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Bernie Sanders' 404 page
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Re: Bernie Sanders' 404 page
#12There seems to be a trend to interesting/funny 404s for presidential campaigns.
https://www.barackobama.com/45325r/ has a "thanks, Obama" GIF meme.
https://www.bobbyjindal.com/dfka blames the 404 on Obama with #ThanksObama" too.
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#13I think we have The Atlantic to point to for making campaign 404 pages a "thing". They've been including a blurb about the 404 page on each candidate's website on their 2016 Election Cheat Sheet (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/2016-ele...)
404 pages are an opportunity to hide an easter egg but I wonder what presidential 404 page got The Atlantic focused on this trend in the first place.
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#14I'm just curious from where in his campaign management the impetus to pay attention to this sort of detail would have come.
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#15I wonder if this says more about Bernie or more about his supporters. The video almost reminds me of how I talk my 88 year old grandfather through computer tasks.
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#16Isn't it Bernie Sanders', not *Bernie Sander's? (Edit: or Sanders's, indeed. That's what I'd usually write.)
Most manuals of style say that "Sanders's" is most correct, but will allow for "Sanders'". I strongly prefer the former. It's logical if you think of it: s' is always for plural nouns that end in S, 's is always for singular. "The cats' milk" vs "James's hand." This way also matches pronunciation.
It gets tricky to keep straight when you have plural nouns that don't end in S. I know "Men's clothes" is correct. But I'm not sure what to do with fish. "The fish's pond"? "The fishes' pond"?
(In any case, just because a word ends in S does not mean it needs an apostrophe. Many, many English writers need this lessen pounded into their head. I lose brain cells every time I see someone write "want's".)
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#17An auto-loading video just because you ended up on a wrong URL? With a great part of visitors being on mobile, is this really the best use for bandwidth?
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#18An auto-loading video just because you ended up on a wrong URL? With a great part of visitors being on mobile, is this really the best use for bandwidth?
On mobile the video won't start automatically loading. It waits 'til you hit the play button. At least, not on my iPhone. I don't know what Android does.
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#19not really interesting content 55 upvotes and 4 comments weird.. EDIT: 5 new upvotes in less than a minute
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#20I don't follow politics at all, but the more I read and hear about Bernie Sanders the more I like him. I'm sure we've got a few political experts on Hacker News so I'd love to hear if you guys think he actually has any chance of winning the presidency.
I'll bet we've got a lot of "political experts" but probably not that many political experts.