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> 87. What got you "hooked"? Loved this story, and I enjoy coding the more I do this. The problem is to keep it focussed on "productive" output - otherwise yo

by 6ren 15y ago

> 87. What got you "hooked"? Loved this story, and I enjoy coding the more I do this. The problem is to keep it focussed on "productive" output - otherwise you end up like that guy who wrote TeX instead of The Art of Computer Programming; or Blart Versenwald III¹; or 6. It automatically classifies unread comments based upon similarity to classified comments and some rules. (The idea was to classify the first 300 comments and have the software classify the remaining 3,700. I realized this capability was unnecessary when the book would only contain 256 entries. Oh well.) Not to look this wonderful gift horse in the mouth (all the bits I looked into at random were actually great), but it would be nice if titles linked to their comments. 1. One of the greatest benefactors of all lifekind. http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~soundarm/book4.html http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~soundarm/book4.html

edw519 15y ago
...it would be nice if titles linked to their comments... I purposely omitted references to the original Hacker News threads because I wanted the book to stand on its own. Hope this helps: http://edweissman.com/index-from-the-best-of-edw519-to-the-original http://edweissman.com/index-from-the-best-of-edw519-to-the-o... [Many thanks to everyone in this thread for the well wishes. You guys are helping to make my day!]
- 6ren 15y ago
  Thanks! I actually meant links to the comments lower down on the same page (eg for clarity: <a href="#87">87. What got you "hooked"?</a> ... <a name="87">87. What got you "hooked"?</a>), and then people could link to specific entries - but I like your interpretation better. [I had trouble expressing this in the GP, and went for over-conciseness, as "comment" is ambiguous. I still can't think of a brief but clear way to say it - there's probably some TeX typesetting terminology for it].
  - hieronymusN 15y ago
    I agree - you can check a linked TOC version here http://bit.ly/lSLTVT http://bit.ly/lSLTVT and [PDF] http://bit.ly/inAWAc http://bit.ly/inAWAc
wging 15y ago
Blart Versenwald II seems to have done rather well though, no?

by 6ren 15y ago

edw519 15y ago

...it would be nice if titles linked to their comments... I purposely omitted references to the original Hacker News threads because I wanted the book to stand on its own. Hope this helps: http://edweissman.com/index-from-the-best-of-edw519-to-the-original http://edweissman.com/index-from-the-best-of-edw519-to-the-o... [Many thanks to everyone in this thread for the well wishes. You guys are helping to make my day!]

6ren 15y ago
Thanks! I actually meant links to the comments lower down on the same page (eg for clarity: <a href="#87">87. What got you "hooked"?</a> ... <a name="87">87. What got you "hooked"?</a>), and then people could link to specific entries - but I like your interpretation better. [I had trouble expressing this in the GP, and went for over-conciseness, as "comment" is ambiguous. I still can't think of a brief but clear way to say it - there's probably some TeX typesetting terminology for it].
- hieronymusN 15y ago
  I agree - you can check a linked TOC version here http://bit.ly/lSLTVT http://bit.ly/lSLTVT and [PDF] http://bit.ly/inAWAc http://bit.ly/inAWAc

wging 15y ago

Blart Versenwald II seems to have done rather well though, no?