Broken syndication feeds are worse than no feed
Over the time I've been using syndication feeds a lot, I've had to dealwith various sorts of feed problems. And I've come to a conclusion: broken feeds are usually worse than no feed at all .
Broken feeds invite you to trust them, but then betray that trust;you wind up doing extra work to make sure that you're actually seeingeverything and what you're seeing is actually there. (Broken feeds arealso frustrating ; if only they weren't broken
Some ways to break your syndication feed
To follow up my previous entry , here's the sortof thing I mean by the term 'broken feeds', as taken from things I've beenfrustrated by in the wild:
- advertise a feed on your site, but never update it.
- silently stop updating your feed because it's moved to another URL .
- put in partial entries that look like full entries .
- don't include all of the new entries from your site in your feed.
- include entries in your feed that aren't actually
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Weekly spam summary on November 11th, 2006
This week, we:
- got 15,129 messages from 287 different IP addresses.
- handled 21,714 sessions from 1,659 different IP addresses.
- received 193,764 connections from at least 45,843 different IPaddresses.
- hit a highwater of 35 connections being checked at once.
Connection volume is down from last week .The highwater is much higher and was set sometime Thursday; beforethen we had the same highwater as
A thought about disaster recovery planning
Disaster recovery planning is famously difficult, and not just becauseit's a hard subject. In fact there seems to be a kind of repulsion fieldthat makes people either shy away from thinking about it or dismiss itas something that they can't do anything about anyways. (The latter isthe 'if we have a serious fire the organization's dead anyways, so whyworry about the backups?' mindset.)
I've come to think that one significant reason for this is that when you
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一問一答
E：「有。認識的不認識的也有。」
J：「那你選定了沒有？」
E：「還沒選定。」
總是覺得，我在選擇，同時也在等待。
等待一個可能已經出現了，亦可能尚未認識的人。
等待一個會讓我笑，
The importance of printable objects
I have a small defect in the Python code I produce: I rarely botherto make my classes printable or to give them a repr(). Most of theclasses will never be printed, and the default repr value is goodenough to distinguish two instances from each other.
But this is a mistake, nicely illustrated by my grump about assert'sweakness as a debugging tool . Objects having a usefulstring value makes it much easier to dump out information about thestate of things when a problem comes up.