Awesome to hear! I've been poking at lisp dialects a lot lately and it'll be nice to have a the code of an Arc-based system that I've used before.
Possibly just me, but just staring at code listings alone doesn't do much for me. But picking through the code of something I can then go play with in the wild is a huge help.
Theoretically there could be dozens of news.yc front pages, each based off a different algorithm but all drawing from the same new page. Then you could vote front pages up or down, with the algorithm of the currently-winning front page hot swapping with the the previous algorithm. Of course you would need to do the same to select the algorithm that controlled the gravity on the algorithm voting page, to make sure that people didn't vote for fluff algorithms. And so on. Maybe the ideal news.yc is just news.yc all the way down.
That would be hard, actually-- at least without resorting to formatting tricks.
I spent about 10 days cleaning up the code. By the time I released it, I was only cutting about 30 lines a day. And that kind of work has rapidly diminishing returns. I'd have a hard time getting it under 1400.
If anyone else gets curious about the hardcoded in domain that gets you auto-banned, I'll state what should have been obvious and say that it really isn't worth it.
You missed the joke... I had already seen it in the source, I was just trying to bait someone to post a link :-). It didn't occur to me to see what was there, though. I had just assumed it was a spam site.
:) I actually baited myself a while ago into posting one of the other sites banned here. Tech dumpster DOT com (a bad uncov) is one and I think Teen wag DOT com (a social network run by 13 year olds) is another. Someone should give them a try and see if they're still active!
For those curious, the hardcoded banned site plays the Rickroll video and has endless javascript popups to make it really difficult to leave.
Wag was spamming/trolling us incessantly in news.yc's earliest days. I've heard of dumpster but wasn't aware they were blacklisted. I assume that one is just a url-kill and nothing worse?
We've found an interesting use for it in our offices already. I tossed it on our main server and we're using it in conjunction with our version control system to keep track of who is working on what, what has been completed, and to ask questions if someone needs help with something. We are also using the voting aspect to present new ideas. If a majority of us have voted yes, it is then added to our queue of features.
Thank you very much. As most of use are used to social bookmarking sites, it integrated in to the work flow beautifully.
Definitely a cool thing. I wish I didn't stop with my Scheme programming 3 years after my SICP class! It would have helped dive into all this LISP code...
...now if only PG would share with us how to grow an online community of thinkers...
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[ 29.4 ms ] story [ 293 ms ] threadPossibly just me, but just staring at code listings alone doesn't do much for me. But picking through the code of something I can then go play with in the wild is a huge help.
Thanks again!
Let's see if the last weeks talk of fluff has been just that, or whether someone here can come up with something great. My intuition says yes...
I spent about 10 days cleaning up the code. By the time I released it, I was only cutting about 30 lines a day. And that kind of work has rapidly diminishing returns. I'd have a hard time getting it under 1400.
http://source.vortices.appjet.net/
:-)
get rolled at your own risk
For those curious, the hardcoded banned site plays the Rickroll video and has endless javascript popups to make it really difficult to leave.
Thank you very much. As most of use are used to social bookmarking sites, it integrated in to the work flow beautifully.
...now if only PG would share with us how to grow an online community of thinkers...