Oh, duh. Brainfart. -1 would be 11111111 not 10000000.
While I doubt that HN's scoring would suffer from signedness bugs, if it did, getting your score down/up to -1 would be the ultimate. It would be an interesting easter egg to build into the system, tho :)
Thanks pg for the site!
Not bad for a sock puppet: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152428
:)
Damn, 29 points (as of me posting this) just for saying thanks. You're some kind of karma magnet or something.
Okay, now reply "thanks" to my reply and let's see how many you get ;)
He's catching up to the bug fixer guy...
This is not hacker news!
We should always take a bit of time to thank the people that make this place what it is.
Agreed. I meant it tongue-in-cheek...
Next milestone: 32,768?
I don't want one of my only sources of news to break :(
Yeah, but then you fall off the leader board, because your score is -1. :P
Chuckle I had originally posted 32,767; but I figured getting to 32768 should really be the milestone.
I think you mean -32768.
If it rolls over due to 2s complement then it'll be -32768.
What the -1 comment is refering to is a casting problem. Or int into byte, etc. Versus unsigned to signed.
Oh, duh. Brainfart. -1 would be 11111111 not 10000000.
While I doubt that HN's scoring would suffer from signedness bugs, if it did, getting your score down/up to -1 would be the ultimate. It would be an interesting easter egg to build into the system, tho :)
It shouldn't do that; AFAIK it's using PLT Scheme's numeric stack.
Congrats and thanks for the contributions!
Congrats indeed. Tons of great submissions = well-deserved.
Congrats Nickb - his stuff is good. Does he have a bio?
http://www.paulgraham.com/bio.html :)
Sigh... pg and I are different people. Really.
I almost downvoted you for that lie, but I decided that it would be a misuse of the downvote.
Thank you and please reveal yourself now :)
Hah! My identity is not actually secret at all :) But you're right, I'll put up a link to my bio/blog soon enough.
pg congratulates pseudonym nickb [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152388]? I wonder what the number of upvotes for this means...
Nevertheless, 20k certainly represents a valuable contribution.
Congrats to Paul Graham's evil twin, sock puppet...whatever you wanna call it, haha
Dude I am working hard to get to 2k.
@nickb Very impressive, congrats!
Congrats Nick!