These throwbacks have a way of being very topical. 12th item on Hacker News that day for me is "The Next SourceForge": "SourceForge has been rethought, reimplemented, and rejuvenated."
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#32This is very nice!
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#33Ha! This is really cool. A few interesting things on mine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110716015547/http://news.ycomb...
"Code.Google.com now supports git"
Google code got the axe earlier this year.
"Michael Arrington reportedly to launch “CrunchFund” to invest in startups"
The rumours turned out to be true.
"Court OKs Airport Body Scanners, Rejects Constitutional Challenge"
They're everywhere now!
"Italy and the euro: On the edge"
Good guess, but turns out Greece is a bigger problem.
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#34I 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.
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#35One of the links from my page:
"MySpace v. Facebook: It's Not a Decision. It's an IQ Test"
Yeah, I joined a while ago.
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#36View 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.
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#37View 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.
My bet is independently. Spanish also has the same expression and I bet lots of other languages do too.
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#38Does anyone else get a 404?
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#39Cool, top story for me was "Experiment: No Comment Scores" https://web.archive.org/web/20090929084547/http://news.ycomb...
ah, I remember that - that's when I more or less stopped commenting. I still think it was a really bad move.
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#40https://web.archive.org/web/20080610175916/http://news.ycomb...
Some interesting things on mine:
Does Apple's Steve Jobs have cancer again? (alleyinsider.com)
https://web.archive.org/web/20080610175916/http://www.alleyi...
Toyota Announces New 516-Mile Range Fuel-Cell/Electric Hybrid
https://web.archive.org/web/20080611123133/http://gas2.org/2...
Interesting to note how HN has grown since then. Much more people on, though content has stayed similar.
In retrospect Jobs did still have cancer, and the Toyota hybrid was not much of a game changer.