For at least the last fifteen years I've believed my ICQ account was lost forever, however seeing your post now I decided one last time to try logging in by guessing the password. And it worked!! I can see my old friends list! What a weirdly uplifting feeling!
This is hilarious, but I think the most mature thing to do would have been to detect if the site is inside an iframe and if so add a polite link saying "click here to go to sqword.com and play this game ad free".
I get the sense that that isn't really his goal. He makes clear it's just a fun passion project, and this sounds like an equally fun (to him) way of retaliating against those taking advantage of it.
He mentioned that he found the imposters when a coworker happened across them on a search result page. Does Google apply penalties to the imposter sites’ search rankings when they serve shock content rather than what was being searched for?
It seems like that might reduce real users’ confusion as they try to find the real “sqword” puzzle.
In a roundabout way, it likely would halt users unable to find the real domain from accessing the thieves' websites again. That narrows down the search for the real domain by one!
On the other hand, they probably will get an influx of HN users now. If they had used a tamer approach, I doubt this post would have the amount of points it has now.
216,000 sounds like a lot. Does that make French Catholic priests more or less likely historically to be abusers than the average adult male? Can't get outraged until I find out.
Or you could be outraged regardless of the ratio. Additionally, don't forget the Catholic church purposefully not reporting these incidents to the authorities and actively covering it up; instead moving the priest to a new town to abuse new kids. That seems like it should cause plenty of outrage in us all.
Just that an article saying "group did evil thing X times" doesn't say anything good or bad about the group to me if I don't know how many times you would expect from any other similarly sized sample of people.
And screw the people who actually live there, right?
A better way to think about this is to consider the case of Saint Pierre et Miquelon, which are two islands off the coast of Canada -- literally 19 km away, and so much closer than the Falklands are to Argentina. They are French territory, inhabited by French citizens. And (aside from occasional disagreements about who gets to explore for undersea resources in the vicinity of the islands) Canada really doesn't seem to have a problem with this, because (in this area, at least) Canada is a more mature nation than Argentina.
There's no such right and even if there was, it would lead to perverse situations such as Britain getting to claim Calais which is closer to London than Paris (94 miles versus 147!).
There are the Channel Islands, but perhaps you could claim that the Channel Islands were the ones to occupy England and not vice versa since they were part of Normandy!
Sorry, I was trying to satirise the argument for why it should be Argentinian, where the fundamental (but generally unsaid) reason is "because it's close to us".
And as we all know, national borders are decided by plotting capitals on a map and running a mathematical process to minimise distance from capital, right?
I could be wrong but it looks like Opera introduced tabs in 2009 with v10.5 while Firefox's first release was in 2002. Unless we're referring to different things.
It's obviously super hazy, but it's worth clarifying that being developed in the lab != originating from the lab.
From what I've heard on Chinese social media, there are a bunch of plausible sounding theories.
For a lot of jobs in China, it's expected that there's moderate incompetence or grift.
For example, say the lab has a bunch of extra animal samples (mice, bats, w/e). Someone in the cleaning staff could make a few extra $ by selling those samples to a wholesaler at the local wetmarket (to be turned into dogfood, etc.); maybe they only meant to sell the clean samples, but got things mixed up.
If I’m walking down the street and get surprised with a punch in the face I assume it was intentional, even if there are many scenarios in which it could be accidental.
Why not? There are multiple hurricanes every single year, but I still hear about them. Especially the ones that might affect my area.
But it might be more like: "Yet another hurricane cause by weather." Not really a story, since they all have been. The opposite, though, that'd be a real story: "Hurricane not caused by weather!"
Agreed entirely. I inherited a system with 50k lines of unreliable shell scripts. I figured out ways to unit test them, do mocking, and pushed developers to unit test their scripts. I even wrote long articles of best practices for writing reliable scripts, including massive lists of gotchas.
Eventually I realised it was a lost cause and really you just shouldn't use shell scripts for anything that you want to be reliable above a trivial level of complexity.
That was with PowerShell, but I wouldn't be surprised if the same applies to bash as well.
