Phrased as perceived. The author is probably too young to appreciate what his mother likely did for him. Becoming a parent has a tendency to change your perspective on parenthood.
I'd be willing to bet that Firefox would treat them as such, even if they returned something different. Still, those favicons should be bundled instead of making requests, IMO.
Because we can see the sum of the requests, I think it's safe to say that they are probably just images.
There's nothing to stop, say, ebay from serving PHP scripts on ICO extension, processing the request as a pageload and then ultimately returning the icon file, but for anything useful to have been gleaned, it would have generated more requests.
Either it did generate more requests and Mozilla didn't honor them (in which case, yay), or it didn't generate more requests (in which case, yay). The former would be slightly preferred as the latter doesn't prevent ebay from later changing their strategy.
> That quote is so insulting to me as an introvert because it takes such a solipsistic and ego-stroking view of the world: that people who are successful are successful because they fit into the world better, not because they are comfortable and adapted to living in a world that isn't perfectly suited to them.
This was my reaction too, but I was delighted to find that _Quiet_ does not have that tone as a whole.
This is not the same thing. Hamming worked with geniuses who knew the difference between "A moment Dick? Have you ever noticed how (some astute observation)?" and "Hey! Good weekend? (some bland filler)." See chapter 3 of said _Quiet_.
This is the kind of wisdom I wish I had when I started my career and assumed that everyone who did things differently from me was stupid. I wish I could give it to all my current smunderlings when they complain about "bad" code written by otherwise smart and capable people last year... There's always a story behind what is, and it's worth learning before passing judgement.
Is there a particular font that works better than others for this? I've tried all my fixed width fonts and the clock is barely readable in any of them.
and I've been using it since early July and spend most of my day at it. It has significantly helped how my back feels by the end of the day. It's plenty sturdy (I actually bought two of the tables: one for my monitor and keyboard, the other I cut the legs down to the same height as the keyboard on the other table. I put my laptop on this one).
I also have a Steelcase Leap chair I bought in February which helped with the back too. I still use it for writing in my notebook every couple of hours.
I stand barefoot on a cheap backpacking foam pad which I cut in half. I keep a pair of flipflops at my desk if I need to run around the office. Every so often I'll do some leg stretches. I'm considering buying a quality antifatigue mat, but I'm making this work for now.
