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Re:Ping: It's even worse than it appeared by astrodust on Thursday September 02, 2010 @10:04AM (#1656166)
Running a site on Windows is embarrassing enough, worse when your pants fall down like this.
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Re:Ping: It's even worse than it appeared by fauigerzigerk on Thursday September 02, 2010 @10:17AM (#1656209)
Right. Who on earth would seriously consider using an OS on which errors can occur? That's just ridiculous now that errors are a thing of the past on Unix!
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Re:Ping: It's even worse than it appeared by cowboyhero on Thursday September 02, 2010 @10:37AM (#1656264)
Fair point -- but you'd think Winer would have enough experience to allow his apps to fail gracefully.

Printing out ugly error messages complete with file system paths in html is definitely a pants-dropping kind of move.

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Re:Ping: It's even worse than it appeared by White_N_Nerdy on Thursday September 02, 2010 @03:21PM (#1657299)
A lot of huge sites run great on Windows. Stackoverflow, for one.

How is that embarrassing?

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Re:Ping: It's even worse than it appeared by JoelMcCracken on Thursday September 02, 2010 @04:28PM (#1657540)
Using Windows as a technologist is like farting in public. Still embarrassing.
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Re:Ping: It's even worse than it appeared by White_N_Nerdy on Thursday September 02, 2010 @05:07PM (#1657678)
And any "technologist" who can't see the value of Microsoft tools is next to worthless in my book.
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