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Re: XKCD: Meeting

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Post by aselzer »

tessierashpool wrote: post #30
aselzer wrote: post #15

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dig companyname.website companyname.website. 3217 IN A 184.168.221.2 curl -i -i http://companyname.website Location: http://xkcd.com Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Yes, it's a redirect. The domain is registered on GoDaddy and uses a domain anonymizer (you can't see who really registered it).

xkcd runs on IIS? I haven't seen an IIS header since 1997.

He probably just created a redirect in the domain host's web interface.

Just checked, and xkcd runs lighttpd.

Re: XKCD: Meeting

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Post by tessierashpool »

aselzer wrote: post #31
tessierashpool wrote: post #30

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xkcd runs on IIS? I haven't seen an IIS header since 1997.

He probably just created a redirect in the domain host's web interface. Just checked, and xkcd runs lighttpd.

thanks. that makes more sense. probably the registrar uses IIS, then.

got a downvote for that, btw. weirdest downvote ever. maybe I upset some hardcore IIS fan or something?

Re: XKCD: Meeting

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Post by p4bl0 »

dceddia wrote: post #16
frikk wrote: post #2

I'm curious as to why/how this post thinks the URL is (companyname.website)? It's obviously from the comic, but I'm curious about the mechanics. edit: derp. the url points directly at companyname.website and my Chrome build has a bug that prevented me from seeing that.

As an XKCD comic, I thought this one was just ok, but what made me post it to HN was when I went to check the availability of companyname.website and found out it redirected to the comic :)

I did the same thing this morning with the intention of recreating the web page from the first panel of the comic, but someone beat me to it to make this redirection (which have to admit I find less cool than my (and I guess many others) idea).

Re: XKCD: Meeting

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Post by lucideer »

anonymfus wrote: post #19
probably_wrong wrote: post #14

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Explain XKCD usually does a pretty good job at explaining what's going on: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1493 (bla, bla, obligatory notice about explaining jokes and dissecting frogs here)

It explains jokes on all panels of the episode, but I cannot find a joke connecting panels together.

If you read all the http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Comics_fe... , many/most of them follow similar themes to this. It's more of a continuation of a character than a self-contained joke.

Re: XKCD: Meeting

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Post by libria »

tessierashpool wrote: post #32
aselzer wrote: post #31

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He probably just created a redirect in the domain host's web interface. Just checked, and xkcd runs lighttpd.

thanks. that makes more sense. probably the registrar uses IIS, then. got a downvote for that, btw. weirdest downvote ever. maybe I upset some hardcore IIS fan or something?

According to Netcraft, IIS (Microsoft) has about 27% marketshare, and I occasionally see an ASPX extension every now and then. No good reason you wouldn't see an IIS header, but I don't know why someone would downvote you for not noticing things.

[1]http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/01/15/january-2015-we...

Re: XKCD: Meeting

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Post by [deleted] »

tessierashpool wrote: post #32
aselzer wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He probably just created a redirect in the domain host's web interface. Just checked, and xkcd runs lighttpd.

thanks. that makes more sense. probably the registrar uses IIS, then. got a downvote for that, btw. weirdest downvote ever. maybe I upset some hardcore IIS fan or something?

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Re: XKCD: Meeting

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Post by drostie »

anonymfus wrote: post #19
probably_wrong wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Explain XKCD usually does a pretty good job at explaining what's going on: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1493 (bla, bla, obligatory notice about explaining jokes and dissecting frogs here)

It explains jokes on all panels of the episode, but I cannot find a joke connecting panels together.

So, XKCD is not actually all that funny in itself. Trying to "find a joke connecting panels together" is the wrong way to digest XKCD.

The joke in this case is the same as most of the Beret Guy jokes: He has some sort of alien view of the world which has mired him in a 9-year-old's mentality, so that when we see him appear we are seeing an overly literal concept of what the adult world is about. The humor is not "ha-ha" funny so much as a mind-state of vague bemusement.

This may be the reason XKCD has been so successful. By offering a comedic "buildup" which is insufficient to generate a "release" of hysterical laughter and all of the neurotransmittery goodness that comes with that, you are left trawling the archives for more and more humor.

Re: XKCD: Meeting

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Post by Kiro »

jedberg wrote: post #27
ixwt wrote: post #18

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I imagine he has a large amount of comics in reserve so he can work on comics such as http://xkcd.com/1491/ .

Actually. he rarely has comics in reserve. He has a notebook of ideas and sketches, and each day a few hours before a comic is set to go up, he picks one and draws and inks it. I've watched the process firsthand, and I was surprised as to how little lead time there is. When he knows he'll be busy he gets a few in the hopper, but it isn't his standard SOP (at least it didn't used to be).

Do you know him?
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