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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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That means, the Web server has to deal with the same load as with a GET request , it just deletes the content portion (the compelety formatted HTML page) when responding, after counting its size to send the Content-Length response header. But: the script invoked gets completely processed, just the output is trashed.

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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Initally, the product development process should likely be focused on big-picture qualitative information, like whether or not your business is addressing the right audience as well as the preferences for that audience. Typically I would start out with a series of pretty plain HTML pages using tables that just print out SQL queries.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Right now our social graph (whom we are connected to and their key information like email addresses) is mostly held captive by Facebook. Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo!