Just curious, I've been through the documentation a few times. Is there any kind of special sitemap we are going to have to do for each page. For instance lets say we have:
I realize a lot of people are going to do this with dynamic URLs or plugins, will Google just crawl these on their own?
Also does anyone have any ideas for menus in AMP pages? SO far all the solutions I've seen don't have menus. I'd hate to see all this extra traffic and no way for visitors to browse other pages.
Wow amazing post, did not have a chance to read yet but this is definitely "print worthy" material. What I mean by that is when I run across really good posts, I print them so I can read on paper outside etc.
Anyway, I did a skim and found this excerpt:
"You should write about information."
And can really relate to that. I've been blogging for about 7 years now, mostly failing but the last year I've had a few big "hits" even one here on HN.
Almost every one of my blogging successes were data driven. What I mean by success is they went viral on their own without any artificial boosting other than basic sharing with my followers.
If you paraphrase that to "You should write about insight" I would more readily agree. Data needs to be digested and that requires varying degrees of effort. If you give away knowledge, people will take notice.
For anyone here looking for a really good, free,self-hosted, hackable, open source alternative to Google Analytics that's been around for a long time, please consider Piwik.org.
I've been using it for prob 8-10 years and it has never missed a beat. I use it on all my personal / business sites as well as some client websites that are super high traffic.
Could it be possible that it is Lyft affiliates that are doing this on their own for affiliate commissions? Not saying it is right, but at least it isn't a marketing strategy from the central office.
I wonder why they aren't at least doing some crafty Photoshop and merging images of 2 different people to create a unique persona. There was a guy here on HN that did that a few years back it was a pretty popular post.
Possibly even worse than Lyft spam are infinite scrolling websites such as these. Ctrl +A? I don't think so. How do you tell where the article ends? I was in "skimming mode" and 1/2 way down the page before I realized I was reading another article.
Well I'm sure Lyft it shocked, absolutely shocked to discover that there's spamming going on here.
It's not like they could develop basic accountability tools or read the thousands of complaints consumers have sent to them directly or do a google search. All of those things are impossible to do with present technology, which is why Lyft is the real victim here.
Maybe a few stencil fonts would do the job but common fonts wouldn't work because of letters like R, P, etc. Noted however, sounds like a cool addition.
Also interested in sample pricing, would also like to see some sample designs. This would be really cool to do logos for doors etc at engineering and design firms.
Basically malaria was unknown in the Americas before western explorers brought it over. From there it became very prevalent in some places such as the Amazon and essentially made mass agriculture impossible there. Then pretty much everyone starved. There were also things like smallpox that devastated people everywhere in the Americas but those were more a one time thing, people were able to rebuild after they passed.
Isn't a devastating, long-term drought a recent and popular theory as well, decimating many Central and South American tribes such as the Mayans and the Aztec?
I believe the drought predated contact by ~7-800 years. Definitely explains the decline of the Mayans, but not really relevant to discussing the effects of Columbian contact.
That's not correct. There are tens of millions of Native American ancestors living across Latin America today. Latin America has roughly 600 million people, they are not all European and African.
True, but this is in the Amazon in the first 150 years after the Spanish. 90-98% died, mostly of disease. There are more native people now then in 1650.
These weren't Europeans in the rain forest (which is a large continent of many different peoples), but mostly Spanish and Portuguese. Who married and had kids with native Americans. They weren't racist as we think of it today, they just held little regard for human life, especially little regard for non-christian human life.
To put this in perspective, this period came right after 100 years of bloody civil war in Spain that produced some of the most efficient killers the world had ever seen.
[EDIT] I shouldn't have said that they weren't Europeans, but that not all of Europe was represented, only Portugal and Spain. That blaming Poland or Germany for the activities of the Spanish was pretty unfair.
The Dutch controlled large parts of Brazil throughout the 1640s and 1650s, the French had substantial settlements in present-day Guiana and attempted to claim parts of Brazil as "France Antartique," and the English had a number of failed colonies in Amazonia and the Rio de la Plata as well. Heck, even the Scottish attempted to settle a colony in the Darien in present-day Panama. And that's not even including all the buccaneers and slave traders of various nationalities. I'm not interested in wading into the parent discussion, but just wanted to point out that colonialism in Central and South America really was a pan-European phenomenon.
Edit: also worth pointing out that the Spanish monarchs for the period we're talking about were the House of Hapsburg and hence claimed extensive territories in what's now Germany, Austria and Holland, so even many land-locked European regions were involved. There are a surprising number of Iberianized German names in colonial documents from Latin America.
Either way, super cool idea. My Dad will be stoked about this as he's been OCR'ing his way into oblivion for the past few years.