Category: Rants

Агністы. Быць асцярожным.

‘Tis the season… to not visit websites

Here’s an interesting tidbit from the life of a web developer.

Вы думаеце, што людзі будуць ісці ў інтэрнэце з гэтай бліскучай новы тэлефон / планшэт / тостар яны атрымалі на працягу курортнага сезону.

Па-відаць, ніхто не ведае, што. Вось паглядзіце на мае апошнія хіты (Не група тыпу, Я маю на ўвазе колькасць наведвальнікаў hathix.com):

hathix visitors graph
Як святочны настрой падымаецца, наведванняў вэб-сайтаў ісці ўніз.

З таго, што я бачыў, гэта, здаецца, у выпадку з амаль кожны сайт і дадатак: наведванняў або загрузкі рэзка зніжацца на працягу курортнага сезону. Для чаго гэта каштуе, things return right back to normal once the new year begins.

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Why it’s awesome being a developer

Studiofibonacci free icon set of ninjas with weapons
Па-відаць, these are a bunch of computer programmers.

Ninjas.

That’s what computer programmers are calling themselves nowadays. The profession (if you can even call it that) goes by a litany of none-too-glamorous names, such as developer, programmer, engineer, technician, and more stuff that doesn’t quite make you the most popular guy in the room. Hence, a lot of, ER, programmers (for lack of a better word) go by ninja or such. Which I find slightly annoying – you’re writing code, not killing enemies of the emperor. Але я адцягнуўся.

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A slightly radical proposal for schools

I’ve often been asked the question “If you could be king of the world for a day, what would you do?” First of all, I’d make myself king permanently, but that’s not the point. Here’s my slightly radical proposal that would be the second thing I’d do if I were king for a day.

I’m part of a club that takes out the recycling in our school in the morning. Let me tell you, we collect a lot of paper: if I collect the paper of maybe 15 rooms that haven’t had their paper collected in a few days, I can fill up a whole trash can. Not the small trash cans you have in your house, I mean ones as big as janitors use. That’s a lot.

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Yet another rant about Bcc:з

I just got an email addressed to no less than 78 людзі, and all 78 people’s email addresses were in the To field. You’d think the sender would put all our emails in the Bcc field since, добра, the recipients don’t really need to know the emails of the other 77 people who got the email. (In its defense, putting all the emails in the To field makes stalking easier, but isn’t that what Facebook’s for?)

I can understand why Cc isn’t that popular: it does the same thing as To, except it carries a different semantic meaning. Most teenagers (and a bunch of adults too) couldn’t care less about the fancy schmancy semantic meaning, so they just use To.

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