Ask HN: Do you have more or less than 1Mb text of your own writing?

Of all that you have written in ypur lifetime, do you have in your possession more or less than 1Mb (180,000 words) of text?

Printed, blogged, work-related, personal diary, fiction practice, emails you personally wrote (not so much copies of boilerplate, or coauthoring when added for other reasons than actual written words).

Asking out of curiosity.

2 points | by cwmoore 3 hours ago

7 comments

  • dlcarrier 1 hour ago
    It doesn't take long to build up that many words on online forums, like Hacker News.
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    • cwmoore 17 minutes ago
      Thanks for your input. Apparently it does! There’s another commenter on this thread who found less than that in their 10 year history.
  • KashifNY 3 hours ago
    Yes i do, i like to put down my thoughts in writing as well as planning out strategies and such as i found out that i could not find a pen when i needed it much which was a dilemma of mine and so i started just using my laptop and phone to jot down what came to mind and was worth recording
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    • cwmoore 14 minutes ago
      How much more than 1Mb, do you know?
  • billybuckwheat 1 hour ago
    Far, far more than 1 MB.
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    • cwmoore 19 minutes ago
      Thanks, that’s a lot. Can I ask for a ballpark figure? And how you have written so much?
  • Bender 2 hours ago
    Some here probably have more than 1mb in comments. There's probably a way to calculate that through the API if someone were so inclined.
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    • eth0up 57 minutes ago
      I just pinged the api to dump my 10 year comment history. Yes, that definitely can be done, in a few seconds and a script.

      Edit: the csv = 698kb and the json = 866kb

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      • cwmoore 18 minutes ago
        Great datapoint, thanks.

        My “Ask HN” was not intended to focus on HN comment writing only, but since it headed that way on its own, can you share a scriptlet so that others may do more than speculate?

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        • eth0up 8 minutes ago
          You ok with python?
  • glitch-hunter 1 hour ago
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  • l4v3rna 3 hours ago
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