Rather no pointless content allowed. I'd say that the level of fun shouldn't decide wether it should be on hacker news at all. Unless it's the "meaningful" kind of fun.
If it's the meaningless kind of fun together with meaningful content, then it should be judged by the meaningfulness.
These are the rules that I just made up. Let it be so.
Yep, we have an entire hardware engineering team that maintains our fleet of time machines that we use to travel back to 1987 to recruit new FORTRAN programmers.
Actually, our second language is (server-side) JS.
Care to elaborate why you think it is unmaintainable? It has worked out well for us. We chose between Lua and JS and ultimately JS won because it was easier to find people who knew it and could be productive faster without training / time to learn Lua.
I have a lot of friends who work at Bloomberg on Fortran code. I believe you that your #2 is JS, but either I have the weirdest luck of finding people who work at Bloomberg, or Fortran has to be pretty high up there.
Maybe I am no fun, but I find this error page disorienting and a little disturbing.
Errors pages mean you've probably messed up somehow and are associated with user frustration. This page, and the other Bloomberg error pages posted in the comments, do not help to mitigate that.
Github does a nice job of walking the line of cutesy, but useful error pages. But then again, who doesn't love Octocat?
Cool! Looks like it'll do that in any browser + device combo that supports the device orientation API[1], including Safari on iOS and Chrome on most Mac laptops.
I wasn't expecting to find this on the front page considering they've been floating around Twitter/etc for over a week. But I'll certainly make use of the opportunity to say the new site is entirely Node based and the team is interested in hiring more good Node devs in NYC. Contact me if interested, email in profile!
Hey @apaprocki,
The archive pages for bloomberg (at businessweek.com) seem to have dead links and redirecting to businessweek.com instead of the content article.
Is that intentional? or maybe just in the process of being fixed.
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These are the rules that I just made up. Let it be so.
* http://www.bloomberg.com/404
* http://www.bloomberg.com/500
* http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/404
* http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/500
Actually, our second language is (server-side) JS.
Why would you pick an unmaintainable language for the server side?
Errors pages mean you've probably messed up somehow and are associated with user frustration. This page, and the other Bloomberg error pages posted in the comments, do not help to mitigate that.
Github does a nice job of walking the line of cutesy, but useful error pages. But then again, who doesn't love Octocat?
https://github.com/404 https://github.com/500
Edited for clarity
Here's little bit more information from a previous comment of mine, if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6547345
[1] http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/device/orientation/
Perhaps you'd be interested in Glitch City Labs forums? (a topic from there got on HN frontpage before): http://forums.glitchcity.info
Does it make sense to say something like:
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Maybe you were looking for:
Resource 1 Resource 2
I still love the Lemmings 404 game here: http://www.romainbrasier.fr/404.php