It depends on their settings. I usually can see photo and name as soon as I add them. For my own number however people can’t see either piece of information until I add the number to my contacts.
Prices in Italy are balanced and not even that bad. The ticket to the colosseum is 16€ and includes the entire park nearby. 16€ for the main attraction in one of the most visited countries in the world is pretty reasonable.
I can remember visiting Egypt (many years ago) and being frustrated about how expensive the fees were for foreign tourists. Being from a third world country, and not having much personal wealth at that time, I was forced to skip the Tutankhamun exhibit in the Cairo museum—something that I regret even today.
Note: I was in Cairo as part of an official delegation (i.e., my country paid for my travel, and the sponsor organization in Egypt paid for my bed + board). At that time, I couldn't have afforded either.
Addendum: unfortunately, this is something that my country, Sri Lanka, does as well. One price for locals, and another price for tourists. The latter is typically 10x as much as the local price, but does not confer much (if any at all) additional privileges or facilities.
Indonesia has a similar policy—higher prices for foreign tourists—but when I visited Borobudur and Prambanan I was pleasantly surprised to see that the higher price I paid did buy me extra amenities: a separate entrance point and some refreshments. Sure, the Indonesians came out better from that deal, but at least I didn't feel ripped off.
You got my point exactly, this is why I mentioned the colosseum entrance ticket.
The few friends who could afford an AirAsia ticket were annoyed by the high entrance fee that many South East Asian attractions charge to foreigners, regardless of whether you’re from Vietnam or Iceland.
When the price difference is preposterous I skip the attraction altogether as a matter of principle. The Yogyakarta attractions you mentioned are the perfect example with the 25 USD entrance fee for Prambanan vs 5 USD for locals.
Pardon the jab at Egypt, I mentioned it because when I travelled across it it felt like history was the only thing it offered (except on the Red Sea) and everyone was keen on taking advantage of tourists. Wanna take a photo here? Tip please. You paid €60 for this tour? Tip please. You already paid to enter this museum? Pay more for this one special expo please.
One of the guides also mentioned how excavations and restorations always take forever so that they’re employed forever.
That’s still an awful lot of miles to travel for that. If I remember correctly Subway has the most locations so probably you can get better food by driving less.
As someone who likes a good Italian sub now and then, I'm always a bit impressed just how bad Subway can make its food. I can at least find something I'm OK with at McDonald's (though I probably won't eat a burger). Not Subway.
That makes me think: How did they cover 2000 miles without anyone around? Did they carry enough gas for the whole trip or there actually is something along the way?
> The year before, the team spent a significant amount of time traveling east by boat to coastal settlements dotted along the Sea of Okhotsk, dropping off fuel and supplies to support their upcoming journey.
I feel the same for the browser environment. Other than a few new “exciting” APIs and canvas, developing for the browser is essentially still the same deal.
I’m tired of hacking documents into apps. I want the web to be split into Markdown-like web (i.e. pure content and some meta) and actual web apps that work like native apps.
I mean, if you'd like to put it in perspective, try developing for IE6. You don't even have a dev console.
I had a recent revelation when watching a video someone posted of a Symbolics Lisp machine, and its legendary dev environment. That being - it's basically just a modern browser devtools, but for the whole OS. Turtles all the way down.
But somehow, despite having the bird in our hand, we as an industry lost them, and regressed to having vastly-inferior tools to those Symbolics devtools, and only gradually rebuilt them over the course of multiple decades.
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As a harsh rebuttal to the OP article; I think the number one thing that's "whooshing" over that guy's head is that if someone develops a proof-of-concept for something, it doesn't invalidate the far-more-significant trick of making it widespread. Often it's the latter that's far more difficult, because it requires eliminating compromises that weren't acceptable to people before.
The strange thing about the software industry these days is that quite a few "truisms" about software development have been completely invalidated. Ironclad laws of how the world works have slowly been rendered completely false, and it's happened not through some sudden eureka development but through some slow, sneaky, iterative improvement. The same sort of thing i.e. that made solar cheaper than coal, or made SSDs cheaper than HDDs (I don't know if we've actually crossed that line yet, but it seems pretty inevitable that once the investment impetus behind HDDs collapses, we'll eventually get there). Flatscreens versus CRTs was another great example.
I don't know how far back your view on web development goes, but the approach from 20 years ago really was documents being thrown around and lots of forms with a little bit of JS. That was hacking documents into apps.
Today's approach for building web apps is basically code up a fat client application which downloads to the browser, runs, and talks to some remote web API (i.e. REST) using JSON. This is much closer to native apps and very far from the document approach. The app and the pure content are cleanly split between the initial app bundle and the web APIs.
I don’t see why this is controversial. Video is content. Google has always shown content from other sites and sometimes it’ll embed a whole YouTube player. If anything, it’s good that they feature content from not-YouTube.
The “quality” of TikTok videos is not really important here because one might actually look for them.
Isn’t this against the license of those sites, though? I’m pretty sure you’re absolutely not allowed to crawl Instagram content let alone mirror their videos.
You implicitly give a license to crawlers if you don’t take action to block them via robots.txt or otherwise block them via your server. If you do either of these, google will respect the site’s decision and you probably could take them to court if they tried to evade blockers that block google bot (but since google always respects robots.txt and never craws from a different ASN or different user agent, even for safe browsing crawls, they’re fine).
So if Instagram wants to block google from downloading their videos, they can
To move file around I use CopyWebpackPlugin or whatever other CLI tool called from npm scripts.
The promises of gulp (streams) fell short pretty quickly and we were just left with verbose spaghetti code that was no better than just a bash script. I went into gulp head first and honestly I’m glad that Webpack can deal with most of what I did back then, especially when paired with other reasonable CLI tools.
