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New version of jobs code

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  Jobs no longer have points or submitters

http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

This page still shows the submitter and points (though with the new system upvoting presumably doesn't make a difference - however it still works to store that story in my "saved" list).

Oops, fixed, thanks.

PG: Any chance of ever opening jobs up to the rest of us? Maybe with a karma threshold?

My contention has always been that it would actually help YC companies as well, because the job section would get a lot more page views. YC companies could be highlighted and/or sorted to the top.

I think it's ok for YC cos to derive at least that much unique benefit from HN. Also I'm hoping that once the jobs page doesn't suck, it will get more page views. The jobs code had suffered from such bit decay that a lot of YC cos stopped posting jobs on HN. I'm hoping this will fix that.

Dimming the job posting text is weird, since there are no comments. Actually, dimming the initial post in general is pretty weird. Is that just so the focus is on the comments?

Good point. I do that for self posts as you say to focus on the comments. But for jobs I don't need to. I'll also make links work. I did some pretty aggressive code reuse when I first implemented jobs...

Does that mean Arc3.2 might show up soon?

Also, thanks for putting years on the dates of newsnews.html . You might've done it before, but I just saw it now.

Not very directly alas. Maybe indirectly in the sense that it's a sign that I'm not so busy with YC that I have time to actually write code. But unfortunately those windows seem to be getting shorter.

Not that I would pick it up myself, but maybe it's a good time to put it on github and let this community run with it?

I believe it is on GitHub https://github.com/nex3/arc

That's not an official release, no. It has two major branches: one which gets only pg's official releases, and one which anyone can submit code to without restriction (it's called anarki because it's kinda like a wiki: http://arclanguage.org/item?id=803)

Several of us have started curated repositories, but the community has not coalesced around one of them: https://sites.google.com/site/arclanguagewiki/home. Like any lisp arc is easy to, and liable to, fragment.

How about making the job titles green (or whatever color) to make them stand out more clearly on the fornt page?

why not just put a tag in place of the up arrow that says (Job) or (Job Ad). That's more intuitive to me (I'm new to HN).

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