If You Spend Your Time Wisely, A Week From Now You Will Realise That You Are an Idiot (opens in new tab)

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19 pointsanthonyrubin17y ago9 comments

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tokenadult17y ago· 4 in thread

All right, here's where I see the problem with the current way that HN displays the source URLs of submitted articles. To say (google.com) is the source of this submitted article is misleading. Yes, I did mouse over the article title to see the full URL, but this behavior prevents rapid viewing of the newest submitted articles in the most user-friendly way.

P.S. I'm not sure I agree with the advice in the submitted article, either.

10ren17y ago

I just noticed that I've started assuming that "google.com" articles aren't from google, but one of the services it hosts (not just docs, there's also google groups).

Given the likely trajectory of growth of google docs etc, this is probably not a bad shift, to start seeing "google" as a hoster (like aol or tripod), rather than an entity itself. They are diluting their brand.

CalmQuiet17y ago

And it's also the problem with obscure urls (...Doc?id=dcfqz3h7_226gbbhd7dx) and Tiny URL schemes.

Should I know the author of that introspective look at procrastination, hacking, and "continuing (browser-based) education"?

sc17y ago

Official Google are usually hosted on "blogspot.com" (googleblog.blogspot.com).

akkartik17y ago

Also, perhaps google docs URLs are more likely to get deleted at the whim of the author. I hate broken links.

DenisM17y ago· 1 in thread

But how would I find this article if I didn't read HN? :-)

CalmQuiet17y ago

Which also brings up the fact that browsing HN raises my awareness of my ignorance... across the broad range of Hacking topics that impact my work: topics that I don't know I need educating about until I read about others struggles and revelations. [My own weak coding practices won't expose to me their weakness -- except through expensive errors.]

sc17y ago

Yes, you may come across a cool idiom to use in your code by procrastinating and reading blogs. You may also come across a cool idiom by coding, looking at your code and thinking: how could I do this better; share your code with someone you could learn from, or read a book or two on your language of choice.

Don't make excuses for your procrastination. Accept that procrastination is sometimes just a fun alternative to what you need to get done. Luckily, the end of the article shies away from the bombastic title.

est17y ago

little offtopic, https plz:

https://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcfqz3h7_226gbbhd7dx

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9 comments · 4 top-level

tokenadult17y ago· 4 in thread

P.S. I'm not sure I agree with the advice in the submitted article, either.

10ren17y ago

I just noticed that I've started assuming that "google.com" articles aren't from google, but one of the services it hosts (not just docs, there's also google groups).

CalmQuiet17y ago

And it's also the problem with obscure urls (...Doc?id=dcfqz3h7_226gbbhd7dx) and Tiny URL schemes.

Should I know the author of that introspective look at procrastination, hacking, and "continuing (browser-based) education"?

sc17y ago

Official Google are usually hosted on "blogspot.com" (googleblog.blogspot.com).

akkartik17y ago

Also, perhaps google docs URLs are more likely to get deleted at the whim of the author. I hate broken links.

DenisM17y ago· 1 in thread

But how would I find this article if I didn't read HN? :-)

CalmQuiet17y ago

sc17y ago

est17y ago

little offtopic, https plz:

https://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcfqz3h7_226gbbhd7dx

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse