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by grzm 8y ago
Also, emailing the mods directly using the Contact link in the footer is the most direct way to get their attention. They don't see all of the comments.
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by grzm 8y ago
From the FAQ: > "How are stories ranked?" > "The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in threads are ranked the same way." > "Other factors affect
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by grzm 8y ago
Likely a mod detached the extensive off-topic subthread.
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by grzm 8y ago
Sounds like something you should take up with the developer: https://github.com/dangwu/Octal/issues
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by grzm 8y ago
You should still be within the edit window for your comment above.
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by grzm 8y ago
Yeah, it's a challenge. We as readers (and HN participants) need to rise to it and do better than resort to knee-jerk reactions. Without excusing the behavior, CNN (and other online publications) are in a tough spot: so much of their r
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by grzm 8y ago
'patio11 has been at Stripe for 2 1/2 years and was solo for many years preceding. I think his reputation is pretty solid, and have a hard time imagining how being fully employed at Stripe for the past couple of years should now m
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by grzm 8y ago
There are many potentially interesting discussions around this story. Just off the top of my head: the resilience of old hardware, the joy of rediscovering something previously forgotten, old computer games. Let's not make this about C
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by grzm 8y ago
Ruby was named after the gemstone. From the Ruby FAQ: > "1.3 Why the name 'Ruby'?" > "Influenced by Perl, Matz wanted to use a jewel name for his new language, so he named Ruby after a colleague's birt
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by grzm 8y ago
Another perspective is if it isn't that important, there's little need to read it, much less going out of one's way to bypass a paywall.
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by grzm 8y ago
From the FAQ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html ): > "Are paywalls ok?" > "It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds." > "In comments, it'
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by grzm 8y ago
> "Tax credits and stock-based compensation are the likely reason." From the second paragraph of the article: > "The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy says the company is subject to a 21 percent tax rate on i
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by grzm 8y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cum First entry: > : along with being : AND —used to form usually hyphenated phrases
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by grzm 8y ago
Sounds like you likely have your mind made up, but you also get access to Safari Books Online.
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by grzm 8y ago
I provided the actual title as it's not the same as the submitted title. The guidelines on HN are to use the actual title: > "... please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.&quo
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by grzm 8y ago
Actual title: "Google backtracks on Chrome modifications that would have crippled ad blockers"
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Representation of Events in Nerve Nets and Finite Automata (1951) [pdf](rand.org)
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by grzm 8y ago
Why create a throwaway for this anodyne question? It’s fine to have pseudonymous accounts on HN. But HN is a community: if for some reason you don’t want to tie this to your main account, create another one for such questions, but keep some
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Microsoft invests in Databricks funding at $2.7B valuation(cnbc.com)
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Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?(quora.com)
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by grzm 8y ago
Comments become progressively grayer if it's been downvoted more often than it's been upvoted.
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by grzm 8y ago
Current discussion (179 points, over 300 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19147480
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by grzm 8y ago
> "I've seen third world doctors use super glue to seal cuts." Expanding on this a bit, commercial cyanoacrylate (such as Super Glue or Krazy Glue) was used during the Vietnam War by US personnel for wound closures, but
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by grzm 8y ago
From what I've seen, if a story hasn't gotten significant votes or comments (and I think there's a time interval involved as well), it isn't considered a dupe.
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by grzm 8y ago
original poster
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by grzm 8y ago
They're few, but here are the formatting rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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Questions for a new technology(kellanem.com)
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by grzm 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19072986 'dang explicitly said "might". I'd say this is still up in the air.
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by grzm 8y ago
Why do we park in a driveway and drive on a parkway? The key is to understand what people mean by the words they say. Yeah, there can be things that get under our skin, but at the end of the day, just roll with it. (I say this as much to re
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by grzm 8y ago
That said, we had no issues with the John Deere trackers we had. Same with IH, for that matter.

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