DConf 2013 Day 1 Talk 4: Writing Testable Code in D by Ben Gertzfield

Nick Sabalausky SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com
Wed May 15 16:15:52 PDT 2013


On Wed, 15 May 2013 14:18:30 -0700
Walter Bright <newshound2 at 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?



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