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Any idea why they don't name the app?
by hackonr 6y ago
Any idea why they don't name the app?
- segfaultbuserr 6y agoWikimedia is simply trying to be polite and not to publicly shame the company.
- luckystarr 6y agoIt could provoke an angry mob, which doesn't help anybody.
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoGiven that it doesn't display it, and that the image u.r.i. is frequently used in example code rather than something with example.com, it was almost certainly an innocent mistake of copying example code.
- lifthrasiir 6y agoIn addition to that, one of the culprits here is a widespread sample code that was carelessly copied to a popular app. Shaming does penalize the other culprit but not that one.
- Thiez 6y agoSurely the code sample is not to blame here? Or do you truly think the author of the sample is also deserving of being called a "culprit"?
- lifthrasiir 6y agoJust to be clear, I don't think every author using this image for their sample code is to blame. I'm specifically looking for someone using the public Wikimedia CDN for speed tests [1] and I think that someone is probably the sample code author. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26073450 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26073450 has located the actual app and intended purpose, for your information.