One of the targeted students said she felt "terrified" at the prospect of seeing the men on campus again.
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Polar vortex: Fire used to melt ice on Chicago train tracks
Flames from gas-fed heaters stop snow and ice from clogging up the track at railway intersections.
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The GP substitute will see you now
Some 20,000 physios, pharmacists and paramedics are to be recruited to work with under-pressure GPs.
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‘Meeting the stranger who saved my life’
Liv Pontin had decided to take her own life, when a train driver stopped her. Now they are reuniting.
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Sarah Sanders says 'God wanted Trump to be president'
In an interview, the White House press secretary says Donald Trump had divine support.
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MPs say fast fashion brands inaction on ethics is shocking
JD Sports, Sports Direct, TK Maxx, Amazon, Boohoo and Missguided must do more, say MPs.
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Brexit: How ready is the UK government for no deal?
A think tank report assesses how ready the government is to leave the EU without a deal.
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Brexit: Car investment halves as industry hits 'red alert'
The UK industry's trade body warns of "permanent devastation" if Britain leaves the EU without a deal.
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House price growth at near six-year low
The annual rise in house prices "almost ground to a complete halt" in January, the Nationwide says.
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The Papers: 'May woos Labour MPs with cash'
Thursday's front pages feature stories on Brexit, Facebook, stalkers and a new NHS recruitment plan.
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Japan to hack its citizens’ routers and webcams in name of cybersecurity
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Show HN: Mindfulness Reminder Right in Your OS X Menu Bar
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App Lets Kenya’s Farmers Access Satellite Data to Monitor Crops
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How to prepare a Design Thinking workshop for 80 people
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Backing up elasticsearch indices with curator and minio
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By Defying Apple’s Rules, Facebook Shows It Never Learns
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Have a brand logo for your project? Just choose one
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Facebook robbed us of our sense of self
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The Secret of How Life on Earth Began
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C++ Links #16
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Huawei planned international robot espionage via email
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The plight of Japan’s modern hermits
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This is a suggestion. I believe we should use something like (paywall), (pw) or (pay) in article titles when they are paywalled. People do it for pdf. People do it for video. I believe it should be done for paywall too. This is an obvious way to inform readers that there's no point in clicking that link if they don't have a subscription.
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A Robot Teaches Itself to Play Jenga. But This Is No Game
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The Truth About the McDonald's Coffee Lawsuit (2016)
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Feedback Control of a Motorized Skateboard
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After Facebook, Google apologizes for running a user data collection program
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Chicago sets its train tracks on fire when it's this cold
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Thoughts on Tech Stacks for Bootstrapped Startups
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New comment by Tepix in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
50 CAD a month (33€) for such a small site and then it doesn't even work properly. It boggles the mind. I'm sure you can get a working setup for 5€/month without breaking a sweat.
Having a company that deals with your Wordpress installation is only beneficial if they get it right.
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New comment by mrighele in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
To help in case of a surge of traffic you can enable some sort of microcaching on the web server. For example with a cache TTL of as little of a second you are sure that Wordpress will never see more than 1 req/sec (per page, but usually surges are specific to one or a few pages), and at the same time you will never be serving stale information.
The downside is that your Wordpress installation will not see the requests served from cache, which means so if you rely on a Wordpress plugin for statistics and/or analytics the data will not be correct.
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New comment by sareiodata in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
WordPress might be slow, but it's probably just the host or not enough PHP memory assigned to it. There is nowhere near enough traffic to bring down a WP site, unless you have a ton of bots pinging your site that never appear in your actual google analytics (because they are boths) .
* look at an actual server access log. cPanel offers one if your host is offering cPanel. * try and increase your WordPress memory limit: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/increasing-the-wordpre... * check your server's PHP error log and see if there is an error * set WP_DEBUG to true in wp_config.php
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New comment by xupybd in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
>There is absolutely no justification for him to be running into these sort of issues at such an incredibly low load
Yet he is running into these issues. Is it a buggy plugin or a configuration issue?probably, yes.
But that's exactly the problem static sites solve. I don't mean to say he's out grown it as in you can't serve Wordpress at the volume he's currently getting. I mean you have to have everything setup correctly to do so.One option would be to learn the workings of Wordpress and maybe the web server hosting this. If that's what he wants to do with his time great. I suspect he may have other interests, if that's the case static hosting would be a good alternative. It might not be the best, but it's the best I know.
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New comment by brazzy in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
> Consider moving away from a CMS like Wordpress. It's great at what it does but I think you've out grown it. Static content generators might help here.
This is ridiculous. If he had 100 times the traffic he has, he still wouldn't be anywhere near "outgrowing" Wordpress.
> put cloudfront in front to speed things up.
He already has Cloudfront, and it is completely meaningless snake oil in his situation.
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New comment by speedplane in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
I'd pretty confidently bet this guy has some ridiculous and/or buggy wordpress plugin that loads a bunch of images or is horribly written that is causing the problem. Even a naive and basic wordpress install on crappy hardware should be handle this load.
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New comment by meritt in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
> It's great at what it does but I think you've out grown it.
There is absolutely no justification for him to be running into these sort of issues at such an incredibly low load. Let's pretend he gets 50,000 hits per day (he says 50k per month but I don't know reqs/sec). Than's less than one per second. The $5/mo box over at DigitalOcean can handle 100 times that with the most poorly optimized PHP, Wordpress, and MySQL installation.
The problem is entirely due to a shitty host and/or grossly misconfigured server. No CMS should run into load issues at the microscopic traffic levels he's complaining about. He doesn't need Cloudflare, either.
So, yes, a static site would indeed perform better but to imply that he's actually reaching the limits of a simple CMS is absolutely ridiculous.
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New comment by cyberferret in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
I come across colleagues in the same boat as the OP, but the truth of the matter is that a $5/mo VPS hosting WordPress is really not going to handle a surge of high traffic. Been there, done that, when I had a $20/mo Digital Ocean droplet with my blog on it. Anytime I posted a link to it on HackerNews or Reddit, it used to die under the 'hug of death'.
Since moving my blog to SquareSpace, I've never had that issue. In years. Note: Not an advert and not an affiliate for SS, just a happy user.
We still have a WP blog on a VPS for our SaaS, but I am keen to move that over to another platform, because I have enough on my plate to develop code for my SaaS itself. For my blog, I just want to post my thoughts without having to wade through a WordPress Admin console and see dozens of flags, warnings and popups about a myriad of plugins that need attention. Seriously - our WP admin console causes a lot of stress just logging in, which sucks all the creativity out of me.
SquareSpace (and even Medium, for all the negativity surrounding it) makes it so easy to start with a blank slate and just write and let the ideas flow.
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New comment by flukus in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
Can be done doesn't mean it's a good tool for the job. I don't know enough about wordpress to say but I've seen some big sites built off sharepoint and "can be done" involved an extraordinary amount of manpower and working around sharepoint rather than with it. Those details get left out of the case studies.
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New comment by zokier in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
Oh, good old traditional LAMP shared hosting and WP. Honestly, I doubt that combo will ever work reliably. WP hosting is bit of a dark art in the best of times, and operating under shared hosting does not help. That being said, self-hosting on something like AWS probably would end up much more expensive, and would take also some effort to set up and maintain.
Personally I would either start looking for fully managed WP service (wordpress.com), or switching to a different, easier to host, platform
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New comment by usaphp in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
Most of the time the problem is not Wordpress but poorly written themes/plugins (especially free ones). Also $5/month shared hosting running on a decade old hardware are not helping either.
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New comment by usaphp in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
I am running multiple Wordpress customers on digitalocean $20/month plans, and some of them get more than 50k uniques per month, never had any issue. Never did much optimization. I am pretty sure the issue is your hosting. Also check your Apache error log, maybe you are using some plugin or theme that is overloading the memory with some crap code like majority of free Wordpress plugins/themes.
p.s make sure to update to php 7+. The speed difference was very noticeable when I upgraded
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New comment by chemmail in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
Seems like Wordpress has outlived its usefulness. It's like the Windows XP of the internet. It was great and simple, until the security problems and feature creep plagued it to death.
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New comment by thaumaturgy in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
30 to 50k uniques per month really isn't that much. At a rough guesstimate, I'd say I've got at least one hosting customer that does that much with Wordpress, gracefully, on a site that's not optimized even a little. I charge them $10/mo.
Static site generators and everything else are lovely and all, but it's hard to beat Wordpress when it comes to being able to just plug in a new feature. Which, of course, also gives some folks the rope they need to hang themselves. As other folks have pointed out, there could be a plugin issue.
But my guess is it's the hosting provider. They can have professional-sounding support but still be running an architecture that hasn't been updated very much in the last 5+ years. mpm-event and php-fpm alone really changed the performance characteristics for bog-standard LAMP hosting.
The error logs should give a number if memory's exhausted. I bet it's super low, because a lot of shared hosting providers still try to cram as many sites as they can onto a beleaguered colo'd box. At a glance, that does look like the csoft.net architecture (they have "Two Dedicated, Redundant Servers (with Private Gigabit LAN)").
There's certainly a broader point to be made about the gross, inexorable bloat of web-based applications, but there are also plenty of people running even more bloated, busy stuff for less money with less trouble.
Oh, and you can install the traditional editor for Wordpress, they've made it available as a free plugin and it works just fine.
There are plenty of people around who can sort out stuff like this. I'm one of them, but I'm heading to bed. Email's in my profile, or just accept help from anybody else that knows what they're doing.
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New comment by innocentoldguy in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
Hugo is indeed a great tool. I like it because I can write all my content in Markdown and have full control over how the site looks. Editing a Hugo template, or creating my own, is also much easier than it is in WordPress.
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New comment by reilly3000 in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
Here is the architecture: https://serverless.com/blog/serverless-wordpress-hosting-wit...
https://www.getshifter.io/ seems to be a relatively turnkey solution for existing Wordpress sites to migrate to serverless hosting. It spins up a Wordpress docker image when somebody is in the admin panel, then builds and deploys a new static site to S3 when a change is made. Each build is immutable and easy to switch between.
There are limitations with static site hosting. Their approach to comments is: Use Disqus.
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New comment by lettergram in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
That’s just a bad hosting service.. I manage somewhere in the neighborhood the OP gets with a basic Wordpress deployment. It’s extremely stable, and only ~7/month. I use limited plugins and have optimized for speed.
My guess is a plug-in or theme is bugging out here. Easy solution is to remove all and slowly add until the problem exists again.
In 2015 I had “Crayon Syntax Highlighter was Killing my WordPress” for instance:
https://austingwalters.com/crayon-syntax-highlighter-was-kil...
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New comment by ddebernardy in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
If I recollect correctly (haven't used WP in years), the bulk of error 500-related problems on WordPress are due to poorly written plugins -- of which there are many. One of the better ways to track down a problem is to disable plugins one by one until the problem goes away.
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New comment by grok2 in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
For 50$ (Canadian, I guess), will not someone like wordpress.com do better? Their business package is USD25 per month.
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New comment by jdavis703 in "My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over"
I developed and maintained the landing page for a top-100 website that was powered by Contentful, ExpressJS and aggressive in-memory caching. The setup was very stable.
I’m guessing your Wordpress install has a bad theme or plugin that is writing errors to the request body and then attempting to send the remaining HTTP headers.
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Your morning briefing for Thursday 31 January 2019.
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It's deadline day - can you handle the pressure?
Nearly two million people are estimated to have left it until the last minute to fill in their tax returns.
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'Women are seen as home cooks - not chefs'
Meet the professional chefs changing the way people think about women in the kitchen.
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Polar vortex: What is it and how does it happen?
The deep freeze gripping much of the US has been blamed on a polar vortex. Here's what that means.
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Kate Spade's niece Rachel Brosnahan is the new face of her label
Rachel Brosnahan, star of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, honours her late aunt in the new collection.
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How to de-ice your car - and other questions
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Inflatable puffer fish pill 'could track patient's health'
US scientists say it could be used to monitor tumours or ulcers for a month in the stomach.
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Gay dating app Scruff bans underwear photos
The app bans images of men in underwear and swimwear after "repeated suspensions by app store distributors".
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Attacked Empire actor Jussie Smollett 'has tasted brutality of hatred'
Stars support Empire actor Jussie Smollet, the victim of a suspected hate crime in Chicago.
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The city with no homeless on its streets
What can UK cities learn from Finland, where the number of rough sleepers has fallen dramatically?
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Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail
Japan is in the grip of an elderly crime wave. Poverty and loneliness are two of the possible causes.
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How do you compost a human body - and why would you?
A US state could become one of the first places in the world to allow corpses to become fertile soil.
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The unlikely stars bucking the High Street slump
Museum and gallery shops are reporting rising sales and greater interest. What is their recipe for growth?
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Nastya Rybka: Model who got caught up in the Trump-Russia row
The story of Nastya Rybka, who was questioned in a Thai jail by the FBI about the Trump-Russia inquiry.
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On the buses? Where and how often are we travelling?
Councils say they are "desperate" to protect services but funding cuts forced "difficult decisions".
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Converting Wi-Fi signals to electricity with new 2-D materials
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My friend is a pharmacist that taught himself to code and is doing an AMA
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Ask HN: Any software companies whose product is good for planet earth?
I'm making a job board for devs who care about the environment. Do you know any software companies whose products reduce CO2?
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New comment by marcc in "The Kubernetes Kustomize KEP Kerfuffle"
> people can do different things
That's one of my favorite things about that composability of the Kubernetes tools. I don't believe there's a reason for a "tool fight" in the Kubernetes ecosystem. There might be disagreements about best practices, for example how to manage code in a cluster (gitops vs kubectl apply vs helm install vs ...), but that's not a tool fight as much as a methodology difference. And there's room for more than one pattern to emerge.
I think that any tool that is able to deploy an open source project to my cluster, while minimizing the amount of operational overhead I need to assume, is the tool that I want. I don't care if that is Kustomize, Helm, Ksonnet, or anything else, as long as it mets the requirements of a) it has to work with my environment and b) it shouldn't introduce unecessary operational overhead.
You also mention that Kubernetes is hard to learn, which is absolutely a problem. Adoption is growing, but it's getting harder to learn as more features get merged in. And you are right, nobody should have to learn Kubernetes YAML to deploy a standard, off-the-shelf Wordpress installation. But what about more complicated software that needs "last mile" customization done to work in a specific environment? This blog post (https://testingclouds.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/844/) shows a great way to combine the power of the Helm community and chart format with the last-mile tooling that Kustomize can provide to help keep charts simple but still flexible. That feels much better than forking the chart and maintaining a separate copy of it just to make a few changes that are specific to a single use case.
I have mixed feelings about Kustomize getting merged into kubectl. I don't like the idea of Google "crowning" a winner, and I hope the sig-architecture group and Google teams remain diligent to prevent that from happening. Kustomize is not a replacement for Helm, it's a very good tool to handle specific use cases that often involve Helm charts at the source.
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New comment by mfer in "The Kubernetes Kustomize KEP Kerfuffle"
Ya know what's great about debating tools? Because we have a separation, different things can innovate at different rates and people can do different things.
You can move from deploying to AWS to Kubernetes all while your CI pipeline and config management stay the same. Maybe at another time you change your CI system.
In all of this we can even have tool fights. Jenkins vs CircleCI. vim vs emacs. And new players can come along like vscode.
Different departments in the same companies, sometimes billion dollar companies, can even do this.
This is one of the reasons I personally like a separation of concerns with projects.
There is one thing about Helm...
> But to keep everyone using the upstream Helm chart, wouldn't all Helm charts eventually have to look the same, and just be a templated version of the entire Kubernetes API with all CRDs included?
I don't think so. Without being long winded, this is about user experience and encapsulations. Kubernetes is hard to learn. Then do learn the business logic for installing all the things you use. To use the old wordpress example, should someone installing wordpress into a cluster need to know the business needs of MySQL to create the k8s config for it? Most app devs don't want to learn all the k8s object configs... it's a lot to learn.
As for CRDs, that's about dependency management.
But, if we make Kubernetes really hard, with lots of CRDs we have to start to deal with what CRDs are in what clusters? And, what experience does that provide for end users? How do we not make the UX barrier to entry to high for the people who need to use it?
Are users interested in Kubernetes or are they interested in their apps and core business logic?
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New comment by burtonator in "Mark Zuckerberg’s Delusion of Consumer Consent"
The research here is amazingly flawed.
They ASKED users what they wanted.
If you've every done anything with behavioral analysis online you'll quickly learn that users say they want one thing and then often behave the exact opposite.
First. If you ask users if they would use a site that has ads, the percentage that say they don't want ads (which is probably a majority) are also the same ones that won't pay for the site.
This is a demonstration of consumer irrationality. It's usually either A or B.. not neither A nor B.
There are basically three main revenue models online:
1. ads. 2. paid content. 3. you're the product.
Now #3 might not ALWAYS be bad. Duolingo for example can use the feedback they get from users using the app to improve the service and some users DO pay to remove the ads. When you're using it in a freemium capacity you're actually paying to help train Duolingo.
With Facebook they're mostly #3...
A better way to do this would be behavioral analysis.
The first is to find out if consumers want ads or would they rather pay for a service directly.
The answer is overwhelmingly in favor of them NOT paying directly. They would rather be the product or see ads.
Don't believe me? Do you see any social networks that charge money? There are some somewhat freemium platforms like Wordpress (which still has ads) but for the most part the vast majority of the revenue online does not come directly from consumers.
Now... do users want customized ads?
Again. The data is overwhelming here.
Between two ads, one tailored to the user , and another random ad, the more targeted it is the greater conversion rate.
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New comment by DATACOMMANDER in "The Shift to Low-Code Skillsets"
I’m not too worried. I’ve followed a path from ops to devops, and even people who can’t code at all, but know how to use all the tools well, are in high demand. A lot of (most?) ops and dev work isn’t done with individual consumers in mind, but with making companies more competitive. When you have that sort of arms-race scenario, you never hit a point where the technology is “good enough” and you can tell all the folks designing, delivering, and maintaining it to pack up and go home.
Twenty years ago, you had to pay a specialist exorbitant amounts of money just to establish a web presence. If the article’s thesis were correct, business owners wouldn’t have spent a dime on web developers for the past 10 years, or however long it’s been feasible for a nonexpert to follow some tutorials and get a wordpress site up and running on Digital Ocean within half a workday. But of course, if you want to be competitive, you need more than that, because your competitors have more than that. Yeah, a few years from now we’ll have semitechnical people googling for an hour or two and spinning up sophisticated web apps with load balancing, a CDN, automatic backups, etc. But by then the cutting edge sites and apps will be even more sophisticated and reliable than CloudFormation et al can accomplish today.
It’s just like how we still have slow software despite moore’s law, or how we’re still polluting like crazy (even per capita) despite tremendous efficiency gains in the machines that pollute. As our resources increase our demands and expectations increase just as—if not more—quickly. As soon as the average joe can wrap his head around using yesterday’s technology to achieve yesterday’s results without the cost, there’s already an army of geeks who are ready to use today’s (or sometimes tomorrow’s) technology to achieve a better result—at a price.
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New comment by Ibethewalrus in "Ask HN: How would you teach somebody building a website for a local business?"
Depends, what does your friend want to learn? Marketing, Web design, Front end design, SEO?
Throwing a couple more options:
1.- free: GitHub + Hugo template + Netlify Easy to setup, plus it has an admin so he can update and blog as needed. Cons: Hugo and Terminal are hard.
2.- Pick a nice paid Wordpress template, export it as a static website, plus Formspree for the Contact form. Pro: Looks good, quick! Cons: Maintain database somewhere Alternative: paid HTML template
3.- Wordpress.com has a nice paid plan Pro: you and your friend can forget about maintaining everything. Cons: paid, depends on budget.
4.- Kirby is another nice alternative. Just released a new version a couple days ago. No database.
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New comment by mtmail in "Ask HN: How would you teach somebody building a website for a local business?"
Huge demand, little pay, especially if it's a friend. The platforms with plugins (e.g. Wordpress) are a good bet. Paid plugins, e.g. "I need a map of my store locations" or "I want to re-publish my facebook/twitter feed" are gold compared to writing anything yourself. My first session would be "which of these themeforest themes would you like". (If he encounters a nice one, let's say $29 USD, and indicates it's too expensive: run)
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New comment by wass08 in "Social brand destruction: A survivor’s account"
Right, even Wordpress and Weebly are doing the same with their domain name. Wondering how they are not banned from sharing.
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New comment by nkg in "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard?"
SASS is incredibly helpful so I think it is worth the pain. It is game changer, and still it can be learned in a few hours. Before SASS, managing z-index across a whole template or changing colors was a nightmare.
(If you are old enough, you may have come across one of those WordPress templates in which they crammed PHP $variables inside inlined CSS. #goodolddays)
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New comment by sonaltr in "How to Setup Your Own PaaS with Dokku and Node and React and Mongodb and Nginx"
Thanks for the heads up!
I had noticed that almost all of them had the exact same website, emails and billing software. I assumed that it was like how all sites using Wordpress are essentially the same if you take away the flashy JS stuff.
I am currently paying for a year and if all goes well, maybe update to a 3 yr contract. My plan is to architect the cloud in a way that I can immediately migrate / scale to GCP at the first sign of trouble - so my data / customers etc. should ideally not have issues. But from a cost standup, it's definitely going to be difficult.
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Britain's first female black headteacher
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Starting a new career in your 80s
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Fighting as a medieval knight in the Sussex countryside
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John Legend and the others learning to swim as adults
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'My husband left and a dog became my carer'
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Wanting to die at 'five to midnight' - before dementia takes over
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Murder in Accra: The life and death of Ahmed Hussein-Suale
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Graphic Design Criticism as a Spectator Sport
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‘Mary Poppins,’ and a Nanny’s Shameful Flirting with Blackface
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Polar Vortex to Grip Midwest with Most Extreme Cold in a Generation
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/us/polar-vortex-cold-weather.html
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Yield return await and await foreach geekery
Article URL: https://www.tabsoverspaces.com/id/233767
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19024616
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LSD, Spinoza, PTSD, Michael Pollan and Michael J. Fox Are Related
Article URL: https://boundedbits.com/article/mindset-pollan-spinoza-lsd/68O8Qi5VanKa0ZXzISNhia
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19024606
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A huge study into the impact of fake news has surprising results
Article URL: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/twitter-misinformation-social-media-election-fake-news
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19024604
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Satellites are helping scientists more accurately predict drought and wildfire
Article URL: https://newatlas.com/satellites-scientists-drought-wildfire/58235/
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Cuts Parental Leave Benefits in Half
Article URL: https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2019/01/28/gates-foundation-cuts-parental-leave-by-half.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19024585
Points: 2
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Ask HN: Highest paying remote companies?
I have 10 years of FAANG experience (Senior SWE). I'm looking to move closer to my family and my current team isn't very remote friendly so I'm looking for a change. What should I be looking for?
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Feel the Fear
Article URL: https://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2019/01/feel-the-fear.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19024573
Points: 2
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Government without the drama and tumult
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-27/government-without-the-drama-and-tumult
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19024546
Points: 1
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Elite Law Firm’s All-White Partner Class Stirs Debate on Diversity
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/27/us/paul-weiss-partner-diversity-law-firm.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19024542
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Why no startups have copied IKEA's business model
Article URL: https://capitalandgrowth.org/questions/1138/are-there-any-startups-that-have-tried-to-copy-ike.html?src=hn-1-28-2019
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19024540
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How to Use Gatsby with a Headless CMS
Article URL: https://buttercms.com/blog/how-to-use-gatsby-with-a-headless-cms
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19024537
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John Malkovich: Harvey Weinstein play may 'upset' people
The American actor is set to star in Bitter Wheat, a play inspired by the disgraced film producer.
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Bypass Authorization on Ubuntu by Removing HDD
Article URL: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1777415
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19024527
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Apollo 11 documentary with never before seen 70mm footage
Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/stunning-trailer-for-apollo-11-brings-us-never-before-s-1832132176
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19024525
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First OpenSource native multiplatform (win/mac/Linux) client for Ultima Online
CrossUO is developed by a team that worked on Orion. It's an open source suite that includes a launcher, an updater and a client, to play UO on the platform of your choice and that works with many eras of the game and with almost any shard!!!
There's also an assistant Razor-like in development that is not released yet. The multilingal team is ready to answer your questions and read your feedback if there's anything with the suite.
To follow the project:
Website: https://crossuo.com
Discord: http://bit.ly/2DF7T8Z
Github: http://bit.ly/2UqLGBm
Be a part of a new old school adventure! The immortal Ultima Online is now available on mac and linux!
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nq – Unix command line queue utility
Article URL: https://github.com/chneukirchen/nq
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South Korean Crypto Exchanges to Counter Money Laundering Practices
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PG&E falsified gas pipeline records for years after deadly explosion (2018)
Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pge-safety-investigation-20181214-story.html&t=0
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Ask HN: How much time do you spend on HN every day?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19024486
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A TS and React Native Boilerplate with ReactNativeNavigation and Redux
Article URL: https://github.com/AmitM30/react-native-typescript-boilerplate
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PG&E Votes to File for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Article URL: https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/01/28/pge-votes-to-file-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy/
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Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard?
240 by napsterbr | 169 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, I'm a seasoned backend developer and systems administrator, with over 10 years of full-time programming experience. I've worked with anything from Assembly, C, Rust all the way to Python, Erlang, Elixir, PHP, Haskell, Lisp, Clojure. When it comes to frontend, I have used React, Vue.js, ReasonML, Clojurescript and Elm extensively, and I know my way around web technologies in general. However, ever since I first started programming, I was NEVER able to get the gist behind CSS. I can't center my divs properly. I can't say "hey, CSS, this is the parent div, and all child divs must obey its size". I can't do anything basic on CSS without turning for help. Incidentally, but very likely related, I always failed to have any glimpse into how design works. I have no idea which colors "go" with which ones, and pretty much all fonts look like the same for me. I'd like to know the experience from fellow programmers. Is CSS an "art" thing? Is it common for other developers to have issues with it, or is it just me? Is there any material out there that made CSS "click" for you?
240 by napsterbr | 169 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, I'm a seasoned backend developer and systems administrator, with over 10 years of full-time programming experience. I've worked with anything from Assembly, C, Rust all the way to Python, Erlang, Elixir, PHP, Haskell, Lisp, Clojure. When it comes to frontend, I have used React, Vue.js, ReasonML, Clojurescript and Elm extensively, and I know my way around web technologies in general. However, ever since I first started programming, I was NEVER able to get the gist behind CSS. I can't center my divs properly. I can't say "hey, CSS, this is the parent div, and all child divs must obey its size". I can't do anything basic on CSS without turning for help. Incidentally, but very likely related, I always failed to have any glimpse into how design works. I have no idea which colors "go" with which ones, and pretty much all fonts look like the same for me. I'd like to know the experience from fellow programmers. Is CSS an "art" thing? Is it common for other developers to have issues with it, or is it just me? Is there any material out there that made CSS "click" for you?
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New comment by dbg31415 in "64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken seriously as a job applicant"
I'm pushing 40 and I can already feel a gap between myself and the 20-somethings. I don't get all of their jokes, I don't know the popular bars or bands, and I don't like doing anything that involves thumb-typing. I think a lot of employment is just done by "smell" -- does this person smell like one of "us" or is he an outsider.
Not to pick on the author too much, but he makes the claim, "Actually, I am very much with it. Every year, I read the equivalent of a university semester's worth of books and attend seminars to keep up with the industry and its latest trends." If I were him there are some things I would do:
1) I'd consider going with a modern template for my company site. He has his own company that he runs consulting projects through, but it looks very dated. Simple WordPress instance with a generic theme would be better. Seems like he'd have the skillset required to set that up.
* Avidaid · Project Management · Web Development & Software Design · IT Education || http://www.avidaid.ca/index.php
2) I'd prune content off my LinkedIn and resume. He mentioned 20 years, I don't think there's any reason for anyone to list more than 10 years of work history.
* David Wimsett | LinkedIn || https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwimsett/
3) I'd try and re-write the content for a specific job. I wouldn't go broad, I'd go targeted. He seems keen on being a PM, so I'd limit all work to just PM work. Tell a story, make it a good one. If there's a boring part, or part that isn't relevant to your next job, just leave it out. It's OK to have gaps.
Change this:
> My background is wide and varied. Most of my career has been spent in IT as a developer, business analyst and project manager for different industries. But, I have practiced professionally in many areas to include photography, film making, journalism, blogger, columnist, graphic design, educator, consultant and security expert to name a few. I am also a published author of short stories and novels. This expansive set of experiences gives me a wealth of knowledge to cross reference and draw upon when I solve problems.
To something like:
> Experienced cross-functional team lead with experience managing web, IT, government, and aerospace engineering projects.
I'd also cut lines that are dated. Things that may have been hard in the past, but are no longer relevant. Including a few here:
> Installed a Novel network with word processing, spreadsheet and record keeping capability.
I'd cut all references to projects that didn't look modern. Again, OK to have gaps.
* Look FANTASTIC on social media with professional video movies || http://www.yourstory2video.com/
4) Seems odd that a senior PM would have under 200 contacts on LinkedIn. I get that maybe it wasn't his focus, but I probably add 200 contacts a year... MeetUps, mentoring, new hires, and clients... it only seems hard to put yourself out there, until you do it. LinkedIn and GitHub are the only social networks I use.
5) Lastly, I feel like age discrimination is real, and rejection sucks, but it's hard to get a sense of confidence from this guy after reading his post. Can someone from Netflix get this guy on the new Queer Eye? Not having confidence is going to really hurt him when it comes to applying for jobs. I don't know how to fix this, but likely seeing a shrink and hitting up the gym a bit would boost his self-esteem. I don't know, I've never been 64, but feel like that's probably good advice for anyone.
Hey, David... if you're reading this, I reached out on LinkedIn. I run the delivery team for a branch of a global agency. I interview a lot of PM candidates. Happy to set up a mock interview and give feedback. Cheers!
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