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What currently happens on reddit: the user (1) opens reddit (2) reads a page of titles without minimal scrolling, and (3) opens links that interest them. What happens with your design: the user (1) opens reddit and has to click through a directory, (2) has to scroll aggressively to go through content, and (3) is forced to look at everything. I'm not sure this is an improvement.

Also, two of the best things about reddit are its content density and assumed intelligence of the user. Where sites like Facebook spend hours picking the right icon at the right size for the laziest of users, reddit shows the relevant links and info about each post as a small row of text. These seem like (good) intentional design choices to me.

I get it's fun to design these "alternate interfaces" and I'll state emphatically that there's nothing wrong at all with doing so. reddit just isn't broken in any ways this fixes.

Isn't this more or less what happens in a native app? The only difference is that on the web each view is identified with a URL. If so, history.pushState should make this trivial.

I have no knowledge whatsoever about this matter. That being said, I went seven years without running an antivirus and zero apparent harm was done to me. It could be that the viruses just did a good job of hiding themselves, but whatever (somehow I doubt it).

Now I live at a place whose internet requires me to have an antivirus installed. It's super annoying--Avira on Mac. It keeps popping up and telling me it's keeping me safe and I keep thinking "the gall of these people..."

(One might suggest simply disabling certain annoying features, but my God, university internet.)

It sounds like this was the root of the problem:

> But IIS was misconfigured to rewrite Remote_Addr from X-Forwarded-For if it existed.

Does anyone know why that might've happened? Is this something IIS does by default, something it inadvertently encourages, etc.? And is there another example of a web server doing something like this?

I don't think that's it. He says he tends to arrive at right answers after long and careful thought while people around him jump into conclusions and force them forward.

I tend to find that in good environments it's not at all weird to call people out on things that happened a few weeks or even months ago if they were wrong. Anyone who cares about truth should welcome it. If people around you are the obnoxious kind who win arguments through charisma and aren't willing to revisit things in light of truth, it might be time to switch people.

I'm not sure what the point is. That YC continues to use the word "hacker" to selfishly attract the kind of people who aim for billion-dollar exits instead of moderate returns? The author might be interested to know pg has written an essay on this.

http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html

Anyway, if I had to wager a guess, I'd go with the Occam's-razor explanation that YC uses the word hacker because its founders identify as hackers in the original sense of the word. In fact, that hackers are better at starting breakout companies practically seems to be YC's thesis.