Just curious, why do Americans always talk about making it a holiday, wouldn't moving it to a sunday create similar effect, while being much simpler? This is how we do it here in Poland.
I don't think it ever was the _highest_ good. It may be argued that it has moved around the hierarchy, and it may in fact not be at an all time high, but there were always things which we (society) put above liberty.
There's actually no need to resolve it. At least so far, they put the full url in the page source. I have a proof of concept extension already coded up for removing the redirects. I plan on adding a bunch of other sites (google, facebook, whatever else) and releasing it.
Yeah but why shy away from the fact that any of us could randomly die at any moment? It may not be pleasant to think about, but it's true. And important to be plan for in critical systems.
Well, browsers are trying to fix this with graphical clues. Right now, all parts of the url apart from ".ycombinator.com" are grey in my url bar.(using Firefox)
I wonder what other legacy, potentially useful features lurk behind user-agent gates. For example, you can get messages to work on the mobile version of Facebook by switching to a very old user agent. Maybe I should just permanently switch to an IE6 user agent, I wonder how many websites would still show the popup to encourage me to get a decent browser.
Well, duplicates are probably more likely to get created when the original question is not easy to find using some particular combination of keywords. So in that sense the duplicate is doing it's job.
This article is not very information rich, but one thing is clear: this is not a github leak, the code was just posted to github by whoever got access to it. So the headline is pretty misleading.