Hacker News: curi

New comment by curi in "Xkcd: Mythbusters and Zombie Feynman"

curi — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:15:33 +0000

dear downmodders,

please spare yters. take me instead.

New comment by curi in "Ask YC: Do you believe in Twitter philosophy? "

curi — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:05:48 +0000

your comment is far too long to post on twitter.

New comment by curi in "Story of the Mexican Fisherman"

curi — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:20:06 +0000

http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/shor...

still wish you were a pygmie?

New comment by curi in "Ask YC: Do you believe in Twitter philosophy? "

curi — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:20:20 +0000

no it's worse. i can paste longer text in AIM

New comment by curi in "Is it down for everyone or just me?"

curi — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:05:00 +0000

not until bookmarks are easy to search through. which their might be a plugin for but that's not easy enough.

New comment by curi in "Is it down for everyone or just me?"

curi — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:04:12 +0000

the text field is a little too hard to notice in safari given the pre-entered text. i suggest adding a thicker border and using javascript to select it on pageload.

New comment by curi in "Standing Still Predicts School Success Better Than IQ"

curi — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:53:03 +0000

The original headline editorialized.

New comment by curi in "Standing Still Predicts School Success Better Than IQ"

curi — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:30:00 +0000

yeah. you might also be interested to look at my thread history to see some of the other stuff i get downmodded for. a few are: a question about what dates someone meant, a comment that lotto odds are public knowledge (questioning the point of the post which asked about what the odds "really" are), a "+1 informative" joke that's at -9 for some reason.

edit: btw this thread wasn't a representative example. disagreeing with pg increases downmods. if it'd been someone else it might not have happened.

and i was getting some downmods by people who didn't like the link or title but who can't downmod the submission itself so downmod comments intead.

New comment by curi in "Ask YC: What are the top 3 websites you frequently visit?"

curi — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:33:42 +0000

i've read the guidelines.

edit: heh, the thing i was replying to was removed by an edit

New comment by curi in "Ask YC: What are the top 3 websites you frequently visit?"

curi — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:58:38 +0000

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New comment by curi in "Standing Still Predicts School Success Better Than IQ"

curi — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:14:31 +0000

thanks. replies like this one make me glad i posted this.

New comment by curi in "Standing Still Predicts School Success Better Than IQ"

curi — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:12:46 +0000

In what range of years do you think most of the imagining was done?

New comment by curi in "Ask YC: Have you, or anyone you know, won the lotto?"

curi — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:56:11 +0000

umm the odds are public knowledge?

New comment by curi in "Ask YC: To blog or not to blog?"

curi — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:52:14 +0000

they are easy to make. just make one when you have an idea you want to post. post again next time you have an idea you want to post. the drawback of not doing this is deleting those potential posts for no reason.

New comment by curi in "Ask YC: What are the top 3 websites you frequently visit?"

curi — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:38:13 +0000

+1 informative

Ask YC: YC Editors Too Active?

curi — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:28:28 +0000

The comment below is dead, which means killed by an editor. That seems excessive to me. What do you think?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=137554

1 point by jazj 1 hour ago | link [dead]

Sure. Every online community is either stagnating or dumbing down. Fact. Hence if Hacker News doesn't stagnate it will dumb down. Then we all move off to graze at someone else's teat. Except for the startup weenies who post here to get close to Peegee.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=137689

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Extroversion Makes People Happy Say Psychologists

curi — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:14:52 +0000

Article URL: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1721954,00.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=137683

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by curi in "Standing Still Predicts School Success Better Than IQ"

curi — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:40:56 +0000

The original headline is disagreeable to me. Most of the content of the article is disagreeable to me. It is not a neutral article. There is no simple neutral way to post it.

New comment by curi in "Standing Still Predicts School Success Better Than IQ"

curi — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:46:31 +0000

It is not a bad headline, it is an opinionated headline (based on text from the article). I understand that you disagree with my point of view. Please understand that I disagree with yours, too. The "tangential direction" you are complaining about is the reason I posted the article. I would not have posted it otherwise. You should be glad that people who disagree can still be helpful each other, rather than complaining that your free ice cream wasn't the appropriate flavor.

New comment by curi in "Standing Still Predicts School Success Better Than IQ"

curi — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:29:17 +0000

+1 for info about actual usage of tests like this