Another way to get into "carpe diem" mode I guess. :-)

If you still wonder how ads work on the web and on mobile, this thread summarizes it well. They just farm us.

Interestingly, I'm going through this book right now and indeed I have to agree with most of this article. It didn't age well, it's become a mix of nice advises, things which are kind of obvious nowadays and points which are clearly obsolete. I find that "The Clean Coder" (different topic I know) aged way better. I think I'll give a shot to the proposed alternative book to see...