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Re:For having raised $90mil, the source of UStream is pretty... by maukdaddy on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @11:17AM (#1591724)
WTF is this for?

  "js.twitter_widget.bad_words": 'ass,14 words,5 words,anal,anal
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Re:For having raised $90mil, the source of UStream is pretty... by warfangle on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @11:20AM (#1591738)
They probably have a live twitter widget somewhere, and don't want raunchy @mentions to show up.

The real wtf, of course, is that it's a comma delimited string - not an array..

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Re:For having raised $90mil, the source of UStream is pretty... by maukdaddy on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @11:22AM (#1591749)
On a quick look I couldn't find that variable referenced anywhere though. And it looks like there are two variables with the same data: js.twitter_widget.bad_words and js.social_stream.badwords
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Re:For having raised $90mil, the source of UStream is pretty... by barrkel on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @11:32AM (#1591800)
It looks to me like a string resource table for translation, possibly auto-included in multiple page, and used by widgets that exist only on some pages.
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Re:For having raised $90mil, the source of UStream is pretty... by kellysutton on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @11:19AM (#1591733)
The worst is that it's not even an array, it's a comma-delimited string.
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Re:For having raised $90mil, the source of UStream is pretty... by trevelyan on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @12:25PM (#1592032)
Why is this a bad decision? It's much easier for a non-programmer to update.
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