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Show HN: Hacker Feud

32 points by lettier 6y ago

lavp 6y ago
This is great, I think you should add a single-player mode though much like GoogleFeud.
voz_ 6y ago
It would be nice to have a button to see answers instead of just hammering at guesses.
sabujp 6y ago
this is awesome, needs a timer though. But I guess I know what our team is doing during our daily 15 min non work meetup
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einpoklum 6y ago
So, what's the "most hated thing about programming?" I guessed and guessed and couldn't get it. Deadlines? Users? Management? No documentation? Having to write documentation? Having to write unit tests? Debugging? Licensing? Having to reinvent the wheel since the good stuff is closed-source? Being forced to do Agile/Scrum/Kanban? ... aargh!
- LEARAX 6y ago
  "Whiteboarding, naming things, stand-ups, OBOE (?), cache invalidation, and Jira" according to [1]. I don't think these questions are very fun. [1] https://github.com/lettier/hacker-feud/blob/e51c870f1b391ec043b832c85a5c2e92a777df25/src/main.js#L42-L70 https://github.com/lettier/hacker-feud/blob/e51c870f1b391ec0...
  - einpoklum 6y ago
    OBOE = Off-by-one error. also I don't see what's so bad about naming things - it's only bad if they get _mis_named and then you need to guess what they really are.
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  - marz0 6y ago
    “There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.” Source: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
- lucb1e 6y ago
  I also couldn't even figure out dead programming languages, for a long time not even a single answer. My first correct guess was Lisp after trying Python2, ALGOL, BASIC, QBASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, and probably more, which I thought were all perfectly good guesses (even if I know FORTRAN and COBOL are still in active use and Python2 is still maintained by distributions). Turns out the answers are perfectly alive languages. Ruby? PHP?! I guess it's meant as a joke? Great demo, I could have spent that time better.
  - BlackjackCF 6y ago
    Same here. I can't believe Ruby and PHP were on that list.
6keZbCECT2uB 6y ago
An interesting twist would be to allow for an opt-in that collects guesses and uses that to source ranking.
jakswa 6y ago
Can't seem to name a dead programming language after naming some very dead ones. Broken? Just hearing the "bzz" incorrect answer sound over and over.
- johnmarcus 6y ago
  Same
- FreakLegion 6y ago
  Perl, PHP, Haskell, Lisp, Ruby, Elm. A pretty terrible list, but maybe not that far off what you'd get from a Family Feud-style survey of people in tech.
  - davidjhall 6y ago
    This list, but no Cobol, Fortran, APL, smalltalk??? Not remotely accurate.
majewsky 6y ago
What's up with the answers? Most dead programming languages does not include Fortran, Cobol and Algol, but for some reason Elm?!
johnmarcus 6y ago
Worth noting that the demo questions and answers are jokes based on common online arguments, not facts. This is not Jepordy. Think online flame war kinda answers. The answers to the demo are here: https://github.com/lettier/hacker-feud/blob/master/src/main.js https://github.com/lettier/hacker-feud/blob/master/src/main.... I think the project is neat and the code is clean. It's funny how something so good can frustrate its own audience with a tiny over site.

32 points by lettier 6y ago

lavp 6y ago

This is great, I think you should add a single-player mode though much like GoogleFeud.

voz_ 6y ago

It would be nice to have a button to see answers instead of just hammering at guesses.

sabujp 6y ago

this is awesome, needs a timer though. But I guess I know what our team is doing during our daily 15 min non work meetup

deleted 6y ago

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einpoklum 6y ago

So, what's the "most hated thing about programming?" I guessed and guessed and couldn't get it. Deadlines? Users? Management? No documentation? Having to write documentation? Having to write unit tests? Debugging? Licensing? Having to reinvent the wheel since the good stuff is closed-source? Being forced to do Agile/Scrum/Kanban? ... aargh!

LEARAX 6y ago
"Whiteboarding, naming things, stand-ups, OBOE (?), cache invalidation, and Jira" according to [1]. I don't think these questions are very fun. [1] https://github.com/lettier/hacker-feud/blob/e51c870f1b391ec043b832c85a5c2e92a777df25/src/main.js#L42-L70 https://github.com/lettier/hacker-feud/blob/e51c870f1b391ec0...
- einpoklum 6y ago
  OBOE = Off-by-one error. also I don't see what's so bad about naming things - it's only bad if they get _mis_named and then you need to guess what they really are.
- deleted 6y ago
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- marz0 6y ago
  “There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.” Source: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
lucb1e 6y ago
I also couldn't even figure out dead programming languages, for a long time not even a single answer. My first correct guess was Lisp after trying Python2, ALGOL, BASIC, QBASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, and probably more, which I thought were all perfectly good guesses (even if I know FORTRAN and COBOL are still in active use and Python2 is still maintained by distributions). Turns out the answers are perfectly alive languages. Ruby? PHP?! I guess it's meant as a joke? Great demo, I could have spent that time better.
- BlackjackCF 6y ago
  Same here. I can't believe Ruby and PHP were on that list.

6keZbCECT2uB 6y ago

An interesting twist would be to allow for an opt-in that collects guesses and uses that to source ranking.

jakswa 6y ago

Can't seem to name a dead programming language after naming some very dead ones. Broken? Just hearing the "bzz" incorrect answer sound over and over.

johnmarcus 6y ago
Same
FreakLegion 6y ago
Perl, PHP, Haskell, Lisp, Ruby, Elm. A pretty terrible list, but maybe not that far off what you'd get from a Family Feud-style survey of people in tech.
- davidjhall 6y ago
  This list, but no Cobol, Fortran, APL, smalltalk??? Not remotely accurate.

majewsky 6y ago

What's up with the answers? Most dead programming languages does not include Fortran, Cobol and Algol, but for some reason Elm?!

johnmarcus 6y ago

Worth noting that the demo questions and answers are jokes based on common online arguments, not facts. This is not Jepordy. Think online flame war kinda answers. The answers to the demo are here: https://github.com/lettier/hacker-feud/blob/master/src/main.js https://github.com/lettier/hacker-feud/blob/master/src/main.... I think the project is neat and the code is clean. It's funny how something so good can frustrate its own audience with a tiny over site.