It’s long running, so you want a database so you can store your state. If you’re storing state, locking it into a state machine makes sense.

I do agree with some of the commenters that making it closer to an event source design would make more sense still.

It’s so rare that we get a new video, but it’s always a special day when it happens.

Just a heads up: not all plants like this because the tannic acid can make the soil too acidic for them.

I think the author’s intended implication is absolutely that it’s a dollar because the USA invented the computer. The two problems I have is that:

1. He’s talking about the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, not computers at that point
2. Brits or Germans invented the computer (although I can’t deny that most of today’s commercial computers trace back to the US)

It’s just a lazy bit of thinking in an otherwise excellent and internationally-minded article and so it stuck out to me too.

The stupid thing is, all the author had to do was write “kind of tells you who invented ASCII” and he’d have been 100% right in his logic and history.