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.
Transcript:
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3113/
16 Comments
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz · 47 pts · 1y
See also: kerning
GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 23 pts · 1y
Did you mean keming?
Klear@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
Proof that Randall hates everyone.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 1y
And not just a little bit either. Seems like he really really hates everyone now that he returned to this topic.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 1y
so 250$ to fix the sign.
Cheapest billboard rental is more than that.
shit business model
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y
The trick is to never fix it, infinite money glitch
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 1y
You could also technically fix it using the "missing Missy" method.
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 1y
Send him $10 to fix the pricing
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
It's a billboard that was put up by the company itself.
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y
So like all
company'scompanies' business models.Edit: thanks for the spell check
toast@retrolemmy.com · 12 pts · 1y
In the spirit of the comic,
*companies'
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Usually they pay graphic designers to extort others.
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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.
Kowowow@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
What typo?
Deebster@infosec.pub · 17 pts · 1y
Where I'm from it's spelt centring, but I think Randall's referring to "doanate".
kewko@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
let me know if I'm the only one for whom doanate was the last word to spell check