For having raised $90mil, the source of UStream is pretty terrible | Hacker News Reader

For having raised $90mil, the source of UStream is pretty terrible

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you mean the viability of their business has nothing to do with if their html validates, as long as it just works?

darn

No user is going to turn away from the site because the HTML source is unattractive.

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I'd like to know if there are any investors that

1. know how to read source

2. let that affect their decision of investing

"js.twitter_widget.bad_words" in the UstreamLabels object is quite a lovely read

It all depends on what your site is about.

The HTML source attractiveness really matters if the site is about programming, CSS, etc. On the other hand, layout attractiveness does not matter that much if you're about results... see Google.com

WTF is this for?

  "js.twitter_widget.bad_words": 'ass,14 words,5 words,anal,anal

They probably have a live twitter widget somewhere, and don't want raunchy @mentions to show up.

The real wtf, of course, is that it's a comma delimited string - not an array..

On a quick look I couldn't find that variable referenced anywhere though. And it looks like there are two variables with the same data: js.twitter_widget.bad_words and js.social_stream.badwords

It looks to me like a string resource table for translation, possibly auto-included in multiple page, and used by widgets that exist only on some pages.

The worst is that it's not even an array, it's a comma-delimited string.

Why is this a bad decision? It's much easier for a non-programmer to update.

How much analytical data could they need? I see Nielsen, quantserv, comscore, and Google.

Good advertisers (read: more than AdWords) tend to require traffic verification from at least two of the first three providers you list. Google Analytics is likely for their own purposes.

When you're selling page views and clicks by the thousand or million, you want to make sure you're not being ripped off.

Page loads pretty quickly for me in Chrome, that should count for something.

tech debt?

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