Isofarro

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by Isofarro 14y ago
> If I make a string: '<P>' . $var . '</P>' I'd say don't do that, refactor into templates instead. With your preferred approach to generating markup, you're largely on your own in protecting against XSS. Hopefully all t
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by Isofarro 14y ago
It surprised me, considering the original developers of facebook (Zuckerberg, Moskovitz) were doing Computer Science degrees why they chose PHP to build it in initially. Did they consider other languages, or frameworks. I'd be surprised if
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by Isofarro 14y ago
Who's Rasmussen? > there are already easy to deploy frameworks and languages for the web, and everybody who cares about development is already using them. And yet, amongst your rhetoric, you've conveniently managed to name none of them.
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by Isofarro 14y ago
> If I throw up a proof of concept website in a weekend as a test, it takes off, and I work on it full-time just to make sure it's not exploding/falling over as it scales, and I don't go back and make everything 100% accessible to 100%
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by Isofarro 14y ago
IT is seen as an overhead, and as something that doesn't contribute directly to profitability. When compared to dealers, dealers bring in the profit, IT slurps it away.
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by Isofarro 14y ago
That reliance on "certain number of identical entries" was used by 4Chan's gaming of the Time 100 poll in 2009. The so-called "penis attack": http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-lose...
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Stop the Captcha madness(areyouahuman.com)
30 points by Isofarro 14y ago|32 comments
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HTTP API Complexity(mnot.net)
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How to build a racing game (in JavaScript)(codeincomplete.com)
3 points by Isofarro 14y ago|0 comments
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by Isofarro 14y ago
There seems to be two issues here being conflated as one (judging by the follow-up/updates): 1.) Two different items - because the same item is being offered by two different sellers. The $9 is Amazon's main one, the $12 is Macmillan's own
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Trust vs Control – Why big companies are slower than startups(leanandlarge.com)
2 points by Isofarro 14y ago|0 comments
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by Isofarro 14y ago
It was just: <input type crash> as I recall - not specifying a value for type.
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by Isofarro 14y ago
yes, that left hand nav is now permanently horizontal across the top. That's changed today.
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by Isofarro 14y ago
He labels himself as a "front-end engineer", which suggests his speciality is stuff inside the browser window. And his site suggests either he is not very good at it, or he is comfortable enforcing what he believes the web is on the visitor
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Landmark precedent in NAD vs. Netflix(nad.org)
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by Isofarro 14y ago
Apple garnered £6 billion in sales in the UK in 2010, and paid only £10 million in tax. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnol...
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by Isofarro 14y ago
The JSP one looks cleaner, and more readable, even though both code-blocks now smell of taglib. > I tried really hard, but I failed to think of a single templating engine that's worse than JSP. XSLT
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by Isofarro 14y ago
"Saner templates: You have ${emails.unread ?: 'no'} ${emails.unread?.pluralize('email')} !" At the cost of throwing internationalisation out of the window. At least the example you led with is more conducive to localisation.
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Why do we use jQuery?(kenneth.kufluk.com)
2 points by Isofarro 14y ago|0 comments
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by Isofarro 14y ago
No. Past projects are typically not solo projects, so it's hard to establish who did what. We're hiring a developer for what he can do, not for what other people in his team did.
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by Isofarro 14y ago
"The concern is potential employers trying to bilk free work out of developers." If the coding exercise looks like something that is of this sort, then I guess consider whether you want to work with that employer. From an employer perspecti
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by Isofarro 14y ago
"This trend in our field is really making me uncomfortable. Judge me on what I know and what I did before, no more, no less." You are uncomfortable in demonstrating your knowledge in a practical way? I don't understand. You are looking for
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24 Ways behind exhibit glass(txpmag.com)
1 points by Isofarro 14y ago|0 comments
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Eliminating Web Development Waste(nefariousdesigns.co.uk)
34 points by Isofarro 14y ago|12 comments
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by Isofarro 14y ago
ICO requirements got watered down by the UK Information Commissioner on Thursday last week: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/26/cookies-law... Cached copy of the original article - since the site was down - deliberately 404in
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Cookies law changed at 11th hour to introduce 'implied consent'(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by Isofarro 14y ago|0 comments
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WHMCS hacked, client data leaked online(lowendbox.com)
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by Isofarro 14y ago
Hopefully Yahoo have patented this.
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Twitter supports "Do Not Track"(support.twitter.com)
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Yahoo Director in charge of botched CEO vetting to step down from Board(allthingsd.com)
3 points by Isofarro 14y ago|0 comments

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