We use Fastly (and our site is down too) but I asked them about this a couple of years ago. It is deliberate. They said it was so they can tell if it is their Varnish service or the customer's Varnish service that is…
I actually bought this T-shirt for my daughter.It said: !false It's funny, because it's true!
Reading about this study and the experiences described in other comments, it seems the experiment is a bit limited in its scope. The effect of music depends on the person, the type of music (lyrics or instrumental -…
Out of curiosity, why do you blocks HTTPS when you otherwise seem very privacy conscious?
One of the reasons I don't switch to Firefox full time is that it (still, after many years) leaks memory. Use Task Manager to see how much RAM Firefox is using once it's been open a while.
Though less serious, my wife has a similar problem with Amazon. She tried to review a product (first review for a very long time) and was greeted with this message: "! We apologize but Amazon has noticed some unusual…
In the UK, the shop Lidl was supposed to be pronounced Lie-del and I think that is how it is pronounced in Europe. But, everyone pronounced it with a short 'i' and now they've adopted that in adverts - 'Every little…
Just read Week 1 of this course - very easy to follow. Although with a different instructor, there are later versions - http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis194/fall16/ seems the most recent, with plenty of updates since the…
In May, once GDPR becomes mandatory, we'll all be able to issue data requests to the likes of Facebook and Cambridge Analyitica etc, to find out just what they know about us. The requests are free, so with social media,…
Works really on Chrome on Windows 10, on a 3 year old laptop!
This is karma for the way they started their 'Windows Smartphone' project, aka 'Stinger' (their internal name). They partnered with UK-based Sendo, who should have been their go-to-market partner, until Microsoft nicked…
So, what wording would you have used?
Why would they charge? They get a placement fee based on a percentage of the starting salary. It's in their interest that the candidate gets the best deal possible.
We use Fastly (and our site is down too) but I asked them about this a couple of years ago. It is deliberate. They said it was so they can tell if it is their Varnish service or the customer's Varnish service that is…
I actually bought this T-shirt for my daughter.It said: !false It's funny, because it's true!
Reading about this study and the experiences described in other comments, it seems the experiment is a bit limited in its scope. The effect of music depends on the person, the type of music (lyrics or instrumental -…
Out of curiosity, why do you blocks HTTPS when you otherwise seem very privacy conscious?
One of the reasons I don't switch to Firefox full time is that it (still, after many years) leaks memory. Use Task Manager to see how much RAM Firefox is using once it's been open a while.
Though less serious, my wife has a similar problem with Amazon. She tried to review a product (first review for a very long time) and was greeted with this message: "! We apologize but Amazon has noticed some unusual…
In the UK, the shop Lidl was supposed to be pronounced Lie-del and I think that is how it is pronounced in Europe. But, everyone pronounced it with a short 'i' and now they've adopted that in adverts - 'Every little…
Just read Week 1 of this course - very easy to follow. Although with a different instructor, there are later versions - http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis194/fall16/ seems the most recent, with plenty of updates since the…
In May, once GDPR becomes mandatory, we'll all be able to issue data requests to the likes of Facebook and Cambridge Analyitica etc, to find out just what they know about us. The requests are free, so with social media,…
Works really on Chrome on Windows 10, on a 3 year old laptop!
This is karma for the way they started their 'Windows Smartphone' project, aka 'Stinger' (their internal name). They partnered with UK-based Sendo, who should have been their go-to-market partner, until Microsoft nicked…
So, what wording would you have used?
Why would they charge? They get a placement fee based on a percentage of the starting salary. It's in their interest that the candidate gets the best deal possible.