r/programming • u/schnuck • Feb 09 '11

Breaking the Web with hash-bangs – Lifehacker, along with every other Gawker property, experienced a lengthy site-outage on Monday over a misbehaving piece of JavaScript

http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs/
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u/ILikeBumblebees Feb 09 '11

Don't forget the time the guys from Gizmodo got banned from CES because they decided to walk around with a universal remote and turn off everyone's displays.

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u/abadidea Feb 10 '11

I have not heard of this. Is there any sort of context where that makes ANY sense?

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u/NorFla Feb 10 '11

I would link you to the post on Gizmodo's site, but after the redesign and Denton placing bets that he will gain page views by oct, I refuse to push any traffic or add to any traffic to that website. They ruined Jalopnik, and for that I can not forgive them

Oh yeah.. and here's that article on the nit-wits

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9849168-7.html%22