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I had to google for what "^H" meant. Found an interesting answer and backstory: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/386870.html http://answers.goog
by peonicles 7y ago
I had to google for what "^H" meant.
Found an interesting answer and backstory: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/386870.html http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/386870.html
- braythwayt 7y agoCorrect! ^G^G^G We have a winner, folks.
- lostlogin 7y agoI’d prefer ^D^D^G.
- jszymborski 7y agoTIL Google had a Yahoo Answers clone...
- praxulus 7y agoNot exactly a clone, you had to pay to get answers on Google Answers.
- jszymborski 7y ago> "Asker-accepted answers cost $2 to $200. Google retained 25% of the researcher's reward and a 50 cent fee per question. In addition to the researcher's fees, a client who was satisfied with the answer could also leave a tip of up to $100." [0] I'm quickly understanding why I've never heard of Google Answers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Answers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Answers
- chillacy 7y agoIt turns out advertising is still more profitable than charging users.
- itfrombit 7y agoI used to joke that I was going to have "stty erase ^H" etched on my gravestone. It's probably been 25+ years since I've last needed to type that, but I can still hammer it out crazy fast. Sadly, that muscle memory is taking up neurons that'll never be used for anything else.
- B1FF_PSUVM 7y ago> taking up neurons As long as they're not being used to hold "celebrity" biographies ... (Sometimes I'm sad I even remember some names ... There's only so much crap one should be asked to take in to live in society ...)
- papln 7y agoomg how is http://answers.google.com/ http://answers.google.com/ still up and running with a 2-generations obsolete UI framework.
- macspoofing 7y agoBut look how fast it is!!
- kaffeemitsahne 7y agoThanks, saw it in my lecture notes a while ago and figured it was a formatting error...