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yeah give me a badge @carpathianflorist or whoever

HN is written in his own Lisp dialect called Arc. My favorite fact about PG's programming ability as demonstrated by the HN website: he leveraged the Power of Lisp by creating a sort of Domain-Specific Language that apparently allowed him to generate HTML just by writing (div (a (... and so on, and, most importantly, have all event handlers (like, onclick for buttons) be ordinary functions right in there, so the entire user session was a glorious function invocation containing a bunch of functions calling each other, a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_(computer_programming) .

"But how did he persist and restore session state between requests, that sounds nontrivial?" you might ask. Trick question, he did not, he literally added several dozens of closures to some dictionary keyed by a pseudo-sequentially generated id, so when you clicked an upvote the server knew which closure to invoke. Even for not-logged-in users. So a) for the longest time these callbacks would expire in like 10 minutes, so if you spent more than that reading the comment section the reply buttons would stop working, and b) he admitted that he had to have the webservice restart once per hour because apparently this was not the only such genius decision involved.

This demonstrates that D&D devil worshippers were onto something when they had separate Intelligence and Wisdom stats, and that Paul Graham rolled pretty high on the former and negative on the latter.

thanks for the generous gift friend

i'm a simpleton on desktop who cannot find it anywhere. what am i doing wrong

Yeah, I don't get it either. People want to see what they want to see, I suppose.

but i'm smarter and cooler than all of them so i see only truth

anyway, big fan of your work here, particularly profile music and anti-agendaposting measures. keep it up and such

Really makes me wonder how many communities we ourselves grossly mischaracterize.

Most people do care, and don’t really want to believe and spread obvious falsehoods designed to make their opponents look bad.

This was one of the only incorrect parts of the post. Dopamine supplied by internet points and grift money comes first.

It's in the early stages, so it's all unfalsibiable, sweatums. If the codebase is in the hands of the Highest Egyptian Order, and if all of marseyverse follows from it's basic code, I can finagle this rectangle into the polycentric circle. You just gotta watch me now, feeeeel the groove.

A single autist can be an infinitely nested hierarchy by themselves.