Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings

#1

Post by WilhelmJ » Tue, Aug 02, 2011, 1:48 PM UTC

Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings
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Re: Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings

#2

Post by ColinWright » Tue, Aug 02, 2011, 2:15 PM UTC

Recent submissions of this item:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2826345 : 2 days ago - no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825759 : 3 days ago - no comments

That latter item has the exact same URL except for a "#" at the end - I wonder if it was added deliberately to thwart the HN duplicate detector.

Re: Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings

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Post by geekam » Tue, Aug 02, 2011, 2:35 PM UTC

ColinWright wrote: post #2

Recent submissions of this item: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2826345 : 2 days ago - no comments http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825759 : 3 days ago - no comments That latter item has the exact same URL except for a "#" at the end - I wonder if it was added deliberately to thwart the HN duplicate detector.

I did not know there was a duplicate detector now.

Re: Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings

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Post by ColinWright » Tue, Aug 02, 2011, 2:37 PM UTC

geekam wrote: post #3

ColinWright wrote: post #2

Recent submissions of this item: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2826345 : 2 days ago - no comments http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825759 : 3 days ago - no comments That latter item has the exact same URL except for a "#" at the end - I wonder if it was added deliberately to thwart the HN duplicate detector.

I did not know there was a duplicate detector now.

There has always been a duplicate detector. If you submit an identical URL, instead of a submission, you upvote the original version and get shown that page.

Re: Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings

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Post by wccrawford » Tue, Aug 02, 2011, 3:05 PM UTC

ColinWright wrote: post #4

geekam wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did not know there was a duplicate detector now.

There has always been a duplicate detector. If you submit an identical URL, instead of a submission, you upvote the original version and get shown that page.

It doesn't always work, though. Sometimes it will still create a new post, even with an identical URL.

Re: Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings

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Post by ColinWright » Tue, Aug 02, 2011, 3:39 PM UTC

wccrawford wrote: post #5

ColinWright wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There has always been a duplicate detector. If you submit an identical URL, instead of a submission, you upvote the original version and get shown that page.

It doesn't always work, though. Sometimes it will still create a new post, even with an identical URL.

I suspect it only works for items in the cache, and anything old enough and not recently referenced might only be on disk and not get checked.