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The amount of traffic was too high. Unsure if they were being throttled or if they use a task queue that went bad. Who knows.

https://comicbook.com/irl/news/funko-pop-comic-con-2020-excl...

Unfortunately they are still highly dependent on other APIs.

When San Diego Comiccon went live on funko.com (shopify) the website was fine but the checkout was bottlenecked by the API calls to shipping providers. Many never were able to checkout and Funko had to issue an apology.

Unfortunate that no matter how great you can improve your own product you may still be dependent upon others.

Back in mid-October I needed to make a drastic change in my life. I spent a lot of time doing the following:

  - Mindlessly browsing the internet (FB, YT, HN, Reddit)
  - Dating apps
  - Nintendo Switch online

My wake up call happened when a few recruiters from big companies, that I'd love to work for, reached out to me about interviewing. It was then I realized how undisciplined I had been. I had no chance at either of these companies because I constantly wasted my free time instead of working on coding projects or bettering myself. So I made a change:

  - Added the Stayfocused browser extension and limited my internet wasting time to 30 min a day on weekdays
  - Deleted all my dating apps (this by far gave me the most sense of freedom and clarity which surprised me)
  - Stopped playing Switch altogether

That's it! My goal was not "go to the gym", "journal", "go on walks", "read more books"...but guess what...that's what happened! When I stopped/limited doing all of these time wasting activities I created a new void in my life. I suddenly had a lot more free time every day. My natural reaction was to go waste it, but now I could not...so I started going on walks instead. I started doing coding challenges and reading coding books on topics I knew I was weak in. I started journaling more and went to the gym 4 times a week.

Let me tell you, it has been an absolutely AMAZING life change. I highly recommend everyone take up this challenge for a month or two and see the difference in your life. If you're like me you'll never want to go back! Good luck out there!

PS. In case it helps motivate anyone, one of those companies was Google. I passed the phone screen :). I know that may be easy for some people here but I was completely unprepared when I was approached and I know this life change 3 months ago made the difference.

Beautiful images. They use "A high-resolution method, called Airyscan super-resolution microscopy"

I'm guessing this type of microscope: https://www.zeiss.com/microscopy/us/products/confocal-micros...

And I had never heard of the "Basic Principle of Airyscanning" which is pretty neat: https://www.zeiss.com/microscopy/us/products/confocal-micros...

> They identified organic matter and calcium crystals with ultraviolet light, which uses different wavelengths to make distinct minerals glow.

> A high-resolution method, called Airyscan super-resolution microscopy, captured colorful snapshots of organic matter and crystal layers in the kidney stones, “crosscut and truncated” by newer crevices, triangles and other geometrics, Dr. Fouke said.

This was the email our team received:

Our monitoring app has been unable to reach your database (name) since at 2018-05-31 21:57:34 UTC. This is likely due to an underlying hardware or network failure and not something caused by your application.

We're attempting to bring it back online automatically. If we can't, we'll page an engineer to help.

When your database is available again, performance may be temporarily reduced while Postgres rebuilds its cache through normal usage.

Was asking myself the same thing, there's not much helpful info here and this keeps getting upvoted with no discussion, makes me feel like inflated votes for exposure

My favorite example of an 'ordinary' person who gained an extraordinary mental ability is Daniel Tammet. He learned Icelandic in a week. Spent 2 weeks and memorized pi to 22,000+ digits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbASOcqc1Ss

> The people are also -- in general -- much friendlier.

This is the biggest factor for me as someone who grew up in Texas and is now in Los Angeles

I feel like this happens in cities with a lot of transplants. Most people move to big cities because they are (or think they are) the best at what they do. That makes it difficult for me to know who to trust since I don't know off the bat if someone is talking to me because they are genuinely nice or because they want to see if I can be used to help them achieve their goals. It's a vicious cycle because it causes me to put my guard up and in turn be less friendly than I am with people I really know.

Getting text alerts for Star Wars movie tickets as well as the NES and SNES classic :)

> During our review, we noticed that a handful of consumers (less than 0.1%) who consumed Powder 1.6...

Very much acknowledge the blog uses the same 'handful' terminology but they also put a % to it. As much as I hate to think about it, I feel 'handful' sounds like more out of context and a news article would be less dramatic if they reported 0.1% of people were affected.

It's 0.1% of customers, not a samsung s7.

If they are willing to pull their product for 0.1% of customers they will probably announce a refund, give it a week .

LA Times did a bad job of reporting this.

> warning that a handful of customers reported stomach sickness after consuming it.

It's actually less than 0.1%

The blog article is clearer: http://blog.soylent.com/post/152400464282/soylent-bar-powder...

Wrong, it came from the book Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison in which "Soylent Green" is based off of.

However, in the book the soylent is not made from people. The movie added that for....drama

Agree to an extent. Personally, being aware that this only records for 10 seconds and requires a tap to activate, I can feel pretty confident nothing is recording.

Then again, even if I know someone is pointing an empty gun at me, I'm still of the mindset "don't point that at me!"

soylent.com has been the new address for a while, may want to update that from soylent.me

Bought 150 shares of Apple in the late 90s (before it had a 7/1 split)

small unrepresentative sample size. a problem many studies have issues with.

Study 1: "Students participated in exchange for the chance to win one of three prizes valued at $700."

Study 2a: "Two hundred and sixty UBC students participated in exchange for entry into a lottery or for course credit (78% female)"

Study 2b: "In Study 2b, 518 adults were recruited from a science museum in Vancouver, Canada"

Study 3a: "In Study 3a, 242 UBC students participated in exchange for course credit or candy (74% female)"

Study 3b: " we were able to recruit a very large sample of UBC students, who participated for course credit (N=2303; 76% female).

Study 4: " we recruited our sample through the GfK Knowledge Networks Survey Panel. Panel members respond to an average of two online surveys per month and receive small cash rewards and prizes for survey completion"

Make of it what you will

Completely agree. I saw some red flags while going through this. The buzzfizz problem I've heard many a time over is a fun exercise problem but not a good interview question. Also many of the questions seem unrelated to todays standards. The HTML questions ask "difference between quirks and standards mode". Last time I used quirks was with IE6. Also "what are the limitations of XHTML". Don't honestly think I've ever used XHTML in my 4 years as a developer.

That's funny you mention the lawyer thing. My dad is a lawyer and his firm still uses it today. I've shown him Google Docs, and even Word, but he still swears by his WordPerfect (and now that I think about he still uses AOL). I didn't read through the manuscript but I'm curious ifWP targeted lawyers back in the day.

Thank you all so much for the responses. Very much appreciated. I want to take the time to read through each of them and understand them so I may take a while to respond. Thank you so much again! I hope this will also help others :)

For me, just because I'm programming doesn't mean I'm learning. I can make an entire site without learning anything if I do it the way I already understand. The real learning comes in doing things differently. Spending your time on hitting the things you don't know really hard.

You say a challenge from an employee will take you multiples of X hours? Then practice it. Keep working at things that are hard and eventually they will come together and get easier.

Nice job

Good to know, appreciate it

Thanks :)

I did find it easier to read faster, however I do believe the JFK portion was chunked with a lot of bigger words/data like years, cities, full names whereas the SBA paragraphs were simpler (IMHO).

Personally I grew up in this world. I spent a lot of time on the computer in middle school building webpages with dreamweaver. Although I went to film school I retaught myself (minus dreamweaver) to code for the web using front and back end technologies. There are a lot of great resources out there, but personally I really enjoyed Lynda ones. I feel that site gets the reputation that it's for old people who don't know any where else to go, but it contains very full and comprehensive walk throughs of whatever subject you're wanting to learn. It does cost money however, so if you're not willing to pay or don't have the cash for it look around the web. Places like the mozilla developer network are a great place to start.

Long story short, I don't think there's really one-stop-shopping when it comes to learning something new. There's a lot of information out there that requires a lot of research, but the great part (if you truly enjoy coding) is that it's fun research, fun to search for new things, build new things, take on new challenges. :) Good Luck!

I was leaving the film industry and unemployed for a year. I only did about 4-5 hours a day (had $$ saved) and got far enough to get a great job, but wow. I like that you're not just BS-ing 180 days, but actually challenging yourself.

I find it comical questioning his decision to choose sports (or anything for that matter) when he is famous and incredibly accurate for his predictions. While I agree sports may not be the best use of his ability, I'm sure he's done the math for choosing his next career step.