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Re:A URL Lengthener by js2 on Friday May 14, 2021 @08:44PM (#27161189)
Re:A URL Lengthener by m3at on Friday May 14, 2021 @09:33PM (#27161476)
This is a great story, thanks for sharing!

Edit: if someone need the url at work: https://m.slashdot.org/story/17042

Re:A URL Lengthener by greyhair on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:35PM (#27199060)
If you go to that page, it is a good read. Then you hit the back button to get back here, and it just reloads the page.

Why?

Because slashdot are assholes.

Re:A URL Lengthener by kbenson on Friday May 14, 2021 @10:44PM (#27161844)
That's like a whole level extra of sad because it's not that someone was oblivious to list context in perl, but that they knew about it but didn't quite get it right.

Or, it was purposeful, and he liked how it left out the attributions to single line quotes or made a weird half-aside out of multi-line ones, and it's just another case of someone not realizing put some random content up under your own name can lead to problems. Also sad, but less unique.