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edw519 wrote: post #15

Doesn't work for me: Sorry, your username was not found. Maybe you have never submitted or commented anything. user: edw519 created: 3070 days ago karma: 72254 about: Free ebook, "The Best of edw519": hn.my/edw519 twitter: @edw519 http://twitter.com/edw519 e d w 5 1 9 a t g m a i l https://hn.algolia.com/?query=edw519&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=comment 5,008 results

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

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Post by Brajeshwar » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 1:20 PM UTC

Nice. But you need to sanitize the username case-sensitivity.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/16u7pjmpno685u0/Screenshot%202015-...

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

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Post by corford » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 1:39 PM UTC

Apparently I joined (after lurking for ages!) on or close to the day Steve Jobs passed away.

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

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Post by userbinator » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 1:54 PM UTC

tomkwok wrote: post #5

View page source. $(function () { var 火 = new Firebase("https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/"); var ໆ = "http://news.ycombinator.com/"; $("#誤").hide(); $("form").submit(function () { 火.child("v0/user/" + $("#username").val()).on("value", function(結果) { var 人 = 結果.val(); if (人 && 人.created) { var 時 = new Date(人.created * 1e3); var YYYYMMDDhhmmss = 時.toISOString().slice(0,19).replace(/[-T:]/g,""); var ꜛ = "https://web.a…

結果 = result (a term / expression with figurative meaning)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B5%90%E6%9E%9C

It looks like those characters literally mean "to bear fruit" - and in English, fruit is also used figuratively to mean a result, e.g. "fruits of labour", so I wonder if either English or Chinese was inspired by the other, or if they independently came up with the concept relating fruit and result.

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

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Post by burger_moon » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 1:55 PM UTC

This is neat. Good job.

I'm a pretty big fan of one that got posted here about a month ago, waybackhn. It chooses random day/months/years and shows the front page for either. I've spent a lot of time reading through old stories and comments from years before I got into this field. It's opened up my mind a bit to see what people were talking about years back.