Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message 
news:jjg2ts$2roo$2 at digitalmars.com...
> On 2012-03-10 08:18, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Andrei Alexandrescu"<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>  wrote in message
>> news:jjengv$agm$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>
>>> Insert obligatory link: http://drdobbs.com/184401197
>>>
>>> Very insightful article.
>>>
>>
>> Jesus christ what the FUCK is wrong with Dr Dobbs? The article shows up
>> *just fine* - *at first*, and then once all the excess junk around the 
>> edges
>> finishes loading, the stupid fucking thing redirects me (WITH NO BACK
>> BUTTON!) to this useless shit: http://m.drdobbs.com/
>>
>> What the fuck is wrong with web developers? You'd think at a
>> ***PROGRAMMING*** MAGAZINE they could fucking get basic shit straight
>> without scrwing up things that a NOVICE wouldn't even KNOW how to fuck 
>> up!
>> Goddamn.
>>
>> It sounds like a great article, judging by the first paragraph, but I 
>> have
>> to read it a couple sentences at a time. How the hell do "professions" 
>> botch
>> things up *that* badly?
>
> Happens to me as well. Mac OS X, Firefox 10.0.2, JavaScript turned off by 
> default.
>

You know what I think it is (without actually looking at the code): I think 
they tried to do some highly misguided and even more poorly implemented hack 
(which they no-doubt thought was clever) for dealing with *cough* "old" 
*cough* browsers by inserting a meta redirect to a hardcoded URL, and then 
used JS to disable the meta redirect. If that's the case, I don't know how 
the fuck they managed to convince themselves that make one drop of sense.

When I used one of my web developer plugins to disable meta redirects, the 
screwy behavior stopped. And like you, I have JS off by default (WTF do you 
need JS for on a goddamn *ARTICLE*?). So that's probably what the numbnuts 
over at Dr Dobbs did.