Category: Rants

Berapi. Berhati-hati.

‘Tis the season… to not visit websites

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

Anda akan berfikir bahawa orang akan pergi di internet dengan telefon / tablet pembakar roti yang berkilat baru / mereka mendapat untuk musim cuti.

Rupa-rupanya, tiada siapa yang tidak yang. Berikut adalah melihat pada hits terkini saya (bukan jenis band, Saya maksudkan bilangan pelawat ke hathix.com):

hathix visitors graph
Sebagai semangat perayaan naik, lawatan ke laman web turun.

Dari apa yang saya lihat, ini seolah-olah kes itu dengan cukup banyak setiap laman web dan aplikasi: lawatan atau muat turun mendadak berkurangan semasa musim cuti. Untuk apa yang bernilai, things return right back to normal once the new year begins.

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Mengapa ia hebat menjadi pemaju

Studiofibonacci free icon set of ninjas with weapons
Rupa-rupanya, 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, dia, 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. But I digress.

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Cadangan sedikit radikal untuk sekolah

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, tetapi itu bukan titik. Berikut adalah cadangan sedikit radikal saya yang akan menjadi perkara yang kedua yang saya akan lakukan jika saya raja untuk sehari.

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 orang, 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, baik, 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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