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		lwansbrough on Feb 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one min... This is just an ignorant response. The history of the internet is littered with pragmatic solutions to standard vs. non-standard approaches for exactly these reasons. See: <image>, Referer header, the HTML standard as a whole. By the way, if your standard contradicts a popular methodology, it's probably a bad standard.

anoncake on Feb 12, 2019 [–]

> By the way, if your standard contradicts a popular methodology, it's probably a bad standard.

You can't assume a methodology is good just because it's popular. That's how you get cargo cults.

But if a methodology violates the standards, it's almost certainly bad.

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