I'm not sure if this is free or not. Someone in the comments below mentioned this was a bait and switch scam where they make it look free, then push some payments on you.
Any confirmation on the 'free' status of this course?
An easy to follow design course for programmers
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Exactly, why is this content available to US users for free (via Youtube) but I have to pay because I'm outside of the US ? I guess it's to do with youtube ad revenues for US impressions but as a customer it makes me feel a bit shafted considering that you will, in no way, make $3.99 from a single US user watching this on youtube. However, I appreciate that you're doing this course for 'free' and I do think it's a gr…
It really sucks. In fact, I wholly believe that many people will turn away from Hack Design because there's essentially a paywall right out of the gate. I don't regret my choice to start with this film, though. Objectified had a profound impact on me as a designer. I first watched it in a slump of disenchantment that my "web design" skills would never amount to anything valuable or earth-shattering. This film gave me…
It's a very interesting documentary, thanks for the tip. I am looking forward to the rest of the course.
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#53Site took a long time to load, but when it did, I gladly signed up. Got my first email already. Really looking forward to this, thanks. * Edit, It appears that the video "Objectified" (Or at least the preview) is not available to rent from YouTube in Canada. "The uploader has not made this video available in your country." :( I don't have time to try renting it right now, but I'll test it this weekend. Perhaps only t…
How about Vimeo? http://vimeo.com/12793996
This works, thank you!
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How many requests per second do you think a website needs to be capable of serving to handle the traffic from HN? (Performance newbie here)
Well, it depends on the site in question, of course. But we can make some estimates, if you want. In the past, I've talked to some colleagues who've had content hit the front page here, and they reported numbers ranging from around 1,000 unique visitors to about 30,000 visitors over a one-day period. So it can vary quite a bit, apparently. Let's assume that things are more intense than that, and go with 50,000 or so…
Thanks for the explanation! When you put it that way it doesn't sound so intense.
I've been working at a company where their forums have trouble keeping up with 300 concurrent users in a single forum thread, even when CDN and caching was being deployed and I'm trying to figure out how to improve that.