Interesting that you mention that. hhm was my previous username, but I lost its password now. Probably after switching accounts some years ago, after becoming a little paranoid about internet identity (I even sent a mail asking pg to remove that account... he was smarter than me and said he wouldn't do that; thanks pg). I now realize I shouldn't care so much about that really. By that time, I realized that it might b…
Did pg give a reason for not wanting to remove the account or did he ever write about why he wouldn't delete accounts? I have my guesses but I'm curious what his specific reasons would be.
I'm guessing simply because he could not verify that he was the account holder.
Of course there could be numerous curatorial reasons, but that first one would seem to be a deal-breaker regardless.
A few notes as I read through this: - Passwords are still just as broken now as they were then. - Functional programming is still widely discussed, though the focus is more on Lisp than Clojure/Haskell/etc. - Fourth post is the usual, somewhat sensationalist, this commonly-accepted thing is bad! sort of headline that makes the rounds here every so often. - This post on syntax highlighting [1] reminds me of another re…
Discussions on functional programming--particularly Lisp and Erlang--seem much more prevalent then than now. Which is really too bad: functional programming seems to have gotten significantly more awesome in the recent past. As a simple indicator, there are only two articles about functional programming on the front page, and they're both fairly shallow, general and not current. They're also related: same author and…
If you want to follow a particular topic in the "new" articles, you could try doing what I do - I follow the RSS feed at http://news.ycombinator.com/rss using Google Reader, and since the search in Google Reader results in the feed and query going in the URL, you can bookmark that search. For instance, you could bookmark http://www.google.com/reader/view/#search/functional//feed%2...
By the way, Reader has many of the same awesome keyboard shortcuts as Gmail - you can use j and k to go up and down in the list, 1/2/3 to switch views, v to open the link, etc. (Try hitting ?)
Did pg give a reason for not wanting to remove the account or did he ever write about why he wouldn't delete accounts? I have my guesses but I'm curious what his specific reasons would be.
I'm guessing simply because he could not verify that he was the account holder. Of course there could be numerous curatorial reasons, but that first one would seem to be a deal-breaker regardless.
I asked if he could either remove my account or comments. He said that the comments are part of other people's conversations, so he didn't want to remove all of them (later he asked if I had some specific comments I wanted to remove, and what were my reasons to want to remove all of them). By then I realized he was right.
A few notes as I read through this: - Passwords are still just as broken now as they were then. - Functional programming is still widely discussed, though the focus is more on Lisp than Clojure/Haskell/etc. - Fourth post is the usual, somewhat sensationalist, this commonly-accepted thing is bad! sort of headline that makes the rounds here every so often. - This post on syntax highlighting [1] reminds me of another re…
Discussions on functional programming--particularly Lisp and Erlang--seem much more prevalent then than now. Which is really too bad: functional programming seems to have gotten significantly more awesome in the recent past. As a simple indicator, there are only two articles about functional programming on the front page, and they're both fairly shallow, general and not current. They're also related: same author and…
I remember much more Haskell and probably FP talk on HN some years ago too. Although HN back then was just as prone to getting fixated on a topic for a few days and flooded with stuff about it as it is now.
I follow http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/ , which has much more meaty FP topics than hit HN these days. For example, "Files are to Mounts as Abstract Data Types are to Dependency Injection" and "Video:Duncan Coutts on Cloud Haskell" are two I'm looking forward to digging into.
Interesting how the articles on the HN homepage are almost timeless. Many of those articles I find just as interesting as the one's posted on today's homepage (perhaps more interesting since there's more programming and less consumer tech news).
Totally true. I caught myself exploring some of the "old" links myself.
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