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That particular Xkcd comic has been posted 79 times in the past year or so† and has quickly become a cliché. The authors' stated goals are to make a "purely fun

by p9idf 14y ago

That particular Xkcd comic has been posted 79 times in the past year or so† and has quickly become a cliché. The authors' stated goals are to make a "purely functional" and "practical 100% free" package manager.†† They don't mention competition, proliferation, or winning market share. A vague hope of consistency and cohesion accompanying the announcement of a program "approaching its first alpha release" isn't a rallying cry. I think they made this announcement simply so that people interested in this sort of thing might take a look. † http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=http%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F927%2F&sortby=create_ts+desc&start=0 http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=http%3A%2F%... †† http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/ROADMAP http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/ROADMAP

simonh 14y ago
It's a fair cop.
morsch 14y ago
Hah. Your post made me curious which xkcds are the most popular on HN. This is the top10 (caveat below): 48 http://xkcd.com/927/ 48 http://xkcd.com/386/ 33 http://xkcd.com/538/ 28 http://xkcd.com/378/ 24 http://xkcd.com/810/ 23 http://xkcd.com/327/ 22 http://xkcd.com/323/ 21 http://xkcd.com/605/ 19 http://xkcd.com/936/ 17 http://xkcd.com/552/ You can easily reproduce the results by using the hnsearch API via curl "http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com&limit=100&start=<iterate> and grep -ohE "http://xkcd.com/[0-9]*/" | sort | uniq -c | sort -n Unfortunately, I could only process the first 1000 entire list of ~1500 results because the API refused queries with start > 900. I have sort of a bad conscience because I'm polluting future queries by posting the top 10 list above, but I think I can live with it.
- kyle_wm 14y ago
  > I have sort of a bad conscience because I'm polluting future queries by posting the top 10 list above, but I think I can live with it. Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/688/ http://xkcd.com/688/ (Sorry, couldn't resist)

by p9idf 14y ago

simonh 14y ago

It's a fair cop.

morsch 14y ago

Hah. Your post made me curious which xkcds are the most popular on HN. This is the top10 (caveat below): 48 http://xkcd.com/927/ 48 http://xkcd.com/386/ 33 http://xkcd.com/538/ 28 http://xkcd.com/378/ 24 http://xkcd.com/810/ 23 http://xkcd.com/327/ 22 http://xkcd.com/323/ 21 http://xkcd.com/605/ 19 http://xkcd.com/936/ 17 http://xkcd.com/552/ You can easily reproduce the results by using the hnsearch API via curl "http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com&limit=100&start=<iterate> and grep -ohE "http://xkcd.com/[0-9]*/" | sort | uniq -c | sort -n Unfortunately, I could only process the first 1000 entire list of ~1500 results because the API refused queries with start > 900. I have sort of a bad conscience because I'm polluting future queries by posting the top 10 list above, but I think I can live with it.

kyle_wm 14y ago
> I have sort of a bad conscience because I'm polluting future queries by posting the top 10 list above, but I think I can live with it. Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/688/ http://xkcd.com/688/ (Sorry, couldn't resist)