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Joshua Schachter
Personal blog · joshua.schachter.org · on HN as joshuprogrammingwebwriting
Joshua Schachter writes -- joshua schachter's blog, a personal blog at joshua.schachter.org about programming, web and writing. Since 2007, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “Url Shorteners (2009)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Joshua Schachter's 2009 essay arguing against URL shorteners, plus his posts on auto-incrementing primary keys and reverse proxies. Commenters cite them as support for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Url Shorteners (2009)5 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2014-06-02
- The problems with url shorteners4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2009-04-03
- Autoincrement considered harmful4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2008-01-28
- Joshua's blog: put a proxy in front3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2008-09-13
- My fun experiment with Mechanical Turk and behavioral economics2 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2008-09-13
- Joshua Schachter on blogging tools2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-12-22
- Lecture overclocking2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-11-03
- Presentation for art project I did with mechanical turk2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-09-28
- Beyond REST2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-07-28
What Hacker News says?
I'm reasonably sure I predicted this: http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners.html
Comment linking /2009/04/on-url-shorteners.html
on “The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe”Submitted Introducing human.io as a story · 103 points
HN discussionThere's also just tossing a reverse proxy in front of your apache, it hands the problem of slow requests, bad requests, KeepComatose, etc to something lightweight that's a lot more crap-tolerant. http://joshua.schachter.org/2008/01/proxy.html The simpler of these (e.g. pound) take about as much time to set up as scrolling through your apache config looking for some mis-set option.
Comment linking /2008/01/proxy.html
on “Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator”Submitted The problems with url shorteners as a story · 94 points
HN discussionOr you can put a reverse proxy in front. http://joshua.schachter.org/2008/01/proxy.html (Like I suggested in 2009...)
Comment linking /2008/01/proxy.html
on “Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it”Submitted My fun experiment with Mechanical Turk and behavioral economics as a story · 38 points
HN discussioni wrote a thing about this 12 years ago: http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners (hn discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=545565 )
Comment linking /2009/04/on-url-shorteners
on “Link shorteners: the long and short of why you shouldn’t use them”Submitted Beyond REST as a story · 30 points
HN discussionI still think we need to split up hosting, editing, etc: http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/12/blogging-tools.html
Comment linking /2009/12/blogging-tools.html
on “WordPress has left the building”Submitted Lecture overclocking as a story · 26 points
HN discussionI'd argue that link user experience starts before you actually click a link. Maybe when you're deciding whether or not to click? Same reason that URL shorteners are bad UX. Source (creator of Delicious): http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners
Comment linking /2009/04/on-url-shorteners
on “Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, existing users opted in”Submitted Overclocking the lecture: consume recorded lectures much more quickly as a story · 16 points
HN discussionhttp://joshua.schachter.org/2007/01/autoincrement
Comment linking /2007/01/autoincrement
on “List of Y Combinator companies I have worked with (hacked)”Submitted Joshua Schachter: Elevator camera obscura as a story · 9 points
HN discussionIt's a good book. Reading it inspired this: http://joshua.schachter.org/2008/09/amateur-economist.html Curiously, I was a quant before I did delicious.
Comment linking /2008/09/amateur-economist.html
on “I am a junior angel in Silicon Valley. AMA”Submitted Joshua Schachter: Autoincrement considered harmful as a story · 8 points
HN discussioni have been hoping for this for a long time: http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/12/blogging-tools
Comment linking /2009/12/blogging-tools
on “Show HN: I made a platform to publish my Google Docs files as blogs”Submitted Joshua Schachter on blogging tools as a story · 7 points
HN discussionPretty sure I called this one a few years ago. http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners
Comment linking /2009/04/on-url-shorteners
on “The URL shortener situation is out of control”Submitted Orthogonal blogging tools as a story · 5 points
HN discussionCritical article from Apr 2009: on url shorteners -- joshua schachter's blog http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners Print publishers might have a case for URL shorteners but they should own and maintain their own instead of a 3rd party service they can’t control or prevent from disappearing. Plenty of articles in the Communications of the ACM magazine use 3rd party shortened URLs and it’s unacceptable…
Comment linking /2009/04/on-url-shorteners
on “Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available”Submitted The other way as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI also recommend reading Fortune's Formula. I took a stab at Prospect Theory myself: http://joshua.schachter.org/2008/09/amateur-economist.html Took a few hours of work.
Comment linking /2008/09/amateur-economist.html
on “The quiz Daniel Kahneman wants you to fail”Submitted Url Shorteners (2009) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI actually iterated this using mechanical turk a while ago: http://joshua.schachter.org/2008/09/amateur-economist.html People's behavior changes at the dollar price, too. $900 is different from $9 is different from $90000.
Comment linking /2008/09/amateur-economist.html
on “The quiz Daniel Kahneman wants you to fail”Submitted Autoincrement considered harmful as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's taken to a conclusion but not a logical one. A further conclusion based on that 'logic' would be that nothing at all should be made as anything might turn up gone in the future heat death of the universe. Joshua Schachter has a nice summary of the arguments against that you may have seen before: http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners.html Summary of the summary - URL shorteners have poor usabilit…
Comment linking /2009/04/on-url-shorteners.html
on “Tr.im is now in the process of discontinuing service”Submitted An Absolution Exchange and Mechanical Turk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI called this in 2009. URL shorteners are the gift that keep on giving. > We hope the shortener never decides to add interstitials or otherwise "monetize" the link with ads, but we have no guarantee. http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners
Comment linking /2009/04/on-url-shorteners
on “Bit.ly and Viglink Adding Affiliate Cookies on Shortened Links”Submitted Seven on Seven: Guilt Marketplace as a story · 2 points
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