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How I Burned 10M Dollars So You Don’t Have To

10 points by AliCollins 10y ago

jaclaz 10y ago
There must be something wrong with the duplication detection, this same thing has been posted several times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13090919 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13090919 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13088897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13088897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13106604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13106604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13091219 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13091219 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13076597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13076597 The URL link to medium.com appears differently ending in each of the above...
- user5994461 10y ago
  There are all different links: https://medium.com/reboot-leadership-resiliency/how-i-burned-10-million-dollars-so-you-dont-have-to-4e9e83754ce9#.f6ckizs5s https://medium.com/reboot-leadership-resiliency/how-i-burned-10-million-dollars-so-you-dont-have-to-4e9e83754ce9#.xp1acya7o The last part of the url after the "#" symbol should be ignored for deduplication.
  - carlosdp 10y ago
    That wouldn't necessarily work for every site though. Some JS single-app routers default to using the # symbol as a routing delimiter instead of slashes.
    - user5994461 10y ago
      Poorly coded JS applications will experience issues. Sounds like an acceptable downside.
    - lucideer 10y ago
      JS single app routers is not the issue: these can opt for historyState instead. The issue is normal HTML pages with anchors, and possibly with no JS. This is a very normal age-old standard feature of web hyperlinking. It's not a weird new artifact of badly coded apps as someone commented below.
      - user5994461 10y ago
        Care to explain why this is not a problem of bad anchor? I don't understand why that page should be giving unique anchored links to each user. As far as I recall. Anchors belong to an HTML page, it should be okay to filter by the page and not each individual anchors within it.
        lucideer 10y ago
        I wasn't commenting on this particular example, just pointing out that for most caseses the use of anchors in the URL is normal and functional and not just a JS SPA thing.

10 points by AliCollins 10y ago

There must be something wrong with the duplication detection, this same thing has been posted several times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13090919 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13090919 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13088897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13088897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13106604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13106604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13091219 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13091219 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13076597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13076597 The URL link to medium.com appears differently ending in each of the above...

user5994461 10y ago
There are all different links: https://medium.com/reboot-leadership-resiliency/how-i-burned-10-million-dollars-so-you-dont-have-to-4e9e83754ce9#.f6ckizs5s https://medium.com/reboot-leadership-resiliency/how-i-burned-10-million-dollars-so-you-dont-have-to-4e9e83754ce9#.xp1acya7o The last part of the url after the "#" symbol should be ignored for deduplication.
- carlosdp 10y ago
  That wouldn't necessarily work for every site though. Some JS single-app routers default to using the # symbol as a routing delimiter instead of slashes.
  - user5994461 10y ago
    Poorly coded JS applications will experience issues. Sounds like an acceptable downside.
  - lucideer 10y ago
    JS single app routers is not the issue: these can opt for historyState instead. The issue is normal HTML pages with anchors, and possibly with no JS. This is a very normal age-old standard feature of web hyperlinking. It's not a weird new artifact of badly coded apps as someone commented below.
    - user5994461 10y ago
      Care to explain why this is not a problem of bad anchor? I don't understand why that page should be giving unique anchored links to each user. As far as I recall. Anchors belong to an HTML page, it should be okay to filter by the page and not each individual anchors within it.
      - lucideer 10y ago
        I wasn't commenting on this particular example, just pointing out that for most caseses the use of anchors in the URL is normal and functional and not just a JS SPA thing.