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getluky.net
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getluky.net is a personal blog at getluky.net about programming, web and design. Since 2007, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “301 Redirects: The Horror That Cannot Be Uncached”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Gordon Luk's blog, linked for posts on 301 redirects, microformats and how slowly large companies change. Commenters call a microformats post excellent and a piece on corporate timescales good.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- 301 Redirects: The Horror That Cannot Be Uncached2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-18
What Hacker News says?
I'm surprised they went live with this without an expiration date on their permanent redirects. Now there's no way back, even if anything breaks. Looks like an unintentional Big Bang launch to me. http://getluky.net/2010/12/14/301-redirects-cannot-be-undon/ http://mark.koli.ch/set-cache-control-and-expires-headers-on...
Comment linking /2010/12/14/301-redirects-cannot-be-undon/
on “How The Guardian successfully moved its domain to theguardian.com”Submitted 301 Redirects: The Horror That Cannot Be Uncached as a story · 2 points
HN discussionUntil recently, one of the biggest publishers of such microdata (in its earlier incarnation, microformats) was Upcoming.org, an events startup acquired by Yahoo. Gordon Luk, the lead engineer, wrote an excellent post describing his frustrations with microformats: [...] my experience with being a microformat publisher has shown that things are exponentially more complex than they let on in the “sales pitch.” -- http:…
Comment linking /2009/01/08/a-warning-about-the-real-cost-of-microformats/
on “HTML5 Microdata: Why isn't anyone talking about it?”Submitted Done It Before, Stupid as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou're anthropomorphizing. Giant corporations don't react at the human time scale. Anything you see coming out of the corp today has been under development for months, if not years. A soon-to-be-ex-colleague wrote a good piece on this recently. http://getluky.net/2008/03/04/is-the-ie8-standards-mode-a-re...
Comment linking /2008/03/04/is-the-ie8-standards-mode-a-result-of-politics/
on “Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web - Expect The Internet To Organize Itself In A Hurry”Submitted What if your job title was about the motion you engage in daily? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ethics of Data Transformation and Republishing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Avatars (w/ many examples) as a story · 1 points
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