This is an awesome idea! Is there any way to create a randomized list weighted with popularity (so for a given tag you can refresh to find new links, but still ones likely to be interesting)?
The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow
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#32The javascript entry doubles as a Table of Contents for the jQuery API. Totally unsurprising
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#33The javascript entry doubles as a Table of Contents for the jQuery API. Totally unsurprising
looks like the android entry then.
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#34Saved the link in my favorites and there was no "The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow" in the description, in my opinion it should have.
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#35I'd be interested in seeing what happens when you bucket citations by domain instead of URL. Google Analytics counts over a thousand unique referring SO pages to Cocoa Controls ( http://www.cocoacontrols.com ) this year alone. But, of course, most of the links back to my site are long tail.
Great idea, will try and look at that next.
Another good reason to do this is for example the android tag. Most of the top results are Android documentation for basic classes like ASyncTask and Activity. If I could filter out google domains I'd be left with interesting links related to Android.
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#36Are these links from only 2013? It would be interesting to see what the top links are by year/month or something too.
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#37Top Objective-C link points to ASIHTTPRequest, an obsolete networking library that is no longer supported (and even its developer recommends against using it).
Right but there's a lot of people still maintaining code that has it implemented and also a lot of tutorials that people are using that likely use that framework.
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#38Great work. I am sure this would be useful if there was a filter on official documentation sites like jquery or php.net etc.
In the spirit of HN, how does it work and what powers it? :)
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
You learn something every day. I was sure URLs are not case sensitive until now. While domain names are not case-sensitive, the rest of the URL might be. In our example, this would be everything that follows “.com” as in wisegeek.com/are-urls-case-sensitive.htm.
Think about it, the host server gets the path string raw, it's up to it how to interpret it.
Ideally, it would do a redirect to the ‘canonical’ resource (all lowercase, e.g.), so that the browser only has to cache stuff once – but that would take another request at least once. Is there some way for the server to serve the content and redirect in the same reply? As in ‘Here’s your picture, but it is really called foo.jpg rather than FOO.jpg’?
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#40This is very cool!
This only a minor quibble but when you've selected e.g. C and then C++, the 'x' to remove one or other tag from the search results is nearly invisible. I only found it because I've used a similar 'x' box before on a different site to remove results.