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what made you go with 18?

• drcongo 2mo ago
  14 was taken.
  • giancarlostoro 2mo ago
    I see what you did there. I did a double take when I saw this on the front page of HN. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words
    • pompomsheep 2mo ago
      Haha I've never heard of this but lucky i went with 18
      • giancarlostoro 2mo ago
        I'm equally laughing because I remember a coding snafu I ran into once, where we were aggressively filtering out "1488" turns out someone finally joined and "1488" was part of their user ID (auto-increment field!), and we realized maybe we shouldn't be checking the auto-increment field, not sure if it was me being too aggressive and not thinking about it, or another developer, but I did laugh once I figured out why that one user was unable to use half of the web app. This was for a gaming community based project, we had a lot of trolls come and go, and they would definitely shove these sorts of references in their usernames, and anywhere else you had custom user input. The internet is a magical place.
      • pizzafeelsright 2mo ago
        in good faith, you went with a number. had it been 14 you would have a torrent of ill will where no excuse or response would have been sufficient in the minds of those who fail at life. We must secure equal forgiveness for the people and the future inadvertent online mistakes.
        • giancarlostoro 2mo ago
          We must secure Hacker News from low quality commentary and ensure insightful future discussions.
    • saghm 2mo ago
      Same, I momentarily didn't trust my recollection of what the gross number of words was and got concerned
• falcor84 2mo ago
  Not the parent, but I just checked and it seems that all $iwords.com are taken for i<18
• Retr0id 2mo ago
  It's the standard number of holes in a golf course