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Happy Birthday edw519

36 pointsXichekolas23 comments

Meant to submit this yesterday (for obvious reasons), but for some reason I failed.

I'll try harder next year!

Y'know, as much as I wish this edw519 person well (at least in that I don't actually wish him any specific harm...) I really don't think that submitting and/or upvoting this was a good move on the part of the people who did it.

edw519 is a top contributor to yc: http://awurl.com/ueuqua68821

I don't see what's wrong with a community doing something nice for one of it's most active members.

Send him candy next time

There are 100 people on the leader board. Should we wish them all a happy birthday too?

Let's stay focused on news and cut this feel-good stuff out.

I just noticed that I slipped off, so I vote no! :)

Well, it's on the first page so the community has already told you: they want this.

How's this news though ?

It's not. I really didn't expect this to get voted up. Just wanted edw519 to catch it on the 'New' page, which I assume he watches.

"... How's this news though ? ..."

Maybe even HN users can be gamed enough to give away their birthday(date) ... or smart enough to find it?

Umm. If you don't already do it, remembering (recording in a safe place and (calling preferred over emailing) near the day of) the birthdays of people who are important to you and/or who you'd like to keep in very loose contact with is a platinum networking technique.

Thank you, Xichekolas! Whether you remembered or figured it out doesn't matter - either way, you have the makings of a great hacker. Sure hope to see you again before 5/19/09.

Oh I remembered from when you mentioned it at startup school. Sadly I was so busy yesterday playing with javascript that I forgot until today.

As thrilled as I am that you remembered, I'm even happier that you were so immersed in your code yesterday that you forgot. Nothing to be sad about. I bet a lot of people here would love to be able to focus like that a little more often.

Well, it's good to know you were getting some work done.

Happy birthday! I think if you celebrate a day late he officially will live 24 hours longer in his life right?

If delayed birthday celebration were the secret to longevity, think how long people born on February 29th would live...

only a few days more than what they would have had they been born on any other day (number of extra days = (number of years he has lived) / 4)

I was thinking that if they could only celebrate their birthday every four years, they would only age at 1/4 the rate. Their 80th birthday would happen 320 years after being born.

Of course, this is all rather silly.

<brag> I wished him yesterday ;) </brag>

That's why they pay you the big karma.

:-) I wished him by email. I wanted to post here but then remembered the heat I got for being (genuinely) concerned about missing nickb. Thanks for posting - we can have a close knit group.

Eh, hopefully we can make an exception for Eddie. He does contribute a lot to making this site what it is.

No kidding! http://searchyc.com/user/edw519

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