"Nothing like this will be built again"
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"Nothing like this will be built again"
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Re: "Nothing like this will be built again"
#2Mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:S384WfJ...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2140900
Re: "Nothing like this will be built again"
#3Mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:S384WfJ... Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2140900
And previous previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=569564
Seems like quite the evergreen.
Re: "Nothing like this will be built again"
#4Looks like whoever posted this got around the repost limit by appending a '?' to the end of the url. Someone should fix that.
Re: "Nothing like this will be built again"
#5Looks like whoever posted this got around the repost limit by appending a '?' to the end of the url. Someone should fix that.
You can resubmit a link after a year, I think?
In any event, there's no way to block resubmissions programatically: the site owner could just change the name of the file.
Re: "Nothing like this will be built again"
#6Looks like whoever posted this got around the repost limit by appending a '?' to the end of the url. Someone should fix that.
You can resubmit a link after a year, I think? In any event, there's no way to block resubmissions programatically: the site owner could just change the name of the file.
Or people could append random query parameters, HN would have no way of detecting that http://example.com/?foo, http://example.com/?bar and http://example.com/?baz points to the same article.
No need to change anything on the webpage.
Re: "Nothing like this will be built again"
#7Looks like whoever posted this got around the repost limit by appending a '?' to the end of the url. Someone should fix that.
Looks like whoever posted this got around the repost limit by appending a '?' to the end of the url. Someone should fix that.
Yeah, because we should never, ever be subjected to the same content twice. After all, this is Hacker News, not Hacker Olds, amirite?
(Sorry for the snark. I have been reading Hacker News for several years, and I don't recollect having read this article before. I enjoyed it, I upvoted it, and I'm glad it was reposted.)
Re: "Nothing like this will be built again"
#8Nothing like it will be built again because a) successive British governments over the last 30 years have buried their heads in the sand over energy policy[1] and b) we as a country don't do actual engineering anymore. Both a and b mean that our energy future likes wholly in the hands of France!
[1] Say what you like about Thatcher, at least she had a halfway coherent energy story.
Re: "Nothing like this will be built again"
#9Looks like whoever posted this got around the repost limit by appending a '?' to the end of the url. Someone should fix that.
You can resubmit a link after a year, I think? In any event, there's no way to block resubmissions programatically: the site owner could just change the name of the file.
The page content's hash or any other blueprint (an arbitrary regex match) could be checked against for resubmissions. For convenience, if resubmission should be detected, the original post could be topped on the frontpage nevertheless, because old material may as well be worth revisiting for several reasons -- I for one had missed this article before, and enjoyed it reading greatly now.
Re: "Nothing like this will be built again"
#10Looks like whoever posted this got around the repost limit by appending a '?' to the end of the url. Someone should fix that.
Whew, that was a close call. Still shaking. I can't believe I almost read the same thing twice.