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andrewcooke on Dec 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Portal’s physics engine rebuilt in 25KB—on a graph...

ok, i have to ask - how do you get smiley-face amazon urls?

[update: huh, so it can be arbitrary text. what's it for?]

ygra on Dec 6, 2012 | [–]

I didn't want the original (very long) URL which included the product name at that place (the technical term might be SEO-friendly URLs). So I first replaced it by an underscore to keep it short and then tried whether I can put something nicer in there. This wasn't generated by Amazon ☺

yozmsn on Dec 6, 2012 | [–]

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