Re:Professional Hacks: Tricks of the Trade
by bootload on Sunday November 22, 2009 @02:18AM
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"... Mapmakers will often use “copyright traps,” bits of information in their maps that are purposefully wrong ..."
Very true. I once had to re-do a map for this exact reason though I'm not sure the "purposeful" fit was to get the major intersection on the page or to catch people out.
"... In Australia, the butchers have a secret language called “rechtub klat” ..."
Re:Professional Hacks: Tricks of the Trade
by Oatmeat on Sunday November 22, 2009 @02:47AM
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From the article it appears that in "rechtub klat" the letters in a word are reversed, but the words have the same order in the sentence. So it would be:
Re:Professional Hacks: Tricks of the Trade
by ojbyrne on Sunday November 22, 2009 @01:10AM
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That's a couple of years out of date. These days it would be more like "server-side doesn't matter, we use jquery on the front end to build a rich front end without proprietary products." Though, since I've actually said that myself, I'm not willing to admit that's a trick yet.
http://www.tradetricks.org/archives/001915.html
(I can't find an index page.)
True.
Very true. I once had to re-do a map for this exact reason though I'm not sure the "purposeful" fit was to get the major intersection on the page or to catch people out.
"... In Australia, the butchers have a secret language called “rechtub klat” ..."
keew txen tuo siht yrt ot gniog.
Nothing so elaborate, just in my head.
Yes. I did this the first time but read the original as 'talk butcher' not 'butcher talk'.
"The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober."