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Re:A warning to hackers: be careful building on Twitter's API by JonnieCache on Thursday January 06, 2011 @09:20PM (#2078297)
It's a reference to civil war era america. Elaborate user-generated-content metaphor?
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Re:A warning to hackers: be careful building on Twitter's API by philwelch on Thursday January 06, 2011 @09:53PM (#2078359)
The post Civil War South, actually. Sharecropping wasn't really a thing in the North, and before and during the Civil War, there wasn't very much sharecropping because slavery was more cost-effective.
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Re:A warning to hackers: be careful building on Twitter's API by alnayyir on Thursday January 06, 2011 @10:01PM (#2078383)
ding ding ding. This man gets ALL the dollars.
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