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Re: The Financial Times’ 404 page

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Post by techdragon »

human wrote: post #59
justin_oaks wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was thinking the same thing, but that engineer should have a really short investigation as to why it's happening. Access logs often include the HTTP Referer header, which would make it easy to see that all the traffic is coming from Hacker News. Even so, if I were the one to submit the URL to Hacker News, I'd probably make the URL path something like /showing_404_page_to_Hacker_News so it's impossible for someone r…

The engineer is already on HN and foresaw it before it happened.

Or the engineer is the one that posted it and already had the next 24hr window declared ahead of time to prevent the false positive.

Re: The Financial Times’ 404 page

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Post by slg »

It is funny that you can see the bias in FT's politics in the descriptions they use.

For example, the trickle-down description genuinely reads as if written by a supporter of that economic theory in that it frames that theory in a positive economic light.

Meanwhile the socialism one is written by someone intending to mock socialism and isn't even accurate to socialism. It is more a descriptor of communism than socialism.

Re: The Financial Times’ 404 page

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Post by bo1024 »

slg wrote: post #62

It is funny that you can see the bias in FT's politics in the descriptions they use. For example, the trickle-down description genuinely reads as if written by a supporter of that economic theory in that it frames that theory in a positive economic light. Meanwhile the socialism one is written by someone intending to mock socialism and isn't even accurate to socialism. It is more a descriptor of communism than social…

That caught my eye too. The others all looked reasonable (including Marxism) but the socialism one sounds like a caricature of an ignorant facebook post.

Re: The Financial Times’ 404 page

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Post by chipotle_coyote »

slg wrote: post #62

It is funny that you can see the bias in FT's politics in the descriptions they use. For example, the trickle-down description genuinely reads as if written by a supporter of that economic theory in that it frames that theory in a positive economic light. Meanwhile the socialism one is written by someone intending to mock socialism and isn't even accurate to socialism. It is more a descriptor of communism than social…

Yeah, that one didn't quite work -- I was trying to think of what a better one would be. I think the proper tone is parodying what someone who believes this might actually say, and they're fairly on the button for the rest of them. Something about the page's utility being made redundant through common ownership? (Economic jokes are hard.)

Re: The Financial Times’ 404 page

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Post by gorgoiler »

slg wrote: post #62

It is funny that you can see the bias in FT's politics in the descriptions they use. For example, the trickle-down description genuinely reads as if written by a supporter of that economic theory in that it frames that theory in a positive economic light. Meanwhile the socialism one is written by someone intending to mock socialism and isn't even accurate to socialism. It is more a descriptor of communism than social…

My read of the trickle-down one-liner was that it was taking the piss just as much as any of the others, FWIW.

Re: The Financial Times’ 404 page

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Post by myrandomcomment »

The FT is well worth the cost. I read it cover to cover everyday, which is what I am doing now in the dark (PG&E). The weekend edition is always amazing, with great interviews (lunch with the FT). I still miss David Tang’s column (he died) as well as the humor of Mrs. Moneypenny. Janice Robinson wine column is worth the time if you are into wine.
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