Programmer excuses • Hacker News Board

manmal wrote: post #14

TinamousSteve wrote: post #7

I got 500 Internal Server Error with an additional 404 Not Found for the ErrorDocument, I had to wonder if that was a real excuse or genuine server error! Theirs a certain amount of irony to it anyway.

Actually, that's a feature

That comment really made me laugh.

Re: Programmer excuses

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Post by zerni » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 1:29 PM UTC

"The bug must come from changes colleague XY has made after me! pointingfingers"

Re: Programmer excuses

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Post by joeblau » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 1:32 PM UTC

Where is "It works on my box"? I'm guilty of using that one a few times.

Edit: "It's user error" is another popular one.

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Post by c16 » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 1:41 PM UTC

cruppstahl wrote: post #10

That's an interesting webpage. it has a hidden google ads-field in an iframe. I'm not web-savy enough to fully understand how it works. The "click me as often as you can" contents for sure generate a lot of clicks. genius!

I was wondering why they didn't use jquery/JS to load data from a list rather than reload the page and create more web server hits. This would explain why.

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Post by patorjk » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 1:46 PM UTC

cruppstahl wrote: post #10

That's an interesting webpage. it has a hidden google ads-field in an iframe. I'm not web-savy enough to fully understand how it works. The "click me as often as you can" contents for sure generate a lot of clicks. genius!

I'm not sure its hidden on purpose. There doesn't appear to be any styling to hide it, and when I went to the URL that the inner iframe was linking to (the iframe inside of the iframe), it gave a blank page.