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Post by dilap »

markburns wrote: post #94
dilap wrote: post #57

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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 read Japanese (I think this is Japanese in this case - it just happens to use a subset that is also Chinese - maybe). This code is definitely easier to parse visually for me. It's really satisfying. As a character set, it is much more information dense, it just requires a lot of upfront study making it less efficient in the short to medium term (~10 years or so). However, I would hate to work on a codebase like thi…

Well, as an emacs user, I guess I could make the jump to two modes to get the benefits... ;)

But in all seriousness, thanks for a very interesting perspective.

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

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Post by jrockway »

jzelinskie wrote: post #90
jrockway wrote: post #64

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…

What anime community do you use now? r/anime was always terrible. I've "outgrown" 4chan, but /a/ is still the best community I know of. I mostly just do my own thing and talk to my few friends who also watch.

I use a (private) G+ community now.

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

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Post by Solanaceae »

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 bet it'd be fun to just choose characters at random, with reckless disregard for inadvertent meanings downstream.

Somewhere down the line, watching someone read a blog peppered with snippets of your code inducing incongruously deep belly laughs across the gulf of a langage barrier would be fulfilling in its own weird way.

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

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Post by IsaacL »

jrockway wrote: post #64

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…

6 years for me -- the mix of articles is indeed similar, though the titles show how the vibe of the community has changed. Back then it really felt like a gathering of plucky upstarts and misfits. We were into a lot of things which are mainstream now, but niche and weird at the time.

"Paul Graham and Y Combinator are on the cover of June's Inc Magazine" - this was exciting news back then! YC was a really speculative effort, even in the tech world. I wish I'd applied in the early days!

"Chrome Now Available for Mac or Linux : Hackers Only" - goes to show how many established products were back then only used by the nerdy early adopters

"20 Developers to follow on Twitter" - again, back then I only knew a few people outside of tech circles who used Twitter, and a lot of people hadn't even heard of it

"How I Got A Job From A Blog Comment" - this also wouldn't be news today

"Google Wave “is anti-Web”" - one speculative product that didn't make it

It's interesting looking back. I discovered this place as a first year CS student, and startups as a career path were not on the radar for 95% of my classmates at the time.

Rails was still fairly unknown, IE6 was a big problem for web developers, jQuery was the exciting new Javascript framework. All this meant that the standards for web apps were lower and it was easier to ship an interesting hack and get people to check it out.

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