04.21.06
Discovery.com Gets Bitched
I am currently watching TV whilst working on my latest coding adventure and what do I see? A commercial featuring Lance Armstrong stating that that I could race the best of the world for his spot on the Discovery Cycling team. Sweet! I don’t see why I couldn’t win 
So I go to the url in the tv spot: www.race2replace.com you then have to click on this link to get to the actual spot talking about the terms of the race: Race to Replace Lance Armstrong.
OK… I read around and then I click the link labeled “Back to Main”…
hmm I don’t go back to team.discovery.com like the link says (which looks like the below image).
I go to a directory of links (may not want to click that one) and an endless supply of pop-ups!
Seems like the programmers over at discovery.com have gotten screwed by the open source movement. Silly discovery programmers… Don’t you know you’re supposed to audit the source of apps that you plug into your sites.
Oh, and BTW you might also want to remove your TODO lists from your production code…
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fly said,
April 21, 2006 at 9:23 pm
Good catch Jason. I didn’t see what you were talking about at first but yeah its there… heads will roll I would imagine.
Somebody must have something in one of the scripts they are using in their AJAX code… either that or they’ve got a rogue working over there who is scraping some cash on the side.
Either way, probably not what Lance and Discovery.com really want to be known for.
Carnuba said,
April 21, 2006 at 9:29 pm
That’s terrible. Why would discovery.com put a link like that into their own site?