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Neat! That link worked for me on the latest Chrome ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't understand how that could be (!).
Perhaps it auto-prepends "www" to it (since that worked for me on FF).
A URL Lengthener
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#93funny project but why are you tracking the people visiting the website??
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#94I was inspired by a certain someone's meandering speech patterns to do something similar some years ago: https://www.biglyurl.com/
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"At least" means more than or equal to. In other words, the 'least' it can be is 100 characters, with no upper bound.
Both sentences require browsers to support 100 characters. Both sentences permit browsers to support 101 characters.
Exactly, they're functionally the same.
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I was on a 12-person failed project, the kind of which you owe millions to the govt. We had a problem with the search, we couldn’t get performance. I told my boss: “See, they wrote ‘The old search responded in 2 seconds. The new search must take at least the same time.’ We could almost add a sleep(2000) before starting the search.” He went with it. They dealt to drop the requirement on the performance of the search o…
Ah yes. Checkbox Driven Development. AKA Monkey Paw Development, where you give exactly what was asked for; it remains surprisingly popular in the government and enterprise spaces.
I've worked in such places. The reason it is that way is because you will receive a broken description/specification/story of what you are supposed to implement. You have a choice to make when that happens, you either implement it as specified or you reject it because it is broken. The problem is that if you do reject it then it will take about 6 months to get back a specification that is broken in another way and then you have to make the same choice...
So after a few iterations you just say "fuck it" and implement it as specified and then hope that you get a chance to fix it before shipping it (or that it doesn't become your headache later on...).
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I don't understand how that could be (!).
Perhaps it auto-prepends "www" to it (since that worked for me on FF).
Found this old comment about it (of course it had to be a long URL)
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#98fun fact. in the browser wars of 1993(?) i looked at the specs from netscape (mozilla dady for the young folks) and microsoft (what w3c? ha!) and netscape release a browser spec that said "X must support up to Y", as in "url must be up to 1024 chars", "cookies must be up to 1mb", etc... then microsoft release IE4 (or 6?) web spec. It was literally a copy of netscape's but with "up to" replaced with "at least". and fr…
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#99Back in the early days of web hosting I recall that a customer had a domain name that was literally as long as ICANN would allow at the time. It was very nearly a full sentence. I don't recall the limit but this domain aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com is 57 characters (not including .com) and I think that sounds familiar. One could have a lot of fun with that if they wanted to (and such as…
It's been years since I've seen or heard an ad for dontbeaweekendparent.com, but I still remember it, even though there's zero chance I'll ever need their services. Sometimes a long domain name can be useful.
howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com
doesthemailruntoday.com
Are the two I like.
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#100I rarely use Discord these days, but when I need to link something next time, I'll use this service. (Discord still doesn't support hyperlinks.)