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Shendareon FBI says it won't recommend charges in Clinton case

Happens far too commonly. I'll see a great link in the RSS feed and come to look for discussion about it after reading, but the article will have been removed. I've learned to search site:ycombinator.com with the article's title in order to track it down and see if there was any discussion before it was binned.

Shendareon Toward a URL for every function

A URL for every function on GitHub, at least. Cool idea.

Shendareon 301 redirects: a dangerous one way street (2012)

As a developer, I would definitely consider it unintended behavior if a browser interprets "Page Moved Permanently" to mean "URL Permanently Discontinued".

Shendareon Videogame Publishers: No Preserving Abandoned Games Because “Hacking” Is Illegal

That is brilliant. It would solve the Mickey Mouse Protection Act problem as well.

If megacorps like Disney want to spend millions keeping Mickey Mouse and friends out of the public domain after 100 years, they're free to do so, without keeping things like The Great Gatsby or the Dewey Decimal System locked up for no good reason.