Or a.k.a how every other advertising program will contribute to the downfall of the quality of the internet.

Its just another rambling of an uninformed person on how this game will end:

1. Almost all advertising programs earns you money whenever a user clicks on a banner ad.
2. For a user to click on a banner, the banner content must be more interesting to the user than the content on the website.
3. Websites owners usually have no control over the quality of content on these banner ads.
4. The banner ads are usually of low value to the users compared to the content of your website.
5. The only logical way to improve the gradient is to lower the quality of the content of your website.
6. Since lower quality content website will rank lower on search engines, the website will resort to dubious SEO.
7. Now that most of the top ranked search results are mostly low quality content wesbites, at one point the user gives in a clicks on the banner ad just to get the proper information. A typical user does not have the patience to check the first 20 search results. The good content websites would be found on a lower ranking instead.
8. Low quality websites are now earning a lot while those with good content operates at a loss. By natural selection, low quality websites proliferate.
9. Search engines will become basically useless since the majority of websites are now of low-quality content and of no use to users.

No wonder Google needs a lot of PhDs for their search algorithm. The only thing it can do is delay the inevitable, because low quality websites will eventually reach a threshold where it will be almost indistinguishable from good ones. Expect the signal to noise ratio to become even lower…

Regex: its usually a bane for most developers and programmers to the point that most regex patterns in the wild are usually cut and paste from the web or text books. Even I admit that I’m guilty of this.

However, wouldn’t it be better if we learn how the regex pattern we input works? Good thing is, there is already such a thing! The website strfriend transforms a RegEx pattern into a simple chart that is easier to understand.

Here is an example:

This is actually from a RegEx I used for matching all XML schema elements and attribute groups that doesn’t use a closing tag that have a ref attribute.

<xs:(element|attributeGroup) ref=”[^"\r\n]*”[^\r\n/>]*/>

For those who are curious, here is the other RegEx I used for matching those XML schema elements / attribute groups with closing tags that have a ref attribute:

<xs:(element|attributeGroup) ref=”[^"\r\n]*”[^\r\n/>]*>(.|\r\n|\n)+?</xs:(element|attributeGroup)>

Are you a fan of the Gundam series? Well you better turn your back now.
The gundam cosplay pic below might scare you away from the series forever…

If you have the guts, then go ahead and see the image. You have been warned. Read more »

Dragon Quest 2 was one of my first RPG’s so it still holds some form of nostalgia with me. When I saw this epic cosplay of the DQ2 characters, it reminds me of an era where role-playing games was an exercise on the user’s imagination.

Old 2D sprite-based games usually required you to imagine what the character looks like and what their personalities are. But now, modern RPGs now trend to have realistic graphics with more emphasis on the character’s design and crazy fashion while leaving fun gameplay, plot, and character development behind.

Anyways, enough of the nostalgia, here is the awesome Dragon Quest 2 cosplay:

So you think you can outsmart a computer AI?
Then try beating the Akinator

Basically, you just guess a character in you head whether it be in the movies, music, even video games and anime. Then answer the genie’s questions as honestly as possible.

Be amazed with his accuracy. Although its not perfect, its very amusing!