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1 point by gimondarake 5082 days ago | link | parent | on: News.arc for newbies

Hello thaddeus,

First of all, thank you very much for your reply :)!

I have never touched Arc and news.arc, so maybe I shouldn't even try to incorporate the news.arc code into another language.

I have never received an advice like "Learning how Ruby developers think.", but I believe it is one of the best advice I have received (especially for a newbie like myself.)

Maybe I am trying do to everything when I should be focusing on one thing and learning slowly but surely.

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1 point by gimondarake 5082 days ago | link | parent | on: News.arc for newbies

Hello rocketnia,

First of all, thank you very much for your reply :)!

I see, I don't know anything about Arc and how news.arc works, so I didn't know that it would be difficult to use both news.arc and PHP.

I have been programming for about a year = newbie. But wanted to give a try since I love Hacker News and now that I love Arc Forum with the warm welcome I received :)!

Are there any services other than Hacker News and Arc Forum that was build with news.arc!?

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2 points by rocketnia 5070 days ago | link

Are there any services other than Hacker News and Arc Forum that was build with news.arc!?

Sorry for not answering your question sooner! These discussions list some examples of news.arc forums:

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=8716 ("Wiki list of websites & apps using Arc")

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=10584 ("Other sites running news.arc?")

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=12989 (a comment on "What would you like to see in a new code site for Arc?")

To find these, I just used http://af.searchyc.com.

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1 point by gimondarake 5082 days ago | link | parent | on: News.arc for newbies

Hello evanmurphy,

First of all, thank you very much for your reply!

To be honest, I am completely new to Arc and news.arc. I thought building a Hacker-News like forum with news.arc would be faster, but maybe I should be focusing on what I know and build with the languages that I actually know. Is it possible to reverse-engineer? news.arc, because I will probably have a bumpy ride to program "ranking algorithm" like the one used in news.arc (Hacker News).

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2 points by rocketnia 5081 days ago | link

Hacker News's ranking algorithm isn't public, is it?

At least, it probably isn't in our version of news.arc. As Paul Graham says at http://arclanguage.org/item?id=12468, "I should release a new version though. News.arc is greatly improved since the last release." (I assume the ranking algorithm wouldn't escape scrutiny....)

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3 points by kens 5078 days ago | link

I've written up a detailed analysis of the published parts of the news.arc ranking algorithm: http://www.arcfn.com/2009/06/how-does-newsyc-ranking-work.ht...

I noticed that a few pieces of the algorithm were not released, and the algorithm has surely changed since arc3.1, but the published code explains at least the overall behavior of Hacker News ranking.

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