I think you are referring to the Youtube gurus teaching stuff.
Its actually 2 fold, the short term goal of raking up some youtube views and getting the youtube ad money. Second is to pad the CV as an "advanced developer with lots of knowledge to share", it helps to put on CV and also be considered for some training positions which is demand as many are rushing to get into tech where "even kids are minting money".
I know a guy that put up some coding videos on youtube to be a "youtuber" and one of the big tech firms in India hired him to train their new recruits.
good advertising, everyone needs a bank that dgaf.
not because you want to do anything illegal, but because you don't want a bank afraid all your benign transactions are illegal and causes inconveniences to you
how is it doing now after 20 years? I feel the real challenge is once the community comes together, it invites or makes new comers feel comfortable. Also usually old members just move on for various reasons.
It was a Dave Matthews Band fan community and I shut it down in 2015 due to server costs, (which the community mostly covered Via PayPal but I had to do fundraisers) looming security issues (drupal and vbulletin integrations that became hard to get security updates for and my own passing interest in the band.
But not because there wasn’t community.
I had a solid moderation and community admin staff and people writing content for the blog.
To your point yes. Any community, band fans to burning man needs new blood constantly or it will die. People move on.
There’s a lot of talk about this in the DOTA 2 community—-fear it will not stay at the top of esports if it doesn’t do more to make itself welcoming to noobs.
Why not start a subreddit on reddit and use the wiki for a blog? Just an idea, I have no experience running a subreddit. Plus I am sure a Dave Matthews Band fan community wouldn't offend anyone. So, reddit can foot the bill for your community. Just keep a backup incase of issue.
I made a Facebook page people used to connect afterward. I think these other sites are not the same as an integrated experience I had before. It was a “community driven online destination.”
I do have a backup and I may make the forum available again, but I am not sure. It was a lot of content to go dark suddenly.
People try to classify everything around them in binary. As its easy to just label people.
But the fact they fail to understand is that no one is just "good" or "bad". You have to evaluate each of the actions and weigh it. This is tough and most don't do it.
No one is black or white, they are just shades of grey.
I have not seen your project earlier. I just checked it out.
Here is my feedback, hope it helps you.
First off, instead of showing off an api calls & response, show a use case. Make a simple site that utilises the API, then in the details page show the calls & response. Don't make api details your whole site.
I am someone that plays cards with my friends and I didn't understand the use case of the API.
API is the backend that you developed for some reason. Its nice you are sharing it. Show the reason. So that other can addon or make their own spin. Make a demo project using the API.
I have a friend who has multiple domains but all mapped to 1 mail box with catch all. There is stores those to specific address in folders and he rest in a common folder. He is using a hosting company. They charge per-email account. He was the basic 5 email account, 3 for family, 1 for himself and the last is the one with the catch-all for over 10 domains.
where is the server hosted? In your home or hosting provider or cloud? Keeping a server running 24x7 is the challenge for me as far as email is concern. What happens when your server is down and someone mails you?
> Keeping a server running 24x7 is the challenge for me as far as email is concern. What happens when your server is down and someone mails you?
I imagine that if the client or an MTA can't connect to an SMTP server, then the mail would stay in an outbox queue until it is able to connect and hand it off. I don't think mail is permanently lost if an SMTP server goes down for a few hours. If an intermediary MTA gives up on connecting to an SMTP server, I would at least expect it to bounce the email back to the sender with an explanation.
I don't think email is as fragile as you seem to think.
Yes that is correct. Email outgoing mechanism usually stores in a Queue and providers retry sending mail for about 3 days (depends on provider to provider).
And if deliver fails, the sender also gets an email (from their own MTA) mentioning that delivery failed.
Its a email server I am writing myself to eventually use. I know mail-in-a-box exists but another solution providing a easy to setup reliable mail box should be useful.
Currently I have spf/dkim/dmarc setup so it can exchange with all providers and have imap for the client side.
> Its a email server I am writing myself to eventually use. I know mail-in-a-box exists but another solution providing a easy to setup reliable mail box should be useful.
Do you plan to open-source it? I have to agree that last time I looked into setting up my own email server, the setup procedure of pre-existing servers is what drove me away.
I was hoping Eclipse/Firefox would partner with Sublime Text/NotePad++. There is enough people on electron-based text editor with Atom & VSCode variant. I was hoping a different product needs to grow.
Yes, I know ST is closed-source. But as a user, I feel that its starting to hurt ST. I personally feel (not a pro-developer), ST is better than VSCode. ST is a better match for Firefox. I am hoping that the ST developer joins Mozilla.
Notepad++ has a eclipse-lite vibe. I was hoping eclipse could help Notepad++ reach linux & mac. But please dont put it in JVM, that is the original sin of Eclipse.
I appreciate your effort and I am just sharing a piece of information I have, in the hope that it will help you strategies a good plan of action. I don't mean to discourage you with my comments.
I was speaking to an Indian guy who now has is US passport & good job in NYC. He came to US on an on-site assignment with TCS. He said that this is how TCS & all Indian companies work, IT companies in general.
When hiring fresh graduate(beginning) in India, the first requirement to start working is a passport. Then the chance of on-site is the carrot that they (company) uses to squeeze. If the managers sense that you are close to giving your papers to resign, they will say that you are in the top list. Plus these companies flood the h1b system with applications of all their employees. Basically the companies need a carrot to whip the employee and the ultimate is a green card, after which the employees are free and is a matter of time before they quit. If you are that valuable to them, then you they pay you well to keep you. So, the companies do everything to delay the green card process.
So, this is the system that he gamed to get his freedom and now his brother is close to getting his green card at Infosys.
For many businesses, the prospect of being cut off as a result of unexpected demand would be a serious liability, so therefore this would have to be an option -- but if it is an option, the customer has to select between it or an alternative, which is exactly the problem in this case.
Free tier is even more ideal for testing than this proposal, but the only way you can make options foolproof is to have no options.
Its actually 2 fold, the short term goal of raking up some youtube views and getting the youtube ad money. Second is to pad the CV as an "advanced developer with lots of knowledge to share", it helps to put on CV and also be considered for some training positions which is demand as many are rushing to get into tech where "even kids are minting money".
I know a guy that put up some coding videos on youtube to be a "youtuber" and one of the big tech firms in India hired him to train their new recruits.