How old are you in HN years? (ID of your most recent post / ID of your first post)
me: 1000140 / 174632 = 5.7 HN years
edw519 (current leader after pg): 999538 / 9357 = 107 HNyears
RIP, nickb: 685017 / 2649 = 259 HNyears
mechanical_fish: 999416 / 22714 = 44 HNyears
if the Id of the most recent post is an exponentially growing function of time then the time between any two posts should be proportional to the log of the ratio of their IDs.. so
shouldn't it be log(ID most recent / ID first post) ?
But for exponentially growing ID, log(ID most recent / ID first post) is proportional to age of account & that's boring -- the nonlinearity is what makes the measure 'fun' (I use the term loosely). It agrees with some notion of the 'good old days' when Startup News was a fishbowl we could all look in on, and early HN participants were Founders not only of startups but also an online community.
I agree though, there are probably more interesting measures one could come up with.
999899/425 = 2352 HNY
latest: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=999899 first: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=425
This tangent is not a pleasant one, but I couldn't resist making a citation.
There may be earlier ones - I couldn't retrieve comments before about Jun 2007, so I went by my earliest submission:
Or perhaps my memory is going. They say the mind is the first thing to go. Or at least I think they do.
I lurked for a while before participating, maybe you did the same?
Incidentally that makes pg 1000205 / 17 = 59,000 HNyears old -- and that seems about right, I bet the average reader here cares ~10,000x more about what pg writes than what I write (pg HNyears / davi HNyears = ~10K). :)