Using a different HTTP response code may be kind of "nerdy", imo, but in a lame junior developer kind of way. BTW- nerds are not as cool as geeks. Trying to ev

Using a different HTTP response code may be kind of "nerdy", imo, but in a lame junior developer kind of way. BTW- nerds are not as cool as geeks. Trying to evaluate the impact of the choice and other potential choices in some sort of quantitative way before making a decision that almost no one could reasonably dispute would have been more respectable, a.k.a. somewhat geeky.