http://does_that_mean_you.can.get.around/the-140-character_limit_by_pretending_your_content_is_actually_a_url?


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator@gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

On Thursday, 16 May 2013 at 16:51:13 UTC, Bill Baxter wrote:
> http://does_that_mean_you.can.get.around/the-140-character_limit_by_pretending_your_content_is_actually_a_url?

Sort of. I just tried this

just trying this
http://does_that_mean_you.can.get.around.com/the-140-character_limit_by_pretending_your_content_is_actually_a_url+or+not+because+i+gotta+say+i+don't+really+lnow+this+i+guess+you+prolly+can+and+wow+this+is+one+long+Tweet+but+it+still+says+i+have+99+chars+left?

and it said i still had 99 chars left. But when you post it, the link will show up as something like t.co/stuff so to read the message, people will have to click the link anyway... and at that point you might as well just link to a regular webpage with your text.

I see. So I guess they have some 'within reason' limit on the length of a url they will show in-line.  Makes sense.


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thursday, 16 May 2013 at 16:51:13 UTC, Bill Baxter wrote:
>
>> http://does_that_mean_you.can.**get.around/the-140-character_**
>> limit_by_pretending_your_**content_is_actually_a_url<http://does_that_mean_you.can.get.around/the-140-character_limit_by_pretending_your_content_is_actually_a_url>
>> ?
>>
>
> Sort of. I just tried this
>
> just trying this
> http://does_that_mean_you.can.**get.around.com/the-140-**
> character_limit_by_pretending_**your_content_is_actually_a_**
> url+or+not+because+i+gotta+**say+i+don't+really+lnow+this+**
> i+guess+you+prolly+can+and+**wow+this+is+one+long+Tweet+**
> but+it+still+says+i+have+99+**chars+left<http://does_that_mean_you.can.get.around.com/the-140-character_limit_by_pretending_your_content_is_actually_a_url+or+not+because+i+gotta+say+i+don't+really+lnow+this+i+guess+you+prolly+can+and+wow+this+is+one+long+Tweet+but+it+still+says+i+have+99+chars+left>
> ?
>
> and it said i still had 99 chars left. But when you post it, the link will show up as something like t.co/stuff so to read the message, people will have to click the link anyway... and at that point you might as well just link to a regular webpage with your text.
>

On 05/16/2013 12:19 PM, Bill Baxter wrote:
> I see. So I guess they have some 'within reason' limit on the length of a url they will show in-line.  Makes sense.
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator@gmail.com <mailto:destructionator@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Thursday, 16 May 2013 at 16:51:13 UTC, Bill Baxter wrote:
> 
>         http://does_that_mean_you.can.__get.around/the-140-character___limit_by_pretending_your___content_is_actually_a_url
>         <http://does_that_mean_you.can.get.around/the-140-character_limit_by_pretending_your_content_is_actually_a_url>?
> 
> 
>     Sort of. I just tried this
> 
>     just trying this
>     http://does_that_mean_you.can.__get.around.com/the-140-__character_limit_by_pretending___your_content_is_actually_a___url+or+not+because+i+gotta+__say+i+don't+really+lnow+this+__i+guess+you+prolly+can+and+__wow+this+is+one+long+Tweet+__but+it+still+says+i+have+99+__chars+left
>     <http://does_that_mean_you.can.get.around.com/the-140-character_limit_by_pretending_your_content_is_actually_a_url+or+not+because+i+gotta+say+i+don't+really+lnow+this+i+guess+you+prolly+can+and+wow+this+is+one+long+Tweet+but+it+still+says+i+have+99+chars+left>?
> 
>     and it said i still had 99 chars left. But when you post it, the
>     link will show up as something like t.co/stuff <http://t.co/stuff>
>     so to read the message, people will have to click the link anyway...
>     and at that point you might as well just link to a regular webpage
>     with your text.
> 
> 

I'm sorry, all I heard was "secret messages."

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.
> 
> http://goo.gl/VnDVi
> 

Fantastic talk. I had read about dependency injection before, but ended up dismissing it as "Java-born overengineering". This changed my mind within the first 15 minutes.

Related to what Ben was saying around 34:00-35:00 or so about looking forward with this and being able to say "Oh, XXXX software was made in D, so good chance it's pretty stable": I think a mature version of deject would be a great thing to have in Phobos, building on how well built-in unittests have worked out.