Watch, discuss, vote! As discussed you may want to use reddit for discussing this talk for a larger audience and impact.

http://goo.gl/VnDVi


Andrei

On 5/15/2013 3:25 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Watch, discuss, vote! As discussed you may want to use reddit for discussing
> this talk for a larger audience and impact.
>
> http://goo.gl/VnDVi

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1edih2/dconf_2013_day_1_talk_4_writing_testable_code_in/

On 5/15/2013 3:25 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Watch, discuss, vote! As discussed you may want to use reddit for discussing
> this talk for a larger audience and impact.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5713539

On Wed, 15 May 2013 06:25:38 -0400
Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> wrote:
> Watch, discuss, vote! As discussed you may want to use reddit for discussing this talk for a larger audience and impact.
> 

Torrents and all other links: http://semitwist.com/download/misc/dconf2013/

On 5/15/13 1:35 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/15/2013 3:25 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Watch, discuss, vote! As discussed you may want to use reddit for
>> discussing
>> this talk for a larger audience and impact.
>>
>> http://goo.gl/VnDVi
>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1edih2/dconf_2013_day_1_talk_4_writing_testable_code_in/
>

One can only assume you didn't click that short URL... :o)

Andrei

On 5/15/2013 12:08 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 5/15/13 1:35 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 5/15/2013 3:25 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Watch, discuss, vote! As discussed you may want to use reddit for
>>> discussing
>>> this talk for a larger audience and impact.
>>>
>>> http://goo.gl/VnDVi
>>
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1edih2/dconf_2013_day_1_talk_4_writing_testable_code_in/
>>
>>
>
> One can only assume you didn't click that short URL... :o)

I did, but only because I trust you. I like to know where urls go before clicking, and am guessing that others do as well.

On Wed, 15 May 2013 15:08:34 -0400
Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> wrote:

> On 5/15/13 1:35 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> > On 5/15/2013 3:25 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >> Watch, discuss, vote! As discussed you may want to use reddit for
> >> discussing
> >> this talk for a larger audience and impact.
> >>
> >> http://goo.gl/VnDVi
> >
> > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1edih2/dconf_2013_day_1_talk_4_writing_testable_code_in/
> >
> 
> One can only assume you didn't click that short URL... :o)
> 

The problem with short URLs is that they're completely opaque: you have no idea where they go. Ex: I didn't know if it was for the reddit, youtube, or the DConf page. Besides, hyperlinking and copy/paste tend to obviate any benefit of shortened URLs. "goo.gl" and such are extremely useful if you're giving someone a URL over the phone, but aside from that, I've never seen much of a point.

Obviously I'm not saying "How dare you use a short URL, jerk!" ;) I'm just sayin', FWIW.

On 5/15/2013 1:08 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> The problem with short URLs is that they're completely opaque: you have
> no idea where they go. Ex: I didn't know if it was for the reddit,
> youtube, or the DConf page. Besides, hyperlinking and copy/paste tend to
> obviate any benefit of shortened URLs. "goo.gl" and such are extremely
> useful if you're giving someone a URL over the phone, but aside from
> that, I've never seen much of a point.

Twitter used to pretty much require use of shortened URLs, but they fixed that problem, and now I use full length ones on it.

On Wed, 15 May 2013 14:18:30 -0700
Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 5/15/2013 1:08 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > The problem with short URLs is that they're completely opaque: you have no idea where they go. Ex: I didn't know if it was for the reddit, youtube, or the DConf page. Besides, hyperlinking and copy/paste tend to obviate any benefit of shortened URLs. "goo.gl" and such are extremely useful if you're giving someone a URL over the phone, but aside from that, I've never seen much of a point.
> 
> Twitter used to pretty much require use of shortened URLs, but they fixed that problem, and now I use full length ones on it.
> 

That's interesting (and I hadn't even thought of that issue). Did they make that change by increaseing the max message length, or do the detect URLs and not count them towards the total msg length, or something else?

On Wednesday, 15 May 2013 at 23:16:02 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> detect URLs and not count them towards the total msg length, or
> something else?

This is basically it. When you post a link to twitter, they detect the url and rewrite it into t.co/whatever shortlink on their end. Then that is used in the message and counts toward the length instead of the original full link.