Not accidentally omitted; we didn't share them because they're not that meaningful without full context of how Ably works internally. The data was useful to the Ably team as they made a decision about whether Graviton would be suitable. It may be possible to share the information anyway if you're interested. I'll find out...
I've had this conversation with a number of financial-savvy friends. It seems that we all have different methods depending on what you're after.
For myself - I hate spreadsheets and updating and categorising data.
I have also tried a number of tools that will "attempt" to automagically present useful reports. But I've found that in 90% of cases - I'm well aware of what I spend on and how much I spend.
The data that really interests me personally is - savings, pensions, asset wroth tracking and scenario simulation.
I find that looking at growth over the past 3,6,12 months motivates me to do even better or look for more efficient ways of organising my finances.
At the moment here's what I do:
- Following a guide like (UK Personal Investing Flowchart)[https://ukpersonal.finance/flowchart/] to judge where I am at and what my short/long term goals are.
- I have automated transfers at salary date (T+3 days to account for variations) to investments and savings.
- I do a monthly scan through of current and credit accounts to make sure nothing unusual occurs as well as monthly credit-rating check.
- For Stocks and Shares I track current positions via Yahoo Finance.
- Lastly - every now and then I check-in to see how my Pension accounts are doing. So far I've gone through 4 different pension providers and tools - but none of them see to have good forecasting, scenario tools.
As a side topic recently got shown (Casual)[https://causal.app/] by a friend - I've been contemplating giving it a try.
> To slow down or stop attacks, we limit requests made by a specific user / IP. [...] While that confirms that we can limit unauthorized and bad users who make too many requests, the testing failed because we also blocked the simulated good users on the same IP.
I don't understand the problem this is trying to solve.
In the test setup both good and malicious actors are simulated on the same IP address (which coincidentally might also be a real world situation).
So you're trying to load test - but failing because you get throttled/rate-limited - which is good.
But how does Squid help in this case - doesn't it just mask away the actual load by caching content?
In that case are you actually testing the ControlAPI load - or how good Squid's caching is?
Aside from that - pretty interesting read. Would live to see a bit more technical detail and depth for the next blog post!
First of all - awesome app will give it a good testing this week! I've been using Discord's party-listen (or whatever it's called feature). Spotify enforced some random restrictions like - if I'm talking for more than 30 seconds then it assumes that I'm illegally streaming to music so it pauses the song immediately.
Have similar silly restrictions been enforced on JQBX to your knowledge?
No but I'm sure our scale is a bit different and I can see how that could be an issue since they probably don't want to dish out cash for streams to people who aren't there. I take care to make sure that you're not AFK but it's on the scale of hours and not 30 seconds/minutes.
A: Maybe to bring attention to the font? To the letters that are missing or those that are present? Maybe just because they can.
Q: Why are all these companies designing their own fonts. It's not needed...
A: Many reasons. It can be cheaper than licensing other fonts. It makes their apps (and brand) stand out. Or people might find it more aesthetically pleasing. The perceived `need` for it, has nothing to do with whether or not you need it for their app/website to function properly. And maybe `jarring` is exactly what they want.
It's definitely not cheaper than using free fonts. Or even modifying an existing one -- it's not as if Airbnb's exclusive use of this font is going to benefit them in any measurable way. Even if that were necessary, it seems like they should have just paid Netflix to use their font, and maybe make some changes, rather than working with Dalton Maag to make damn near the same thing.
I don't know the details of Linotype GmbH's licensing agreements, but my point was that this route is surely less expensive than commissioning a new font.
While this is a step in the right direction it just serves to show how far behind airline companies are in terms of tech.
Swapping out passengers on the fly and handing out virtual miles in exchange is seen as "innovative technology"?
Hopefully this will pave the way for technological disruption in the airline business.
That's a broad brush. Airlines aren't all at the same point in dealing with overbooking.
It's also not a trivial issue given the slim margins and complexity. Consider connecting flights, different fare types (refundable or not, advance purchase, etc). Also, differing aircraft types, how many seats they have, and which crews are qualified to fly them. Oh, and weather.
If you think the root cause is "airline IT is incompetent", you're probably off base. Google paid $700M for a crazy talented company (stuffed full of PhD genius level talent) that did a good job of solving shopping, but failed commercially at solving booking.
I'm not sure I'd call it "failed commercially at solving booking". Google stopped their work on creating a booking system after the acquisition since they were never interested in getting into booking.
They had one small airline (Cape Air) using it for a long time, so I don't quite get your point. It was built, but almost nobody bought it. Google did squash it roughly 2 years after buying ITA, but it was pretty much dead anyway.
I have to admit I don't know this stuff first hand, but based on what I heard, it took quite a while for ITA to be fully "absorbed" into Google, during which time they didn't change much. I also heard that their first customer was more of a pilot or development partner. Also, from what I know about the airline industry, they change very very slowly and it'd take a long time from the time airlines are approached to the time things are actually in production, especially for something this critical.
That's fair. I'm not trying to portray ITA as a failure. Quite the opposite. Trying to say even an elite group of genius talent can't turn the ship quickly. That it's more about legacy thinking than it is about legacy tech.
Airlines and OTA companies could be 10x more innovative with the tech they have now. TPF and other old tech is NOT the barrier.
1. It has a form factor that suits my needs for space and cooling
2. It has a 1080Ti which I can use for ML or Games (though primarily games)
Though I have to say - your use case is a bit extreme. If you need excellent cooling, lots of internal storage space and ultra smooth gameplay then maybe a mac is not what you need?
I'm a (sort of independent) software developer, and a Mac enables me to do software on the 3 major desktop platforms and both major mobile platforms on the same machine. It's a no brainer really. I can make it run on whatever the customer wants.
And Apple used to have a system that fit the bill pretty well - the pre trashcan Mac Pro. If the promised expandable Mac Pro comes out and they don't make it unusable for one dumb reason or another, I may abandon hackintoshes.
Stefan identifies common pitfalls or shortcomings of most single page applications such as:
1. Bad performance because of too many operations
2. Breaking browser navigation buttons
3. Not having unique links/anchors to in-page content.
While there are in fact multiple ways of bringing focus and solving these problems the authors suggests that simply ditching SPAs for native toolkits or backend/frontend system is the way to go.
While switching away from SPAs might mitigate the problems listed above - it will also present new problems that developers have to tackle - or simply spend time on.
The main problem here is how hard the problems he describes are to deal with in current frameworks I believe.
He has one thing 100% right - bringing attention to those problems is the right way to go.
I ended up in twitter/reddit rabbit holes until I found a somewhat dodgy guy on twitter (@TerribleQuant - account is now deleted).
The person compiled a guide with study resources, courses, YT videos, podcasts, textbooks and everything else you can think of in 21 pages.
If you look for: BBM PUBLISHING INC “Roadmap” Resource Guide 3rd Edition you might be able to find a copy.