When I fainted on a crowded bus i Buenos Aires (as a tourist from Sweden) the bus driver stoped to check on me. When I wanted to get off and rest a while, two other passengers got off the bus with me to make sure I was okay.
I'm sure there must be more instances, but that's the first one I can think of.
I would guess that it's probably aspirational to some degree. People hope to work with larger systems.
Personally I think it looks interesting and I work at a small web agency. We usually only work with a few parts of these kinds of systems, but occasionally we have clients like a large sports ticket vendor, where a few more of these patterns are helpful.
My understanding is that if you have a very large site, removing pages can sometimes help because:
- There is an indexing "budget" for your site. Removing pages might make reindexing of the rest of the pages faster.
- Removing pages that are cannibalising on each other might help the main page for the keywords to rank higher.
- Google is not very fond of "thin wide" content. Removing low quality pages can be helpful, especially if you don't have a lot of links to your site.
- Trimming the content of a website could make it easier for people and Google to understand what the site is about and help them find what they are looking for.
And the counter argument that Dawkins himself he is an atheist because he was born in the UK in the 20th century just proves Dawkins point. I think Dawkins himself would agree that the likelihood of him being atheist would have been far lower if he would have been born in Pakistan or in 17th century England.
Ok, I just suffered through the 13 minutes of nonsens from this "expert".
One problem is that he doesn't understand what he is arguing against. Dawkins doesn't argue that, because people tend to have similar beliefs as those around them, he has disproved those beliefs. He just uses it to illustrate the close minded way some people take the supremacy of their particular religion for granted. The question "What if you are wrong?" comes with a lot of assumptions.
It's also laughable for an expert (for a number of reasons) to claim that C.S. Lewis has disproved atheism.
Well, this is is not guidelines for an app or a website. This is guidelines for how the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, the Ministry of Culture, the Swedish Institute, Business Sweden and Visit Sweden and the different agencies they use, should use typography when representing Sweden abroad.
I don't think the type section is unusually large, but I worked at a company for two years that exclusively made design manuals, and the well made ones tend to look like this.
I think that pages 403-415 provides pretty good definitions[0]
But that's not my point. My point is only that there are aspects of a typical free market economy (by American right wing definitions) that are better represented in countries other than the US.
I know they are a right-wing think tank, that is why I referenced them when it comes to rank "market economy" factors that people who believe in and want to have "free markets" care about.
In what way is it a political propaganda piece? From what I can tell it's a pretty transparent ranking of countries by factors that the organisation cares about.
While the Scandinavian countries have high taxes and regulated labour markets, they have deregulated markets, strong property protections and are very simple to do business in.
People often see the United States as the ultimate free market, but compared to other countries it can be seen as pretty heavily regulated.
According to the Heritage Foundation's Economic Freedom ranking, it ranks 25th, well below "socialist" states like Denmark (in 9th place) and Sweden (in 10th place).
Yes! Maybe we can start caring about stuff that actually matters now instead of obsessing over IP-addresses maybe touching US soil when loading a font from a CDN.
Rereading it now seems like "companies" in the heading only refers to the three fined companies and that the decision may be applicable to other companies.
The heading seems very strong considering this is a governmental agency and since they audited a "version of Google Analytics from 14th of August 2020" and presumably not GA4 that works differently.
I would almost always go with what the team or someone on it was most familiar with and can setup in less than a day. I think it should include an easy way to scale at least for a few months to come, a reasonable way to provision more capacity, a managed database, a CDN, backups, access and error logging and a simple but automatic deployment pipeline.
At work we use ECS Fargate, Aurora MySQL and Bitbucket pipelines to host a little over 100 client web applications. It takes about an hour to configure a new AWS account and staging/production environments for a new client using Cloudformation (and a number manual steps) and the monthly AWS cost is around $100. There are cheaper ways and probably easier ways, but we feel like we have reached a good balance between stability, ease of use, cost and features. And we are not that worried about being tied to AWS.
Law enforcement tracking everyone can have serious and unintended consequences in away that a SaaS tracking visits are unlikely to have.
An extreme case is on the other side, is to compare simple site limited tracking to a coffee shop being able to see who enters the door. Why should they track how I look and the way I'm dressed? Does it make service harder if you have to work blindfolded? Though luck, my privacy is more important than your wish to provide your customers with good service.
I filed my Swedish taxes yesterday. It included private income and investments, my own sole proprietorship as well as dividends from a larger company where I own 10%. It took around 30 minutes including all calculations.
We may have high taxes, but at least they make it easy to pay them...
> Fast forward to today, and MVC has since fallen out of fashion. Everything is now done in React, Angular, Vue, and other frameworks.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Fallen out of fashion perhaps, but still very stable, easy work with, predictable and with pretty clear best practices that don't change every three months.
That's such a weird misrepresentation. I would say they are for pausing the increases to already extreme taxes on gasoline, so people outside of cities can afford to drive to work.
I'm sure there must be more instances, but that's the first one I can think of.