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cdoddon Rap Genius Explains Why Worse is Better

"there are many things that are important but web hosting is not one of them"

Spoken like an ignorant developer. Uptime and scalability is just provided by the magic server pixies.

cdoddon Readers' tales of extreme commuting

One positive is that you could rent/buy a much larger property outside of London for the same cost.

cdoddon YouTube is down

It's probably an encrypted stacktrace

cdoddon YouTube is down

Yup, http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/youtube.com

cdoddon Avatars.io

And the advantage of this over gravatar is? The page mentions how to move from gravatar, but gives no reason why I should. Maybe a better API? As a user I don't care.