Isofarro

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by Isofarro 9y ago
You are comparing your first time trying to digest rapid speech, compared to someone who has done it for years. Yes, it's typical. A new screen-reader user would start such an endeavour at normal speed, then gradually increase the spee
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Yahoo shareholders approve sale of internet business to Verizon(ft.com)
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Notes on Building Noise: A JSON Search Engine Written in Rust(damienkatz.net)
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by Isofarro 9y ago
Oh hello, it's by Damien Katz. Who did CouchDb, and yonks ago worked on the storage engine underneath Lotus Notes.
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Performance notes(traintimes.org.uk)
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First attempt at restoring Magnetic Scrolls backup tapes(strandgames.com)
49 points by Isofarro 9y ago|7 comments
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by Isofarro 10y ago
Thinking of it as an app install feels like an anti-pattern. Like when you turn on the Xbox for a quick five minute play, and have to sit through a 15 minute update before you can even do anything. It's a bad user experience. This appr
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by Isofarro 10y ago
I'm not convinced that introducing the limitations of native apps to a non-native platform is a benefit, or a feature that makes the non-native platform more competitive.
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by Isofarro 10y ago
Out of the browser navigation facilities, the back button is the best understood feature. Users know how to use it, and what it should do. Perhaps, where this goes is that Single Page Apps and web browsers aren't a good fit together?
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by Isofarro 10y ago
Yoiks. 12 seconds until the first piece of content is displayed (compared to Wikipedia's 0.6s). That there (TTFC - Time to first content) is the perennial problem of client-side apps, the inability to get the first piece of content imm
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by Isofarro 10y ago
Probably positions stemming from the Botvinnik variation of the Semi-slav. Conventional chess wisdom doesn't really help, and figuring a way forward is pure calculation. Then also, maybe lines of the "Irrational system" of th
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by Isofarro 10y ago
The difference is that the positional sacrifice is less tangible. A space advantage, a tempo advantage, more mobile pieces, improved cohesion/coordination of pieces (Kasparov was legendary for taking this last kind of advantage and tur
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by Isofarro 10y ago
Perhaps the positional sacrifice can be identified by similar means. The most superficial measurement of a position is the material left on the board. So when you compare the superficial measurement to a deeper positional measurement and th
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Robert Downey Jr offers to voice Mark Zuckerberg's digital assistant(theguardian.com)
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China to launch manned space mission Shenzhou 11 on Monday(theguardian.com)
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by Isofarro 10y ago
All things being equal, yes women would have the upper hand. But cultural norms warp things a little more. The cultural tendency is for a man to marry down, and a women marry up in social level terms. Which means there's a layer of wom
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When Kickstarters go bad: chasing down the Recreated ZX Spectrum(eurogamer.net)
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The end of ThinkUp(medium.com)
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by Isofarro 10y ago
During my time working for Yahoo Europe, I refused to patent the ideas I presented in Yahoo's internal hack days. It was retro-actively declared as the way to encourage us to participate in internal HackDays. So I also stopped particip
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by Isofarro 10y ago
The Bollea v Gawker case itself is already a counter-argument to your suggested fix. What would have been different if it was known upfront Bollea had third party funding and was willing to use it? The facts of the dispute haven't chan
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Endeavour: Has the ship Captain Cook sailed to Australia been found?(bbc.co.uk)
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Introducing the Spectrum Next(specnext.com)
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Ad-blocker blocking websites face legal peril at hands of privacy bods(theregister.co.uk)
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Dealing with web content scrapers(slightfuture.com)
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Billionaire Yuri Milner bids another $100M to explore the cosmos(uk.reuters.com)
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We'd like to introduce you to Thington(medium.com)
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Dear Tech, you suck at delight(medium.com)
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There is no “my” in open source(medium.com)
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Npm package hijacking: From the hijackers perspective(medium.freecodecamp.com)
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What does Etsy's architecture look like today?(highscalability.com)
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