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Re:Dear “API providers”, I don’t want a relationship. by voyou on Sunday October 07, 2012 @07:59AM (#4623163)
That post is totally wrong, though. There's no way in which URLs with opaque IDs in are better for humans than URLs with stubs. If the stub happens to jog a users memory about the content of the post, it might be useful, and even if it doesn't sum up the post very well, it's still no worse than an opaque ID.
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Re:Dear “API providers”, I don’t want a relationship. by tommorris on Sunday October 07, 2012 @08:04AM (#4623166)
Try writing down "example.org/posts/1234" on a post-it note and then try writing down "example.org/posts/thing-with-a-long-name-with-lots-of-dashes". One is a lot more fun than the other.
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Re:Dear “API providers”, I don’t want a relationship. by 1349615402 on Sunday October 07, 2012 @09:11AM (#4623250)
see http://qntm.org/urls
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