.

Comic Sans was made for this.

Comic Sans with alternating colors for all the letters.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by davidroberts »

pg wrote: post #62

The most significant result of this poll is that HN now seems to be past the point where we can rely on an honor system to prevent users from giving junk answers to polls. A few years ago we could. That's an unfortunate change. However, it's an ill wind that blows no good. When I'm done reading applications, I'll add a little tweak to HN to make the fonts super big for all the users over 80.

As long as you are tweaking things, could you add a confirmation option to the flag link? Its placement next to the comment link makes it all too easy to hit by accident on a smartphone screen by fat-fingered people like me.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by D9u »

Houshalter wrote: post #140
radarsat1 wrote: post #137

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Some browsers have a handy feature called "minimum font size." Firefox: http://i.imgur.com/m2doXpX.png Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/minimum-font/pofdg...

The images and everything else would still be unusually small though.

Some of us old farts use Ctrl + to get around such issues.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by yannis »

Houshalter wrote: post #140
radarsat1 wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some browsers have a handy feature called "minimum font size." Firefox: http://i.imgur.com/m2doXpX.png Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/minimum-font/pofdg...

The images and everything else would still be unusually small though.

That is why one should scale images in ems. Old enough to remember when programming.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by khet »

adlpz wrote: post #144
cstuder wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not my real birthday, it's just the one I use on the net. Like waterlesscloud I hop it will break something somewhere. Or at least amuse a fellow engineer. Somebody else however suggested using 31st december 1969. Now that's just evil...

31st Dec 1969 23:59 UTC, Ouch

Why is that bad? Please enlighten a naive hacker
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