irrumator
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Comment · 15 years ago
I'm afraid you're looking for something that just isn't there. Now this feature request is a good idea in my opinion, that's why I'm suggesting to upvote it on the Feature Requests page and not just make another post that will get killed and ignored.
Comment · 15 years ago
Not really, it's just referencing new users, it's used in the site itself: http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories and http://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments
Comment · 15 years ago
Noobs keep asking for this feature almost daily now and pg kills the post every time, because you're not supposed to ask like this. Feature requests go in the feature requests page at the link in the bottom. Or just upvote the link by gauravgupta, it's on that page.
Comment · 15 years ago
J is open source and free software as of March 2011 under GPLv3.
See you at the J software forums.
Comment · 15 years ago
It would be except it's not new, it's a dupe of post from not too long ago that had a large amount of points: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464213
Comment · 15 years ago
Which university are you talking about?
(I'm learning J and other APL derivatives right now by myself by experimenting with the J docs and pinging the amazing people at the J software forums).
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Comment · 15 years ago
This situation has no parallels with 'the fall of Rome' whatsoever, unless I'm misreading your intent.
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Comment · 15 years ago
Hardly, there is a lot of arc that you are not seeing that really powers the voting and other features of the site like spam detection and voting ring detection. It's similar to the code at http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.tar but there are significant modifications as well.
Comment · 15 years ago
HN does not use Google Analytics or any other kind of analytics tracking for that matter. I think they used to use mixpanel and had the mixpanel logo at the bottom of the homepage before though.
Comment · 15 years ago
Why is this biased anonymous junk on HN frontpage?
Comment · 15 years ago
Take anything from loper-os with a massive grain of salt, he is a long-term troll who has been writing these sorts of wistful but ultimately empty posts for several years now. Calling everything and everyone stupid and bloated and yearning for the good old days is his thing. I only mention this because some HN readers might not be fully aware of his history.
Comment · 15 years ago
Why?
Comment · 15 years ago
Yes, they do. Who do you think contributes to the Linux kernel everyday, only individual hackers all over the world pushing FL/OSS ? The vast majority of the contributors are big-tech-co affiliated who come from places like Red Hat, Intel, IBM, Novell, Oracle, AMD, Google, and more. Individuals and those not wishing to state their affiliation/place-of-work are only about 18% of the contributors to Linux.
Btw, this is part of the issue some people have with Ubuntu, in that it makes no contributions upstream to the kernel like Red Hat, Novell and others do. A Red Hat Greg DeKoenigsberg even said on OSNews once that "Canonical is a marketing organization masquerading as an engineering organization."[1]
Python's father Guido van Rossum and other core contributor are employed by Google and other big tech companies to work on Python.
Mozilla is mostly by Mozilla people, however it's basically alive because of the funding and ad deals it has with Google. Without that, it couldn't continue.
[1] http://www.osnews.com/story/23636/Who_Really_Contributes_the...