6 Y Combinator Startups I Would Have Invested In Back Then

Re:6 Y Combinator Startups I Would Have Invested In Back Then by Anon84 on Friday August 01, 2008 @12:32PM (#264160)

Dupe. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=264139

Well... that's one more bug in the duplication detection routine. Apparently adding a "/" to a url causes it to count as a different one.

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Re:6 Y Combinator Startups I Would Have Invested In Back Then by dshah on Friday August 01, 2008 @12:49PM (#264178)

Well, technically, adding a "/" at the end of something is a different URL.

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Re:6 Y Combinator Startups I Would Have Invested In Back Then by Anon84 on Friday August 01, 2008 @03:01PM (#264321)

Indeed... but in this particular case the "/" was added in the middle where it has no effect:

http://onstartups.com/home/tabid/3339/bid/6119//6-Y-Combinat...

http://onstartups.com/home/tabid/3339/bid/6119/6-Y-Combinato...

Notice the "//" before the filename in the first version.

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Re:6 Y Combinator Startups I Would Have Invested In Back Then by xlnt on Friday August 01, 2008 @01:53PM (#264258)

The point is that we don't want duplicate content, even if it's at slightly different URLs.

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Re:6 Y Combinator Startups I Would Have Invested In Back Then by boucher on Friday August 01, 2008 @03:01PM (#264320)

I think the counter-point was that it may actually be different content. How often that is the case, I don't know, but assuming it will never happen doesn't necessarily seem like a great idea.

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Re:6 Y Combinator Startups I Would Have Invested In Back Then by xlnt on Friday August 01, 2008 @03:14PM (#264340)

Maybe the system should actually check what's at each page.

And you should read more carefully. I did not suggest the thing you say is a bad idea.

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