Isofarro

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by Isofarro 15y ago
1.) Use unreadable font for the header 2.) Pick tangentially related, but non-informative images (icons for interaction design). 3.) Ignore how the web works, e.g. incremental loading 4.) Pick low contrast colours for text, because that jus
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by Isofarro 15y ago
"Works in WebKit" isn't necessarily equated to "write standards compliant code". For organisations that manage to develop a website that requires a $100,000 outlay to work in Internet Explorer, that can't possibly be a web standards complia
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by Isofarro 15y ago
Vaguely compatible doesn't help if the site is deliberately locking out browsers that look like the current crop of Internet Explorer browsers. Doesn't look like that they are User-Agent sniffing, so that means that maybe they are detecting
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by Isofarro 15y ago
You are not far off. South Korea are stuck in this monoculture tar pit: http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2007/02/27/the-cost-of-monocultu... Webkit is just another form of monoculture.
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by Isofarro 15y ago
"Developing for ie in the old days was usually at the expense of other browsers because of stuff like active x" Errr... no. Active X was a tiny part of the problem. IE's problem was to support basically any quality of markup thrown at it, w
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by Isofarro 15y ago
No, that introduces the same type of bias, just from the opposite direction. The key is to keep a broad range of browsers quickly on hand to regularly check _while_ you develop. There's no reason not to have multiple browsers quickly availa
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Node.js experiment: MMO Asteroids(seb.ly)
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by Isofarro 15y ago
Google is probably already do that, which is why the current traffic-generation methods advice is along the lines of varying anchor text. This is done mostly by identifying related / tangential / complementary / supplementary keyword terms
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by Isofarro 15y ago
Various bits of the lowercase semantic web (and its related uppercase Semantic Web cousin) factors show through on Google results - mostly Google Rich Snippets, so reviews metadata. These mostly require human intervention to enable on a sit
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by Isofarro 15y ago
The most obvious counter to that is to drip-feed out links. Sites like http://linklicious.me/ offer this facility for a while now.
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by Isofarro 15y ago
There's at least two phases of developing code. There's the solving of the problem at hand, and getting the expression of that solution towards syntactically correctness. Colour syntax highlighting is merely a "live syntax checker" - albeit
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How To Make Your Website Fast(allinthehead.com)
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by Isofarro 15y ago
Interesting. How do you deal with / save / manage permalinks and inbound links from other sites? Or is it a case of those are just not important enough to worry about? (Since Google has a record of all the content it believes is currently o
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Vagrant Virtualised Dev Environments(nefariousdesigns.co.uk)
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by Isofarro 15y ago
"the death of manufacturing in the UK is mainly due to the government totally failing to invest in R&D for the last 15 years or so." Interesting. Why is it the government's obligation to invest in R&D (of manufacturing?), surely tha
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by Isofarro 15y ago
A retweet is just a post request. A follow this person is a post request. Those can both be done with a simple HTML form.
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by Isofarro 15y ago
IIRC, Twitter brought in Steve Souders as a consultant for improving the performance of the Twitter web interface and the main recommendation he offered was to have the tweet content in the HTML page instead of loading them dynamically.
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by Isofarro 15y ago
How would you handle internationalisation with that approach?
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by Isofarro 15y ago
RBS failed because it contained a portfolio of financial assets that overnight became valueless. That value just disappeared. I don't see how that situation is related to a company whose revenue stream is a commission on bets placed. If the
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by Isofarro 15y ago
I just find it laughable that RBS is effectively admitting their understanding of risk management is very low indeed. That their organisation didn't mitigate against the risk of subprime mortgage defaults that would turn one of their main a
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by Isofarro 15y ago
"If you’re on FB and you friend me and you allow me to see your name and phone number, I can copy and paste it manually." At the time of the Scoble/Plaxo scraping thing, you couldn't copy and paste the phone number. IIRC, it was an image of
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by Isofarro 15y ago
IIRC, Scoble was cajoled by Plaxo to run this script against his account under the premise that he could then import all that data into Plaxo. Scoble got caught running this automated script, a violation of the terms and service that he'd p
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by Isofarro 15y ago
"a project that showcases my JavaScript skills" Quick review of your JavaScript: Your functions and variables are in a global namespace. That's not a good sign. Sure if you are absolutely sure this code will never run alongside existing cod
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Mobile development approaches(brucelawson.co.uk)
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Tweet takedown: Visualising censorship bids(aljazeera.com)
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by Isofarro 15y ago
Yahoo has only two main approaches to dealing with user-generated content moderation: * a Bayesian filter based moderation engine. Requires loads of resources, political clout to convince the product owner of that system to allocate resourc
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by Isofarro 15y ago
There's a pervading sense of "to succeed you have to graft hard and long" in this piece. In contrast, I'm reminded of Seth Godin's note about Richard Branson: Loads of people can do almost everything he does everyday, except for those five
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by Isofarro 15y ago
"The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language." George Bernard Shaw (apparently). The original tweet(s) were immature as well as culturally insensitive. If you are going to use language that's cliquey
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by Isofarro 15y ago
I've received a couple of calls of the same kind at home, typically on Saturday mornings. (I'm in the UK). Though I was very surprised to get the same call over December in South Africa at my parents house (I recognised the script). Thought
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Tips for a sane IA(nomensa.com)
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