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Just to understand, why do you believe using an anonymous handle skews the results downward? Most persons use anonymous handles online, except on places like fa
by xpto123 12y ago
Just to understand, why do you believe using an anonymous handle skews the results downward? Most persons use anonymous handles online, except on places like facebook its a generalized practice. I personally don't see the correlation between those two things.
The name of the site is Hacker News, so I would expect a lot of people here to be security aware and in general use pseudonyms anyway.
- thedufer 12y agoI believe the argument is that most top commenters (which I suspect correlates quite well with high rates) are not pseudonymous, and thus unlikely to respond. See: patio11, tptacek, etc.
- xpto123 12y agoOK thanks, I see that that could have been what was meant. But in my view there is no apparent co-relation between top commenters or rates. Most HN posters are likely anonymous independently of their rates, as in most programming forums.
- patio11 12y agoFWIW: I bet you that there exist people with 0 < n < 100 HN karma who have weekly rates which beat Thomas' and my peak career rates, combined.
- thedufer 12y agoOh, I don't doubt it. Outliers among outliers and all that. I didn't mean to pick you two out as particularly high earners among the top HN users, FTR. You're just the two username/real name pairs I can come up with off the top of my head.
- surreal 12y ago"Hacker" meaning a good programmer, not hacker as in someone who maliciously gains access to systems. http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28term%29#Hacker_definition_controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28term%29#Hacker_defini...
- xpto123 12y agoI agree, it also means at least somewhat security aware. Posting anonymously seems mostly common sense, almost everybody in the internet does it.