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I did toy with the idea of trying do analysis of HN aliases and keywords. It never went anywhere, because I forgot about it, but a longer weekend is coming:D But yeah, language betrays, who we are in references alone.

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There's no way you could determine how old a person is or what technologies they enjoyed way back in college solely from a username.

Are you just trying to goad them into showing they can? :D

-gopher- space made the comment you are replying to.

Have fun analyzing the alias I pulled from /dev/urandom!

Knows of the existence of /dev/urandom, must be old! ;)

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