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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. 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.

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

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For example, there might be a series of flows in how users come into the site, starting with ads, SEO, or otherwise. Typically I would start out with a series of pretty plain HTML pages using tables that just print out SQL queries. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address.

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