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An important comment on the bug from a Chromium employee [0] Hacker News crowd, let's please stop the "me too" party here, and please file separate bu

An important comment on the bug from a Chromium employee [0] Hacker News crowd, let's please stop the "me too" party here, and please file separate bugs for separate issues (even if they're similar). Keeping the signal-to-noise ratio sane on this one raises the chances that it gets addressed :) So you can help by only commenting if you have technical comments on how to fix the problem in Chrome. It'd be a shame if we had to lock this bug to prevent further useless comments. [0] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=224182#c24 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=224182#c...

h2s 14y ago
You can always tell if something is garbage on here by looking at the average length of the comments. Almost every single comment on this link is an inane one-liner that adds nothing to any meaningful discussion. And lo and behold, it's the same sort of shitty discussion as on the bug report itself. Compare this with the comments on the 21 Nested Callbacks link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5447287 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5447287
- gozmike 14y ago
  Agreed. I'd pay for a Chrome extension that would score HN stories by this metric.
- donretag 14y ago
  Reminds me of all the +1 comments on GitHub issues. They add nothing to the conversation and you can easily subscribe to an issue by clicking the "watch" button.
- deleted 14y ago
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- rmp2150 14y ago
  Your comment is no better.
hmottestad 14y ago
Isn't it nice to know that there really are a bunch of other people who: 1. Have the problem 2. Take the time to voice their wish for a fix Even the coolest bug will remain unfixed if only one person reports it.
- denzil_correa 14y ago
  > Even the coolest bug will remain unfixed if only one person reports it. Is that true? The priority of the bug should depend on the properties of the bug and not on the number of bug reporters.
  - to3m 14y ago
    One rather important property is how many people are suffering from it.
- Jabbles 14y ago
  You can star it. That would tell the developers how many people care about it in O(1) time, without having to wade through O(n) comments. Alright, O(log n) time.
  - rational_indian 14y ago
    Why O(log n)? Is there a binary search involved somewhere (for example)? All you have got to do to find out how many people voted for it is to look at the vote count and this seems like an O(1) operation doesn't it?
    - asdfaoeu 14y ago
      The number n has log(n)/log(10) digits so it technically take log(n) time to read it.
      - fyi80 14y ago
        only if log(n) > 7. Otherwise, subitization gives constant time reading of the magnitude of n.

h2s 14y ago

You can always tell if something is garbage on here by looking at the average length of the comments. Almost every single comment on this link is an inane one-liner that adds nothing to any meaningful discussion. And lo and behold, it's the same sort of shitty discussion as on the bug report itself. Compare this with the comments on the 21 Nested Callbacks link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5447287 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5447287

gozmike 14y ago
Agreed. I'd pay for a Chrome extension that would score HN stories by this metric.
donretag 14y ago
Reminds me of all the +1 comments on GitHub issues. They add nothing to the conversation and you can easily subscribe to an issue by clicking the "watch" button.
deleted 14y ago
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rmp2150 14y ago
Your comment is no better.

hmottestad 14y ago

Isn't it nice to know that there really are a bunch of other people who: 1. Have the problem 2. Take the time to voice their wish for a fix Even the coolest bug will remain unfixed if only one person reports it.

denzil_correa 14y ago
> Even the coolest bug will remain unfixed if only one person reports it. Is that true? The priority of the bug should depend on the properties of the bug and not on the number of bug reporters.
- to3m 14y ago
  One rather important property is how many people are suffering from it.
Jabbles 14y ago
You can star it. That would tell the developers how many people care about it in O(1) time, without having to wade through O(n) comments. Alright, O(log n) time.
- rational_indian 14y ago
  Why O(log n)? Is there a binary search involved somewhere (for example)? All you have got to do to find out how many people voted for it is to look at the vote count and this seems like an O(1) operation doesn't it?
  - asdfaoeu 14y ago
    The number n has log(n)/log(10) digits so it technically take log(n) time to read it.
    - fyi80 14y ago
      only if log(n) > 7. Otherwise, subitization gives constant time reading of the magnitude of n.