The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. We should amend the U.S. Constitution to state the obvious: Corporations are not people (reference ...
Democracy is a system of government in which power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or through freely elected representatives. The term is derived from the Greek ‘demokratia,’ which was coined in the 5th century BCE to denote the political systems of some Greek city-states, notably Athens.
Money is a store of value and a medium of exchange. Money only has value because people agree to give it value. Currency and financial accounts might not have any value on their own, but money becomes valuable when everybody agrees to use it.
Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...
I noticed some caching issues with service calls when repeating the same service call (long polling). Adding metadata didn't help. One solution is to pass a timestamp to ensure ie thinks it's a different http service request. That worked for me, so adding a server side scripting code snippet to automatically update this tag wouldn't hurt:
Our investigations have shown us that not all browsers respect the HTTP cache directives in a uniform manner. For security reasons we do not want certain pages in our application to be cached, eve...
Beware of ETag Even if you are using nocache, the ETag header isn't removed, because it works in a different way. It's generated at the end of the request and could be another source of unintended caching. In order to handle it you have two choices. app.set The first is disabling it using express builtin app.set('etag', false); method. on-headers The second is removing the header just before ...