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

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Post by CGamesPlay »

542458 wrote: post #33

Ha! 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 e…

I joined on April 1, apparently, so none of my rumors turned out to be true. Oh well.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090401065245/http://news.ycomb...

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

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Post by kevinbowman »

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…

Heh, that's cool :) However, it makes my Firefox crash about a second after the page loads :( I feel a bug report coming on, after checking the latest nightly build...

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

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Post by x43b »

mixmax wrote: post #39
BCM43 wrote: post #30

Cool, 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.

"ah, I remember that - that's when I more or less stopped commenting. I still think it was a really bad move."

Why would that cause you to stop posting?

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

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Post by dilap »

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…

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 require a lot of context or guessing to decipher and long variable names that obscure flow.

Math (and languages like APL, K) are extreme examples of this: as an aid to thinking really hard, they go to extremes of dense notation requiring lots of context/previous to even begin to understand what's going on.

Using Chinese characters in normal code seems like it could fairly painlessly (once you knew Chinese!) get you a lot of the advantages of small-space characters while still encoding a lot more helpful context than a single latin letter.

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

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Post by larrykubin »

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 that I didn't need to be there, I was trying to recapture a feeling -- but after the initial inspiration I just needed to get busy.

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