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Re:Embrace the Grind by sneak on Friday April 09, 2021 @07:28PM (#26757430)
> Close everything older than 2 weeks. If it’s important/relevant, it will crop back up. If it’s not, then it stays unfixed.

This seems like a great idea: technical debt bankruptcy.

In reality, you're throwing away hugely valuable data that people spent real time and effort producing for you.

See also: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

Re:Embrace the Grind by nitrogen on Friday April 09, 2021 @08:09PM (#26757698)
Note: you'll probably want to copy/paste that URL instead of clicking it, because unless something has changed (e.g. browsers not sending referrers), JWZ had/has a Referrer rule that will show something...else for anyone coming from HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...

Re:Embrace the Grind by sneak on Friday April 09, 2021 @08:37PM (#26757853)
That's half the fun of legitimate opportunities to link jwz's content. :D
Re:Embrace the Grind by boring_twenties on Friday April 09, 2021 @08:57PM (#26757959)
Thanks, I'd forgotten all about that, and also why jwz's domain was resolving to 127.0.0.X on my system.