This is why I have come to the (anecdotal) conclusion that one can only integrate into a group / society / culture when one learns / masters the language.
There are many nuances that imply the importance of particular details in the hidden meaning of the wording. These get easily lost when one does not fully comprehend the language used.
> How can it be that having intimate knowledge of someone would not allow you to sell them more stuff?
It allows you to sell more ads to the marketing people since it sounds very compelling. So there is your model.
The fact that I am still shown ads for items of the complete opposite (football) team that I am clearly (online visible, on FB, in my gmails, from my google search history, from my chrome browsing habits) fan of; show the targeting is still... moderate to say the least.
No idea what made people "not like" you mentioning https://theoldreader.com since that is what I use and came by to say.
As to the article's headline: if your site does not offer a working RSS feed, you've lost me as a "subscriber". I have nor the time nor the patience to track a 100 sides manually.
Not been in your position, but what truly spoke to me was the book by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton, titled:
Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending
In short:
The key lies in adhering to five key principles: Buy Experiences (research shows that material purchases are less satisfying than vacations or concerts); Make it a Treat (limiting access to our favorite things will make us keep appreciating them); Buy Time (focusing on time over money yields wiser purchases); Pay Now, Consume Later (delayed consumption leads to increased enjoyment); and Invest in Others (spending money on other people makes us happier than spending it on ourselves).
My introduction was in BASIC (sinclair zx80), I started my profesional life as COBOL coder, in the meantime I reversed ASM to "unlock games".
I can asure you that in every step allong the way, the code (-base) I created horrified me 5 years later.
My point being: I appriciate the advice "throw it away and do it proper" but I can asure you, given enough time, the next person will not understand your solution.
Being it old languages, being it old paradigms, being it olt skool tricks of the trade: code stales. The best advice on this subject I read here (a couple of times) is to try to understand the requirements and take it from there. If that is not to your liking, you proberbly are in the wrong line of work and should try to do only greenfield stuff.
A person who send their resume with no directly relevant experience (being fresh out of school) but listed an array of holiday jobs that got me intrigued.
During the interview, it took me 10 minutes to make the decision to give him a change. He took it and owned it. Worked hard, learned fast and had a great personality making my other coders (8) feel more at ease, motivated, honest and communicative.
Since then, I make sure HR does not hard filter all responses and try to give at least 1 or 2 outliers a change. Results are what you expect :)
One other great hire was a person that came back into the industry (coding) after a 10-year break (children). Over performed like nobody I have ever seen. She is now a C level at a very large international company, x times my senior.
1: It's easier to pronounce
2: Because it's easier to pronounce all foreigners use it
3: Because it's easier to pronounce and all foreigners use it, it is easier to use (If I introduce myself as being "from the Netherlands" I get blank looks. What I nowadays do is "I'm from Holland, Amsterdam, Ajax" and 90% of all people I know exactly where I am from).
4: Holland covers about 50% of the population, and about 70% of the economy
5: In Holland there is Amsterdam, Schiphol & Rotterdam basically the places that tourists go to or have heard about
PS The official name is "Kingdom of the Netherlands", I guess that solidifies my point about Holland being easier :)
Googled around a bit for How to disable (limit) TLS session resumption, but that did not get me further then that this is actually done in the TOR Browser (also mentioned in the article).
Not how to in Chrome or anyother common browser. Anyone with better Google Fu that has a pointer?
Love it for casual browsing (I use the anonimity by default) and am happy to be greeted by the "Hey you are a first time visitor of our site, please accept the cookies" every single time I visit a site (yes, I close the browser after browsing).
And when that proxy is worth it's salt, it shall detect attempts to tunnel plain ssh over said ports.
This is 2018, anyone who can bypass their corporate proxy with that example, should find employment elsewhere or atleast prepare to do so since your company's internals will surface on twitter any time now.
Yeah, not a word about "people who receive such mail will be billed additional fees". It mentions that the sender in China will be charged more over time.
Global market share held by leading desktop internet browsers
Chrome Safari
May '18 66.93% 5.48%
Apr '18 66.17% 5.48%
Mar '18 66.93% 5.37%
Feb '18 67.49% 5.42%
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