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We celebrate our birthdays every year, but why not our 1,000,000,000 seconds?
- ptarjan 15y agoLet me know if you guys celebrate any other nerdy dates.
- sbisker 15y agoIf your site's copy asks that question, one of the first things I should see after submitting my birthday is, indeed, my age after 1,000,000 seconds. Seeing a list of everything I could be besides 1,000,000 seconds old confused the heck out of me. :) That said, pretty cute. I like it. You could make a cute viral Facebook app out of something like this (though maybe with less nerdy milestones).
- ptarjan 15y agoYour 1,000,000 seconds should be in there (unless you have past it already, in which case it is hidden behind the link at the top). Would you prefer different copy? Maybe I just emphasized that too much putting it as the title on HN.
- tspiteri 15y agoWell, not that many people are on HN before their 1,000,000th second. (1000000 seconds = 11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes, 40 seconds)
- ptarjan 15y agogreat point. I'll edit it to 3 more orders of magnitude.
- delinka 15y ago"unless you have past it already" This happens within the first fortnight of your life. Of course you've past it already. ~11-day old babies don't generally read sites like this.
- zerostar07 15y agoBoth are crazy. Why would anyone want celebrate being closer to death? Plus, as a nerd, I wouldn't choose an arbitrary unit of time like seconds.
- cynest 15y agoI'll give you the answer child me would say: presents and cake. In other words, we celebrate because we get something desirable out of the celebration or the act of celebrating.
- ptarjan 15y agoThere is a few other planetary orbital periods in there if you prefer another arbitrary unit. And other bases too incase you weren't born with 10 digits.
- qxb 15y agoWriter, philosopher Alain de Botton: "We should cite our age not by how many years we've lived, but by how many we statistically have left: a 70 yr old UK male as 8 etc." http://twitter.com/#!/alaindebotton/status/95809899929407488 http://twitter.com/#!/alaindebotton/status/95809899929407488
- ars 15y agoThat is a REALLY irritating method of entering a date! To go back a decade, you have to go to january of the first year in the dropdown, click the previous month button. Can't I just type in a date?
- ptarjan 15y agoTyping in the text box should just work. I'll try to make that more discoverable. Or if you have another date input widget I'm all ears.
- ars 15y agoJust replace the year dropdown with a text input, or even just load the dropdown with 100 years (or both). I can't type in the text box, as soon as the widget closes the form submits.
- duncanj 15y agoI'd like to know my xE6-iversaries, but this site only does 10^6,10^7,...
- robertk 15y agoScrolling down is kind of depressing.
- georgemcfly 15y agoBecause no one knows the second they were born? I actually know the minute (0:21 EDT) but I suspect even that is unusual to know.
- georgemcfly 15y agoAlso, how long should we celebrate it for? 1 second?
- DaveChild 15y agoI made something similar a while ago ( http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/mathematical-anniversaries/ http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/mathematical-anniversaries/ ). I never did work out why these things aren't more popular. Might I suggest adding ical?
- synnik 15y agoI'm 39. My birth year is not even selectable in the drop-down. I had to go to 1974, then scroll back 2 years. Not exactly a positive experience.
- ptarjan 15y agoYeah, this date widget has issues. Have you seen a better one anywhere else? You can always just fall back to the text box, but that is less good.
- synnik 15y agoI've used the jquery-ui datepicker before. You can customize it to make the year a drop-down, similar to what you have. I forget what the default range of years is, but we modified it to suit our needs anyway... But can't you just modify your widget? Somewhere in your code must be the range of years provided...
- tagawa 15y agoIdeally you could use the input element with type=datetime for browsers that support it, and a date widget fallback for browsers that don't. This should provide a better experience for users and hopefully less support issues for you.
- gnoupi 15y agoAlso, it allows you to set hour and minute of birth, but the rest of the site doesn't use them. Since it has second-related marks, it would be nice if it was working with hours and minutes as well.
- jcampbell1 15y agoIt seems to be bitten by a 2038 bug. I asked for a reminder for my 100th birthday and got an error.
- v21 15y agoHere's a even more beautiful variation I've seen : http://interconnected.org/home/more/lightcone/ http://interconnected.org/home/more/lightcone/ It takes a birth date and tells you when your personal light cone passes nearby stars.