Perhaps the comment was edited, but there is no wording in the current post that states battlegroups are in Iceland just that Iceland contributes to battlegroups in other countries.

Well... tis true that there is a mine clearing group to deal with the occasional mine that drifts in from the old WW2 mine fields in the North Atlantic. And they did send one of them over to participate in the Gulf War...

https://www.icelandreview.com/news/iceland-featured-the-dail...

...but there are still no battalions in Iceland. There isn't even a permanent US air base any more, they cleared out in the 2000´s.

Not sure if it is an option for you, but I've resorted to using a PO box for these cases. So far, everything seems to be able to be shipped to the PO box address when a locker won't do.

The picture is of the late Edwin Jaynes, author of Probability Theory: The Logic of Science.

It only left in terms of attention from startups I suppose. I also disagree with the reason the article suggested - SQL could not handle the loads. My opinion is that startups simply liked the idea of not having a schema as it fit their agile approach. So, they went NoSQL because it allowed them to get going faster and change easier.

That, and they like to believe they need to scale like Facebook.

Sadly, this is a common reason.

Maybe the $300 new user credit or $30/year SSD cloud server is new. Probably not too many people knew about these things even if they weren't. Always fun to play around with something different at low or no cost. I actually didn't see too much excitement in the comments!!!

30/year is just a promotion. After a year the price is almost 10x higher.

Salaries for those with low-level systems programming skills will go up, and that should get people motivated to learn what is necessary.

I called Rackspace and the rep said it was a DDOS attack.

I'm new to Go but shouldn't the defer rawResp.Body.Close() be done after the error checking. If there is an error wouldn't rawResp be nil ?

You're right. Fixed it, thanks!

Yup. It should be closed or it will probably leak memory in a few hours.

Not really. Memory would only be leaked if there really was an error and rawResp was still nil. Since this usually doesn't happen (at least it never happened to me), you probably wouldn't even have noticed this bug.

qDecoder by Seungyoung Kim (www.qdecoder.org) is a terrific open source library for using CGI with C and C++.

A lot of us did what this article mentioned - but probably in the 1990s when desktop programmers were moving to the web. Most probably settled on Perl after trying C and finding development was much faster with Perl.

Can you back your assertion up with some evidence ?

"Seals" used to be quite popular some years ago (e.g. TrustE seal and the BBB Seal), but they seem to get less press these days, so I wonder how important they are for conversions.

Has Aunt Millie really heard of Verisign ? May actually have heard of GoDaddy though due to the advertising.

Not linkable evidence, no, although Verisign has their own collection of user stories claiming huge conversion increases in their marketing literature.

We have done A/B testing on Verisign seals vs no seals vs generic "Secure Site" seals we created. There is a statistically significant increase in conversions with the Verisign seal vs the other two options.