It was a cruel thing for them to do, honestly. As someone with ADHD-PI who was diagnosed at 11 years old (jeez, 24 years ago) I never appreciated being lumped in with hyperactive people. I am the opposite of that (although I am prone to mania.. but it's very rarely manifests physically) by nature.
This damned problem has been just that. I went without medication for over 18 years but in the last year have had to seek treatment again. I definitely needed to do it sooner but as life becomes more and more complex and I'm beholden to other's schedules something had to give.
Life with the medication is a much better place for me. Wish I'd pursued it again sooner.
I think the PlayHaven guy will be fine. All he needs to do is say, "I'm the Dongle Guy". Adria didn't deserve the Internet hatred (which probably came mostly from trolls and assholes, not tech people) but her getting fired wasn't unreasonable. If you're a tech evangelist, your job is PR and you ought to know that public shaming is Seriously Not Cool.
I would too if there was something similar in DC/VA/MD, although I would have to quit my 9-5 job, find an evening job, and rely upon my girlfriend a lot.
Edit: If anyone does know of a program, I'd love to hear about it. Thank you.
It's not quite Connecticut, but in New York City there's https://www.hackerschool.com, which lasts about 3 months. An acquaintance of mine did it and liked it a lot.
Yeah, I've looked at this one before. Forgot the name though, so thanks for the link! Not a huge fan of NYC, but I think it's one of the better options out there.
Side Note: I've been teaching myself Python on Codeacademy, but am still pretty early in the coursework. I've noticed most of these programs focus on Ruby. Without getting into the ruby vs. python fight that is so easy to find online, does anyone know why these classes focus so much on ruby and not another language? Am I going down the wrong path?
I have the same question. The ubiquity of these Ruby/Rails bootcamps make Python/Django feel like some archaic language and framework when that is hardly the case. What gives?
Hey everyone! For a while, I've just been lurking and posting interesting articles without contributing much of my own content. I've decided for the new year that this has to change. This is my first post on a personal blog and I hope to continue it ad infinitum. Please let me know what you think!
Let them. Let them start charging for links. Let them miss out on the free SEO and let them fall off the face of the search engines. Let them lose their readership because nobody can find them and let them go bankrupt because no one is looking at their ads. This is how the internet works. If they can't figure that out, then its no ones loss but their own. A less greedy company will be happy to have sites link back to them and will eventually take their place.
Counterpoints to your counterpoint: The New York Times is a) doing ok for now but not great [1] b) most importantly, the NYT is an American institution that is in a league of their own. Few newspapers have the prestige, quality and history of the NYT.
Not to mention that despite their paywall, anyone can still link to an article in the NYT, and people can read it for free (as long as they haven't read too many articles that month). The NYT seems to have realized that the links to them from all over the web are free advertising that they can't afford to do without, and that having lots of people discuss their articles on the web makes them more influential.
Prestige and quality may help the NYT be successful in charging for content but that doesn't mean smaller local newspapers will fail if they try the same tactics. Warren Buffet seems to think that the paper editions of local newspapers will not fail (especially in areas with strong community) and owns over 20 now. It seems likely that eventually they will just charge for online access and be successful at it.
Does Google have to pay the NYT for each link to a NYT page in their search results? I doubt it. That is what the Irish papers are proposing. The NYT has decided that Google traffic is so important, they will let users access their content for free if they come from a Google results page. That to me reinforces the idea that charging people to link to you is self defeating.
Yup. The NYT paywall is quite "leaky" in general, and it seems that the paper is not particularly bothered by this; you can easily play simple URL or cookie games to avoid the paywall, and this hasn't changed in ages. Their web team is very good, and it's pretty certain they're aware of all this.
In other words, it appears that the paywall is intended not so much to prevent people from reading the paper free, as it is to remind people "hey this is a great world-class paper, if you read it a lot, how about a subscription?" I routinely go around the paywall, but I always end up seeing the "hey subscribe" reminder first...
It's a subtle and risky game to be sure, but they appear to be playing it better than most.
I think that's his point. If a large newspaper such as the New York Times isn't able to sustainably charge for content, even with readers that largely depend on it for their livelihoods, then how is a smaller newspaper going to get away with similar practices without losing much of their consumer base.
Forget "Organic PageRank benefits", if Google can't link to it, then they can't show it on search results. This would kill any and all organic searches.
Thanks for the quick response. Lets say for the sake of simplicity (and a short weekend project) that I want to have a <div> on my site that anyone can copy a code <script type="text/javascript" src="//www.mycrummysite/mydiv.js"></script> and put on their website so that it shows the my div. Every time i change the contents of the div, it also changes on their site. That seems like a good way to start. Is there a quick way to learn how to do this?
You can't do it that way-- once someone copies the code, it can never be changed by you. What you can change is the contents of the Javascript file. For example, when I make an update to my service, I upload the changes to script.js and the new code is run on the sites that embed that script.
I agree. Without the description, I would have thought it was a site to book cheap flights/travel. That being said, as a grad student myself and having paid thousands out of pocket over the course of my educational career for books, this looks like it will be a great resource. Come to UConn! BTW, your layout looks great; don't worry about it!
What does the site actually do? That's my biggest question! Nobody likes signing up for a service without knowing what they will get and how much it will cost. I would add two more pages: 1 that shows screenshots and describes the benefits to potential users, and another with pricing charts. I would also replace the video with some descriptors. I, personally can't watch video at work and if this is the main source of information, your cutting anyone without sound out of your potential user base.
