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I like to collect examples of error pages, but this is slightly different. When I was browsing Disney.com, I was shown the below page asking me to wait until the request could be completed.
Notice the stylized Space Mountain image in the middle, which helps to customize and personalize the page to the Disney branding. This is a good page to use as a template if you need to build a similar long-waiting page.
In light of Pinterest’s recent IPO, I wanted to point out an article from Mobile Marketer: https://www.mobilemarketer.com/news/google-pushes-deeper-into-visual-search-with-shoppable-ads-in-images/549957/ .
Monetizing Pinterest will largely come down to showing relevant ads within user searches – for example, showing an ad for wedding supplies within an user search for wedding ideas. However, we see Google moving into this business as well, as highlighted in the above article. Google will be showing more ads within Google Images searches – but more importantly – those ads will be image based, which should help clickthrough and purchase rates.
I fully expect Pinterest to thrive and grow, but we’ll be seeing a fair bit of competition from Google and others as well.
As I’ve said before, I love documenting error pages from popular web sites: they often have a sense of humor or show off another face of the company.
Here’s an example of an Amazon error page. What a handsome looking dog!
I spent today morning pulling my hair out trying to get a Python 3 application running within AWS’ Cloud9 IDE. Essentially the problem is that if you pip install some-package, that package only becomes available within the Python 2 runner, not within the Python 3 runner (the current Cloud9 machine image includes Python 2 aliased as python, and Python 3 available through python3).
Fortunately for me, someone else had the same problem, and an Amazon staffer suggests creating a virtual environment: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=822214&tstart=0 . I followed the steps mentioned, but it didn’t work – pip still installed dependencies for Python 2. I wonder if this staffer forgot to mention another step, such as remapping the pip command to a Python 3 install.
What finally did work was calling the pip command through the python3 interpreter, like so:
First, ensure pip is installed:
python3 -m ensurepip --default-pip Then upgrade pip:
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheelThen you can install any requirements of your app, such as BeautifulSoup:
sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade bs4And after all that, my Python 3 app was able to access the BeautifulSoup dependency.