Could you please expand on the "very low quality" claim? What's missing for you here? How would you raise a bar on this piece to make it more of a high quality, security focused content?
Genuine question.
You are so entitled... Because of you most nice things have "no limits but...". Not cool stress testing someone's infrastructure. Not cool.
The author of this post is more than understanding, tried to fix it and offered a solution even after blocking them. On a free service.
That's how agreements work. If someone says they will sell a hamburger for $5, and another person pays $5 for a hamburger, then they are entitled to a hamburger.
>On a free service.
It's up to the owner to price the service. Being overwhelmed by traffic when there are no limits is not a problem limited only to free services.
Sure, and if you bulk-order 5k hamburgers the restaurant will honor the price, but they'll also tell you "we're going to need some notice to handle that much product". Perfect analogy, really. This guy handled the situation perfectly, imo.
Except in this case the restauraut would have been able to handle the 5k orders if they didn't arbitrarily have their workers work with their hands tied behind their back. And instead of untieing their workers and appreciating the realization they were accidently bottlenecking themselves they blame the nearby event who caused a spike in foot traffic.
Publicly attacking your users instead of celebrating their success and your new learnings is not what I would call handling it perfectly. I think going for a halo effect strategy where you celebrate how people are using your platform to accomplish their goals will help people understand how what is being done is valuable and want people to adopt it or financially support it. On the other hand attacking people who use your platform publicly can make people apprehensive in using it fearing that they will be criticized too.
My time to shine! I used to work with Krzysiu (Krzysztof). He used to have MySpace popular page and he was designing logos for heavy-metal bands - sometimes (if not always) for free.
Really nice guy.
Oh, and Exeter got to the front page...
Cześć Krzysiu! Pozdrawiam
(We used to work at COOP HB)
Is there a tech scene in Exeter? I have long lived in San Francisco having moved from UK in 2006 but I spent a lot of time down in Devon where my parents now live.
Would Exeter be a good location, in comparison to the home counties, to set up a startup where most employees WFH 90% of the time?
I really like the area, and my preferred locations in Oxon & Cambs are getting incredibly expensive in terms of real estate, which doesn't make sense in case of WFH.
I wouldn’t call it a scene, but there’s a small handful of people and the occasional meet-up or event. I’m near Exeter after working in London for ~10 years.
Hi to anyone else who’s down in Devon :)
(Hit me up via my profile if you’d like to grab a coffee)
Heh, not sure. I moved to the US in 2008. I think you and I talked about this when you were at WordCamp Boston when you were doing stuff with WPEngine.
I think at least one of the W3C staff is in Devon.
wow you have a much better memory than I do, I don't even remember anything about the event (tbf for several years I used to attend a WordCamp somewhere practically every other week!)
Not really, there’s a bit of one in Bristol, but from what I see of job postings down there, salaries aren’t that high, comparable to much of the rest of the U.K. outside of London
The MetOffice has their software stuff down in Exeter but it’s <£45k for people with experience in scientific computing and HPC
So Apple is also scared of the US breaking monopoly like the EU did with the app store? We all know that this isn't just a search here at play.
Maybe the end of walled gardens... One can only hope!
In UK nappies are ultra cheap. My Wife uses Lidl's nappies but Aldi's are equally good (if not the same!). They cost around 5-7 pence each. Can't really exactly remember because they are so cheap.
Pampers are more expensive but by much.
> In the United States, the average diaper sells for about 25 cents
That's so much more expensive than here. Looking at the pictures you can get the same brands and nappies for half the price here.
In the decent sized packs from amazon pampers are only a touch more expensive but yeah the Lidl ones are just as good as far as I can see. We mostly used pampers because they are cheap with a subscription but have used Lidl ones fairly often. Shame we're not very close to a Lidl store (well we are, but traffic).
I just checked Dutch prices: googled and took the first link for diapers for newborns: 52 diapers for €7, or €5 if you buy in bulk. So that's 10-13 cents for random big chain diapers of a good brand.
Seems to be a typical price. At another chain, I get the same prices for another brand. Looking for the biggest A brand, I find 72 diapers for €15, which is a bit more expensive, but still less than 25 cents (though eurocents are worth a bit more than dollar cents, of course).
ALDI Junior Nappies Size 5 (40) €2.99 - €7.5c each
Pampers Premium Size 5 (35) - €8.99 - €25.5 each
Bigger packs are cheaper per nappy. If you can wait for offers you usually can get the Pampers much cheaper e.g. right now 2 x 72 pack for €23, 16c per nappy.
We started off with Pampers and moved to ALDI, never looked back.
But all in all at 4 nappies a day you'd just break €110 a year with ALDI.
