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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 bcoates »

radarsat1 wrote: post #137
clicks wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. I'm in my mid-20s, I did not vote dishonestly in this poll, but I wish you'll make the change for me anyway. The small font on a 1080p screen (13" screen) is practically unreadable for me. I have to zoom in about 150% to make out anything.

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...

This doesn't actually work in Chrome, you have to also set a user stylesheet to override the -webkit- css property that forces exact pixel sizes of fonts.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by sukuriant »

MartinCron wrote: post #289
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.

it's an ill wind that blows no good Even if we can't count on the honor system, we can still count on occasional slivers of pure poetry. That's something.

Reddit, Something Awful and 4chan all have quite a bit of slivers of pure poetry within them. This forum was meant to be something different; and I think that's what pg is thinking about when he said that.

This site will still have plenty of good discussion, just like those places, but the amount of bad discussion/trolling/useless information will be increasing

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by Mz »

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.

I am only 47 (and, silly me, voted my actual age) but I got bifocals at age 30. At age 33, while being fitted for my second pair of bifocals, the fitter repeated over and over and over "God, you're YOUNG for having bifocals."

Those of us with 80 year old eyes look forward to the site tweak.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by sukuriant »

nu2ycombinator wrote: post #49

One conclusion from poll results you can deduct is "You are not that successful in life, if you are older than 30 and still checking hackernews"

Or your incredibly successful and an awesome person all together, because you're learning to program and thinking of starting your own business --- or HAVE been programming and still are, at 90

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by xijuan »

lostlogin wrote: post #90
tuananh wrote: post #14

over 90 !? noise?

Wonder who the oldest reader/contributor is? Anyone want to start that ball rolling?

Some people suggested I should not included some of the options. But your questions are one of the reason why I chose to include options such as over 90. It would be really interesting to know the age of the oldest reader.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by Jun8 »

ebbv wrote: post #216
alanctgardner2 wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I present, No True Hacker ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman ). Some hackers are interested in the results of the poll. Some resent any effort by anyone to collect their personal information. Some just wanted to click all the buttons, to see if they could. None of these are more or less valid than any other viewpoint, and it's silly to argue about what this portends for the HN community.

Whether you're interested in the poll or not is no reason to vandalize it. Being unwilling to share personal information is no reason to vandalize it. Wanting to "click all the buttons" is only a valid excuse if you are under the age of 8. What's silly is defending the dickheads who purposely ruin the poll.

Your use of "vandalize" is certainly too strong and calling people names generally shows a lack or argument. Yet (somewhat unexpectedly) you raise an interesting question, in your first two sentences: if you disagree with something (law/HN poll/etc) how far can you go before it becomes unacceptable? Your view would rule out all kinds of protests that interfere with the process that is being protested.

I think that is too wide a definition of unacceptable.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

pani wrote: post #280
gesman wrote: post #217

We need supplemental poll. Questions: 1. Did you click your correct age? 2. You click your incorrect age? 3. Did you click more than one age?

To confuse furthermore: 4. Are you honest?

Are you a: (Please choose only one option)

1. Knight

2. Knave

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