In 2009 I bought my first smartphone, the HTC Magic. It was also the first smartphone sold by Vodafone Spain, who had zero experience with phones where you could actually use internet, so they offered uncapped contracts. To make things worse:
- Android was just a few months old
- Apps were not optimized for using as little data as possible
- I was REALLY into RSS, with hundred of feeds, and RSS apps where continually polling for changes.
The rest is history: my first month with a smartphone - May 2009 - I consumed 10GB of data and I received a few calls from the Vodafone people
After the last few years of hardware problems with Macs let's see who's the brave one to buy a v1 of any Apple new product (meanwhile there's probably people already making a queue to buy one)
There're so many alternatives to Airflow nowadays that you really need to make sure that Airflow is the best solution (or even a solution) to your use case. There's plenty of use cases better resolved with tools like Prefect or Dagster, but I suppose the inertia to install the tool everyone knows about is really big.
Sorry, but I still prefer the current state of affairs than having secret pacts that diminish the sovereignty of my country in favor of big transnationals, that only look for themselves, justify everything with a "we only look after our investors interest" and don't know the meaning of morality. The Philip Morris - a company that sells products that kill people - case against Australia is a clear example on how bad things end up with this kind of pacts.
All is perfect, until you need to hire more developers, and then find (almost) all of them live in big cites, and they're not willing to relocate to a place without theaters, bars, discos... probably a lot like the place the came from before living in the city ;)
Among other things the government wants to discourage the use of private cars: Singapore is too crowded a city for everyone to have a car, you reduce noise and pollution levels, the petroleum dependence of the country...
What is so important about privacy? You're supposed to be working, aren't you? I can totally understand privacy when you're dealing with sensitive date that shouldn't be seen by other people.
Great explanation, but I don't think this business model is incompatible with "flipping the switch" partially as Amazon already did. Examples: raising the minimum amount for free delivery from 25 to 35, or removing free delivery from Amazon UK to certain countries like Spain to avoid cannibalizing it's own business in those countries.
I've been breathing internet from 1999, and believe me, when Rails was born it was - specially compared with the former current status of web development - awesome and game changing. That justified hype brought a lot of people, specially designers, to Rails, and still brings them even if other tools are better suited for the task in hand, and you know what they say, "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".
I don't know when you changed the behavior, but until a few months ago the cache was infinite. I close friend was unable to use Chrome because it took minutes - yes, minutes - to boot until we found is was a problem related with the huge cache it was maintaining.
Just two comments:
* when having cases that should match and other that not, It would be ok to differentiate them
* in some lessons it would be ok to force the full string to be matched. If not it's too easy to write i.e. file in http://regexone.com/lesson/8? and pass to the next one.
I was just taking a look to it as I'd like some of my non-technical staff to understand how regex works - they need it for Google Analytics filters - and it looks wonderful.
Interesting. I thought you only needed PCI compliance if your server touched the card, no the front-end, but it makes sense. Nevertheless here in Spain we'll need to wait to have tokenization. There's only one gateway - unless you choose Ogone or Adyen - and hell will freeze before it innovates.
I think Paymill would be a good alternative for us Europeans if not for the pricing. 2.95% + 0.28€ for transaction is really bad if you work with low margins and far far worse what we get working directly with our bank (and don't forget you only see your money once a week).
And at least here in Spain you should not forget the TERRIBLE way of integrating payments in your site if you're not PCI compliant. When you try to pay you end up in a ugly POS terminal that with some browsers shows misleading JS alerts when you click on the pay button.
Could you expand on this? I was on the assumption that with Stripe you could circumvent PCI compliance almost completely. I thought that you only need to comply with PCI if your SERVER touched the credit card data in any way - i.e. capturing the info from your frontend and sending to your payment gateway - and as with Stripe your server never sees it - their JS sends the info to Stripe servers directly - you are ok.
I think the problem here is that they choose a technology that is difficult - but not impossible - to scale, and they didn't have either the in-house know-how to solve their problems neither the money to hire someone with the knowledge to do it.
I think RoR could have been a good decision a few years ago, when the web framework landscape what atrocious, but nowadays there're a lot of good options based on other programming languages that have already proved could be scaled without finding untraceable bugs. Heck, just a few days ago an acquaintance showed me a webapp running over a perl - Amazon, IMDB, Slashdot... use perl heavily - async framework 20% faster than node.js.
Me too (Ubuntu + Chromium), and is really annoying, as more and more sites are starting to use webfonts :( The strange thing is that only happens around links and on Chromiun (Chrome works ok)