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Broco



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:39 am        Reply with quote

Man, fucking middlebrow newspaper columnists.

Their idea of good writing is using the simplest possible words, beginning and ending their article with an "enticing" introduction and conclusion like their 3rd-grade English teacher taught them.

Also, putting every sentence in a separate paragraph for no fucking reason.

His column complains near-exclusively about WiFi yet blames "high-tech" in general.

I wonder what kind of "award" he won, Southwest Richmond columnist of the month?
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Broco



Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:14 am        Reply with quote

Yeah, I spent a few minutes trying to figure out how that link got there. It seems to be taking the link from the referer and storing it in a server-side temporary session variable indexed by the ID "oasPN" in the URL.

It's a pretty WTFy way of doing things. It leads to lots of strange potential side effects like the selectbutton link, and also if you wait 5 minutes and then reload the link disappears entirely. An incompetent Java servlet programmer wrote this...
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