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Re: Who owns http://hackerne.ws

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Post by Pistos2 »

apotheon wrote: post #18
simonsarris wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amusingly, all I do is type "n" and then press enter, and Google Chrome takes me here using the normal address.

I typically get as far as "new", but then, I routinely have more than a hundred tabs open in Firefox. If Chrom(e|ium) worked on FreeBSD, I'd probably be using that instead.

I like leaving things open, but I'm really curious how having over 30 tabs is an improved user experience. The most common places I visit are either always etched in the address bar history, and so are reachable in a few keystrokes, or have outright aliases, so I can type a keyword and it transforms into a URL. Everything else is just a handful of keystrokes away, via Selfmarks (my bookmarks-on-the-internet service).

How can you navigate among your tabs with any semblance of ease or speed?

Re: Who owns http://hackerne.ws

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Post by chaosprophet »

rms wrote: post #14
sh1mmer wrote: post #2

If the only reason is shortness of typing, why don't you use a bookmark? Even s60 browsers have those.

With autocomplete, typing can be faster than a bookmark when all you have to do is type "h" then press down and ok.

I just type "Hacker news" into the awesomebar of Firefox and Google does the rest.

Re: Who owns http://hackerne.ws

#24

Post by jey »

erlanger wrote: post #20
ratsbane wrote: post #11

PG could configure the news.ycombinator.com server to return a 301 to any request which has a HOST header that's not news.ycombinator.com - either that or hardcode the domain name in links. I'm sure that Volida's motives are honest as he stated but this practice - buying a domain name that sounds like something popular and setting the A records to the intended site - has the potential to be used maliciously. All you'…

> Of course, the HTTPS pages What HTTPS pages?

The hypothetical ones.

Re: Who owns http://hackerne.ws

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Post by jey »

Pistos2 wrote: post #21
apotheon wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I typically get as far as "new", but then, I routinely have more than a hundred tabs open in Firefox. If Chrom(e|ium) worked on FreeBSD, I'd probably be using that instead.

I like leaving things open, but I'm really curious how having over 30 tabs is an improved user experience. The most common places I visit are either always etched in the address bar history, and so are reachable in a few keystrokes, or have outright aliases, so I can type a keyword and it transforms into a URL. Everything else is just a handful of keystrokes away, via Selfmarks (my bookmarks-on-the-internet service).…

Yeah, I keep hearing of people (esp. power users) using web browsers with hundreds of tabs open, and I don't understand why they need so many, nor how it remains manageable/useful/navigable. When I end up with > 25 tabs, it usually just means I need to run a garbage collection cycle. Whatever the reason is, it's probably some use case(s) that could be better handled by the browser or an extension. Are they using all the tabs as a queue of stuff to read? That's a problem I run into, and I deal with it by keeping a vim buffer open with a list of URLs.

Re: Who owns http://hackerne.ws

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Post by sharjeel »

chaosprophet wrote: post #23
rms wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With autocomplete, typing can be faster than a bookmark when all you have to do is type "h" then press down and ok.

I just type "Hacker news" into the awesomebar of Firefox and Google does the rest.

seems more like a Chuck Norris fact

Re: Who owns http://hackerne.ws

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Post by gila »

ratsbane wrote: post #11

PG could configure the news.ycombinator.com server to return a 301 to any request which has a HOST header that's not news.ycombinator.com - either that or hardcode the domain name in links. I'm sure that Volida's motives are honest as he stated but this practice - buying a domain name that sounds like something popular and setting the A records to the intended site - has the potential to be used maliciously. All you'…

I don't know too much about web whatnots but couldn't this be done through virtualhosts? like say ip/other domains go to nothing or another place, domain.tld/subd.domain.tld goes to the main website?

Or am I mistaken and this circumvents that?

Re: Who owns http://hackerne.ws

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Post by apotheon »

Pistos2 wrote: post #21
apotheon wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I typically get as far as "new", but then, I routinely have more than a hundred tabs open in Firefox. If Chrom(e|ium) worked on FreeBSD, I'd probably be using that instead.

I like leaving things open, but I'm really curious how having over 30 tabs is an improved user experience. The most common places I visit are either always etched in the address bar history, and so are reachable in a few keystrokes, or have outright aliases, so I can type a keyword and it transforms into a URL. Everything else is just a handful of keystrokes away, via Selfmarks (my bookmarks-on-the-internet service).…

I write professionally, and I often have close to a dozen tabs open for research toward the completion of a single article.

Re: Who owns http://hackerne.ws

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Post by biotech »

jey wrote: post #25
Pistos2 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like leaving things open, but I'm really curious how having over 30 tabs is an improved user experience. The most common places I visit are either always etched in the address bar history, and so are reachable in a few keystrokes, or have outright aliases, so I can type a keyword and it transforms into a URL. Everything else is just a handful of keystrokes away, via Selfmarks (my bookmarks-on-the-internet service).…

Yeah, I keep hearing of people (esp. power users) using web browsers with hundreds of tabs open, and I don't understand why they need so many, nor how it remains manageable/useful/navigable. When I end up with > 25 tabs, it usually just means I need to run a garbage collection cycle. Whatever the reason is, it's probably some use case(s) that could be better handled by the browser or an extension. Are they using all…

When I end up with > 25 tabs, it usually just means I need to run a garbage collection cycle.

I agree in theory; that many tabs are pretty difficult to manage. Unfortunately, a garbage collection cycle forces me to focus on garbage collecting (since I will usually have several important sites open among the trash), breaking my concentration on the research. It ends up being more productive to leave them open for a while, until they reach some threshold where I have to do too much work to find the important open sites among the garbage. That point for me is definitely more than 25 but also less than 100. I assume that it's different for different people.

Re: Who owns http://hackerne.ws

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Post by jordyhoyt »

sh1mmer wrote: post #13
helveticaman wrote: post #6

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Sometimes you have to access something from cybercafes. I bought qwertqwert.com so I could access "Dvorak anywhere" quickly with a qwerty keyboard.

Except that you don't seem to be doing anything with it.

protip: www
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