I’m still surprised that this type of findings hasn’t had more of an impact on commercial design. It is not uncommon to find Fortune 500 sites with load times over 20 seconds. I get it that it is hard to write and maintain clean code, still, repeated studies have shown the value proposition is there.
Here is a little proof of concept I did awhile back to see how tight I could make a responsive page with a good amount of graphics. The whole page is two server calls (one is for the fav icon). It loads in about 400 ms total from github or in less than 200 from Godaddy shared hosting: https://pbskidd.github.io/cockenoe
I think your point deserves more emphasis. IF in fact 5MM inhabitants of Wuhan fled the city before the lockdown, we can be pretty sure that this was caused, at least in part, by a lack in faith from their government’s handling of the previous outbreaks. The government lied and censored and the people did not forget. This in turn triggers a diaspora at the worst possible time.
I have to chime in that I too have a love/hate relationship with Lotus Notes. I started using it back in ‘98. It was massively empowering to build functional and secure workflow apps, and do so faster than you could wireframe on other platforms. I rolled it out to thousands of users successfully. It was truly visionary in scope. However, the performance was mediocre and there were many really poor oversights and omissions. Often I would go to program some base operation and find out you just “can’t get there from here“. It seemed their QC process hadn’t really given much though to global calendar synchronization or to very basic needs like printing landscape. I still use it daily for a large (funeral) industry specific app. and it has run flawlessly for a decade (albeit making API calls to MS Office and the web). I go to program new things in React or even Rails and am disappointed that you have to reinvent things that were built into Notes 20 yrs ago.
One caution: I don’t know if it is still a thing, but inkjets used to dry out pretty badly if you left them idle for too long. Sometimes a thorough cleaning would work, but sometimes not. I push non-technical family members to get cheap laser printers.
How about we instead consider distancing the human political actors from direct contact with temptation? Corruption is an integral part of all political systems and ultimately festers until inevitable failure and restart. Can’t we start to consider open source, programmatic execution of popularly derived decisions?
I think this a great challenge to propose to the HN crowd. Who wouldn’t pay for a system that truly eliminates the annoyance of spam calls? What about a private network that people could subscribe to that uses a decentralized social credit system? Or one that uses a monitoring gateway to track the number of calls originating from a number (either internal or external to the subscriber group), and treats mass callers with extreme prejudice. A blacklist of known spammers could be applied first as a default (rather than as an add-on app). If you wanted to get really creative, you could give subscribers the tools to add numbers to their own black list far more easily than they now can, and maybe even block whole geographic regions.
Overheating (and the subsequent throttling) seems to be a growing problem for Intel. Also, most of their mobile line is locked to the UHD 620 GPU.
As I understand it they are working off of an older fab than AMD and are hitting its EOL, all while commanding a price premium. AMD has room to expand their lead and appears to be beginning to, despite being a 10x smaller company.
I stumbled across the concept of Damerau-Levenshtein about two years ago. Applying it to a a large database of very messy consumer data in Pandas returned near miraculous results!
Pagespeed (and my favorite: Gtmetrix), are very revealing. You would be surprised how many big, tech-savvy companies have abysmally performing websites.
It is also interesting to see the details of all the baggage that something like a single YouTube embed inflicts on your site performance. Sometimes it is over 50 individual server calls as well!
I honestly believe that Google has been downplaying how much this hurts your search rankings. The best first step for improving SEO (IMHO) is to make your page load fast. Usually, it is a fairly easy fix and your visitors will be rewarded as well.
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There are actually several outfits explicitly dedicated to trading equities (and even mortgages) on blockchain. One of the most advanced is Polymath.io.
The implementation is true blockchain it just isn’t completely decentralized blockchain like bitcoin. Instead, trust authorities would establish client accounts after due diligence and KYC and AML requirements had been met. Then those accounts would leverage blockchain to facilitate transactions on a transparent and indelible ledger.
Has anyone recently and earnestly looked into degradable plastic bags? I’m really surprised that an acceptable substitute has not been adopted. It seems like the utility of plastic bags along with the substantial environmental costs would create a great market opportunity.
Here is a little proof of concept I did awhile back to see how tight I could make a responsive page with a good amount of graphics. The whole page is two server calls (one is for the fav icon). It loads in about 400 ms total from github or in less than 200 from Godaddy shared hosting: https://pbskidd.github.io/cockenoe