A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)
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Re: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)
#2In case you're wondering why this obviously brilliant article doesn't get much discussion, or many votes, some people here have seen it before. Here are some of the previous submissions:
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=brief+incomplete#!/story/forever/p...
Of course, it may again get lots of discussion and lots of up-votes. We'll see.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7263243
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7149634
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6953863
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6504217
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6234361
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5804668
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5728844
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5728843
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5695816
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5377944
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5129062
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4586462
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3507566
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3503896
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1475826
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1327746
Re: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)
#3In case you're wondering why this obviously brilliant article doesn't get much discussion, or many votes, some people here have seen it before. Here are some of the previous submissions: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=brief+incomplete#!/story/forever/p... Of course, it may again get lots of discussion and lots of up-votes. We'll see. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7263243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7149634…
God DAMN you put more work into meta-summary than most of us put into actual comments ;)
I know there's been talk about it, but has anyone hacked together a quickie-scraper tool or mini-app that would, given a HN submission, find similar submissions, and generate a plaintext list like the parent comment, but maybe with some metadata (such as date of submission, number of comments, number of upvotes). I'll put that on my side projects list but I bet someone more OCD than me has already done something like this.
Re: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)
#4In case you're wondering why this obviously brilliant article doesn't get much discussion, or many votes, some people here have seen it before. Here are some of the previous submissions: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=brief+incomplete#!/story/forever/p... Of course, it may again get lots of discussion and lots of up-votes. We'll see. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7263243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7149634…
God DAMN you put more work into meta-summary than most of us put into actual comments ;) I know there's been talk about it, but has anyone hacked together a quickie-scraper tool or mini-app that would, given a HN submission, find similar submissions, and generate a plaintext list like the parent comment, but maybe with some metadata (such as date of submission, number of comments, number of upvotes). I'll put that on…
I have a bunch of half-finished, partially working, user-hostile tools. I can't bundle or release them, it would take too long to write what they do, and don't do. I could do something like you say, but again, as you say, I'd bet someone else has already mostly done it.
I wonder if I could cobble together from what I have something that I could make public. Next time I cross-reference stuff I'll leave a trail of bread-crumbs to see if I can regularize/semi-automate it.
Re: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)
#5In case you're wondering why this obviously brilliant article doesn't get much discussion, or many votes, some people here have seen it before. Here are some of the previous submissions: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=brief+incomplete#!/story/forever/p... Of course, it may again get lots of discussion and lots of up-votes. We'll see. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7263243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7149634…
saved me the work of pointing out that this really good post has been submitted before many a times :)
Re: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)
#6> Other well known languages in the ML family include OCaml, F#, and Visual Basic.
Every. Single. Time.
Re: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
God DAMN you put more work into meta-summary than most of us put into actual comments ;) I know there's been talk about it, but has anyone hacked together a quickie-scraper tool or mini-app that would, given a HN submission, find similar submissions, and generate a plaintext list like the parent comment, but maybe with some metadata (such as date of submission, number of comments, number of upvotes). I'll put that on…
I have a bunch of half-finished, partially working, user-hostile tools. I can't bundle or release them, it would take too long to write what they do, and don't do. I could do something like you say, but again, as you say, I'd bet someone else has already mostly done it. I wonder if I could cobble together from what I have something that I could make public. Next time I cross-reference stuff I'll leave a trail of brea…
"I have a bunch of half-finished, partially working, user-hostile tools. I can't bundle or release them"
This was never a problem for the Autotools people
Re: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)
#8In case you're wondering why this obviously brilliant article doesn't get much discussion, or many votes, some people here have seen it before. Here are some of the previous submissions: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=brief+incomplete#!/story/forever/p... Of course, it may again get lots of discussion and lots of up-votes. We'll see. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7263243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7149634…
My favorite is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5728843 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5728844, where two people post the exact same article within presumably minutes of each other, and manage to achieve sequential ids.
Re: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)
#9In case you're wondering why this obviously brilliant article doesn't get much discussion, or many votes, some people here have seen it before. Here are some of the previous submissions: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=brief+incomplete#!/story/forever/p... Of course, it may again get lots of discussion and lots of up-votes. We'll see. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7263243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7149634…
God DAMN you put more work into meta-summary than most of us put into actual comments ;) I know there's been talk about it, but has anyone hacked together a quickie-scraper tool or mini-app that would, given a HN submission, find similar submissions, and generate a plaintext list like the parent comment, but maybe with some metadata (such as date of submission, number of comments, number of upvotes). I'll put that on…
The search box at the bottom of the page does a pretty good job, given a title :)
Depends on what you mean by "similar submissions", though. Similar titles (similar in topic? Sentiment? Levenshtein distance?), identical links, similar linked content (similar how?), etc.
Re: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)
#10In case you're wondering why this obviously brilliant article doesn't get much discussion, or many votes, some people here have seen it before. Here are some of the previous submissions: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=brief+incomplete#!/story/forever/p... Of course, it may again get lots of discussion and lots of up-votes. We'll see. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7263243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7149634…
God DAMN you put more work into meta-summary than most of us put into actual comments ;) I know there's been talk about it, but has anyone hacked together a quickie-scraper tool or mini-app that would, given a HN submission, find similar submissions, and generate a plaintext list like the parent comment, but maybe with some metadata (such as date of submission, number of comments, number of upvotes). I'll put that on…
If memory serves, someone built this with a semi-automated account, he got some (to him) surprisingly heated criticism from the community, and he stopped.