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He's not asking why it's broken, he's asking why he has to tolerate it being broken. It's not that hard to fix.
by aston 18y ago
He's not asking why it's broken, he's asking why he has to tolerate it being broken. It's not that hard to fix.
- palish 18y agoThat doesn't matter. These types of posts do not belong on the front page of Hacker News. Either send an e-mail to pg, or post this in Feature Requests.
- jganetsk 18y agoThat depends. If HN is supposed to be an example of a high-quality product on the Internet... then this is definitely a topic worthy of discussion on HN. I'm not submitting a feature request. I'm trying to start a discussion about user experience. But if HN is strictly a quick and dirty tool, then you are right. It is not worthy to make it a topic for discission.
- palish 18y agoIt doesn't matter what you're trying to do. What you're doing is against the rules. These types of posts don't belong on the front page, and this specific topic has come up in the past and has been answered. This is an unpopular opinion, but this needs to be said: to keep the quality of Hacker News relatively high, please follow the very few HN guidelines.
- Zak 18y agoIt's the demo/test app for Arc. Arc is intended for quick and dirty prototyping of webapps. It is PG's position that a continuation-passing style is the easiest way to do that. The fact that links to continuations must expire is a byproduct of the fact that computers have limited memory.
- alaskamiller 18y agoPG has mentioned this isn't a priority amongst his list of other priorities.
- malcontent 18y agoyea, he should definitely demand his money back...
- throttle 18y agoyea, he should definitely demand his money back...
- palish 18y agoAlso, go ahead and enumerate the reasons why "it's not that hard to fix".
- Hexstream 18y agoCountless other sites never had that problem in the first place.
- palish 18y agoThat is a fallacy. (Several, actually: irrelevant conclusion, affirming the consequent, etc.) Man, I miss the old Hacker News crowd. They would never let you get away with making fluff statements that prove nothing.
- aston 18y agoI'm perfectly willing to back up my statements. The general problem we're looking at is that fnid's (and the accompanying closures) are manufactured all over the place, and most of them don't need to stay around for very long. However, there are some of these--in particular the ones created for sending a comment to be posted in a thread--that probably deserve a guaranteed lifetime on the order of hours, not minutes. Putting them into a different fnid queue is what I'd call a relatively easy fix, and that'd handle 95% of the complaints about expired links. The other 5% are due to trying to reply to comment for a thread you opened a while back. I actually don't know why that's even coded the way it is. The reply link could easily just refer back to the post id instead of an fnid. edit: I would probably be willing to fix this stuff myself, but as of late it seems pg's not been paying that much attention to news.yc. Also, last time I threw up a patch, I got burned pretty bad.
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