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xkcd - Nerd Sniping

10 points by nickb 19y ago

rms 19y ago
Here is the solution to a simpler infinite network of resistors, if you want a big hint for the one in the cartoon. http://math.ucsd.edu/~mathclub/games/brainteaser-archive/you_cant_resist.html http://math.ucsd.edu/~mathclub/games/brainteaser-archive/you... Mathworld's partial answers to the entire Google aptitude test: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2004-10-13/google/ http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2004-10-13/google/
chengmi 19y ago
I like xkcd, but the recent string of xkcd submissions is a bit excessive.
- rms 19y ago
  Why? It's not like nickb can trade his karma in for money. Xkcd is the best comic out there. It doesn't seem like a flaw in the naive implementation of social news that one or two good comics are on the front page of news.yc sometimes.
  - hhm 19y ago
    It worries me somewhat. There were no xkcd comics before. Now we have some comics. That was the way of reddit as I remember it...
    - henning 19y ago
      One difference is Paul probably isn't trying to get Hacker News bought out.
    - rms 19y ago
      News.yc will have gone the way of reddit when good stories on the new page are immediately buried. As soon as good stories start going unseen, I trust PG to turn on the voter power algorithm and let's hope it works.
  - Goladus 19y ago
    'Sometimes' is becoming more frequent. And there's nothing to talk about. "Haha yeah that's so true! Um... ok I'm going to go back to work now but not before voting this up because it made me laugh" Personally I can't figure out why people keep up-voting xkcd submissions.
    - rms 19y ago
      >'Sometimes' is becoming more frequent. I don't see what the problem is. As one of the best comics of all time, it seems perfectly reasonable for xkcd to have earned a permanent spot on the front page.
  - tlrobinson 19y ago
    I think its fairly safe to assume that most news.yc readers who would enjoy xkcd already know about it.
pchristensen 19y ago
We get it, xkcd is funny. Enough comics have been posted that people who didn't know about it know about it now. Not every single comic needs to be posted - that's what RSS is for. Thanks, and I do appreciate you making sure YCNews readers are aware of xkcd. I'm a subscriber and a fan, so please don't interpret this as criticism, just the kinder side of a social news site.

10 points by nickb 19y ago

rms 19y ago

Here is the solution to a simpler infinite network of resistors, if you want a big hint for the one in the cartoon. http://math.ucsd.edu/~mathclub/games/brainteaser-archive/you_cant_resist.html http://math.ucsd.edu/~mathclub/games/brainteaser-archive/you... Mathworld's partial answers to the entire Google aptitude test: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2004-10-13/google/ http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2004-10-13/google/

chengmi 19y ago

I like xkcd, but the recent string of xkcd submissions is a bit excessive.

rms 19y ago
Why? It's not like nickb can trade his karma in for money. Xkcd is the best comic out there. It doesn't seem like a flaw in the naive implementation of social news that one or two good comics are on the front page of news.yc sometimes.
- hhm 19y ago
  It worries me somewhat. There were no xkcd comics before. Now we have some comics. That was the way of reddit as I remember it...
  - henning 19y ago
    One difference is Paul probably isn't trying to get Hacker News bought out.
  - rms 19y ago
    News.yc will have gone the way of reddit when good stories on the new page are immediately buried. As soon as good stories start going unseen, I trust PG to turn on the voter power algorithm and let's hope it works.
- Goladus 19y ago
  'Sometimes' is becoming more frequent. And there's nothing to talk about. "Haha yeah that's so true! Um... ok I'm going to go back to work now but not before voting this up because it made me laugh" Personally I can't figure out why people keep up-voting xkcd submissions.
  - rms 19y ago
    >'Sometimes' is becoming more frequent. I don't see what the problem is. As one of the best comics of all time, it seems perfectly reasonable for xkcd to have earned a permanent spot on the front page.
- tlrobinson 19y ago
  I think its fairly safe to assume that most news.yc readers who would enjoy xkcd already know about it.

pchristensen 19y ago

We get it, xkcd is funny. Enough comics have been posted that people who didn't know about it know about it now. Not every single comic needs to be posted - that's what RSS is for. Thanks, and I do appreciate you making sure YCNews readers are aware of xkcd. I'm a subscriber and a fan, so please don't interpret this as criticism, just the kinder side of a social news site.