HackerTrans
TopNewTrendsCommentsPastAskShowJobs

jff

no profile record

comments

jff
·il y a 9 ans·discuss
I found that line quite interesting. The wording seems to imply that someone is going to read this tablet to Ea-nasir, and possibly that someone wrote the tablet on behalf of Nanni. In an age before near-universal literacy (i.e. most of human history), that makes sense: Ea-nasir would have summoned someone to read out the tablet. Given Ea-nasir's position as a presumably well-off trader, he may have simply had a scribe on-staff to handle his correspondence--an early instance of the modern PR hack?
jff
·il y a 12 ans·discuss
Great username/post combo there
jff
·il y a 12 ans·discuss
If they know they need $20k, they must have arrived at that number somehow. Publishing that estimation would be a good start.
jff
·il y a 12 ans·discuss
info pages are yet another artifact of RMS's sad devotion to ITS and other dead environments.
jff
·il y a 14 ans·discuss
It's simple but effective. The pages load quickly and look pretty decent in many different browsers.

I'm really happy that HN isn't your typical constantly-mutating, constantly growing news site, adding a new social share button and 2KB of new Javascript every week. Please, pg, don't start taking pull requests or anything like that, it's great the way it is.

Edit: look at the current top story. A pretty but not especially functional Facebook redesign, proposed as the latest in a long line of changes that the users pretty much always disliked. There's my point.