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submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

xkcd #3113: Fix This Sign

Title text:

We're building on our earlier success getting web developers to pay to change the backslashes in our displayed payment URL to forward slashes.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3113/

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[-] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

Did you mean keming?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Proof that Randall hates everyone.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

And not just a little bit either. Seems like he really really hates everyone now that he returned to this topic.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago

so 250$ to fix the sign.

Cheapest billboard rental is more than that.

shit business model

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

The trick is to never fix it, infinite money glitch

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

You could also technically fix it using the "missing Missy" method.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Send him $10 to fix the pricing

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's a billboard that was put up by the company itself.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

So like all ~~company's~~ companies' business models.

Edit: thanks for the spell check

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

In the spirit of the comic,

*companies'

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Usually they pay graphic designers to extort others.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Often by extorting those graphic designers, too. Pay a little and offer "exposure" (or find a way to blatantly rip off other designers). Anything to mitigate that bottom line.

Addendum: you can die from exposure.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Where I'm from it's spelt centring, but I think Randall's referring to "doanate".

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

let me know if I'm the only one for whom doanate was the last word to spell check

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