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by Yver 14y ago
This is the part where you put your money where your mouth is and make a better HN in your favourite language. It isn't rocket science, after all. Right?
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by Yver 14y ago
And in this case, not even "good."
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by Yver 14y ago
This doesn't shock me in the slightest. It's (apparently) a fairly esoteric bug, and the developer openly wonders whether anybody actually care about it being fixed quickly. For that reason, he asked for a proof in the form of one donation
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by Yver 14y ago
To people missing the point: it plants the seed of distrust in kids' minds. This is not an innocent mistake which has no consequences. This is not a "goof." This isn't a character writing a virtual IP tracer in self-computing Visual Basix.
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by Yver 14y ago
Unless we're talking about American Airlines' Lifetime Pass.
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by Yver 14y ago
I'm sorry that I accidentally upvoted this submission. It sounds like unsubstantiated FUD to me.
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by Yver 14y ago
And you conveniently omitted the part where it says "[...] marketed the magnets to adults and teenagers" to focus on the word toy. It's as dishonest as calling for a ban on Ben Wa Balls if a child choked on one. Because you know... they're
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by Yver 14y ago
"give the impression that twitter is somehow at fault"... which it is. This is definitely partly Twitter's fault for craming all of their code as one humongous instruction (comma) rather than multiple lines (semi-colon.) It's also obviously
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by Yver 14y ago
You are arguing in bad faith. The robots.txt from 2008 is a whitelist of 190+ known crawlers. It doesn't include Bing, which was launched in 2009. In 2008, kogan.com was a parked domain. It has nothing to do with the current owner(s).
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by Yver 14y ago
True, but you still have to lift those big meaty legs of yours + the weight of that apparatus.
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by Yver 14y ago
I don't remember having to chop off my legs to use Tiger Woods' golf clubs.
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by Yver 14y ago
Indeed, it's amazing that the same person could say "We are passing a (possibly uninitialized, or null-valued) variable to the function, in hundreds of places and web pages" and "Each of those changes will have to be coded, tested, written-
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by Yver 14y ago
And your point is?
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by Yver 14y ago
It would be nice to give some context here because from what I gather, most of those files (e.g. the CSV files) are given as part of the problem's description. They're Airbnb's property, and I don't know the terms of that "coding challenge"