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aeson Ask HN: I built it, "they" didn't come...

Let me give you some feedback for isshort.com.

1. The landing page does not tell what the service is for and who is it for.

On the first look, it looks like just another URL shortener - but why would I use it over something like 3.ly or j.mp?

2. I tried to read the explanation but bored out. I don't care what "healthy link shortening" is or what rev="canonical" does. The blog post is longwinded and filled with jargon and terms I don't understand. "Publisher"? Am I a "publisher"? Do I want to be? What is the target audience? Am I in the target audience? It's difficult to find out.

3. I put in "google.com" and out comes INVALID_URI.

4. Not having a "Submit" button feels somehow awkward. I'm not sure what I should do in order to shorten the URL. I eventually discovered that pressing Enter and clicking on the "isn't short" text works, but I'd feel better with a "Submit" button.

aeson HN Domain Exchange: Add your unused domains

Indeed - I see that ycombinator.com is up for trade on that spreadsheet.

You might want to send a confirmation to the legitimate contact email address obtained through whois before accepting exchange propositions.

P.S. domainnameexchange.com seems to be available

aeson Chmod -x chmod

The simplest way I could figure out was:

cp sh chmod.new

cp chmod chmod.new

aeson Actual drawbacks to omitting semi-colons?

On the "if we were to design a programming language" level, it seems that a feature like ASI (Automatic Semicolon Insertion) is not only useless but even harmful. Every programmer is required to learn the rules of the mechanism in order to understand others' code. Furthermore, it needlessly increases the amount of possible programming styles, which, in my opinion, is a bad thing.

C programmers have always used semicolons and never wasted a second thinking whether they should.

aeson Don't Be Ugly By Accident

Judging from the following statistic, iPhone has officially won the smart phone war:

http://cdn.okcimg.com/blog/camera/SexAndSmartPhonesByAge.png

aeson Symbian-Guru.com Is Over

However, these transitions simply take a long time. Apple purchased NeXT in late 1996, and the first usable Mac OS X release appeared almost five years later.

Also, Apple had Steve Jobs.

This does not look good for Nokia.

aeson Ooc - modern object oriented c

I quite like the one you get when you google for "ooc":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_character

On a serious note: if you label your language as a C, people will be expect C syntax.

I once stumbled upon BitC, but was disappointed because it looked like LISP.