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I do think it’s funny how that might be a character revealing moment, suggesting the hacker is Gen X or at least elder millennial age.
by Apocryphon 2y ago
I do think it’s funny how that might be a character revealing moment, suggesting the hacker is Gen X or at least elder millennial age.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 2y agoI did toy with the idea of trying do analysis of HN aliases and keywords. It never went anywhere, because I forgot about it, but a longer weekend is coming:D But yeah, language betrays, who we are in references alone.
- gopher_space 2y agoThere's no way you could determine how old a person is or what technologies they enjoyed way back in college solely from a username.
- willvarfar 2y agoAre you just trying to goad them into showing they can? :D
- kasey_junk 2y ago-gopher- space made the comment you are replying to.
- oefrha 2y agoHave fun analyzing the alias I pulled from /dev/urandom!
- imp0cat 2y agoKnows of the existence of /dev/urandom, must be old! ;)