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Re: See what Hacker News looked like on the day you joined

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Post by aquarin »

larrykubin wrote: post #60

Wow, I guess I showed up pretty early. I still remember going to Startup School in 2007 and being so excited and inspired that I quit my job a few months later. Note: I probably should have stopped following startup news after the first year or so, I don't think anything I've read after that has been that beneficial, it's just an addiction at this point. I went to Startup School for a second time in 2008 and realized…

Why we made this site 117 points by pg 5 days ago | 46 comments Startup School 2007: 3/24 at Stanford 32 points by phyllis 6 days ago | discuss

Re: See what Hacker News looked like on the day you joined

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Post by jrockway »

8 years! It was still called "Startup News" back then. The front page when I joined looks very much like it does today -- a few articles about Google (6!), some startup-y articles, some politics, some business-y articles, some pure programming articles, etc. A good mix, but things are still pretty good today.

I remember exactly why I joined, incidentally. With increasing regularity, /r/programming was making me very mad. I would post a detailed correct answer to someone's question, only for some troll to immediately reply with some insult and "proof" that I was totally wrong, even though the proof was totally wrong. It happens once, fine. It happens every single time I comment, I'm out. I have not been back in 8 years.

I will admit this happens from time to time on HN, which is unfortunate because I like to comment and really only know what I'm talking about when it's programming-related. But it hasn't made me mad enough to leave, only to nostalgically think back to the good-old days.

(I did start using Reddit again, too, but I only read unpopular subreddits. I can handle /r/AskReddit for some time killing, but things like /r/flying and /r/amateurradio are very pleasant communities with enough activity to be interesting a couple times a week. /r/anime is infuriatingly stupid, /r/awwnime is much more tolerable.)

Re: See what Hacker News looked like on the day you joined

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Post by jimmaswell »

dilap wrote: post #57
tomkwok wrote: post #5

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Native english speaker, math major. This seems really awesome! I feel like descriptive, long variable names have both an advantage and a disadvantage: advantage, obviously, that they're clear, but disadvantage that simply having all that filler text everywhere begins to make the code harder to follow in a serious way. So there's always this tug-of-war between short variable names that make flow easy to follow but req…

I use long variable names all the time and it's never actually made the code harder to follow. You generally parse a whole word as a shape rather than one letter at a time anyway once you know the word, so effectively the only difference is a bit more horizontal space. If someone grew up using whole words as variables in math I doubt they'd find single characters easier to work with.

For programming, using characters not available on a standard QWERTY keyboard is bad international code shareability.

Re: See what Hacker News looked like on the day you joined

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Post by ghaff »

hga wrote: post #34

I joined 8 years ago, and the topic selection is not markedly different in nature, which I find remarkable. Then again, there's a reason I'm still here and not e.g. Slashdot, which I started following even earlier.

That's one of the things that struck me. Of the headlines that came up for me for March 2010, there were only a couple that would seem out of place today. (One related to Flash on an iPhone and one to the network at PyCon 2010.)
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