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Documentation Day: How the FT.com team improved our documentation to 95% useful(medium.com)
1 points by Isofarro 7y ago|0 comments
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US launches inquiry into French plan to tax tech giants(bbc.co.uk)
55 points by Isofarro 7y ago|93 comments
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by Isofarro 7y ago
Step one of fixing bad laws, or abused loopholes in existing laws is demonstrating the extent to which it's being abused. That way we can equate the lost tax revenue into something more identifiable. Stories like this give us the evide
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How do you delegate to a group of people?(annashipman.co.uk)
120 points by Isofarro 7y ago|12 comments
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by Isofarro 7y ago
That is untrue. When IE6 first arrived it was on par with Mac IE 5.2 in terms of web standards support. It was a great browser for its time. The problem with IE6 is Microsoft declaring victory in the Browser war with Netscape, and IE6 devel
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by Isofarro 8y ago
The Web, the iPlayer app.
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by Isofarro 8y ago
Bobby Fischer played a lot of Blitz, notably: * 1958 trip to Moscow chess club he took on all comers, including Petrosian in blitz: https://nezhmet.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/the-fabulous-50s-fi... * 1962 Stock
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by Isofarro 8y ago
> It's currently +3-18=14. That's 3 wins for Caruana's position, 18 wins for Carlsen's, and 14 draws. That's about as decisive a position as you can get in high-level chess. Except that +3 would mean three chess
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Some Google staff do believe in controversial plan to re-enter China(techcrunch.com)
2 points by Isofarro 8y ago|0 comments
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by Isofarro 8y ago
If US corporations hike their prices up to cover the tax, that would increase the competitiveness of local companies who have already been paying their fair share of tax. Perhaps that's the encouragement governments need to stimulate t
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by Isofarro 8y ago
Atomic CSS was used on Yahoo sites, since the Marissa Meyer level. Apparently on a few of their properties. Hard to assess whether it was a failure or not. Considering their websites were a negative asset, I doubt the use of Atomic CSS was
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by Isofarro 8y ago
Ah, I see your issue: you do know you can have whitespace inside attributes? You don't have to clump all the class names on one line. Scanning vertically is quicker than through the horizontal line-noise of both your examples. &l
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by Isofarro 8y ago
In what context is this "an awful amount of characters" an issue? GZip compression is fairly standard these days, and languages based on plain english (or similar languages) has a better level of compression than random text becau
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by Isofarro 8y ago
It puzzles me why these Atomic CSS based systems use various mnemonic systems instead of plain English which is much more understandable. I'm not a fan of human-powered text compression.
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by Isofarro 8y ago
The Web has been collecting dates from users in forms long before date-pickers existed.
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Fracking at Lancashire site paused after seismic event detected(theguardian.com)
1 points by Isofarro 8y ago|0 comments
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by Isofarro 8y ago
The US did initially include the European Union in this trade war, but when the EU threatened to respond with a import levies that affected Harley Davidson motorbikes manufactured in a Republican-voting state, the US backed down [1]. Chines
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Ofcom to push for regulation of social networks(theguardian.com)
2 points by Isofarro 8y ago|0 comments
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by Isofarro 8y ago
> Google are now making new standards which don't conform to the agreed standard, which restrict how you can build your site. If you don't do it, they'll destroy your traffic. If this "your traffic" is traffic
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by Isofarro 8y ago
If the metrics Google collect indicate that visitors prefer quickly loading pages, that should be factored into the decision as what external resources to link out to. The evidence that visitors find bloated pages an issue is slowly growing
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ZX Vega+: Indiegogo calls game over on Sinclair console(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by Isofarro 8y ago|0 comments
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by Isofarro 8y ago
Don't learn a new language for the sake of learning a new language. Learn it because it solves a particular problem better than your existing skill set. For example Node.js is good for tiny Web Services/API endpoints using an even
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30 years of Frontier(daringfireball.net)
1 points by Isofarro 8y ago|0 comments
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High Court sets out 11 questions for ECJ on EU-US data transfers(irishtimes.com)
2 points by Isofarro 8y ago|0 comments
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ZX Spectrum Vega Plus Backer Wins Refund in Court(kotaku.co.uk)
2 points by Isofarro 9y ago|0 comments
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Analyzing my Twitter followers with Datasette(simonwillison.net)
1 points by Isofarro 9y ago|0 comments
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by Isofarro 9y ago
Not strongest opening, but because it's an asymmetric opening system, which introduces imbalance into the position, thus it tends to have less drawish tendencies than a symmetric opening system. This creates the psychological effect of
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by Isofarro 9y ago
I find it helps starting with the most egregious issue/concern first. Otherwise your argument is merely an appeal to self-declared authority.
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Securing your .uk domain name(123-reg.co.uk)
1 points by Isofarro 9y ago|0 comments
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by Isofarro 9y ago
Replace "Yahoo" with "Microsoft", and "Facebook" with "Yahoo", and you have basically the same justification given to me as a Yahoo employee to patent my (company internal) hack-day ideas. The enginee

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