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Today I've posted (until now) ~ 4-5 posts to check the best period to put interesting content on HN :D Later I was asking PG with some statistics (nr. of users

Today I've posted (until now) ~ 4-5 posts to check the best period to put interesting content on HN :D Later I was asking PG with some statistics (nr. of users online / day period) but without too much echo ..

jacquesm 17y ago
Looks like it made it. Maybe there should be a 're-run' option on HN :) ? Plenty of good stuff gets lost along the way never to be re-submitted.
- csbartus 17y ago
  Somehow the front page should become customizable. HN userbase became (too) large and there is much noise. The problem is not with the nature of the content/submissions but with the only one filter presenting the same headlines for many different point of views/groups of interest.
- yannis 17y ago
  Sure, it looks when we are awake the rest of HN is sleeping :)
- csbartus 17y ago
  @jacquesm: how did you get 5539 karma points in 253 days? (20+ karma a day). You should have a good recipe hitting so hard ...
  - jacquesm 17y ago
    hm. nothing special, really. I guess I just spend too much time here :) Check my posting and comments history if you don't believe it. It certainly wasn't done by posting techcrunch.com or mashable.com stories, I promise you that.
  - khafra 17y ago
    He's always posting stories from his work and academic history, which works because he seems to have done projects with everyone from Ada Lovelace to Yukihiro Matsumoto; and regards installing Linux on a beowulf cluster of toasters and finding SHA3 collisions in polynomial time as a trivial hack which he can explain to a layman.
    - jacquesm 17y ago
      As a high-school drop out my academic history is non-existent, I have a typing diploma and a drivers license, I don't know where you picked that up. I do believe that it is possible to learn outside of academia, I work pretty hard to make up for my lack of formal education. My family circumstances were such that an academic career was not a possibility, I'm still not sure if I should regret that or not. Installing linux on beowulf clusters is indeed trivial, but when they're made up of toasters I think I'll pass. Let's just say that I've been pretty busy in the last couple of decades, what have you been up to, other than sniping at people from behind your comfortable wall of anonymity ? Would you like me to type up a full CV with references or will you just take my word for it ?
      - khafra 17y ago
        That wasn't a snipe; it was genuine admiration, phrased with a touch of hyperbole. I've learned more from your history of hacks than from an average HN post. A chronological CV would be great, though; to put all the anecdotes in an overarching framework.
        jacquesm 17y ago
        Well, forgive me for having long toes but it could easily be taken in another way. That's the downside of a digital forum, tone of voice is not one of the style attributes :) I've never even thought anybody would be interested in the stuff that I did long ago, as I said, I've been quite busy. Hacker News brings up the memories though, lots of this stuff I haven't even thought about for years. But the Chuck Moore post the other day brought back lots of memories of the 'dadadata' times. I never had a real plan, just an endless fascination with technology, maybe if I had a plan things would run smoother :) As for all the details, that will take some time if you're seriously interested. The people that I've met and that left the strongest impression on me are a guy called Eckart Wintzen, Guerrino de Luca, as well as Rene Somer and some other people at logitech. I came within a hair of meeting Doug Engelbart when visiting there several years ago and I really regret not changing my plans. Drop me an email if you will ?

jacquesm 17y ago

Looks like it made it. Maybe there should be a 're-run' option on HN :) ? Plenty of good stuff gets lost along the way never to be re-submitted.

csbartus 17y ago
Somehow the front page should become customizable. HN userbase became (too) large and there is much noise. The problem is not with the nature of the content/submissions but with the only one filter presenting the same headlines for many different point of views/groups of interest.
yannis 17y ago
Sure, it looks when we are awake the rest of HN is sleeping :)
csbartus 17y ago
@jacquesm: how did you get 5539 karma points in 253 days? (20+ karma a day). You should have a good recipe hitting so hard ...
- jacquesm 17y ago
  hm. nothing special, really. I guess I just spend too much time here :) Check my posting and comments history if you don't believe it. It certainly wasn't done by posting techcrunch.com or mashable.com stories, I promise you that.
- khafra 17y ago
  He's always posting stories from his work and academic history, which works because he seems to have done projects with everyone from Ada Lovelace to Yukihiro Matsumoto; and regards installing Linux on a beowulf cluster of toasters and finding SHA3 collisions in polynomial time as a trivial hack which he can explain to a layman.
  - jacquesm 17y ago
    As a high-school drop out my academic history is non-existent, I have a typing diploma and a drivers license, I don't know where you picked that up. I do believe that it is possible to learn outside of academia, I work pretty hard to make up for my lack of formal education. My family circumstances were such that an academic career was not a possibility, I'm still not sure if I should regret that or not. Installing linux on beowulf clusters is indeed trivial, but when they're made up of toasters I think I'll pass. Let's just say that I've been pretty busy in the last couple of decades, what have you been up to, other than sniping at people from behind your comfortable wall of anonymity ? Would you like me to type up a full CV with references or will you just take my word for it ?
    - khafra 17y ago
      That wasn't a snipe; it was genuine admiration, phrased with a touch of hyperbole. I've learned more from your history of hacks than from an average HN post. A chronological CV would be great, though; to put all the anecdotes in an overarching framework.
      - jacquesm 17y ago
        Well, forgive me for having long toes but it could easily be taken in another way. That's the downside of a digital forum, tone of voice is not one of the style attributes :) I've never even thought anybody would be interested in the stuff that I did long ago, as I said, I've been quite busy. Hacker News brings up the memories though, lots of this stuff I haven't even thought about for years. But the Chuck Moore post the other day brought back lots of memories of the 'dadadata' times. I never had a real plan, just an endless fascination with technology, maybe if I had a plan things would run smoother :) As for all the details, that will take some time if you're seriously interested. The people that I've met and that left the strongest impression on me are a guy called Eckart Wintzen, Guerrino de Luca, as well as Rene Somer and some other people at logitech. I came within a hair of meeting Doug Engelbart when visiting there several years ago and I really regret not changing my plans. Drop me an email if you will ?