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Lorem ipsum is valuable precisely because it is meaningless. It is designed to fill space without distracting a pedantic reader who will inevitably find misspe
by slapshot 16y ago
Lorem ipsum is valuable precisely because it is meaningless. It is designed to fill space without distracting a pedantic reader who will inevitably find misspellings and glitches in any preliminary body copy.
It is also really easy to find out if you've left lorem ipsum in your production directory -- one line of grep is all it takes. If you use any other form of fake copy, good luck to you making sure it's all gone before your site goes into production.
- arethuza 16y agoIndeed, in '98 our application was put onto an IBM demo disk of Java applications - we were a VC funded startup and I was the CTO. After we had sent them the stuff to include on the disk a very worried developer came to me and told me that "some of <deleted>'s test data went to IBM". The test data in question had been sourced from some particularly unpleasant alt. newsgroups. I had a genuine "my career is over" moment... Turns out that the only data that got sent out was a reference to the word "sheep" in an search index. That was all. I've tended to be quite careful about test data since then.