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Maybe not the right place for this, but why is gxs's comment dead? It's factually correct (as far as I can tell), and provides more related reading material.

• ars 16y ago
  It looks like a mod killed his account by mistake. I unfortunately see a LOT of dead comments that are perfectly fine. Usually they are preceded by a single bad comment, which at least explain why their account was killed, but I see nothing in gxs's comment history. There isn't really any way to ask for reinstatement except to email pg - that's if the person even realizes their account killed, since the system conceals this from them.
  • gxs 16y ago
    Hi, thanks to both of you for bringing this to my attention. I don't believe my account was dead, as my last comment received a reply. It may have happened because initially when I edited the comment for a typo, it displayed duplicate comments after I hit update. So naturally, afterward I deleted one of them. My guess is I got caught by some spam filter or something. For what it's worth, my original comment was just pointing people to Matthias Wandel's site: http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/ http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/ where he actually has lots of cool projects. In particular I like the marble machines and his demo on how combination locks work.
    • ars 16y ago
      I guess your account is active again, but this comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1809590 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1809590 is still dead. Don't know why.
      • throw_away 16y ago
        this also appears to have happened to Dav3xor on this article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1810165 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1810165