Hate to nit pick but isn't it Gaddafi, or Qaddafi? Edit: So it is, although the correct spelling is already taken.
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Non-Libyan URL Shortener
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#12Hate to nit pick but isn't it Gaddafi, or Qaddafi? Edit: So it is, although the correct spelling is already taken.
Cringely mentioned in a column a while back that Qaddafi didn't particularly care:
“Spell it any way you like, ” he said (in pretty fair English, by the way — something else that seems to have strategically disappeared over the years). “All that matters is spelling it correctly in Arabic.”
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#13Hate to nit pick but isn't it Gaddafi, or Qaddafi? Edit: So it is, although the correct spelling is already taken.
I like the spelling Gadaffi, but here are atleast 112 different ways to spell his full name: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/09/how-many-dif...
Yes well. Looking at that list there seems to be something of a consensus on the -afi. Also just because 112 different spellings have been used, doesn't mean all 112 spellings are correct.
Anyway it's a fun idea and I'm just nit picking.
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#14I tried 5 different URLS, then I realized that it only works if you include http or https.
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#15First post!
You are being downvoted, because your comment does not add anything worthwhile to the discuss/topic. Kindly read the the community guidelines at http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html You may also find http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html by Paul Graham useful.
He crated that account about a minute before making that post, and likely never had any intention of using it again. (Or in other words, don't worry about it, and let moderation do its thing ;)
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#16While it is a funny play on all those .ly domains and the fact that vb.ly got seized by the Libyan government, it is my opinion that yet another URL shortener is a stupid way of protest.
Let me explain: I work with the Urlteam, a group of people that saves shorturl->longurl mappings for a bunch of shorteners. The typical life cycle of small shorteners is this:
- URL shortener opens, gets some praise for weird feature that bit.ly doesn't have.
- People actually don't care about feature and continue to use bit.ly.
- Spammers discover the shortener and abuse it.
- Owner closes the shortener because he can't deal with the spam.
All that remains are some non-functional links.
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#17I think it should add http:// if it's missing.. I wasn't sure what wasn't working at first when trying www.google.com.
Also, I find gadaf.fi really hard to remember.
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#18Or just use j.mp, it's the same as bit.ly just without the dependence on the Libya TLD.
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#19Hate to nit pick but isn't it Gaddafi, or Qaddafi? Edit: So it is, although the correct spelling is already taken.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/09/how-many-dif... or any of those! :)
And the corresponding regexp ;)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5365283/regular-expressio...
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#20I don't consider this a nice move. I actually hate it. It's like Gaddafi is going to stand longer than that and that we should only boycott him. We ought better supporting the rebellion or the people who are under the fire.
-- Misrata (24 April): http://www.facebook.com/media/set/fbx/?set=a.101501680318019...