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by Deimorz 8y ago
(I worked at reddit) It's not really related to search, most of the cause is a pretty bizarre optimization method that reddit decided to implement fairly early on. The database structure is unusual and not very conducive to indexing (i
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by Deimorz 8y ago
It's a bit weirder than that. It actually does save all the posts, but the "saved" page (like almost every other page on the site) will only show you 1000 items, so there's just no way to access all the older items onc
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by Deimorz 8y ago
Nothing stops it, that's part of the point. People should feel free to fork it and start their own site with different ideals, features, etc., they just have to open-source all their changes/updates to the code as AGPLv3 requires.
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by Deimorz 8y ago
It's in large bold text at the very top of the post: If this is the first that you've heard of Tildes, you should start by reading the announcement blog post ( https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes ) for general
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Tildes is open-source(blog.tildes.net)
32 points by Deimorz 8y ago|24 comments
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by Deimorz 8y ago
Probably because they don't want to (or can't) have a huge portion of their company's internal communication stored forever on a third-party server. I still find it hard to believe that so many companies are okay with doing t
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by Deimorz 8y ago
The article has changed its title to "Facebook misses on topline in Q2; stock crashes 7.5%" now, kind of funny that it's almost the opposite of the original one (and the article text still sounds very positive).
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by Deimorz 8y ago
All my issues (on gitlab.com) now have an "Epic" field, but I can't find anywhere to actually create an epic. Am I missing it somewhere?
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Tweeting for 10,000 Years: An Experiment in Autonomous Software(brandur.org)
6 points by Deimorz 8y ago|0 comments
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by Deimorz 8y ago
Recently reddit has also started making its official app generate links to posts via the domain "reddit.app.link", instead of normal reddit.com urls. These new links automatically send everyone on mobile to the app store to downlo
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by Deimorz 8y ago
I'm sure that it's encouraging to people, but in the end it's very unlikely to change any outcomes. If the project is going to succeed, someone else would have made that first pledge, and the same effect would have happened.
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by Deimorz 8y ago
I'm sorry, but this idea really doesn't make any sense to me. $1 on every project doesn't make any meaningful difference--every project that would have failed without it will still fail, and every project that would have succ
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by Deimorz 8y ago
reddit grew fast and was acquired just over a year after it launched (which was in June 2005): https://techcrunch.com/2006/10/31/breaking-news-conde-nastwi... I'm fairly sure YC's stake in it was bo
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by Deimorz 8y ago
They didn't take a significant amount of VC until fairly recently though. $50M in Sept 2014, and then $200M more about a year ago: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/reddit
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by Deimorz 8y ago
SteamDB's calculator can tell you that: https://steamdb.info/calculator/ It splits out a chart showing you how many games you have in a few different playtime categories ("12 or more hours", "6 to 1
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by Deimorz 8y ago
Oh, Javascript creates the <img> tag when you click the arrow, it's not present beforehand.
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by Deimorz 8y ago
> Asynchronous requests were made by changing the src attribute of a 1px <iframe>. And you're posting on a site that still does it that way - voting on HN works by creating an <img> and setting the src attribute to the v
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by Deimorz 8y ago
After you search, you have to click the "Tools" button and then change the "All results" dropdown to "Verbatim". It's bad UX, there's no indication at all for why I'd want to click on a dropdown
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by Deimorz 8y ago
I've found that Google tries too hard to "fix" all my search queries for me now. The top results often don't include one or more of the words that I entered, even if they were crucial for what I was trying to find. I can
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by Deimorz 8y ago
Not necessarily. Any individual user can only upvote once, but can leave many comments. So if any sort of conversation happens where the same users are posting multiple comments, that effectively ends up penalizing the overall post. I under
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by Deimorz 8y ago
> Table inheritance is a non-starter for the stated use-case. Just don't. Can you be more specific about why you shouldn't use it like this? I've used it for similar cases and it's seemed to work fine. You have to dec
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by Deimorz 8y ago
That post has more comments than votes, which seems to be a factor that HN's ranking system uses to push posts off the front page faster. I think that's a terrible decision that punishes posts that generate a lot of discussion, bu
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by Deimorz 8y ago
Arc, a dialect of Lisp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)#His... There's not really a "stack", it doesn't even use a database (everything is stored in files).
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by Deimorz 8y ago
They tried it, and decided to focus on ad revenue instead: https://blog.imgur.com/2015/02/09/imgur-pro-for-everyone/
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by Deimorz 8y ago
They serve different purposes, and you'll often want to use both for different pieces of the layout. Flexbox is for laying things out in one dimension, Grid is more for two-dimensional ones. This video might help show the difference (a
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by Deimorz 8y ago
As mentioned, the license is a factor, but there are a couple of other things I wanted to get done first as well. I feel that it's pretty important to have good documentation available immediately about how to get a dev version running
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by Deimorz 8y ago
I think /r/ChangeMyView has a really good approach to this sort of thing (I'm using them as an example a lot here, but it's because I think they really do run one of the highest-quality communities on the internet). One
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by Deimorz 8y ago
Definitely agreed, I specifically decided to start the alpha with the site being quite minimal, instead of trying to build a bunch of complex systems up-front. I think it's really important that this kind of stuff gets built in an evol
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by Deimorz 8y ago
This is a really difficult problem because those large entities often have a ton of resources and can be very persistent about circumventing any ways you try to stop them - it's often literally their job. One of the core systems that I
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by Deimorz 8y ago
If you haven't seen yet, reddit itself is also tilting heavily towards prioritizing funny/quick content (even more than it did before) as well. The new desktop redesign that's in progress has infinite scroll, auto-expanded im

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