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andrewducker) wrote2018-10-02 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2018-10-02 12:00 pm
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- age,
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- democracy,
- doom,
- economics,
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- law,
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- mario,
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- merchandising,
- microbiome,
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- nhs,
- northernireland,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pensions,
- physics,
- planets,
- pokemon,
- relationships,
- russia,
- scotland,
- sexwork,
- society,
- solarsystem,
- space,
- starwars,
- technology,
- uk,
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Interesting Links for 02-10-2018
- Nicolas Cage: ‘If I don’t have a job to do, I can be very self-destructive’
- (tags: acting movies )
- Postman Pat and… the law of merchandise
- (tags: merchandising law contracts )
- NHS to suffer £2.7bn cuts after government miscalculation of public sector pension costs
- (tags: nhs pensions Conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- Edinburgh Council reveal city-wide electric vehicle plan
- (tags: edinburgh electricity cars scotland )
- The Financial Times 404 Error Page is brilliant
- (tags: web errors 404 funny economics )
- Sex worker stall at Brighton university freshers' fairs sparks row
- (tags: sexwork university )
- Magic Leap Review Part 1 – The Terrible View Through Diffraction Gratings
- (tags: augmentedreality fail )
- Ruth Davidson doesn't understand what democracy is
- (tags: democracy Conservatives Scotland UK europe )
- UK will enforce hard border in Ireland if there is no Brexit deal
- (tags: uk Ireland Europe NorthernIreland doom )
- The Conservatives think Blockchain may resolve Irish border Brexit problem. *sigh*
- (tags: ConservatIves technology bitcoin OhForFucksSake uk europe NorthernIreland Ireland )
- Cern physicist suspended over 'highly offensive' presentation on sexism in science
- (tags: gender physics )
- 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Was Targeted by Russian Trolls
- (tags: StarWars russia )
- We won't compromise our principles to rescue the Tory party from Brexit, Guy Verhofstadt warns Theresa May
- (tags: uk Europe doom )
- Traditional societal markers of age aren't applying to millennials, and this is hard for everyone.
- (tags: age society )
- Artificial sweeteners have toxic effects on gut microbes
- (tags: microbiome food )
- ‘Goblin’ world found orbiting at the edges of the Solar System
- (tags: planets space solarsystem )
- Why Can a Machine Beat Mario but not Pokemon?
- (tags: ai pokemon Mario games )
- Civil partnerships: Law to be changed for mixed-sex couples (in England and Wales. Scotland investigating)
- (tags: law relationships marriage uk )
The Financial Times 404 Error Page is brilliant
Although nowadays I think "you looked for a page that isn't there" is much less often the reason for a 404, it's more likely to be a truncated link or a moved page, and I wish 404 pages frontloaded the information a bit, e.g. saying "you followed a link from 'page'" if that information is available, and "you were trying to reach URL", especially if it redirects you, and if the URL has the information, the title of the page you were going to, and -- ideally, for a major site -- something that actually helps you find the page (usually something based on how pages actually move, not a keyword search on random words in the URL)
Re: The Financial Times 404 Error Page is brilliant
Good point!
I’ve done similar things using Levenshtein distance before, and it’s not that slow to say “You said XYA, did you mean XYZ?”