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The Innards of Erlang
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- Mystalic 18y agoMy God, this is the most interes... snore You've truly found a way to help out HN.
- anuraggoel 18y agoYou made my day. But Google obviously doesn't know the meaning of 'innards'. Edit: Too bad your joke was so good it ruined HN for the rest of the day.
- rlm 18y agoI don't think I've ever seen a story get so many points so fast :D
- gamache 18y agoAnd it continues. Is this legitimate?
- haasted 18y agoIt's by request http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 .
- gamache 18y agoAh, gotcha. The Cult of Paul strikes.
- biohacker42 18y agoThe Cult of Paul or the legitimate desire of us old timers to keep this site from turning into just another reddit. I just up voted all the Erlang articles and it has nothing to with pg. (I also happen to genuinely like Erlang)
- dschobel 18y agoSure it keeps the drive by visitors from staying, but it makes HN useless (unless you _really_ _really_ like Erlang) for the next few days. There has to be a better way to control the audience than intentionally ruining the content.
- biohacker42 18y agoFirst of all, Erlang is something very much worth learning about. Second, it will only be this way for a short while. As you grow older your attention span will natural grow, don't worry about it kiddo.
- dschobel 18y agoWhether Erlang is worth learning about is entirely beside the point. The issue is whether it's worth sand-bagging the content for everybody on the tenuous theory that Erlang repulses "the wrong kind of people for HN". Simply, it gets annoying when pg turn HN back into social-experiment mode. Your second sentence is ad-hominem idiocy and doesn't merit a response.
- rm999 18y ago"keep this site from turning into just another reddit" Why, because reddit has a wide variety of interesting links on its front page instead of a page full of Erlang links?
- biohacker42 18y agoThen why are you here? Honestly, if you enjoy reddit, why waste your time here? Reddit is bigger, more diverse and customizable.
- rm999 18y ago"Then why are you here?" Well, I did remove the hackernews rss feed from my homepage today. I generally like this site, but I find the comments to be on the verge of elitist. I think it's sad that you guys think I'm part of the "riff raff" that needs to be filtered from sites like this, but congrats, you guys filtered me out.
- jimbokun 18y agoI am in total agreement that all of these "boring" stories are far more interesting than most of the interesting stories have been. Er, I think that makes sense. Anyhow, maybe now we can pick a Language of the Day, or some other geeky topic to vote up on the front page each day of the week? Maybe C Efficiency Hacks, or Interesting Uses of Graph Algorithms, or ...
- swombat 18y agoYou don't need to pick. A weird unstable combination of the internet and the community on this site will do the picking for you. Furthermore, it will pick 29 other topics to fill your front page. Isn't that amazing?
- spoiledtechie 18y agohahaha, Sorry I laughed out loud.
- rs 18y agohaha :) I laughed out too! Edit: it appears a bit too loud, GF thought I went crazy for a sec
- DLWormwood 18y agoShould I be worried? Isn't this the kind of inside joke that permeates sites like 4chan, or heaven forbid, /.? (Albeit more tasteful?)
- paulgb 18y agoI wouldn't mind that too much. Erlang is a neat language. The problem with 4chan and the like is that they take it overboard. I have hopes that HN will know when to quit.
- spoiledtechie 18y agoThere is another article that corresponds to this one. Keep reading to find it.
- paulgb 18y agoYeah, I realize that. I'm just (half-jokingly) saying that if the inside joke results in more erlang articles being posted, that wouldn't be as devastating as the kind of inside jokes that take over other sites.
- ambition 18y agoYou know, I might actually like a real article about the innards of erlang.
- davidw 18y agoBeing in Europe, I seem to have been sleeping during The Great Erlang Meme of 2009, so I was pretty disappointed to log in this morning, find what looked like a really juicy article about Erlang at the top of the list, and find out that 1) it doesn't really talk about the innards of Erlang, and 2) it's all a joke. The innards of Erlang are fascinating, because they're really what make the language so good at what it does, and are fairly different from many other languages in terms of architecture.
- EGF 18y agoIt took me awhile to figure why\how this happened but now that I understand it, it is hilarious to see this in real time on the HN homepage. Well done.
- zzzmarcus 18y agohttp://marcusvorwaller.com/look/erlang-20090311-125410.jpg http://marcusvorwaller.com/look/erlang-20090311-125410.jpg 18 of 25 Erlang articles on the front page. :)
- alanthonyc 18y agoGreetings, I am so glad I found this site. My two other favorite sites are valleywag and peoplemagazine.com. The only thing I really needed was a site devoted to Erlang. I'm glad I found it. I'm adding it to my Internet Explorer favorites. thanks
- scorpion032 18y agoIE? Why?
- critic 18y agoBecause of its excellent ActiveX control support, of course.
- gord 18y agoA short concise description of Erlang would be welcome, given the Erlang tweet storm on HN. I know nothing about Erlang, except for the hype :O offtopic.. is there much activity around the arc lisp dialect [if you'll forgive me calling it that] these days?
- far33d 18y agoWhy did you have to ruin the last good site on the internet?
- dreur 18y agoI thought all the Erlang stuff was due to the site reboot :)