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kalimatas
Technology serves people! Nice joke :)
icpmacdo
I wonder if there will be as many comments as usual complaining about any type of profanity.
taftster
Well, if there are, you will now have a service to tell them. I think it's the /off/:name/:from method.
tzaman
Very useful, I think I'll implement this inside of an exception handler :)
kingofthekongs
Nice one! creative use of technology and gives a vent to instant frustrations..bravo!
dsugarman
how good is the enterprise tech support for this api?
kevin
Solid documentation.
hkmurakami
Roadmap: Internationalization based on Accept-Language.

Ironically, if this could be done for certian languages for which there is no simple analogue for "fuck off" (ex: Japanese, where you need an arsenal of slang to suit the various occasions), it would be of great service to mankind.

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foobarbazqux
/linus/:name/:from

Will return content of the form ':name, there aren't enough swear-words in the English language, so now I'll have to call you perkeleen vittupää just to express my disgust and frustration with this crap. - :from'

xenph
It appears to do this now, albeit brokenly.
foobarbazqux
Sweet!

> albeit brokenly

WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!