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>TFA: >> OnlyFans is getting out of the pornography business. >HN: > s/of the pornography //. …is getting out business?

• quickthrowman 5y ago
  Patreon’s 2020 annual net revenue is estimated at $80M. Last year onlyfans did $375M net revenue and 2021 is…was projected at $1.2B Without porn, onlyfans will do maybe $100M in 2022. It’s the difference between a $1.5B valuation and a $20B valuation.
  • jolmg 5y ago
    I think they mean that it should be s/the pornography //, rather than s/of the pornography //, so it's "out of business."
    • dwighttk 5y ago
      But then you still have “getting”
      • majewsky 5y ago
        s/getting \(.* \)the pornography /going \1/ Happy now? :)
• qzw 5y ago
  Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. -- Jamie Zawinski
  • bluepnume 5y ago
    I didn't spot any regexes here.
    • qzw 5y ago
      Matching an exact string is also a valid regex, and I think the GP's simple attempt to use the substitution syntax illustrates JWZ's point even better than a more complex expression. There are so many ways of screwing it up that even a simple joke contained a bug.
    • Banana699 5y ago
      The notation s/<regex1>/<regex2> is perl for "replace every instance matching regex1 by regex2. Literal strings are regexes that match only themselves.
      • bzbarsky 5y ago
        Not just perl. Also sed, which is likely where perl got it from.
        • majewsky 5y ago
          Not just sed. Also ed, which is where sed got it from.
          • bzbarsky 5y ago
            Yes, indeed. :)
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• cryptonector 5y ago
  Ay, yes, I was, you know, just making an off-hand comment.