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Maybe they just solve the problems created by themselves.


When I started using CodIgniter the easiness of installing the framework really amazed me. You don't even need the mod_rewrite enabled!

Just extract the CodIgniter code into a webserver directory and create the controller code to show some output or load a view and you are done!


This reminds me of this: http://www.devmaster.net/articles/mmorpg-postmortem/part4.ph... Because of a bug in the game, everybody could duplicate items with no cost and everybody became extremely rich in the game.


My father lost some money because of Collor Plan too. I'm 25 and is hard to imagine how my parents went through those rough times.


Madness? This... is... Microsoft!


How they did it?


Unicode has upside down versions of most characters, most of them for the phonetic alphabet. A simple algorithm can replace the characters with upside down versions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_of_text#Upside-d...

For a demonstration, see http://www.sevenwires.com/play/UpsideDownLetters.html


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If you look at the HTML source you can see that characters are flipped in the HTML as well, so it can't be simply a CSS style.


Run away unless you have a friend who was a Israeli soldier would be a good addition.


I couldn't look at the site, it hurt my eyes.


Don't worry, I've heard a rumor that her next profession is a web designer.



I read it, turned away, and found my eyes were honest to god burning.

(Not flames, just burning pain...)


GitHub were crushed by the release of HipHop. Too bad, I wished to test the HipHop translator.


Their file servers crashed before the Hip Hop announcement, and Hip Hop hasn't even been pushed to GitHub yet, according to this announcement.

http://twitter.com/github/status/8551643423


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