JWZ Hacker News History
Discussions identify Jamie Zawinski (jwz) as a famous tech figure, recall his past HN activity, handles, strong opinions, and issues like blocking HN referrers, with links to prior threads.
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He was on Hacker News? What was his handle?
Who is this guy? Why does Hacker News care about some blog post on his personal life?
Extensive discussion 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676904(The earlier article only refers to the person by his nickname, but following a few hyperlinks shows it's the same person.)
Given that he founded one of the most famous anonymous web forums on the planet, I'm liable to be interested in his reasons. People being jerks seems to be a really common thing on the internet, so I'm quite curious of his counterpoint.I take his link less as a blog-advertisement, and more of a "I'm more likely to update that than edit my comment on HN". I'd love it if, after he writes his blog post, he were to summarize it in an edit to his HN comment.
Oh sorry, I did not know that was the guy who hates being linked to from HN. Copy the link manually to read it if you still care to learn what he wrote.
He is quite famous:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38779901
Guess he hasn't been mentioned on HN for a while, and when he does get posted it doesn't look like he's voted up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3927653 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2850967 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2843203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1884988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196370 - Actual comments
add to the above quote that the guy literally sneezes and he is front-page on HN and some hundred thousand linux/OS related forums... Which means that he is the exact opposite of a nobody in the tech community and you have a good bargain reading what he says.
> its author on HN!I never could keep my yap shut :-)
Did he used to post here on hackernews?