Cost. I run a small Chicago area “private” meetup (in the sense that one needs to be invited, it’s not publicly advertised) for small business owners. We do workshops on how to advertise using Google ads, do basic web analytics, etc. The skyrocketing cost of meeting rooms and basic catering have gone through the roof. I’m not talking about catering as in lobster and steak; even just getting Panera Bread level food has been ridiculously expensive.
Oh my goodness, thank you! I have been searching for a source of the small icons as an example to show the computing classes I lecture, and I finally found my rotating favorite one! https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/msntbciis.gif
Thank you so much - on the flip side, my students may dislike you because they're going to get a lecture on how the web used to be!
My favorite one I think is the Internet Explorer/Google Chrome "Same shit different - " one, because it's obviously recent and somehow iconic of the sort of person who reminisces about the old web, and clearly narrowcasting to such people.
I think you should check out the Light Table kickstarter[0] which originally had a similar premise to yours, and raised several hundred thousand dollars. I personally put in $50 to be in the beta, and that was almost 15 years ago.
I think you would get a lot of takers if you could make a convincing demo.
Unread RSS Reader. Godawful poll timing. 6103 requests in 52 days is about one poll every 736 seconds _on average_, but they're hugely spread out. WTF? Put it this way: the list of unique intervals (nn seconds, nn minutes, ...) is four pages tall on my web browser.
Not entirely sure what the criticism here is other than polling on average every 12 minutes seems a little excessive at best. Why does in matter it the intervals are a bit wonky? I could think of many reasons why: maybe the poll intervals are smaller during the daytime and more spread out over the night to optimize for reading conditions, etc
> As mentioned above, the default behavior for caching (that is, for a response without Cache-Control) is not simply "don't cache" but implicit caching according to so-called "heuristic caching".
> How long to reuse is up to the implementation, but the specification recommends about 10% [...] of the time after storing.
So assuming I'm reading this correctly, if she still hasn't added `Cache-Control` headers to the feed responses, and her last post was (for example) 24 hours ago, that means a well-behaved client will check the feed again in 2.4h from now, and then again 2.64h after that, and then 2.9h after that, and so on.
If the last feed update was 1 hour ago, and no `Cache-Control` header is present, a well-behaved client would cache the response for 6 minutes (10% of 1 hour).
Quoting the next paragraph (right after my last quote):
> Heuristic caching is a workaround that came before Cache-Control support became widely adopted, and basically all responses should explicitly specify a Cache-Control header.
So a possibility is that Unread RSS Reader might be detecting the lack of `Cache-Control` (which means Rachel is not bothering to follow caching recommendations), which then might be causing Unread RSS Reader to be doing heuristic caching as per the recommendations mentioned above, and the problem is just that Rachel doesn't like this heuristic caching but also doesn't want to include `Cache-Control` in her responses.
And if I'm understanding all this correctly, the `If-Modified-Since` and `If-None-Match` headers have nothing to do with request rate (what she's complaining about), they are only used to let the server decide if it should return a full response or if a 304 is enough.
Yeah, relying too much on modified headers from requests to send the appropriate response isn't ideal, because request headers can be incorrect and largely unreliable.
Responding with a Cache-Control header with a max-age seems like a much more superior option for these cases.
Surprised nobody has mentioned it, but my favorite movie of his was Pride and Prejudice 2005 edition. He plays the father role extremely well - you can feel the emotion in the room.
Going to have to rewatch it this weekend in his honor.
> If you understand that this is primarily an exercise in marketing and not tech, then you'll be on your way
A solid gold insight right there. I graduated into a bad economy as well (Millennial into the 08 recession) and what got me hired was not my honors GPA or dual major or any other academic achievement. I got hired because of my side project hosting a JSON API that offered some very simple data. I was able to talk about it during an interview and pretty much my passion for it got me hired.
Another alternative is to get into an open source project and offer to do some "developer evangelism" type work. Code up examples, documentation, write up blog posts - great way to get your name out there.
I would like to point out that side projects and open source work is more useful as a new grad seeking employment than a junior.
In my experience (as a junior 8ish years ago), companies were not interested in my projects or open source work at all, even when it pertained to the same domain. I'd say if you want to work in open source to make yourself more hireable, to pick a high visibility project that companies may already know (like WordPress, Redis, React, etc.).
It is what happened to each of the wives of King Henry the 8th. It's a famous rhyme intended to make it easy to remember the order of what happened to them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wives_of_Henry_VIII
I don’t necessarily know if the famous graph is accurate - I don’t think the divergence in beliefs is so extreme as that graph indicates, but it is undeniably true that on a worldwide scale there is a growing rift between men and women. Articles like the following are frequently written about the gender gap in South Korea: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna59747
And obviously there are the redpill and other gender-centric movements in the US.
Here is my fundamental question: why is society suddenly producing so many people that have ill will to the opposite gender? There have always been discussions about the differences between genders - the famous “men are from mars, women are from Venus” was published 30+ years ago - but what is making todays discussions so vile and toxic?
> By Day 315, behavior disparities between males of high and low status became more pronounced. Those at the bottom of the pecking order found themselves spurned by females and withdrew from mating altogether...
> With male mice abandoning their traditional roles in Universe 25, the females were left to fend for their nests. Consequently, many females adopted more aggressive forms of behavior...
It's the internet. Radical ideologies of all stripes are able to spread much more rapidly. Previously they were secluded the the fringes, and shunned. Now people can find communities dedicated to their views and form echo chambers.
This article strongly reminded me of the "helicrane" system developed by NASA for the last Mars probe, which oriented itself by recognizing the terrain below it and using that to orient itself toward the right drop location: https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/what-we-do/flight-projects...
Fun stuff. Wonder if there is any requirements for how "bumpy" the terrain needs to be to get recognized properly by the system.
Glad to see someone else had that problem too - I spent hours reading through the Twilio documentation to try to figure out if transactional sms was allowed because all I kept seeing was campaign registration, campaign fees, and etc all about campaign sms. And if we had to pay the campaign monthly fees even if we sent transactional sms, not campaign.
I understand that it's not Twilio's fault, but they desperately need to hire some developer evangelists to write some documentation.
