Here’s a public link to my master thesis paper, available on Dropbox. It’s about scraping tons of train schedule HTML pages with PHP, IronMQ, Queue workers, Redis, MongoDB… and trying to find out it would be possible to predict train delays. Spoiler: it’s not possible. Cheers!

So, I was refreshing my twitter feed and a friend of mine was documenting a major milestone for him and his first new car. Basically, Yeri (that’s his name) was taking pictures of his dashboard. I didn’t ask him why, but he was using Google goggles to take pictures of...

In javascript, the this object in a callback is the object from where it is called. If you have a function that is not contained by an object (recognisable by the curly braces: {}), the this object will be window. You can check this by writing a console.log(this). So, a...