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Re: Programmer excuses

#41
post #9

Great idea, but after trying it dozen times I still didn't get the most common excuse: "works fine on my machine"

I've found "It worked yesterday", it's all of the same vriant.

My personal favourite is "Everything worked fine in the dev environment"

Re: Programmer excuses

#48
Everything looks fine on my end! It looks like its a browser compatibility issue.

Ha! I said both of these this morning. No I am blaming the plugin.

Re: Programmer excuses

#49
post #40

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.

I think Google banned the domain from Adsense. I had a neglected UGC site that gradually became inundated with shady links and content, and this happened to me. Perhaps a site with low clicks and repeated, short-lived ad serves is worth banning.

Re: Programmer excuses

#50
The first time I loaded the page I was expecting some writeup on programmer excuses, instead I was presented with a page that said "Our servers are too slow to cope with the demand" or something similar and I thought "OK, a bit too honest calling their servers slow, but the message is clear" so I decided to wait a bit until HN traffic died down
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