🔗 Quick links thread
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And the fact that it says “certain death for most mortals” means that it doesn’t mean this for all of them.
It also means it isn't quite certain, and yet.
Filed under: always works in some cases
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##Website obesity
Another great talk/article about the www bloat. Bonus points for making fun of bloat on the other articles complaining about bloat. I also liked his points about EC2 and cloud.
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There are some awesome lines in there. So many to choose between…
It takes a lot of intimate lubricant to surf the unfiltered Web these days.
Does your page design improve when you replace every image with William Howard Taft?
If so, then, maybe all those images aren’t adding a lot to your article. At the very least, leave Taft there! You just admitted it looks better.
Accepted practice today is for ad space to be auctioned at page load time. The actual ads (along with all their javascript surveillance infrastructure) are pulled in by the browser after the content elements are in place.
In terms of user experience, this is like a salesman arriving at a party after it has already started, demanding that the music be turned off, and setting up their little Tupperware table stand to harass your guests. It ruins the vibe.
Tucking into hamburgers is not the way to fix your flabby interface.
Not every interface should be designed for someone surfing the web from their toilet.
I shouldn't need sled dogs and pemmican to navigate your visual design.
You can do an awful lot on a laptop, or pizza box web server, if you skip the fifty layers of overhead.
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There are some awesome lines in there. So many to choose between…
One of my favorites:
Rather than trying to make your overbuilt projects look simple, ask yourself if they can't just be simple.
Reminds me of something we all know and lo
veathe.
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Dammit, I was just about to post that! My favourite quote:
Here is the Forbes homepage, as seen with the left hamburger menu expanded. It looks like a random chunk of memory that accidentally got rendered to the video card.
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I like that talk.
He's one of the crazy people who thinks the government is surveilling everything he does, but:
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He lives in Australia where that's probably actually true, and
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He doesn't let it dominate the talk like most of those crazy people do
There is a HUGE market out there for the first company to come up with a server-to-server method of pre-segmenting users and sharing creatives so that ads could all be served first-party, perhaps even through a proxy so the content site could do whatever compression they wanted on them. I wish someone would give me a few million so I could develop that. Getting buy-in from Google or Microsoft would be nightmarish, I imagine.
The current inefficiency in ad serving is mostly just a huge dose of "we've always done it that way". There's no big technical challenge in making the ad selection process server-side so ads could always be served first-party. (There are a few technical challenges, but none of which are extremely difficult.)
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The current inefficiency in ad serving is mostly just a huge dose of "we've always done it that way". There's no big technical challenge in making the ad selection process server-side so ads could always be served first-party. (There are a few technical challenges, but none of which are extremely difficult.)
I bet the biggest problem is political. You would have to be trusted not to cheat or screw up. There's zero incentive for big ad networks to accept these added risks, when they already have a good thing going.
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I bet the biggest problem is political. You would have to be trusted not to cheat or screw up.
That's true... I was thinking you request the weblogs back from the publisher to confirm the impressions, but the problem is the weblogs can be easily faked. So maybe the problem's more difficult than I imagine.
You could require the creatives be hosted on a CDN by a third-party, say Amazon AWS, then both parties get access to the weblogs and they'd be MUCH harder to fake. But they'd still be served from a first-party domain. That's a possibility.
There's zero incentive for big ad networks to accept these added risks, when they already have a good thing going.
Like I said, getting buy-in from DoubleClick or whatever the hell Atlas is called now would be a huge obstacle.
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The current inefficiency in ad serving is mostly just a huge dose of "we've always done it that way".
A large part of the problem is the need to use lots of complicated scripts and flashy animated interactive ads. Those massively increase the weight of the overall page, both in terms of how large it is and how long it takes for the actual content to start to show up. I remember when Google started doing ads with lots of text ads at a time when everyone else seemed to go for really costly animated stuff (Java applets just to show ads! ) it was really not objectionable at all, even given that most bandwidth was far smaller and more expensive than now.
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A large part of the problem is the need to use lots of complicated scripts and flashy animated interactive ads.
Where is your word "need" coming from?
Who "needs" that, and why?
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Where is your word "need" coming from?
It's definitely not me who needs them. Why other people feel the urge to make the connection to ad delivery systems that way… I'm not the person to ask. Indeed, I've never deliberately run ads on any page I've ever created.
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Well you said it. I guess my fault for assuming you have some reason to type the words you type.
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I can't help the fact that you can't understand what I write. Lots of other people understand. I conclude that the fault is with you.
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Lots of other people understand.
I read it as "the [perceived] need [by ad creators and distributors] to ..."
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I read it as "the [perceived] need [by ad creators and distributors] to ..."
Well I specifically asked, and that's not what he said.
Apparently I still don't understand what he meant by the word "need" there, but I'm just giving up and not caring anymore.
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Speaking of the internet not getting better: Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web
Guy talks about how the modern web and its division into a bunch of unconnected apps affects the future of the internet.
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Speaking of the internet not getting better: Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web
Guy talks about how the modern web and its division into a bunch of unconnected apps affects the future of the internet.
I remember reading this article, might have actually posted it. Very good.
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##The best tech question to ask in a job interview
Spoiler alert: [spoiler]"Explain to me how the internet works."[/spoiler]
I'll be using this one pretty soon.
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It's a series of tubes, man.
Also,urk. It's one of those questions where you almost certainly know the answer, but aren't quite sure it's the one the interviewer has in mind.
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Also,urk. It's one of those questions where you almost certainly know the answer, but aren't quite sure it's the one the interviewer has in mind.
Ugh, I hate those.
Interviewer: How would you implement a class in javascript?
Me: Blah blah... prototype... blah blah... javascript... blah blah... constructor...
(5 minutes later)
Interviewer: Ummmm... (rumples papers with answers)... So you'd say you would use prototype inheritance to implement classes in javascript?
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I want to see an Air Crash Investigation episode about this. Russians have the best crashes.
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Russians have the best crashes.
Flew into the ground at speed, ignoring all the warnings, because of a bet?!
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###Aeroflot Flight 6502
I want to see an Air Crash Investigation episode about this. Russians have
thebest crashes.FTFY
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Russians have be crashes?
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That's even worse than the usual FTFY "joke".
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Don't blame me ... I'm just explaining the damn thing ...
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I'll just act like that was a compliment, thanks.
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Don't blame me ... I'm just explaining the
damn thing ...stupid "correction" style joke, that's ALWAYS more annoying than fun. The only thing more annoying are the fucking grammar nazi pendants correcting actual mistakes. I curse the day this forum introduced this ins/del crap. We'd be much better off without them. Then at least these fuckers would have to invest some fucking effort before clicking the Reply button. Who knows, they might even stop and think "Does the world really need this contribution? Would other people actually like reading this? Would it make their lives better in any way?" And then they can realize "No, no it won't" and not post the stupid thing in the first place. Fuck this FTFY trend and fuck people who participate in it.FTFY
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I'm glad you aren't annoyed by all this
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@Luhmann said:
Don't blame me ... I'm just explaining the
damn thing ...stupid "correction" style joke, that's ALWAYS more annoying than fun. The only thing more annoying are the fucking grammar nazi pendants correcting actual mistakes. I curse the day this forum introduced this ins/del crap. We'd be much better off without them. Then at least these fuckers would have to invest some fucking effort before clicking the Reply button. Who knows, they might even stop and think "Does the world really need this contribution? Would other people actually like reading this? Would it make their lives better in any way?" And then they can realize "No, no it won't" andnotpost the stupid thingin the first placeanyway. Fuck this FTFY trend and fuck people who participate in it.FTFY
FTFP
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Spoiler alert: [spoiler]"Explain to me how the internet works."[/spoiler]
I'll be using this one pretty soon.It doesn't. That's why you need to hire me.
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@cartman82 said:
@Luhmann said:
Don't cunt me ... I'm just cunt the
cunty cunt ...cunty "cunt" style cunt, that's ALWAYS more cunting than cunt. The only cunt more cunty are the cunt grammar cunt cunts
cunting actual cunts. I curse the cunt this cunt introduced this cunt/cunt cunt. We'd be much cunty off without them. Then at least these cunters would have to cunt some cunting
effort before cunting the Cunt button. Who knows, they might even cunt and think "Does the cunt really need this cunt? Would other cunt actually like cunting this? Would it
make their cunts better in any way?" And then they can cunt "No, no it won't" andnotcunt the stupid cuntin the first placeanyway. Cunt this
FTFY trend and cunt cunts who cunt in it.FTFY
FTFP
Cunted under: What ever happened to different cunt for nested
cunt
/cunt
tags? That "cunt" is lost in the cunt of already-cunt background.CTFY
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Nice, but needs more cunt.
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I don't like cunts with such a strange hairdo ... As smooth as a baby butt is not required ... but this is out of control.
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This used to be my favorite destination when I was bored at work. Glad to see it's still alive over ten years later...
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Make sure to watch the video, aahh the sweet unicorn fart smell in the air :))
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Can you stream music to it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCL94-MsxYc<It really pisses me off when people put "subscribe to me" on their video when all they did was steal a piece of music from some creator and an image from some other creator and glom them into one video. No. You don't do subscriptions. I mean hell, I'm not Spielberg, but at least I put SOME effort into making my videos. And this one is almost worse. "No copyright intended" as if those magic words make you invincible to all moral implications of taking credit for someone else's work. But oh well. At least it doesn't ask me to subscribe. YouTube's a sewer. You know what? Fuck these idiots. Let's get some Lindsey Stirling in here. Love her.>
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Now that you mentioned it, yes, as soon as they find and patent your brillant idea :)
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##Unethical Growth Hacking from YayView
Creepy hot-or-not/tinder style app except it automatically generates a publicly-editable profile for you if any of your Facebook friends (not you!) join the service. Of course, if you'd like to claim your account, you have to sign up...
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##The HDCD Enigma and HDCD Examined
Or in short, why better is sometimes the enemy of good.
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I often wondered how one of the CDs I have claimed this mythical 20 bit sampling, now I know, cool.
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26 posts were split to a new topic: Unix Delenda Est
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http://howlongtobeat.com/steam.php
Estimates how long it takes to beat every game in your Steam collection, and lets you sort the list.
I was trying to get through as many games as I could so that's a great feature for me.
No idea what it means to beat Counter-Strike: Source though.
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Explain to me how the internet works
As an application/API developer, it would be completely irrelevant in any interview I've had. Fucking hipster technologies and their "everything is a browser" brainworms
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No idea what it means to beat Counter-Strike: Source though.
*shrug*
Euro Truck Simulator 2 seems to take longer to 'beat' than Fallout 4
Euro Truck Simulator 2 62h 25m Fallout 4 62h 17m
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As an application/API developer, it would be completely irrelevant in any interview I've had. Fucking hipster technologies and their "everything is a browser" brainworms
If a job candidate had absolutely no idea how internet worked, and couldn't even bullshit some kind of guess based on their other knowledge or experience, that would be a huge red mark in my book.
I also don't need to know how CPU works to do my job, but I'd be embarrassed if all I had for an explanation was "magic".