Haha that is epic.
Probably the worst URL scheme ever
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#12The elephant in the room here of course is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=b7VO4wED8MRumCeiX5fCnF
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#13This is nitpicking, but the worst URL scheme is actually smb:
And the worse mime type is an unfunny one.
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#14The elephant in the room here of course is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=b7VO4wED8MRumCeiX5fCnF
True. This hash should be appended like so:
https://news.ycombinator.com/page3/x?fnid=b7VO4wED8MRumCeiX5...
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#15LinkedIn URLs are by far the worst. For example, the first profile that came up when I searched for Paul Graham:
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#16Haha that is epic. EDIT: I apologise for the really bad comment. I have read the rules now and will only put high quality posts from now on. Thankyou.
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#17Ehy, i see nothing wrong here.
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#18Take THAT, evil web crawlers! Maybe they are trying to get poorly-written spiders to crash when they hit the site?
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#19Can anyone tell the advantages of having unreadable URLs like this? The only thing I can think of is reducing bandwidth usage through short URLs :)
And reducing bandwidth via a brilliant anti-SEO strategy.
* Useless URLS? Check.
* Eye-gougingly ugly design? Check.
* Densely packed content with tiny font? Check.
And have lots of fun reading the source.
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#20LinkedIn URLs are by far the worst. For example, the first profile that came up when I searched for Paul Graham: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=23081590&authTyp...
Yes, all those *2s could easily have been optimised into a left shift operator.