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If someone wanted to be such an archeologist but instead for figuring out how some code or project worked (where perhaps the only remaining thing was the compiled code and some limited documentation), what sort of role/position would that be?

To my mind it just seems like something one would get assigned or throw into when looking into improving a process similar to the company in this story, but perhaps I am missing something.

Meta question: Is this one of those "second chance" posts? Per iancmceachern's profile, this was posted a day ago (2024-04-07T05:12:35), and Algolia search says 2 days ago. Yet after a couple refreshes and an incognito browser, it's showing as being posted 1 hour ago.

Top level response by Animats says "50 minutes ago" but is timestamped 4/7 [1]. Although top level response by theboogieman says "5 minutes ago" and does seem to be [more] correct, with a timestamp of 4/8 17:12 UTC [2]. Really shakes me up on the accuracy of comments/metadata.

Turns out it wasn't deja vu after all and I really had seen this post before.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39958754 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39971752

Real Life MMO FPS 12 years ago

I'm curious at the 'hitbox' of a person since it'd have to be based off the phone. If someone were to put their phone down on a table, is the table suddenly a valid target?

Pinboard Turns Five 12 years ago

Pinboard is indeed wonderful. What I find lacking is a replacement for the old Delicious Firefox extension which included a way to use [Delicious] bookmarked custom searches in the browser.