I bet new relic is pretty good for the price they are charging. :/

I messed around with some of the CDNs, putting some on the bottom of the page, etc. I got it down to 375ms now, which is fine. I don't think I'll be able to get it down to 100ms, but eh...

Actually, it looks like google analytics is causing some latency, but for this, I don't mind as much.

I don't actually know what newrelic costs, but yeah, it's quite good. I am sure we were paying a ****load for it, because we had just tons and tons of running instances.

The times I quoted were just for getting stuff out the webservers door. The stuff I was service was either used in a SPA or consumed as a service by other webservers, so we were only serving JSON and some html. Page load time was not really a factor as such - you'd almost always have the SPA in your cache, most people probably never even closed their tabs that were running it, so the only thing we cared about was how fast we could shovel data into it.

Yeah could just be a result of serializing and delivering a very large json payload. You could look into having the page bootstrap itself, loading some minimal ui and data and gradually enhancing the page by requesting additional resources

I'm just using plain old SQL and feeding the data into html. Haven't really looked into making it with JSON or using anything particularly dynamic. The UI is pretty minimal and pretty much what you would expect from someone who wishes everything was in 10em ComicSans and codes on a 13" low-res notebook.

There are a lot of forms and stuff, and I've been wondering if I should try to remove all the submit buttons and make the changes instant. The other interesting thing is that the top bar is unchanging, the left bar changes on what menu you are on, and the main section is constantly changing. I am wondering if it is possible to do partial caching, but it could be a bit aggravating because so many of what you see and what you can access is based on user roles, etc.

I find it interesting that both parties in this negotiation had $20 of wiggle room. It doesn't sound like much when you're talking about 1 hour, but added up this is $40k for a full time person or $20k for half time. That's a big difference!

I think you did well in your negotiation suzzer.

He was saying this back in the '90s. Nobody cared about his opinion then either.

I've been getting the most bizarre recruiter contacts lately.

Phone call:
"Hi, dave, I'm [unintelligible name] from [unintelligible company]. I have a job offer for you. Please call me back."

I know what it was for since I received no less than 4 emails about this job, but still...

*

Today, I get an email:

subject line: Doesn’t hurt to look

Hi David,

I came across your info, and I wanted to see if you are interested in exploring opportunities. Now’s a great time to make a career move.

In fact, I’m working on a Database Developer position with an attractive compensation package.

Check it out: link

If you’re interested, please shoot over a quick response with your most updated resume or apply through the link.

Hoping to help you with your next great role!

Is the one you posted cyber coders? Pretty sure I've seen the exact same copy for a different job.

Yeah, it was cyber coders. I didn't get the whole "doesn't hurt to look" line. What is that supposed to mean?

It means that it does not hurt to look.
I guess for those who might feel guilty checking out other opportunities while holding a position, or those who would not initially go for that position for whichever reason.

I took the more self-depreciating / paranoid route of thinking that they were going for a long-shot on both ends.

It was for a Microsoft stack. I don't really use Windows and the few times I've interviewed for SQL Server positions caused the HR interviewer to freak out and stutter "I'll look into it" before slamming the phone back onto the receiver.

Cyber coders is the worst. I've interacted with them twice. Replying to two different jobs from the same recruiter in the span of a week.

The first time he replies to my email expressing interest asking me to send over an updated resume that he can pass along. I send it and get a reply to go and apply through some link where I'm asked to again upload a resume and answer a few relevant questions. I do this and never hear anything back.

A week later I get another spam email with another "opportunity" from this guy. I respond that I'm interested and once again get asked for an updated resume. **** you cybercoders. I'm not entirely sure they have any real humans working there.

Yeah they have a terrible rep if you see something they have you like just google passages and see if you can find it elsewhere or a direct hit on the company.

I get the impression they are the McDonald's of recruiting.

So many recruiters seem to be skins over web scrapers. I've been contacted so many times for the same job over and over and over, always from a different collection of recruiters. Probably only been contacted 3 times for jobs where I thought I couldn't find it on indeed.

If anyone is good with the concept of recursion and has ~30 minutes to spare tonight, please send me a pm with your skype contact details. I am currently working on the "Knapsack problem" (recursion solution, not DP solution). 30 min of your life talking to me would save me 4hrs of my life.

Please, if you think you could offer any input on the concept of recursion, pm me with your skype information. Again, I'm begging. Thanks - Ryan.

Every time I do too much whippets I pass out momentarily and figure out the secret to the universe, which I then immediately forget. The only thing I can ever remember is it's all about recursion.

nice

Oh dude. One time on the tail end of taking MDMA I was doing whippets with a friend. Like 20 times in a row I figured out the secret of the universe and when I could speak again I was like "OK I remember what the deal is this time, it's..." and then stop and it would be gone. My friend was laughing at me nonstop.

I can't do them anymore, for some reason they make me feel nauseous and depressed afterwards now.

That combo is the absolute nut talking to gawd high.

Prolly the highest per capita destruction of brain cells too.

Yeah they're pretty awful. Diminishing returns after the first one and horrible headache the next day.

Good to know someone else has experienced the secret to the universe thing.

One other time as well, same friend, me and another guy were at his house and doing whippets, don't remember if any other drugs were involved. He was sitting on a two-seater couch, one of those ones with loose removable square cushions as the bit you sit on, I think it was a fold out bed or something. He gets high and next second he jumps up and literally burrows under the cushion from one end of the couch, worms his way under the cushions, then emerges at the other end like a prairie dog, blinking and going "whoa". Easily top five funniest things I have seen in my life.

After a 6 hour love affair with JavaScript, whippets sounds like fun.

It looks so incredibly logical and then it doesn't work, which is a whole nother controversy in semantics. Maybe the error log will help... oh, that paragraph of jibber jabber is super useless. I'd rather look at Java error dumps.

I'll take another two year break from that now. Recursion.

Hi, I'm legit stuck.

https://gist.github.com/dt1/502eeeda...f4567c2bfb2ab6

That file is self-containing, so you should be able to copy/paste and use it raw. Just using CDNs.

the form works like this:
Top: the top label. Doesn't really affect anything.
Code: the UPC, name, etc.
Qty: how many barcodes you'd like to generate. you can generate a mix of barcodes (that was a headache to get right, lol).

The issue:
On the first run, everything works fine. the sizing looks great, everything is centered, etc.
Printing works just fine as well.

The problem is after the page refresh. The "top" words come in at normal size, but the barcodes end up super small.

This is what happens on the first run (and what I would like to have happen each time):



This is what happens after run 2...n:


I thought this was a caching problem. Tried it with JS and altering the headers, etc, but nothing is working (still in the code).

So, something is wrong here and I don't know what. Feel free to call my JS trash. No shame in admitting it isn't excellent.

too lazy to figure this out but at the very least move all of your preventdefaults to the top of the block.

Is the question in the spoil tag rhetorical?

Moved that to the top. Felt more logical at the bottom since the initial issue was seeing everything get erased quickly and it behaves like a blocker. Why does it make a difference? Is it due the the "e"?