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Secret message in source code of Digg
- sant0sk1 18y agoNice easter egg! Title is a bit misleading as I clicked on the article thinking Digg had open-sourced the site (which would be pretty rad). The source code in question is the HTML source, not the code that outputs said HTML. Perhaps it would better read "Secret message in Digg's HTML markup".
- gnaritas 18y agoYou mean HTML. Saying HTML markup is rather redundant.
- Prrometheus 18y agoNo, I don't think it is. The noun "L" in HTML is "Language", so "HTML markup" means that the markup is written in the HyperText Markup Language. Now, "HTML Language" would be redundant.
- Hexstream 18y agoUh?... Isn't HyperText Markup Language markup redundant?
- Prrometheus 18y agoNo, you can have markup in plenty of other languages. Thus, the modifier "HTML" adds information to its subject, the "markup". The subject of the modifier is also important, as it makes clear that you are talking about some specific markup written in HTML and not HTML in general.
- gnaritas 18y agoYou're wrong, it's redundant, saying hyper text markup language markup sounds ignorant. Your defense makes zero sense.
- Herring 18y agoGuys, what do you say we dial down the whole power-nerd thing a little bit, okay? This really doesn't matter.
- Hexstream 18y agoYou're being silly. I meant that "Secret in Digg's HTML" is better of course, not "Secret in Digg's markup", which is obviously less precise. But "Secret in Digg's HTML markup" is blatantly redundant. edit: Wouldn't you agree that "Digg's HTML" provides exactly as much information as "Digg's HTML markup"? If so then "markup" is clearly redundant. You're really missing the point by saying that not all markup is HTML. All HTML is markup, it's the HyperText Markup Language. Damn. edit-ps: It's really annoying that I only see my own message when editing, I should see at least the immediate parent also. edit2: "HTML" does add information to "markup", but markup doesn't add information to "HTML". "HTML" is a "strict subset" of "markup".
- Prrometheus 18y agoIt might not be an elegant choice of words, but it is not redundant in the same way that "PIN number" is redundant.
- jules 18y agoWhich one would you remove? Secret message in Digg's HyperText Markup Language Secret message in Digg's HyperText Language Markup
- kajecounterhack 18y agoHahahah same thing happened here. "Secret message in Digg's HTML" works well. Hmm I couldn't help but notice that he uses cutenews. That script hasn't been updated in a while and is vulnerable to script kiddies and ugly cracker people. :(
- charlesju 18y agolol wow, we're such nerds. I love it.
- ojbyrne 18y agoIt's been there since early 2006, and was "discovered" once before.
- hs 18y agohow much does it cost digg in bandwith dollar?
- alex_c 18y agoOK, I'll bite. The message itself is 106 bytes. Digg gets ~70 million US visits per month (Compete), with 50% traffic from the US (Alexa), and average ~5 page views per user (Compete & Alexa). So let's say 700 million page views a month. 700,000,000 * 106 = 74,200,000,000 bytes/month ~= 70 gigabytes/month. Slicehost charges $20 for 100 gigabytes/month. I'm assuming Digg pays for unmetered bandwidth, which should come out to a lot less. So, I guess the answer is - not much.
- ojbyrne 18y agoYou left out the fact that use gzip to compress their pages. So the real answer is - even less.
- alex_c 18y agoYep, I remembered about compression after I posted. So did you have anything to do with this hidden message? :p
- ojbyrne 18y agoI knew about it, not much more than that. Timeless, our dba, put it in (digg user philovivero).
- maximilian 18y agoHow does that work? Is the page sent gzipped and my computer un-gzips it? (and what specifically does that..do browsers do that?)
- ojbyrne 18y agoYep. The browser sends an "Accept-Encoding" header as part of its request (with a list of what it supports). And the server can respond back with one of the encodings listed. Most modern browser support compression I believe.
- adrianwaj 18y agoIt's called a geekstain to me, and I '2.01355321270u 137.03599911 6.6742x10-11m3kg-1s-2 6.6742x10-11m3kg-1s-2' it. The Google logo is also partly one: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_explanation_for_the_Google_logo_colors http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_explanation_for_the_Go...
- kirse 18y agoArticle on Wired -- "How Google Got It's Logo": http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/multimedia/2008/02/gallery_google_logos http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/multimedia/2008/02/gal...
- adrianwaj 18y ago"There were a lot of different color iterations," Kedar says. "We ended up with the primary colors, but instead of having the pattern go in order, we put a secondary color on the L, which brought back the idea that Google doesn't follow the rules." Nice commenting system on Wired: threaded, voting and cut short for quick expansion - needed at TechCrunch. -- Anyhow, I ad-block all logos that I would otherwise regularly see.
- pkrumins 18y agohard to call HTML the "source code" :)
- jyothi 18y agobrilliant. Hats off to philovivero.