Readit Newsbagpuss commented on A vending machine, on the internet threekindwords.com/blog/v... · Posted by u/EFFALO
> The machine was jammed. It wasn’t a big deal. I shrugged and moved on to buy my groceries.
I resonate with the sentiment, but this is very far from my experience selling cheap software products.
I had multiple people reach out to me because a software upgrade they paid $2 for 8 years ago stopped working. And they were, like, pissed about it.
if someone relies on an upgrade for 8 years, $2 is not enough!
bagpuss commented on When your last name is Null, nothing works wsj.com/lifestyle/null-la... · Posted by u/impish9208
Related. Others?
Names:
Hello, I'm Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42922038 - Feb 2025 (35 comments)
We have an employee whose surname is Null (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41939162 - Oct 2024 (6 comments)
We have an employee whose surname is Null (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34115623 - Dec 2022 (17 comments)
How to pass “Null” (a real surname) to a SOAP web service? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21492461 - Nov 2019 (10 comments)
My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15046223 - Aug 2017 (135 comments)
Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12426315 - Sept 2016 (208 comments)
If your name is 'Null,' you may have problems doing anything online - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11375282 - March 2016 (1 comment)
Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10512811 - Nov 2015 (24 comments)
An actual guy named “Null” messes up people's databases - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9390569 - April 2015 (4 comments)
We have an employee whose last name is Null (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6738743 - Nov 2013 (35 comments)
We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6140631 - Aug 2013 (236 comments)
An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee lookup app - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3900224 - April 2012 (148 comments)
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License plates:
A 'Null' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31082288 - April 2022 (11 comments)
The 'NULL' License Plate (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29609924 - Dec 2021 (6 comments)
Guy got the license plate “NULL” and it was a total disaster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23913507 - July 2020 (9 comments)
NULL license plate not such a bright idea - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676904 - Aug 2019 (467 comments)
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Islands:
The Many Lives of Null Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41073777 - July 2024 (21 comments)
Null Island Tourist Shirt - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38713055 - Dec 2023 (44 comments)
Null Island is one of the most visited places on Earth, and it doesn’t exist - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35651871 - April 2023 (87 comments)
Null Island, the most real of fictional places [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31080519 - April 2022 (37 comments)
Null Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21854780 - Dec 2019 (56 comments)
If You Can’t Follow Directions, You’ll End Up on Null Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12090980 - July 2016 (54 comments)
The Republic of NULL Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11734180 - May 2016 (15 comments)
The Geographical Oddity of Null Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11600396 - April 2016 (14 comments)
A Brief History of Null Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10949292 - Jan 2016 (7 comments)
there's also Adam Croot, who liked to register the handle "undefined" where possible
Bring me the head of Adam Croot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1501799
ooh Ron Grainer also did the delightfully creepy theme tune to Tales of the Unexpected
bagpuss commented on Square Zero: hide silly messages in decorative borders danwilkerson.com/posts/20... · Posted by u/danwilkerson
I encoded secret messages in rave flyers I designed in the mid-late 1990's, in Los Angeles. I couldn't tell you what the messages said now, I just remember that I did it. The messages were encoded in a border design, much like the subject of this article. I may still have an example somewhere, but finding it in my digital hoard is going to be a problem.
cool! you might like https://www.phatmedia.co.uk/
some cutting edge stuff for the time, as well as some awful design!
Then, I tried various down detecting sites and they didn't seem to work either - presumably due to Cloudflare.