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   How to convert and retain SaaS customers with a phone call(goodcall.io)

   5 points by dtreacy 13y ago|1 comments
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   by dtreacy 15y ago

   If you're able to input invalid URL's I guess I didn't test the regex thoroughly enough ;) I'll look into it. The prepending "http" is just a lazy hack to handle the case where they enter "google.com" instead of " http://www.google.com , wh
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   by dtreacy 15y ago

   Good point. Yes, in theory they could be duplicated. I chose 6 characters firstly to keep the url as short as possible (I thought 5 chars was too short, 7 too long). I am planning on introducing a background process to clean up shortened
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   Show HN: A simple url shortener written in Node(github.com)

   16 points by dtreacy 15y ago|6 comments
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   by dtreacy 15y ago

   "Duck extends Bird" is not the wrong thing at all. As other comments have pointed out, the justifications in the article don't apply to someone who is just starting out learning the basics of OO.
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   by dtreacy 15y ago

   THAT'S WHY ITS A BEGINNER TUTORIAL. Get off your high horse.
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   Why I get aneurysms from tech media and incubators(danieltreacy.com)

   2 points by dtreacy 15y ago|0 comments
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   by dtreacy 15y ago

   No. Just means you write more code. If you spend that time learning different languages and design patterns, it can make you a better developer.