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Women’s Guide to Unwanted Geek Advances

January 21, 2012

Terry Jones’ full list of HTTP status codes for women to deal with unwanted geek advances is too good not to post here on a Saturday when you staffing entrepreneurs are supposed to be relaxing but aren’t. Here are my favorites:

301 MOVED PERMANENTLY
305 USE PROXY
306 RESERVED
402 PAYMENT REQUIRED
403 FORBIDDEN
405 METHOD NOT ALLOWED
413 REQUEST ENTITY TOO LARGE
414 REQUEST-URI TOO LONG
424 FAILED DEPENDENCY
426 UPGRADE REQUIRED
503 SERVICE UNAVAILABLE
508 LOOP DETECTED

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