This userid was based on when the first posting or comment of this user was made on Hacker News, it is possible that the user signed up earlier but never posted or commented, so this user id may be off because of that.

  Dauntless     created: 1067 days ago   #65
  nostrademons  created: 1066 days ago   #77
  iamelgringo   created: 1066 days ago   #80 
  rms           created: 1064 days ago   #140
  davidw        created: 1067 days ago   #195
  edw519        created: 1066 days ago   #739

So I guess that I must have lurked a while before my first comment.

That makes sense because I was still bashful back then. hn helped me bust out of my shell.