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Please make Hacker News slower
16 points by planck on May 26, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 22 comments
I browse Hacker News from my iPhone, and due to the text size and link placements, I frequently mis-click, hitting user profile lnks instead of the story links. On other sites, this is fine, as I have time to hit stop and tap ok the correct link. Not so on HN - the profile page loads before I realize I've made a mistake.

So please, throw some for(i=0;i<10000;i++) loops in there. My productivity depends on it.



Don't ever ask anyone to do this.

A user once complained that a job was running too long. After some research, I found something like this (SLEEP 10 seconds) inside a loop. I removed it. The batch time went from 7 hours down to 23 minutes. The user thought I was a genius. When I told my client (the IT manager) what I had done, he was pissed. He said, "You should have changed it to a SLEEP 5, so we had something to give him the next time he complained."


I knew this one guy who liked telling old jokes, but pretending it actually happened to him. But he's dead now. He walked into a bar and broke his skull.


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"depends on how this startup thing goes"

I hope it goes well for you.

You'll need the day job.


He probably shouldn't have asked the bartender for duck food, then.


I'm sorry, I don't get it. Please explain.


"Put it on my bill"?


He kept asking for soup & quackers?


I wish it were a joke. I just googled the PHB that said that to me. He is alive and well, MBAing at his fourth company. Pity his tech people.

You got me to thinking. I have lots of old stories that would appear to be stolen jokes if you didn't know any better. One of my favorites is the user who wanted a list of SKUs not on the computer. Still haven't figured out what he was thinking.


So I am right in assuming you are the guy who submitted this story then: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Speedup-Loop.aspx ?

Yes, I do in fact store every single link I ever read on reddit in my brain.


Gaaa I spent the past 10 minutes of my life searching for that link in TheDailyWTF and CodingHorror. Thx. You win.


I did this: "dailywtf loop" in google. It's the first result.


Hmm... Just when you think it can't get any worse...


Can't be me. And I can prove it:

I only submit here.

Different language.

Different PHB.

Different result.

The programmer showered and shaved.


Try accessing it via http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/browse.cgi

As a bonus, you get a search box.


erm... zoom in so you don't mis-click?


Speed is not the solution. A better interface for mobile devices is.


If you haven't already heard of the News.YC iPhone web app from Buxfer (YC Winter '07)

http://buxfer.com/yc


It's buggy and has an ugly icon.

Otherwise, it'd be amazing.


i browse it on my ipod, i know what you are saying about mis-clicks, just pinch and zoom and the next page will come up not all zoomed in.

i don't think your gonna get them to add needless loops :)


So you're telling YC to be less efficient for the sake of the iPhone...is that a good thing or a bad thing?


He was joking :) However the idea is good if its implemented with a javascript SetTimeout. The usernames and other infos can show up a bit later.


heh. if it's done with javascript, might as well be done as a user script. when dom is ready, run through the <a> tags and rewire them.




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