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/dev/fort: you can build it in a week OpenTech 2013(slideshare.net)
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Video: Why "Liking" Facebook pages can be a bad idea(uk.news.yahoo.com)
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You can't detect a touchscreen(stucox.com)
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Obsessions: HTTP Request Reduction(blog.getify.com)
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by Isofarro 13y ago
This is a good reminder about how the "support popular browsers" approach of web development is flawed. And how sites, and thus the code driving them, live a lot longer than expected. This kind of technical debt accumulates, fixing it invol
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by Isofarro 13y ago
> An ideal game would be hard enough for everyone, yet everyone would be able to beat it. That seems to hold very little replayability value. A better prospect is to make the game just a little more difficult that the current player's s
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by Isofarro 13y ago
The difference is the $8 purchase price. That's the optimum. And the players are not completely stuck, they are at the local optimal of their current gaming model - a plateau. That doesn't stop them from taking a different path towards a di
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by Isofarro 13y ago
By that definition, any game you play that you can't master on day one is a shitty experience. That's an exceedingly hard customer expectation to meet: a customer who doesn't like difficult challenges or learning curves.
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by Isofarro 13y ago
> if 93.6% of users who played the game on the first day after release got a shitty experience, It isn't a shitty experience though. They were playing the game, getting immersed into it, trying to win, and they got stuck. Stuck enough,
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by Isofarro 13y ago
> there is no way to downvote a game producer after you have paid for something you didn't know in advance that you would like. A 30-day money back, no questions asked, guarantee would offer this. Then you can take a risk on a game, eva
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by Isofarro 13y ago
> I copy and paste the person's name from the To: field in Outlook (this ensures I never mistype someone's name), delete the last name, Oh, _that_ explains the number of "Dear [full-version-of-my-name]", overlooking the shorter version
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How might your choice of browser affect your job prospects?(economist.com)
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Classic FM Hall of Fame 2013: 3. Final Fantasy Series(halloffame.classicfm.com)
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Evolution of the F1 Car(vimeo.com)
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Headless testing with GhostDriver and PhantomJs(assertselenium.com)
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The top 50 underappreciated ZX Spectrum games(denofgeek.com)
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by Isofarro 14y ago
Perch: http://grabaperch.com/blog/archive/posterous-import-for-perc...
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Dave Thomas - Travels with Smalltalk(mojowire.com)
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by Isofarro 14y ago
Bandwidth in South Africa is quite expensive (see http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/vps-co-za-a-lowendbox-in-south... for a range estimate). I wouldn't be surprised if a sizeable chunk of the cost is estimates for bandwidth charges based on a
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by Isofarro 14y ago
The internal hackathons at Yahoo (Europe) were essentially an exercise in futility. They jumped on the hackathon bandwagon, but were unprepared to deal with the after effects of a hackday - what to do with these ideas. From what I saw, hack
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by Isofarro 14y ago
"hey, nice site you have there - it'd be a shame if links to it started appearing all over my spammy network" Good way to clue Google in to this network, and then drop it from the index. "Really search engines should just give zero weight r
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> Google is the world's largest scraper, making almost all of their > revenue by serving ads next to the content of everyone else but them, That's oversimplifying the service and value Google offers. This is the typical passive-agg
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by Isofarro 14y ago
> SEO is a misnomer. As much as a misnomer as cat food. Try to think of it as Search Engine _Placement_ optimisation.
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"Not every site that has had its url spammed across forums and in comment-spam did it themselves. The other side of black hat SEO is destroying competitors by triggering Google penalties against them." That tactic (of spammy linking to your
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by Isofarro 14y ago
If they paid to get listed there in the first place (paid link for the purpose of better rankings), then it's fair game to pay to remove the ranking disadvantage now. I call it an ethics tax. Paid links were frowned on but not generally pen
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by Isofarro 14y ago
> Is it the owners responsibility to do something about that? Reasonably, yes. But, when the volume of spam becomes too much to handle, what can a poor webmaster do? I quite like that Google have altered their algorithm to penalise this
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Negative interest rates idea floated by Bank's Paul Tucker(bbc.co.uk)
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First steps with Apache Mahout(skife.org)
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Game console browsers(console.maban.co.uk)
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by Isofarro 14y ago
Be careful what you ask for. NetFront have switched to using WebKit as a basis for their rendering engines, finding their way to various gaming gadgets, both console and hand-held. Unfortunately, due to memory limitations of some of these d

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