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Why is this shit on Hacker News? This is not reddit. This is not even new. Flagged.
by rorrr 14y ago
Why is this shit on Hacker News? This is not reddit. This is not even new.
Flagged.
- adventured 14y agoIt's on Hacker News because I find it interesting and it was new to me. Up voted.
- fayden 14y agororrr's message is unnecessarily rude, but I don't think he's wrong. It's a very interesting feat, but it's just a showcase of his realizations, unrelated to computers or science. His thought process or his planning for making such patterns would probably fit here more than this post. I don't think it's a problem either, because such posts are rare, but I would be disappointed if Hacker News was filled with this kind of post.
- jws 14y agoIt has prodded at least one HN reader to speculate about making these patterns with robots[1], and another to wonder about solving shortest path[2]. Sounds like "of interest to hackers". This is late Saturday and peoples' interests wander further afield than optimizing CDNs. [1] Can you make a business selling robots that let a ski resort decorate itself? Can you sell ads on unused winter pastures? [2] If you consider each footprint to be a salesman's stop, then I think the answer is "Yes, but…"