Category: Rants

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‘Tis the season… to not visit websites

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

Man skulle tro, at folk ville gå på internettet med den skinnende nye telefon / tablet / brødrister de fik for feriesæsonen.

Tilsyneladende, ingen gør at. Her er et kig på mine nyeste hits (ikke bandet typen, Jeg mener antallet af besøgende til hathix.com):

hathix visitors graph
Som den festlige ånd går op, besøg på websites gå ned.

Fra hvad jeg har set, dette synes at være tilfældet med stort set hver hjemmeside og app: besøg eller downloads kraftigt fald i løbet af feriesæsonen. For hvad er det værd, things return right back to normal once the new year begins.

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Hvorfor det er fantastisk at være en udvikler

Studiofibonacci free icon set of ninjas with weapons
Tilsyneladende, disse er en flok af edb-programmører.

Ninjas.

Det er, hvad computer-programmører kalder sig i dag. Erhvervet (Hvis du kan endda kalde det,) går af en litani af ikke alt for glamourøse navne, såsom udvikleren, programmør, ingeniør, tekniker, og flere ting, der ikke helt gøre dig den mest populære fyr i rummet. Derfor, en masse, is, programmører (i mangel af et bedre ord) gå af ninja eller sådan. Hvilket jeg finder lidt irriterende – du skriver kode, ikke at dræbe fjender af kejseren. Men jeg sidespring.

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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:s

I just got an email addressed to no less than 78 mennesker, 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, godt, 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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