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My experience has been the opposite. I work in a PHP shop and with each new version update, a handful of us are excited about the new changes that get made to the language. Our DevOps team has been on top of keeping our servers running the latest production-ready versions of PHP. So many of the refinements are a welcome change. I'm eager for stronger type hinting and other features that are still coming down the pipe.
No USB 3 ports? Only USB 2? That's a little disappointing. Aside from that, this looks pretty cool. I haven't been huge into using tablets, but mostly because I don't like the locked down ecosystems of iOS and Android. This might change my mind about them.
That's all there is on desktop, too
Seconding this for Tenor. They certainly know how to game Google for traffic, then stop users from getting what they want
The open web started dying over a decade ago with the dawn of the iPhone and with the advent of social media. Cheap devices coupled with platforms that use psychological manipulation to keep people addicted are pretty effective in drawing an audience.
The platforms also don't generate a profit or operate at a loss YouTube generated $15 billion last year[1], but Google/Alphabet never disclosed profitability and has only broken even in previous years[2]. Twitter also took over a decade before it even reported a profit[3]. These kinds of ventures would be choked out by competition and by a lack of investors normally. But monetary profits aren't the goal. It's all about control.
Take Facebook for instance. Over half of the US population has a Facebook account[4]. Facebook is also known to engage in psychological manipulation of its audience to determine reactions and behavior[5], even shadowbanning users and content that it disagrees with[6]. This is a great recipe for broadcasting whatever message the controllers of these platforms want and for reinforcing those beliefs with positive messaging. I won't even get into the political ramifications like with the Cambridge Analytica scandal[7] or that Facebook advertises using your name to your friends[8].
I'm trying to underline the point that Perez makes in the article. It's incredibly dangerous to trust these platforms with anything. They disguise their motives in corporate speak and platitudes while shutting out any dissenting voices. The solution is to get off of these platforms that stifle speech and thought. Otherwise, we're doomed to live in Edward Bernays' wet dream.
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-ad-revenue-15-billio... [2] https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-still-doesnt-make-go... [3] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/technology/twitter-earnin... [4] https://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-... (the US population is 328.2 million) [5] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-... [6] https://gizmodo.com/facebook-patents-shadowbanning-183641134... [7] https://www.businessinsider.com/cambridge-analytica-a-guide-... [8] https://www.facebook.com/help/214816128640041
The suggestions in the comments are excellent. One thing I would add is this: contact the site owner in advance and ask for their permission. If they are okay with it or if you don't hear back, credit the site in your work. Then send the owner a message with where they can see the information being used.
Some sites will have rules or guidelines for attribution already in place. For example, the DMOZ had a Required Attribution page to explain how to credit them: https://dmoz-odp.org/docs/en/license.html. Discogs mentions that use of their data also falls under CC0: https://data.discogs.com/. Other sites may have these details in their Terms of Service, About page, or similar.
They're both similar and very clever, but they do operate differently. Sleep sort works by setting up a delay and callback based on the values that you are sorting, so timing is crucial. The solution in this topic is using the network as a queue to store values and is constantly throwing them back, only pulling them into the sorted stack when they reach the max threshold. Once an item is pulled down, its value is recorded and isn't echoed out again. The process is repeated until the list is complete. This works without regard to timing.
Vinegar Syndrome actually restored and reissued this within the last year. I've always been a fan of his part in it:
"Information is like a bank. Some of us are rich. Some of us are poor with information. All of us can be rich. Our job--YOUR job is to rob the bank. To kill the guard. To go out there, to destroy everybody who keeps and hides the whole of information."
Thee cool friends are thee ones that would stick around, browse your occult book collection, and talk about works ov ToPY members
These are good points, but there are a few things to consider. First, as the article points out, self-hosting may result in a faster experience for your users due to the slowness of Google's font delivery. Secondly, your site is likely already serving up other assets which are not nearly as large as the fonts themselves (CSS, logos, other images, JavaScript, etc), so the savings is really not that large in comparison. Third, you can make use of cache-control headers that will ensure that all of these assets don't expire on the client's side for as long as you'd prefer.
One of the benefits of a CDN is the "N" part. If you host on a single server and you start getting requests from across the globe, those users will have a slightly more fluid experience if they can download the assets from a server that's physically closer to them than if they have to wait for packets to hop across dozens of nodes.
This sounds a lot like my current situation at work. We're a decently-sized company of 100+ people. About a quarter of them are developers. Developers are divided into teams who are responsible for specific components of our system.
However, there are also a few "architects" who are basically free agents with god-like status. They don't architect anything. Rather, they do a lot of counter-productive things such as attending meetings for specific teams without those teams knowing. Then they make large decisions about the direction of a given feature without documenting anything, let alone letting those teams in on what's going on. It's always a fun surprise and works wonders for our ability to deliver a solution on time /s
Beyond that, they'll go off and develop whatever they feel like and force it through the system. We have a code review process, but if you bring up that problems are present in their code, they will often say that it doesn't matter and that the code just has to go through to meet some unspecified deadlines. They'll get management to skip code reviews if you try to hold them accountable. And of course, this results in things exploding. But then they can clean up those exploded bits, knowing what they were, and come out heroically since they "put out so many fires".
I'll stop ranting. But it really is frustrating, especially when you get shut down by management for bringing up any issues with this chaotic group.
What makes it a legal boundary? Its only purpose is religious.
False equivalence. Cars are not religious.
If it's simply a wire, why not just use a map instead?
You can also see a list of Eruvin on Wikipedia. Check out the References sections to see the actual maps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_with_eruvin
They're simply showing off how they've hacked their own religion. Otherwise, why is this even on Hacker News?