Nickb, Are you okay?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173683

by kirubakaran • 18 years ago

60 54 18 years ago

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It has been more than a week since nickb was seen here. Am I the only person worried?

He didn't show up in Startup School though he said he would. I hope he is okay.

m0nty5• 18 years ago

Could you not send him an email (it's in his profile)?

apgwoz• 18 years ago

Wait. I thought Paul Graham was nickb?

mynameishere3• 18 years ago

Yeah. Maybe he's off implementing a downmod arrow so I can bury this crap submission.

m0nty5• 18 years ago

Maybe a reddit-like "hide" feature would be better -- doesn't affect anyone else, just let's you skip stuff you'd personally not see. I'm sure someone has the GreaseMonkey-Fu to do this without troubling the site programmers.

angstrom• 18 years ago

Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw nickb pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

softbuilder• 18 years ago

I'd upmod twice if I could.

mattculbreth• 18 years ago

Thank you Simone.

wheels3• 18 years ago

I see your Schwartz is as big as mine.

(Since this is getting downmodded into oblivion, that was a Spaceballs reference. That's a line from the same scene with "I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.")

edw519• 18 years ago

Several people said they saw him in the pizza line, but I was too far back to see for myself.

puppetsock• 18 years ago

Yeah, I saw him standing in line right next to Elvis.

danielha• 18 years ago

Damn I regret not jumping on that joke. Missed a ten pointer opportunity.

mynameishere3• 18 years ago

The disappearance of nickb was an inside job!!1

WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!1

dfranke• 18 years ago

He was at the reception the night before.

pg• 18 years ago

Are you sure? None of us met him.

wheels3• 18 years ago

In the future, I'd like to suggest that all regulars post their vacation schedules and travel times to news.YC so that we can make sure you're ok. Please also post your mom's phone number so that we can call her and tell you're doing alright and that the weather is great in Whogivesashitistan.

jdavid2• 18 years ago

i can see both sides of the coin, but its nice to see someone concerned for someone else.

Jesin• 18 years ago

Either your sarcasm detector is broken for writing this response, or mine is for thinking you were serious.

Or perhaps I'm getting a false positive and both of the above posts were serious.

cstejerean• 18 years ago

All regulars: before deciding to take a vacation please create a poll and make sure you get a majority approval from the community. An army of satellites, airplanes and robots will be dispatched to locate any missing person and if found guilty of violating the aforementioned rule you will be responsible for covering the costs of the search and rescue operation.

jyothi• 18 years ago

UAVs ;)

amichail• 18 years ago

There's a startup idea somewhere in there.

SwellJoe4• 18 years ago

I met a guy at Startup School that was planning to build a universal address book that would insure people and businesses knew where to send your bills, tax forms, and how to call you, etc. He intended it to be a tool for handling permanent moves, but I think there's the same set of problems. Making it worth anything requires huge uptake and getting huge uptake without value is impossible.

Personally, I like that every time I move, my junk mail drops off for many months (the "occupant" garbage still shows up, but it's easier to toss without thinking about it). I think that's the only thing I like about moving, actually. Having a system that allowed junkmailers to know my new address automatically would be a negative value, and I think the same is true of a site that allows constant contact with folks on vacation--I like being out of reach when on vacation.

crisachow14• 18 years ago

You should also probably post your social security number in case you don't post your schedules and we really need to find you to tell you that missing startup school is not ok.

henning• 18 years ago

Maybe nickb will mysteriously disappear and completely cease activity, the way linuxer did from reddit. http://reddit.com/user/linuxer

ojbyrne• 18 years ago

Funny, same thing happened at digg: http://digg.com/users/albertpacino

icey• 18 years ago

That can only mean that whatever Wintermute-esque construct nickb was, has moved on to somewhere more interesting than here.

jkush2• 18 years ago

I think he's at home resting. Probably recovering from carpal tunnel syndrome.

carterschonwald2• 18 years ago

I think that both sides in this thread are behaving in a way that is inappropriate for desired tone of this forum. All snarky responses are uncalled for, though the merit of the posing of the question is debatable

deyan• 18 years ago

after reading all the comments, i start wondering: is this a community, or is it a bunch of kids with nothing better to do that truly don't get what hacker news is all about?

rms• 18 years ago

He was logged into Google Talk last night.

I'm sure he appreciates the concern though.

nickb• 18 years ago

Whoa... I come back and the top story is about me. Thanks guys... I really appreciate it!

I was away for a week. I had some personal stuff to take care off and once that was done, I realized I needed to take few days to just reflect on some stuff and just do nothing. Haven't had a real vacation in quite some time so I used few days to unwind. No worries, I'll be back to regular posting soon!

PS: Now I'm off to answer a bunch of emails!

kirubakaran• 18 years ago

Welcome back! Got a lot of heat for this post :) Anyway, the timing couldn't have been better and I am glad it made you smile.

xenoterracide• 18 years ago

totally offtopic but jakub the primary bug wrangler (and great maintainer) has been MIA for 3 weeks.

rockstar9• 18 years ago

lol, nice to see that the community is so tight.

Nickb, Are you okay?

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