It seems pretty clear to me that safely running arbitrary user code is extremely difficult. I see this as being a rather unfortunate side-effect of the return-with-a-vengeance of the client/server model–it’s really difficult to create something anyone can use that allows them to experiment with their own coding.
Ugh… I didn’t even know parts one through four were posted until I just saw part 4 on HN. I got to the bottom of this article, saw part 2 was coming (as in, has not arrived) and bounced. I figured somebody would post part 2 to lobsters when it came out. Surprise! It already is.
I think too many people bounce out of long articles, so breaking them up helps with that. Building suspense with future parts helps get people subscribing to your RSS feed or Twitter or whatever so they come back (not just for the final parts).
Yes, in a way that makes them look exactly like section headings. And yes, if I read carefully it tells me they are links to several days of articles, but I wasn’t reading that attentively because I didn’t know there was going to be a test afterwards. By the time I got to the end, I had forgotten all about it.
It seems pretty clear to me that safely running arbitrary user code is extremely difficult. I see this as being a rather unfortunate side-effect of the return-with-a-vengeance of the client/server model–it’s really difficult to create something anyone can use that allows them to experiment with their own coding.
urg, what’s with all these ‘Part 1, You’ll never guess what happens in Part 2, COMING SOON’, posts.. :/
Ugh… I didn’t even know parts one through four were posted until I just saw part 4 on HN. I got to the bottom of this article, saw part 2 was coming (as in, has not arrived) and bounced. I figured somebody would post part 2 to lobsters when it came out. Surprise! It already is.
I think too many people bounce out of long articles, so breaking them up helps with that. Building suspense with future parts helps get people subscribing to your RSS feed or Twitter or whatever so they come back (not just for the final parts).
Aren’t the parts all listed at the top of the article?
Yes, in a way that makes them look exactly like section headings. And yes, if I read carefully it tells me they are links to several days of articles, but I wasn’t reading that attentively because I didn’t know there was going to be a test afterwards. By the time I got to the end, I had forgotten all about it.