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Seeing rejection as guidance from everyone helps me.
I'm no good to anyone bashing a keyboard for peanuts.
My would be boss is in the way of something bigger and better coming along removing the busy work.
Why hold up the heavy equipment just so some rich jerk can pay serfs a dollar for smurfing the vineyard?
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curl -I https://frenxi.com/http-headers-you-dont-expect/ also works for this.
Sends a HEAD request instead of a GET, and the output goes to STDERR, so I prefer the parent's suggestion.
curl -IXGET https://frenxi.com/http-headers-you-dont-expect/
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Sends a HEAD request instead of a GET, and the output goes to STDERR, so I prefer the parent's suggestion.
curl -IXGET https://frenxi.com/http-headers-you-dont-expect/ then. All three pop out on STDOUT & this one is shorter with less to remember.
I had a similar idea for financing Open Source software projects. The contributing sponsors would get their URL and add-text into a comment at the top of the source-code. The bigger your sponsorship the higher up in the list your company will be. The adds would of course be targeted at hackers, such as come work for us, since only hackers read source-code. So it would be a very targeted ad (like the http-header thing…
> only hackers read source-code maybe I'm behind the times, but is 'hacker' now colloquial to mean 'anyone who codes'? Plenty of normal software engineers / devs, who are by no means 'hackers' (myself included) read the source code.
I agree that definition of "hacker" is somewhat vague but mostly people understand it the same way depending on context.
I assume that reason dedicated programmers are called hackers is that earlier the the word "hack" referred to writers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_writer
What the hack, there's even a pub called "Old Hack"
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g188644-d10512...
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Don't do it. People will hate you for it... and never, ever let you live it down. :-/
He's speaking from experience. But, if your circumstances aren't exactly the same, the outcome may be different. Credits pages in software, accessible from the main UI, used to be very common, and having names there -- or embedded in source code -- doesn't violate a user expectation. Server software sending 'Server:' headers also doesn't violate user expectation, though some people prefer to turn these off. Custom he…
Surely. But a link in a comment to a supporter who helped finance the project is not really "behavior" is it? It is not part of the program that executes.
So it is not "undesired behavior" since it is not behavior at all.
But is it "undesired" in other ways?
If you put in a copyright notice into the source code, that is a kind of advertising for whoever's name is in it. Often comments contain links to the website of whoever maintains the source-code. Is that undesired? If not then what would be so undesirable about putting in a link to the website of whoever supported the project financially.
And if they paid for that, they would be supporting the project financially. And in the end isn't that what we want, financial support for Open Source projects?
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A perfect "be sure to drink your Ovaltine" moment! If anyone is unfamiliar, it refers to the movie "A Christmas Story". The moment here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdA__2tKoIU I first saw that movie a only a couple years ago and quickly realized how many pop culture references come from it. It does such a good job of capturing a period of time in North America. Even before I saw the movie, eating out at a Chines…
This is great, thanks. I haven't seen this movie or heard of it. This scene is delivered very well and really explains the 'be sure to drink your ovaltine' concept
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Seems meta. As far as references to ads in movies I enjoy Demolition Man. I loop the classy cover of the jingle for Jolly Green Giant from time to time to endear me to my (close) colleagues. It's burnt deep, whelp time for a listen.
Fascinating aside on Demolition Man: some versions have all restaurants as Pizza Hut rather than Taco Bell [1]. The version I saw as a kid was Pizza Hut, so when I said “in the future all restaurants are Pizza Hut”, a friend said “you mean Taco Bell” and we both learned something :). > For some non-American releases, references to Taco Bell were changed to Pizza Hut. This includes dubbing, plus changing the logos dur…