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Different phrasing, but I had posted basically the exact same idea on HN and gotten tons of upvotes a few weeks earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
by Alex3917 9y ago
Different phrasing, but I had posted basically the exact same idea on HN and gotten tons of upvotes a few weeks earlier:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1325103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1325103
I only posted it because one of my friends told me about hearing a speaker bringing up the idea at a conference, but it's an idea that's been around for decades.
- zamber 9y agoFew days? HN bug? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1325103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1325103 > 2659 days ago
- Splines 9y agoThe source of that article was posted 2659 days ago. Maybe Alex3917 is a time traveler? (Welcome to 2017 Alex, sorry about everything).
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- olympus 9y agoHe meant that he posted it prior to blue_beetle's comment in 2010. I had claimed that blue_beetle was the first person to put it on the internet, and he posted proof that he had posted a similar idea before blue_beetle did.
- zamber 9y agoAlex3917 is either a time traveler or he's got superhuman memory. Speculation: 3917 is his mother year.
- Alex3917 9y agoThe reason I remember it is because I posted it as a HN comment, and then a few weeks later someone basically rewrote it into a blog post and got tens of millions of page views and tons of mainstream media coverage. Had that not happened, there's no way I'd remember now.