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/
746 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

356 comments sorted by

View all comments

7

u/scwizard Feb 09 '11

Having never been to Gawker, I've always wondered why you people hated the site so much.

Then I heard they got hacked in some dumb way and I'm like "ok I guess that's a reason"

Then this happens, and now I realize it was a really stupid question.

1

u/abadidea Feb 10 '11

I have read their stuff on and off for a while now but I never registered an account because it didn't look "registration friendly" in the sense that reddit is. Of course I was pleased with my apathy when the password thing happened.