I think there is another boom that is fading, a potentially more serious one that is China's housing market. It is flooded with supply. Capital flight to the West, with property developers defaulting on debt, li kai shing (richest HK dude) dumping all his assets in China a while ago. The fading or faltering of the tech sector could be related but who knows, this is a government that likes to keep a blanket over everything.
Scrape.it works on building a web scraping tool that minimizes effort and time invested to quickly extract data from websites. Web scraping is simple in theory but building a tool that can work with a lot of different websites in the wild is no easy task.
Mechanical Turk gets expensive fast, and isn't very accurate, usually with any type of service, there's an overhead.
What this seems like is a quick way to get grunt work done. I can see how web scraping can fit nicely. However, some student with a lot of free time won't value their time as much so they will write a scraper but someone like a manager with a busy engineering team can save a lot of time outsourcing tasks like this.
Another solution is to use web scraping tool like https://scrape.it to scrape a website even for complicated AJAX websites. After you know how to use it, it's way faster than writing a scraper from scratch.
Do we really need to reinvent the wheels? Microservice, the async craze feels like, we now need to create a single wheel that is made up of many wheels, and spend an enormous time making it look and feel like a single wheel that was working fine, never mind that it serves absolutely no difference to the end user, it will make our next few years interesting because the old way of creating the wheel is boring and unexciting.
I think that after a few years, software businesses will realize that it was an investment with questionable advantages and go right back to what was working fine for the past decade and will continue to work fine.
Amazon uses microservices because they need to at their scale. But there are maybe a few dozen companies that operate at that scale. 12 years isn't enough time to learn a lot when there are only a few people doing it, just as in e.g. spaceflight.
this was a really cool effect...but I never found SNL to be funny. I've never even laughed at it once. I don't understand why people laugh...that and jimmy fallon/kimmel
It used to be hilarious. I'm talking Bill Murry era. Maybe
I was young and usually stoned, but if the Saturday night was unfruitful(meaning no women); I'd rush home and watch
SNL and really got a kick out of it. Just thinking about
that "Miss Loupner" thing has me smiling.
As a viewer since season 1, SNL has always been funny but inconsistent. If you go back now and watch those early shows yes, there were some awesome sketches, but they were surrounded by a lot of duds as well.
I respect the show just for what it is. These people write and build an entire 90 minute show going from zero to rehearsals in 5 days. No other show has done this for decades and lived to tell about it.
