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Re: Guthib

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Post by throwup » Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 7:38 PM UTC

mynameisvlad wrote: post #106

throwup wrote: post #79

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I once got in trouble for using Bacon Ipsum as placeholder terms and conditions, since the client's project manager was vegan. I wish I was joking. https://baconipsum.com/?paras=5&type=all-meat&start-with-lor...

This one I can kind of understand. Moreso than the Yoda one. There’s a good chance at least one piece of copy will be missed when replacing the placeholder text, and for a vegan company, that can easily cause outrage for their customers since it’s just full of meat products. There are a lot of reasons for people being vegan and some hold incredibly strong beliefs on meat products.

To be clear, it wasn't a vegan company or even anything related to food -- it was a shipping company. There just happened to be someone who worked there who was an outspoken vegan.

Re: Guthib

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Post by edmcnulty101 » Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 7:43 PM UTC

prange wrote: post #88

edmcnulty101 wrote: post #28

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Or a gun site called Gathub.com.

When you said that, my first thought was - that would be for open source gun designs. Of course it’s actually already a real thing: http://www.gathub.com/?p=28

HA I didn't even look but should have known it would exist!

Re: Guthib

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Post by hahamrfunnyguy » Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 8:55 PM UTC

osrec wrote: post #73

hahamrfunnyguy wrote: post #67

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It really depends on the degree to which your co-workers and clients lack a sense of humor. For example, in the early 00's I was working for a company that built a lot of CMS sites. One of the test images my co-worker used was Yoda driving a go-kart. A customer got offended, so we were instructed to use really boring images that just had the word "test" on them.

What about Yoda driving a go-kart is even remotely offensive?! A client being offended at something like that is a bit of a red flag for me...

"It's completely unprofessional." is about what their reaction was.

Re: Guthib

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Post by b0ner_t0ner » Sat, Oct 15, 2022, 1:01 AM UTC

theo_champion wrote: post #62

This reminds me of https://gail.com/ which, according to the owner get an average 16k hit per day from people mistyping gmail.com

I see gamil.com emails all the time in the company database.

Re: Guthib

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Post by dlqx » Sat, Oct 15, 2022, 6:57 AM UTC

It should just redirect.

Re: Guthib

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Post by m463 » Mon, Oct 17, 2022, 7:26 AM UTC

prange wrote: post #88

edmcnulty101 wrote: post #28

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Or a gun site called Gathub.com.

When you said that, my first thought was - that would be for open source gun designs. Of course it’s actually already a real thing: http://www.gathub.com/?p=28

There is also a farthub.com

Re: Guthib

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Post by plg » Mon, Oct 17, 2022, 6:49 PM UTC

nosecreek wrote: post #126

jaywalk wrote: post #13

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Unfortunately Microsoft already owns guthub.com and redirects it to github.com, ruining a perfectly good idea.

True, but guthub.ca is (or now was) available. @plg, do you mind if I steal the idea? Actually love the idea of open source recipes with pull requests, branches, etc. and I’ve been looking for an idea for my next side project…

be my guest :)