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Nickb, Are you okay?
It has been more than a week since nickb was seen here. Am I the only person worried?
He didn't show up in Startup School though he said he would. I hope he is okay.
- m0nty 19y agoCould you not send him an email (it's in his profile)?
- apgwoz 19y agoWait. I thought Paul Graham was nickb?
- mynameishere 19y agoYeah. Maybe he's off implementing a downmod arrow so I can bury this crap submission.
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- m0nty 19y agoMaybe a reddit-like "hide" feature would be better -- doesn't affect anyone else, just let's you skip stuff you'd personally not see. I'm sure someone has the GreaseMonkey-Fu to do this without troubling the site programmers.
- mynameishere 19y agoMy criticism is valid. nickb is one of two things: A non-existent person, or a person who has real-life contacts who can submit a missing-persons report if required.
- Xichekolas 19y agoLike this? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173581 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173581
- m0nty 19y agoKind of, although more like reddit's "hide" feature. There's also a GM script to do like the extension you link, but it has menus so there's no need to edit an array. No time to find link but it will be on userscripts.org somewhere.
- Xichekolas 19y agoFine, I added a UI to it... http://www.andrewfarmer.name/2008/04/hn-blacklist-now-with-ui.html http://www.andrewfarmer.name/2008/04/hn-blacklist-now-with-u...
- m0nty 19y agoThanks! We need a YC'er of the week award :)
- Xichekolas 19y agoI'm not sure I should win an award for creating a blacklist. I mostly did it because it was a fun exercise in javascript (which I am learning).
- m0nty 19y ago> I mostly did it because it was a fun exercise in javascript Me too :) Although I'd recommend using jQuery if you have time to learn that as well. Makes DOM-related stuff easy so you only need to roll code for the things which are unique to your app.
- Xichekolas 19y agoI'm actually taking the opposite approach... I started using jQuery to do all my DOM related stuff, but now learning actual javascript for the fun of it. It really is a surprisingly flexible language.
- angstrom 19y agoUm, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw nickb pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
- softbuilder 19y agoI'd upmod twice if I could.
- mattculbreth 19y agoThank you Simone.
- wheels 19y agoI see your Schwartz is as big as mine. (Since this is getting downmodded into oblivion, that was a Spaceballs reference. That's a line from the same scene with "I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.")
- hugh 19y agoSo you decided to quote a line from a classic 1980s movie because said line occurs in said movie shortly before a line which sounds somewhat like the line from another classic 1980s movie which was (quite relevantly and in context) quoted by the parent post? Did you think that plan through carefully?
- edw519 19y agoSeveral people said they saw him in the pizza line, but I was too far back to see for myself.
- puppetsock 19y agoYeah, I saw him standing in line right next to Elvis.
- danielha 19y agoDamn I regret not jumping on that joke. Missed a ten pointer opportunity.
- mynameishere 19y agoThe disappearance of nickb was an inside job!!1 WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!1
- jkush 19y agoTough crowd tonight!
- dfranke 19y agoHe was at the reception the night before.
- pg 19y agoAre you sure? None of us met him.
- wheels 19y agoIn the future, I'd like to suggest that all regulars post their vacation schedules and travel times to news.YC so that we can make sure you're ok. Please also post your mom's phone number so that we can call her and tell you're doing alright and that the weather is great in Whogivesashitistan.
- jdavid 19y agoi can see both sides of the coin, but its nice to see someone concerned for someone else.
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- Jesin 19y agoEither your sarcasm detector is broken for writing this response, or mine is for thinking you were serious. Or perhaps I'm getting a false positive and both of the above posts were serious.
- carterschonwald 19y agoall I know is that this thread has too acerbic a tone for its own good
- wheels 19y agoThat's sarcasm. I'm sure Nick is a beautiful human. But ... like ... this ... is a tech news site. I'd be worried if people didn't drop off for a week or so every once in a while.
- Prrometheus 19y agoSurgeon General's note: This thread is a good source of Vitamin C.
- Hexstream 19y agoI don't see how his sarcasm detector is broken, wheels suggested we relax and don't jump to conclusions when someone is missing for a few days, and jdavid came in and acknowledged that we shouldn't be too worried but it's still nice to see that some people are.
- henning 19y agoMaybe nickb will mysteriously disappear and completely cease activity, the way linuxer did from reddit. http://reddit.com/user/linuxer http://reddit.com/user/linuxer
- ojbyrne 19y agoFunny, same thing happened at digg: http://digg.com/users/albertpacino http://digg.com/users/albertpacino
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- jkush 19y agoI think he's at home resting. Probably recovering from carpal tunnel syndrome.
- carterschonwald 19y agoI think that both sides in this thread are behaving in a way that is inappropriate for desired tone of this forum. All snarky responses are uncalled for, though the merit of the posing of the question is debatable
- deyan 19y agoafter reading all the comments, i start wondering: is this a community, or is it a bunch of kids with nothing better to do that truly don't get what hacker news is all about?
- rms 19y agoHe was logged into Google Talk last night. I'm sure he appreciates the concern though.
- nickb 19y agoWhoa... I come back and the top story is about me. Thanks guys... I really appreciate it! I was away for a week. I had some personal stuff to take care off and once that was done, I realized I needed to take few days to just reflect on some stuff and just do nothing. Haven't had a real vacation in quite some time so I used few days to unwind. No worries, I'll be back to regular posting soon! PS: Now I'm off to answer a bunch of emails!
- kirubakaran 19y agoWelcome back! Got a lot of heat for this post :) Anyway, the timing couldn't have been better and I am glad it made you smile.
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- xenoterracide 19y agototally offtopic but jakub the primary bug wrangler (and great maintainer) has been MIA for 3 weeks.
- rockstar9 19y agolol, nice to see that the community is so tight.