I am so glad I found this site. My two other favorite sites are valleywag and peoplemagazine.com. The only thing I really needed was a site devoted to Erlang. I'm glad I found it. I'm adding it to my Internet Explorer favorites.
Being in Europe, I seem to have been sleeping during The Great Erlang Meme of 2009, so I was pretty disappointed to log in this morning, find what looked like a really juicy article about Erlang at the top of the list, and find out that 1) it doesn't really talk about the innards of Erlang, and 2) it's all a joke.
The innards of Erlang are fascinating, because they're really what make the language so good at what it does, and are fairly different from many other languages in terms of architecture.
It took me awhile to figure why\how this happened but now that I understand it, it is hilarious to see this in real time on the HN homepage. Well done.
Greetings,
I am so glad I found this site. My two other favorite sites are valleywag and peoplemagazine.com. The only thing I really needed was a site devoted to Erlang. I'm glad I found it. I'm adding it to my Internet Explorer favorites.
thanks
IE? Why?
Because of its excellent ActiveX control support, of course.
You know, I might actually like a real article about the innards of erlang.
Being in Europe, I seem to have been sleeping during The Great Erlang Meme of 2009, so I was pretty disappointed to log in this morning, find what looked like a really juicy article about Erlang at the top of the list, and find out that 1) it doesn't really talk about the innards of Erlang, and 2) it's all a joke.
The innards of Erlang are fascinating, because they're really what make the language so good at what it does, and are fairly different from many other languages in terms of architecture.
My God, this is the most interes...
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You've truly found a way to help out HN.
I don't think I've ever seen a story get so many points so fast :D
And it continues. Is this legitimate?
It's by request http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 .
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You made my day. But Google obviously doesn't know the meaning of 'innards'.
Edit: Too bad your joke was so good it ruined HN for the rest of the day.
Should I be worried? Isn't this the kind of inside joke that permeates sites like 4chan, or heaven forbid, /.? (Albeit more tasteful?)
I wouldn't mind that too much. Erlang is a neat language.
The problem with 4chan and the like is that they take it overboard. I have hopes that HN will know when to quit.
There is another article that corresponds to this one. Keep reading to find it.
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Why did you have to ruin the last good site on the internet?
A short concise description of Erlang would be welcome, given the Erlang tweet storm on HN.
I know nothing about Erlang, except for the hype :O
offtopic.. is there much activity around the arc lisp dialect [if you'll forgive me calling it that] these days?
http://marcusvorwaller.com/look/erlang-20090311-125410.jpg 18 of 25 Erlang articles on the front page. :)
I thought all the Erlang stuff was due to the site reboot :)
It took me awhile to figure why\how this happened but now that I understand it, it is hilarious to see this in real time on the HN homepage. Well done.
hahaha, Sorry I laughed out loud.
haha :) I laughed out too!
Edit: it appears a bit too loud, GF thought I went crazy for a sec