For your first query, DDG returns StackOverflow link which I think could be even more important for those searching about how to remove an item from python list.
Yeah, what you say applies to firms who care about their intellectual properties (like software companies or music companies) but most clients who hire freelancers don't fall in that category. Its mostly custom development work for their website or app and the clients are typically startups and small businesses who perhaps don't even care about these things.
$20 is for a standard prototype or a quick wireframe, its a marketing strategy to bring to client to the discussion table. I don't do full web app gigs for that price! The other two packages (standard & premium) is where most of the development happens.
Great strategy! I'm guessing you are referring to these packages [1] These rates for me as a western european still look incredibly low. or are these still prototyping prices?
Yep, this incredibly low price is just for creating a rough prototype (which the client is typically never interested in). As I said, once the client comes to discussion table, I then bring the topics of well-maintained and commented source code, unit and integration testing, benefits of cloud hosting on AWS, etc. and then we start forming real estimates.
I've read somewhere that Sundar's biggest achievement (and rise in power structure) relates to the saving of day by using practical business sense.
Back in around circa 2006, Microsoft one day suddenly decided to remove Google search and replace it with Bing on their default browser, IE (which was still number one back then). This threatened Google's revenues to a considerable extent as online search is one of the major source of their income.
At that time, it was Sundar Pichai who was in the forefront of managing some quick OEM contracts with Dell, HP, etc., so that Google toolbar was installed by default on all their computers. Google toolbar ensured that users were shown a confirmation dialog and were given the option to make Google search the default again! This later ensured Sundar's rise in power and respect that ultimately made him CEO one day.
One can of course argue that Google is such a superior engine compared to Bing that the users would have visited google.com anyway (which will also result in that option to make it default). However, its also true that most users will not take the pain of changing their setup if it already works! So who knows, if Sundar's intervention hadn't happened at that time, maybe Bing and Google would be on an equal footing today!
>> Notably, while both BGP routes and traceroutes completing into Syria drop to zero during these blackouts, the number of DNS queries surges. This suggests the outage may be asymmetrical —packets can egress the country but cannot enter...Visualizations such as these will now be widely available to the public.
Not a network engineer, but this isn't a rocket science, right? Linux tools like traceroute, etc. can do this since ages?
There is no dearth of amateurish shenanigans in node infrastructure, there is a reason that people are still reluctant to switch from php/python despite so many selling points of node.
They are language-independent but may still have a higher incidence in one community than another. Anecdotally, these basic mistakes seem to happen more in Node packages or JS-based projects, but I have no concrete evidence for this speculation. The only study I know of looking at this in a serious way is this one:
However, JavaScript ends up a being less prone to defective commits than C++ and C, as well as PHP and Python, but there are a number of issues that don't allow us to conclude all that much from these results (imo).
Here's a great post that covers some issues in Python modules and why they're extra exploitable because they execute under CPython.
This is a particularly relevant quote:
> Perhaps less recognized is the fact that memory corruption bugs are reported in popular Python modules all the time without so much as a CVE, a security advisory, or even a mention of security fixes in release notes.
The "amateurish shenanigans" alluded to probably has nothing to do with the language but the project itself.
If anyone can commit anything and nobody ever reads what is to be commited, the repository must be regarded as attacker controlled. Some people will likely find that problematic.
We have the chicken and egg problem there. Google have that results because it has terabytes of information on everything and that's because millions use it. If more and more people start using DDG, their results will also improve.
> If more and more people start using DDG, their results will also improve.
Let's say everybody stops using Google right now and starts using DDG with its anonymous, proxied queries to Bing. How does this in any way improve search results? You could maybe argue that heavy direct use of bing.com would give Microsoft some useful training data. But none of that changes the fact that Bing's crawlers aren't that good, and neither is its search engine.
See, I'm not willing to do that. I'm not willing to put up with inferior results on the promise that maybe, someday in the future, they might get better.
I just tried that with DDJ out of curiosity (I develop mostly in Flask, but also Django occasionally). It did display a few imdb movie results (though the top one still referred to the framework). However, when I searched for "django python", the intent became quite clear and I got the relevant results. So basically, what you say about personalized search applies only to normal users who don't have much "googlefu" skills, for power users like us who know exactly what to search for, its not much relevant.
Let me put it this way, Apple is all high on secrecy stuff and have these black cloths, NDA and every other secretive procedure that a developer has to go through. OTOH, Android OEMs like Samsung, HTC, etc. don't do any of that and just use pure open source android, and yet they too manage to sell their phones like hot cakes exactly like Apple!
To answer my own question, I've found voat.co to be a good alternative to reddit. The community is small, but the content is about as great as HN or some good quality sub-reddits.
