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Python doesn’t do any implicit coercion (apart from ints and floats etc), right?
Well, booleans are integers, so you can do: >>> True + 1 2
fizzbuzz = lambda n: [print((“fizz” * m % 3 == 0) + (“buzz” * m % 5 == 0) or m) for m in range(n)]
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How could such an account have been created?
MVP mania perhaps? You know, the old chestnut about "You have to get the shoddiest, most ethereal, stuck together with sticky tape and chewing gum version of your app out there to get market validation before you do some serious development work on it" ideology that is always being touted in the startup world... It tends to lead to this sort of technical debt.
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How could such an account have been created?
MVP mania perhaps? You know, the old chestnut about "You have to get the shoddiest, most ethereal, stuck together with sticky tape and chewing gum version of your app out there to get market validation before you do some serious development work on it" ideology that is always being touted in the startup world... It tends to lead to this sort of technical debt.
Basic validation is something I've always pushed for even for MVPs as that often goes hand in hand with platform security (another thing I still push for in MVPs)
How big is twitter’s engineering department? Their mobile website doesn’t even load the content of the tweet. Yesterday it was throwing an error that the api was rate limited. For their own site! They’ve been systematically destroying their own foundation by alienating the developer community for years and they can’t even get their own product to work reliably.
Twitter came up with the ui framework "Bootstrap" long ago and it was a game changer for responsive frontend layouts.
Reminds me on the old Commodore 64 Quantum-Link service (former version of AOL), there was a hack called 'Q-Armor' where you could get a username of all spaces, and no sysops or any chat room managers could kick you, or do anything to your account.
people griefing in online games (hacks/aimbots) often run with nicks like ||||||||||II||I|||||||||||||II1111|||||||IIIIIIIIII||||||||||||
I guess Github does the same:
Reddit has the nice /u/... thing, but I suppose that is a bit awkward when saying URLs out loud.
Michael from Vsauce mentioned this on his Twitter today and mere minutes later @ replied "Hiya!" and I burst out laughing. https://twitter.com/tweetsauce/status/989899710176509952
This XKCD[1] to my mind. [1] https://xkcd.com/1963/
It seems a bit gross when usernames and normal pages are mashed into the same namespace, e.g. https://twitter.com/search I guess Github does the same: https://github.com/pulls Reddit has the nice /u/... thing, but I suppose that is a bit awkward when saying URLs out loud.