I'd be interested in seeing even your messy non-working code for that.

> You can't get a gutter ball if you put up the rails in a bowling lane.

Sure you can. It's difficult, and takes skill, but it can be done.

Maybe it's just an accurate name? CDs were pretty compact, back in the day: think of how many floppies would fit on a CD-ROM.

My family had a reel-to-reel player, which was definitely not compact. My dad would record tapes from Vietnam and send over the recordings so that our family could hear him. I was afraid to touch it growing up. Instead, I played records on our turntable, and 8-tracks tapes in our car and a couple of 8-track players we had. As a teenager, I played cassettes, which was awesome. Vinyl sounded great and had the best overall experience for things like Christmas records, but cassettes had a warm feel and you could listen to them in your car, a friend’s car, on a boombox, etc. and if you had two tape decks, you could make mix tapes and share them! Or you could just copy a tape for a friend. Those were the days.

My dad had an Akai M8 (7" tapes) that I was not allowed to touch under threat of injury, but then he got heavily into quad vinyl and gave the beast to me: The whole Beatles catalogue on 7" tapes, yay!

>My dad had an Akamai M8

My own dad had a Akamai T19 cloud computing system and he would give me all the oggs and flacs and mp3s off the cloud from his Akamai system

Unlike a CD, a cassette could fit a pocket. Barely, but still. A CD never could.

That is one advantage. Also great in cars if they're not chewed up. Very hard to change CDs in a car.

They should use the integer primary key of the users table, of course.

Nah, that’s too 1985.

Because client doesn’t know it, inserts can be slow in cross-db environment.

Guid is always better (can be client generated), and modern guid versions can be ordered chronologically

That's probably an implementation feature that is hidden and not dependable if it exists at all.

> This lightweight request signals a 'click' on the server responsible for the Ad, but does so without opening any additional windows or pages on your computer. Further it allows AdNauseam to safely receive and discard the resulting response data, rather than executing it in the browser, thus preventing a range of potential security problems (ransomware, rogue Javascript or Flash code, XSS-attacks, etc.) caused by malfunctioning or malicious Ads.

You might be thinking of TrackMeNot, which does use tabs (iirc).

> Their size or past misbehaviors shouldn't be relevant to this discussion.

If the past misbehaviours are exactly the same shape, there's not all that much point re-hashing the same discussion with the nouns renamed.

Nitpick for the author: you've got a few &utm_source= strings in your links, which should probably point at your own site, or be removed.

Those both require cattle farming, which is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (at least 10%, perhaps as high as 19.6%, per https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/food-agriculture-environm...). Stick with papyrus or wax, please.

You don't need outages to build experience in resolving them, if you identify conditions that increase the risk of outages. Airlines can develop a lot of experience resolving issues that would lead to plane crashes, without actually crashing any planes.