Have you thought about adding the scale of the author's following and/or social media presence?
For example, this story's author has 21,000 followers on Twitter, and a successful blog.
Another example is 200k in sales https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23502770 where the self-publishing author admitted that practically all sales were due to 35,000 Twitter followers.
Have you come across an example of a successful book launch where an (unknown) author didn't already have a large following?
Another excellent analysis of what Trends on YouTube [0]
"Is the trending tab rigged against creators? Is late night dominating the charts? Why does it feel your favorite controversial creator never trends. All of that and more, in the first ever data-driven look at the trending tab."
What 40,000 Videos Tell Us About The Trending Tab:
Yes, I attribute practically all my sales to having an audience. I doubt I would have sold any if I didn't have any followers.
That said, I only had 10K followers when I announced my first product, and 24K for the second. But I've seen a few people get similar results as I had even with 3-5K followers.
I switched to redis since several years ago for simple task queue solution. For my usage (low to medium traffic at most in corporate environment) redis is easier to use and has very little cpu and ram footprint compared to rabbitmq (note that I only use redis for message queue, thus low memory consumption). Never got any message dropped so far. RabbitMQ uses too much memory right from starting up, not ideal for use in a resource constrained server.
Surprised to see not much mention of ActiveMQ in these comments, but it's an obvious alternative choice. The general (simplistic) comparison being:
- ActiveMQ more featureful, robust default settings, better integrated with Java/JMS but slower
- RabbitMQ faster, simpler, more "just works"
The defaults of ActiveMQ lean more towards robustness (hence often naive benchmarks will tell you it's slow). However in practice it is pretty damn easy to run, you literally can just download the default cross-platform distribution and type `./bin/activemq` and it will start running.
We use ActiveMQ + Apache Camel which makes a pretty nice combo to achieve lots of generalised messaging and routing functionality.
One practical reason we chose Nats over Kafka was that Nats doesn't need zookeeper for HA.
Nats doesn't provide message durability too, luckily it's not required for 95% of our use cases. Also, having NATS already implemented it's a natural move to use NATS Streaming for durability rather than introducing a completely new technology to your stack.
NATS by itself is designed to be more of an always-on style queuing system (the term they use is "dial tone") but doesn't handle node failures by itself. If you're looking for a Kafka-flavored NATS, there's a new release I saw recently called LiftBridge that adds some durability to the NATS protocol.
Can this freaky A.I. also generate the corresponding unit tests?
Or, for TDD, generate the unit tests first based on the function name and description. Then, if the dev updates any of those tests, or adds more tests, use that information in auto generating the appropriate code.
Towards the end of that section, he mentions they have also used it to generate unit tests. I doubt it's doing full TDD, but it seems they are part of the way there.
Any ideas as to a better system that can be designed and implemented under which these brilliant, but quiet, people have a higher probability of getting funding, becoming recognized and having an overall greater impact?
Does anyone have an actual cost breakdown of every expense that goes into running a university? It would be great to see this for any major private college, and/or a public university.
In most of these comment sections I see speculation about why universities are so expensive. But have never seen the hard data to back it up. Is it really the luxury dorms? The bloated administration? etc... Anyone have the real numbers? And how has the budget breakdown changed over time?
