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Re:Facebook Launches Flow, Static Type Checker for JavaScript by hyp0 on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @01:05AM (#8628508)
One of the authors of Flow offered to answer questions, but their comment is greyed out as a dupe (and it isn't a dupe - something went wrong):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8625406

Re:Facebook Launches Flow, Static Type Checker for JavaScript by dang on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @10:54PM (#8634356)
If you see "[dupe]" on a dead comment you can be sure that that is why it was killed.

The problem was that there were two identical comments, the software killed one as a dupe, and avik deleted the other one. The software tries to fix this very scenario—it normally would have automatically unkilled the remaining member of the pair. But there are some corner cases where that doesn't work, and avik seems to have outsmarted it.

We'll take a look and try to fix the fix.

Re:Facebook Launches Flow, Static Type Checker for JavaScript by avik on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @06:21PM (#8633369)
Haha, yeah Hacker News didn't treat me well yesterday, so I'm trying to go through questions now and reply to them. :) Thanks for noticing!