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Comment by JdeBP

8 years ago

... or Wikipedia.

Interestingly, Stack Exchange answers are sometimes constructed by people using search engines to find phrase matches, sometimes with ridiculous results. (-:

* https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/94238/who-or-what-...

That Stack Overflow web log entry is poorly researched, by the way. As I can attest from my own WWW site's statistics, there are reasons that a WWW site can have Ukraine at the top that have nothing to do with real people viewing relevant WWW pages, so conclusions such as

> It looks like developers in Ukraine, Turkey and Indonesia are getting stuck in Vim quite a bit:

are complete rubbish. One has to account for WWW browsers that pre-load pages, and WWW sites that feed stuff scraped from the likes of Wikipedia, Stack Exchange, my WWW site, and lots of others to WWW spiders: something that seems, from my statistics for this month so far, to be very popular for banking and pharmaceutical scam WWW sites in the Ukraine and the Russian Federation.

Here is how to exit emacs, by the way:

* http://jdebp.eu./Humour/exiting-emacs.html

Off-topic:

What do you hope to achieve by expressing domain names with a dot at the end? That's only required in zonefiles. No one else does that in hyperlinks and I wish you would stop doing it. It's annoying because your alternative notation is so rare that browsers don't normalise the equivalency, and now I have multiple divergent entries in the browser history.