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Nice unintentionally linkbait.

But does their code looks similar to yours?


Look at the code as the author suggests; you will notice that a part of the code( ~40 lines ) is identical, including the comments.


Well actually it's two sets of codes I use which is custom script I put together to track two ids since I have a lot of subdomains. Not how Google gives it to you, which leads me to believe it was copy and pasted. Still not sure how that could happen though.


That's because google gives it to you that way.

Much more likely this is a typo in the ID number.


If it is a typo in the ID number, thats understandable. But the social tracking id seems to be wrong too and that also points to the authors id. Can't be wrong twice and have both mistakes point to the same person


It could be, but it's exceedingly unlikely to be.


If you're typing that number in by hand, my WAT flag is flying.


They copy-and-pasted from Google and then changed one of the characters in their ID? Possible, but Occam's Razor and all.


A 16 digit alphanumeric id? It's far more probable they just copied his code


Yup, my guess is the ID is a variable in some templating system or CMS that MLB uses, and someone (for some reason) was typing it.


Apparently it is just a hash collision.

Sergei knew about the potential for a problem with crc32 so they went with crcgoogol instead. Clearly the 1 in 10^42 eventuality happened, improbable as it seemed.


Facebook? how 'bout no?


Once you want to scale and go big, you might want to use AWS, until that moment it's a matter of how much you want to tweak the server.

SUper powers and full customization --- > LINODE Deploy + Deal with it acttitude to the server guys ----> Heroku


"He's just a guy with some opinions."

You mean someone like Steve Jobs.


Yes, but without his opinions being as informed or detailed, and without having built, run and/or sold 3-4 succesful billion dollar companies (Apple, NeXT, Pixar, Apple mkII) and involved in sucessful hundrends of million units selling products.


Exactly, that was my point. Saying something like "is just a guy with opinions" is rude and who knows what could happen.

You made a clear point of it.


You mean someone like your butcher.


You mean someone like your barber.


hp Elitebook 8540w || i7 || 16 GB ram || 2 SSD 256 || Arch/ ubuntu / windows 8 || python, ruby, javascript, npm || git, vim and sublime,


Dropbox overloked safety of data a lot.


Dropbox secure? A joke. One key to open all.


This is why you just upload a Truecrypt or similar volume for things that absolutely must be private.


Thanks I was looking for something like this. Dont be hard, he is trying to see what happens!


Microsoft loves this kind of guy!!


Just like Facebook


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