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Reginald Braithwaite is a GitHubber
- aaronbrethorst 13y agocongrats to raganwald! The link to help in the blog post is broken, btw.
- northisup 13y agoWhy on earth is this interesting enough for the greater HN community to care about?
- fishtoaster 13y agoI was confused for a bit as well. Reginald is raganwald, one of the more prolific hacker new users (https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders).
- _frog 13y agoSomewhat tangental, it would be great to be able to sort that list by average karma. There's a lot of users in that top 100 that got there via quantity of comments alone, it'd be interesting to see who the most _valuable_ contributors are rather than just the most prolific.
- oblique63 13y agoPoints are a pretty bad approximation of 'value' though. My shortest and most mundane comments are always the ones that get the most upvotes, meanwhile my lengthier ones that actually lead to insightful discussions hardly get any. And I've seen that same complaint around here from other users for a while now. The only real 'solution' I could think of would be to use slashdot's odd voting system, but meh...
- akx 13y agoExecute this in the page's scope. Works on Chrome at least. (function(){ var table = document.querySelector("table tbody tr+tr+tr td table tbody"); [].slice.call(table.querySelectorAll("tr")).map(function(r){var c=r.querySelector("td:last-child");return [c?parseFloat(c.innerHTML):0,r]}).sort(function(a,b){return b[0]-a[0]}).forEach(function(r){table.appendChild(r[1])}); }());
- simonsarris 13y agoBecause many of us care about raganwald's voice. He's among the top 10 in all time karma on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
- joeblau 13y agoOh wow, HN has a leader board. I didn't even know about this.
- thisistheend 13y agoJust proves points are bs.
- foolfoolz 13y agoThen why do I want them so bad?
- antiterra 13y agoThen why did you make a new account?
- xtrumanx 13y agoDid you make your account for HN karma? I would imagine most people did it to submit comments/links.
- antiterra 13y agoAre you pretending to not get the implication that it was a throwaway account just for that comment?
- levosmetalo 13y agoMaybe it's a way of self censoring, and not because of the fear of karma loss, as your comment might suggest.
- lhnz 13y agoBecause he is way above the intelligence of 90% of HN users and noticeably so.
- levosmetalo 13y agoWhy so insulting? Is there a way to flag a comment, or I need more karma on this account?
- lhnz 13y agoHow is that insulting? It's the reason that he's high on the leaderboard and the reason that he is recognised by the community. I'm just stating the truth here - he is unusually smart. Edit: It has to be pointed out that I was responding to a comment which said "Why on earth is this interesting enough for the greater HN community to care about?" which was in fact a rude thing to say.
- DrJokepu 13y agoThere is a way indeed. Just click on the "link" link within the comment's header. On the standalone comment page there will be a "flag" option within the comment header. There may be a karma limit or something though; I'm not sure about that.
- sytelus 13y agoI think it's not interesting to vast majority of the HN users. They probably don't even know who this guy is or care if gets job at X or Y company. What is happening is here is though there is small number of people who does know him (may be < 100) and they all upvote this link or write redundant comments of congratulation in quick succession driving it to the top. This is one of the scenario that downvote button could have prevented allowing rest of the users to indicate that they are not interested. Without downvote, their only recourse is to vote something else which gets pretty thinly spread at least in some small time window while those 100+ users are upvoting this.
- m0nastic 13y agoI feel like you don't understand what a community is... Hacker News is an online community. It has a pretty open membership policy, which is that, if you show up here over a period of time, and manage to not get hell-banned, you're a part of the community. Congrats! Part of being in a community is that it's pretty common to have a kinship with other people in that community. This place isn't a real-life place, so naturally, that kinship might not develop as quickly, or spread as deeply as one might in person. But you'd be surprised that it can still develop. So, "the vast majority of HN users" might not actually know who raganwald is, but I'd bet they've probably seen at least a few of his comments, at least if they've spent any amount of time here. However, "the vast majority of HN users" aren't actually the community. There's nothing stopping them from being part of it, they just aren't. Which is fine (I don't consider myself to be, for what it's worth). But when someone who is a part of the community has something good happen to them that's of interest to the community, people share it. The fact that this story is popular is a triumph of community, not a shitty side-effect of this place not operating the way you wish it did. I hope it continues to feel this way, lest it really turn into a shitty link aggregator that you so wish it were.
- mhartl 13y agoWell put.
- larrys 13y agoI agree with almost everything you are saying but would like to point out that in my observation on HN some community members (by your definition of "community") are more equal than others. And what they say, think and perhaps up vote or flag means quite a bit. Noting last paragraph of this top 10 profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jacquesm https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jacquesm
- everettForth 13y agoDoes he ride a very shaky train to work?
- mladenkovacevic 13y agoThat's the Toronto streetcar.. one of the few symbols of this wonderful city.
- jarek 13y agoThe streetcar ride is rather smooth FWIW.
- tptacek 13y agoTo the surprise of absolutely no-one. Congratulations, raganwald, and good call, Github. You're on a roll with hiring these days. :)
- benstein 13y agoAgreed. This a you-got-your-chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter moment. Really good match.
- eieio 13y agoThis is probably a really dumb question, but can you explain what a "chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter moment" is? I've never heard a phrase like that. OT this is awesome. Congrats to both parties, obviously a great choice.
- semiquaver 13y agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJLDF6qZUX0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJLDF6qZUX0
- eieio 13y ago...and this is one of those times where you feel dumb. Thanks for the link. It's a good metaphor. edit: I even really like resees. Goodness.
- benstein 13y agoClassic 1980s tv commercial for reese's peanut butter cups: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJLDF6qZUX0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJLDF6qZUX0
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- cschmidt 13y agoDon't feel dumb, you're one of the 10,000... http://xkcd.com/1053/ http://xkcd.com/1053/
- danso 13y agoI know raganwald is a top HN user but I know him more through his excellent technical books, and so am looking forward to his contributions to Github's documentation: https://leanpub.com/u/raganwald https://leanpub.com/u/raganwald
- thisistheend 13y agoHN is a cult and this proves it.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoGrats raganwald! Clearly articulated supporting documentation is highly correlated with successful efforts. I am certain your efforts will be richly rewarded.
- AndyKelley 13y agoHe's currently ranked #108 on the GitHub Popularity Contest Index: http://githubpopularitycontest.com/find?user=raganwald http://githubpopularitycontest.com/find?user=raganwald
- TeMPOraL 13y agoCongrats, raganwald! Just don't forget to keep posting comments on HN every now and then ;).
- purephase 13y agoCongrats GH. raganwald is a class act. I didn't realize that he lived in Toronto though. Awesome to see the streetcar on the GH blog!
- pbreit 13y agoWow, it would be cool (and probably wishful thinking) if Raganwald could help make a dent in the documentation universe beyond Github. I'm thinking Sphinx/ReadTheDocs in scope, version controlled docs with pull requests, output in Jekyl to Github (or other) Pages. Etc.
- diziet 13y agoHope to see you climbing (in Dogpatch?)
- ryan-allen 13y agoWoah, congrats Reg!
- marcamillion 13y agoCongrats raganwald. I <3 Github, and even though I don't know raganwald personally, his comments were always intriguing and thoughtful. I also didn't know he lived in Toronto, for some reason I assumed he lived in San Francisco. I also didn't know about Homoiconic - and now there is a treasure trove of lots of wonderful programming (largely Ruby stuff from what I am seeing) articles that I can go through one by one...little by little. Like this one - https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-10-28/and_and_or.markdown https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-10-... For some reason, I have never used `and` instead of `&&` in Ruby. Perhaps because I have never seen it used, but now that I have seen that I can't help but try it out next time. I am not sure if this is even valid syntax in Ruby 2.0, but I am so glad I stumbled across this. For those that were criticizing the purpose of this post on HN - this is exactly why it deserves a place here. Raganwald is a valued member of HN, largely because of the stuff he has published over the years (and his contributions to the community) - which are still valuable today. As a relatively young Rubyist (started learning in 2009) all of these things are like gold to me. So thank you llambda for submitting this, thank you HN for upvoting it, and thank you raganwald for not deleting this wonderful content. Edit: Also, I think it's cool when we get a chance to 'big up' (Jamaican speak for: "send positive/congratulatory words to") someone while they are alive and can appreciate it. Don't mean to get all morbid, but with so many 'iconic' tech luminaries dying recently (or it feels like that anyway), we always see an outpouring of love after the fact - when they can't hear it. I think it's cool that even though this isn't anything "major" (like a Nobel Prize or anything like that) it's large (and meaningful) enough, for people to take time out to 'big up' raganwald. So....cheers raganwald. raises imaginary wine glass
- k-mcgrady 13y agoCongrats Raganwald! Funny how seeing that streetcar suddenly made me nostalgic for Toronto.
- edwardog 13y agoYeah, Reg!
- raganwald 13y agoThanks, everyone! HN has been a very informative, interesting, and motivating place since its inception. You are the reason why.