Re:Ask HN: How many of you founders are girls ?
by Splines on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @05:22PM
(#1199691)
Also, odds are that someone wouldn't bother logging out and in between two accounts. I'd weight your search against people who commented in between the time that the throwaway account posted.
People who commented shortly before the throwaway account are also good candidates, as are people who seem to comment around the same time on other days.
Re:Ask HN: How many of you founders are girls ?
by follower on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @11:59PM
(#1200412)
> odds are that someone wouldn't bother logging out and in between two accounts.
Unless they use multiple browsers.
Re:Ask HN: How many of you founders are girls ?
by dauwkuk on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @05:22PM
(#1199693)
Well I fully agree with this comment i.e. I recognize the "quirks" too. It looks to me like the results of a U.K. education. As a Brit-born male, in my past I have had some non-Brit ladies comment about the robot...
Re:Ask HN: How many of you founders are girls ?
by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @07:15PM
(#1199937)
I disagree on the UK edu unlees they're also a non-native - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1199898
Re:Ask HN: How many of you founders are girls ?
by Terretta on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @06:04PM
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> no misspellings. odd. proper use of punctuation. strange. I'd say the writer fails the Turing test
That's depressing.
Meanwhile, "[space]-[space]" rather than "--" for "—" is idiosyncratic, and since HN preserves original spaces in comments, ".[space]" rather than ".[space][space]" rules a few more of us out.
Re:Ask HN: How many of you founders are girls ?
by robin_reala on Thursday March 18, 2010 @07:23AM
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Meanwhile, "[space]-[space]" rather than "--" for "—" is idiosyncratic
It’s not idiosyncratic, it’s British.
Re:Ask HN: How many of you founders are girls ?
by HeyLaughingBoy on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @05:37PM
(#1199729)
Except for "fully agree" and the hyphen bit, that would generally characterize my writing, if only because bad grammar & spelling bug me. But it sure ain't me :-)
Re:Ask HN: How many of you founders are girls ?
by petercooper on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @06:37PM
(#1199861)
if only because bad grammar & spelling bug me. But it sure ain't me
Heh. I see what you did there.
(Updated: "&" usage, "ain't", starting a sentence with a conjunction.)
"fully agree"
comma followed by etc with a period in middle of sentence , etc. can
use of e.g. with a period after each letter.
well-known with a hyphen high-end with a hyphen likes to use colons correctly.
no misspellings. odd. proper use of punctuation. strange. I'd say the writer fails the Turing test and is a robot.