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Notepad++ with tabs and keeping the tabs session saved.
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TIL that Experts Exchange actually existed, rather than being a meme of "why you should consider how your business name will look as a domain".
I think poor therapists suffered most from the curious nature of how domain name are. Like http://www.therapist.com/ still exists but redirects. ... Let's not even mention the plant nursery on the Mole River which ended up with www.molestationnursery.com ...
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> using Google for search in 2000 and being amazed at how much better the results were than AltaVista and Yahoo Search. Aaahhh. The year Google launched, a friend and I were sitting next to each other, at our PCs. Both of us were techie types and into innovative stuff, although working in a software services bigco at the time. I casually said to him: "I came across this new search engine a few days ago while browsing…
I still distinctly remember the moment of shock with the minimalism of their homepage at the time; compared to AltaVista jam-packed with ads and other stuff to the brim, seeing just the logo and the editbox on a plain white page made me startle and pause with some "Whaaat's going on???" and "This can't be true" feelings.
Copyright never has to be declared, and I think in many ways Google is responsible for websites having copyright in footers not realising it’s not a legal requirement.
APM software (application performance monitoring). It was super expensive, pain in the ass to maintain, required a lot of training. But when someone skilled sat down with it - just wow. You could investigate particular users problem, and see that when she typed "s" in search form it triggered a few proxies, sql query which had proper execution plan, but it seems that connections pools are handled poorly. It could vis…
What software do you use? It sounds like for monitoring a website. Is there something similar for a desktop app?
There is now a lot of opensource ones, usually not so fancy on the visual side. Elastic APM, Pinpoint and so on.
- apt
- maven
- npm
You can't imagine the pain not having them.
APM software (application performance monitoring). It was super expensive, pain in the ass to maintain, required a lot of training. But when someone skilled sat down with it - just wow. You could investigate particular users problem, and see that when she typed "s" in search form it triggered a few proxies, sql query which had proper execution plan, but it seems that connections pools are handled poorly. It could vis…
What software do you use? It sounds like for monitoring a website. Is there something similar for a desktop app?
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this gave me a vivid image of young me flailing around in the dark trying to understand why undefined is not a function
The worst was when I discovered all console.log() crashed because IE6 left “console” as undefined until the developer tools were open. Fortunately another bad feature of IE was to alert() the errors, so customers were aware of each of them and could easily send us the bug back... This bank employee used PrintScreen to print the screenshot on paper. He the successfully faxed it to his email, zipped it and uploaded it…