Why does Google append while(1); in front of their JSON responses?

Re:Why does Google append while(1); in front of their JSON r... by duskwuff on Monday February 04, 2013 @08:20PM (#5168425)

Closed as a duplicate of this equivalent question, which has an equally good answer:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/871505/

Which is, itself a duplicate of this question, which has an even better answer:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3146798/

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Re:Why does Google append while(1); in front of their JSON r... by tikhonj on Monday February 04, 2013 @08:19PM (#5168421)

Really, the knee-jerk response to every single closed question on SO isn't terribly useful.

First off, you can still read the question and vote on answers. Since there are already several answers, adding another one would not be very useful anyhow.

Moreover, it's closed as a duplicate. There's an essentially identical question--with essentially the same answer--that's quite a bit older. It makes sense to point people to it so that there's one centralized resource on the topic.

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Re:Why does Google append while(1); in front of their JSON r... by dhimes on Monday February 04, 2013 @08:22PM (#5168435)

As a duplicate of What??? That's always been my question. I've found it beyond dumb that they don't put the thing they want you to go to at that message. And, they should make it look like a link. Just my $0.02.

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Re:Why does Google append while(1); in front of their JSON r... by tikhonj on Monday February 04, 2013 @08:27PM (#5168459)

There's a link at the top of the question, in a gray box.

However, I certainly see how it would be useful to have the link in the closed message as well.

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Re:Why does Google append while(1); in front of their JSON r... by dhimes on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @08:20AM (#5170477)

The thing that says, "Possible duplicate?" Once they confirm it they should change the wording to say "Duplicate" if that's the one they mean. It just looks like it's unfinished this way.

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Re:Why does Google append while(1); in front of their JSON r... by _pmf_ on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @06:52AM (#5170180)

Wikipedia has shown us what ridiculous bureaucracy does to a community; it's sad that Stackoverflow has been turned into a utterly useless site despite the lessons that could have been learned from Wikipedia.

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Re:Why does Google append while(1); in front of their JSON r... by T-hawk on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @10:18AM (#5171038)

It's the Iron Law of Bureaucracy, coined in that form by Jerry Pournelle. http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html

Every organization becomes controlled by those who serve the organization itself, as opposed to those who perform the actual goal or service of the organization. Schools are controlled by administrators, not the teachers. Wikipedia and other community-sourced internet sites are run by those who desired to acquire power over Wikipedia, not by those who desire to contribute content.

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Re:Why does Google append while(1); in front of their JSON r... by icebraining on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @11:02AM (#5171319)

Stackoverflow has been turned into a utterly useless site

It has? It's news to me; I'm constantly finding relevant, useful information whenever I search for almost anything in the area of software development.

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