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Why is chrissmeuk's reply to you [dead], I wonder?

by endgame 13y ago

agumonkey 13y ago
I don't know HN enough to guess, I was surprised too since it's dead but not removed so it asks for replies but (at least) I can't do that. I upvoted it in case it just needed to be in the positive, with no visible effect. Maybe he trolled on another thread and was punished ... anyway @chrissmeuk I understand pentium 100 are nice little cpus, I used a p2 350 for a loooong time, and I miss it a great deal since it was a real workhorse. And to clarify my first comment, I wish more people were programming on old machines, it's a good thing to avoid bloat.
- guylhem 13y ago
  Indeed, working on a slow machine is the best thing one can do to produce optimized code. At the moment I'm using a macbookair3.1 with 4 gigs of ram- and it might even be too fast IMHO to add good constaints.
  - agumonkey 13y ago
    this would be adequate specs to run dev VMs though
andrewflnr 13y ago
chrissmeuk has a pretty innocuous (and short) comment history (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=chrissmeuk https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=chrissmeuk). The only visible clue is that someone accused them of being a Microsoft shill, and maybe someone pulled out the hellban hammer in response. There's clearly something fishy going on, on one side or another.
- endgame 13y ago
  I've been browsing with showdead on for a while now and more and more I see quite reasonable-looking posts that have become [dead]. My hypothesis is a little more charitable: people just get caught by some semi-automatic filter and get accidentally hellbanned. Which is still a problem. Then I post and hardly ever get responses or upvotes, which makes me wonder if: a) I'm hellbanned myself b) I'm a victim of my timezone c) My writing is not as useful as I think
  - agumonkey 13y ago
    a) you're alive in my world (or maybe we're both hellbanned and it's hidden from us) b,c) combination of both. Internet is chaotic, I submitted nice links that had <10 votes and no comments, while a trivial one about a cute css button got 500+ ...

Why is chrissmeuk's reply to you [dead], I wonder?

by endgame 13y ago

Why is chrissmeuk's reply to you [dead], I wonder?

I don't know HN enough to guess, I was surprised too since it's dead but not removed so it asks for replies but (at least) I can't do that. I upvoted it in case it just needed to be in the positive, with no visible effect. Maybe he trolled on another thread and was punished ... anyway @chrissmeuk I understand pentium 100 are nice little cpus, I used a p2 350 for a loooong time, and I miss it a great deal since it was a real workhorse. And to clarify my first comment, I wish more people were programming on old machines, it's a good thing to avoid bloat.

guylhem 13y ago
Indeed, working on a slow machine is the best thing one can do to produce optimized code. At the moment I'm using a macbookair3.1 with 4 gigs of ram- and it might even be too fast IMHO to add good constaints.
- agumonkey 13y ago
  this would be adequate specs to run dev VMs though

andrewflnr 13y ago

chrissmeuk has a pretty innocuous (and short) comment history (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=chrissmeuk https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=chrissmeuk). The only visible clue is that someone accused them of being a Microsoft shill, and maybe someone pulled out the hellban hammer in response. There's clearly something fishy going on, on one side or another.

endgame 13y ago
I've been browsing with showdead on for a while now and more and more I see quite reasonable-looking posts that have become [dead]. My hypothesis is a little more charitable: people just get caught by some semi-automatic filter and get accidentally hellbanned. Which is still a problem. Then I post and hardly ever get responses or upvotes, which makes me wonder if: a) I'm hellbanned myself b) I'm a victim of my timezone c) My writing is not as useful as I think
- agumonkey 13y ago
  a) you're alive in my world (or maybe we're both hellbanned and it's hidden from us) b,c) combination of both. Internet is chaotic, I submitted nice links that had <10 votes and no comments, while a trivial one about a cute css button got 500+ ...