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Is there a good reason to use pastebin for these type of posts instead of just putting all of the info in the HN post? The only thing I can think of is that it
by chrisBob 12y ago
Is there a good reason to use pastebin for these type of posts instead of just putting all of the info in the HN post? The only thing I can think of is that it avoids being grouped into the ask section which I think has some disadvantages.
- spb 12y agoAnd what about Gists?
- dang 12y agoI forgot about those!
- dang 12y agoI originally made it a pastebin link because I didn't want to post a huge off-topic thing into the API thread. Kevin simply linked to that. There's another reason, though: what I wrote was too long for an HN text post (I forget what the limit is, but this was definitely over it) and I didn't have time to make it shorter.