Isofarro

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by Isofarro 12y ago
Or keep using it anyway. Most organisations don't actually receive direct Microsoft support/assistance when they run into problems anyway. So Microsoft ending XP support is practically meaningless. At worst, it allows independent
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by Isofarro 12y ago
" If you have built hundreds of thousands of lines on top of a framework, " Perhaps that wasn't the smartest architecture decision made. Now, don't compound it by rewriting it in the same deeply coupled way for the next
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by Isofarro 12y ago
That worked for Smyslov (7th World Chess Champion), who once quipped: "I will make 40 good moves and if you are able to do the same, the game will end in a draw."
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by Isofarro 12y ago
Yuck, just caught it out with: e2e4 g8f6 e4e5 f6d5 d2d4 b8c6 f2f4 e7e6 c2c4 d8h4? g2g3 f8b4 c1d2 -- 2 pieces en-prise at this point. h4h6 c4d5 e6d5 d2b4 c6b4 a2a3 b4c6 b1c3 c6e7 Just a piece down with
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by Isofarro 12y ago
I found it quite weak in the opening, well, just about as bad as any chess engine without an opening book to go on. 1. e2e4 g8f6 2. e4e5 f6d5 3. c2c4 d5f4 (weird), 4. d2d4 f4d6. This is probably some opening like the Snake, or the Vulture o
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by Isofarro 12y ago
Yep, it's a browser vendor's reaction to a developer-tilted monoculture. On repeat. On the plus side, User agent strings are moving closer to being useless as conditional branches for features. Hopefully, vendor-prefixes won'
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by Isofarro 12y ago
Smudge raises a valid point. The presence of both the webkit prefixed version and the standardised non-prefix version is adequate. The problem IE Mobile are working around are those developers who have the webkit prefixes CSS properties, bu
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by Isofarro 12y ago
Just seems to be the BBC homepage. The rest of the site seems to be working just fine: http://news.bbc.co.uk/ for example is working - watching the BBC News Channel right now.
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by Isofarro 12y ago
" At least in this web page, the text doesn't go all the way across a 25-inch screen. " You don't have to run a browser full screen on a 25-inch screen. I'm baffled why you give a browser that much space and it both
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by Isofarro 12y ago
Which it acquired itself in February 2014: http://customerexperiencematrix.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/geniu... Interesting timing. I would not be surprised if the May launch of genius.com was just something hacked tog
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by Isofarro 12y ago
Looks to be using Google's Keyword tool to get related keywords (or possible latent semantic index scraping). Two issues I've found after using it twice: * It returns exact-match like domains, those got decimated in October 2012.
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by Isofarro 12y ago
A user disabling JavaScript is only one piece of the no-JavaScript puzzle. Here are some more: http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/DisablingJavaScriptAski... "To me it would make more sense to use that time
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by Isofarro 12y ago
" The article misses the main point of content delivery network JavaScript: The hot cache. " The stats don't really bear that out: http://statichtml.com/2011/google-ajax-libraries-caching.htm... and a fo
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by Isofarro 12y ago
Does Jekyll 2.1.0 still have a dependency on node.js out of the box ( https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/issues/2327 )? The release notes don't indicate this has been fixed, and the issue looks to still be o
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by Isofarro 12y ago
Developers use forEach to apply a function to every element in an array. That is the main use case. This faster version fails on some arrays (any array that isn't contiguous). This is a bug, not a feature. The library user is now respo
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by Isofarro 12y ago
And a solid suite of unit tests. The current set looks very light.
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by Isofarro 12y ago
I started off at Wits University (Johannesburg, South Africa) aiming for a BCom Accounting, the path towards being a Chartered Accountant. It definitely was the path towards gold. (And access to cutting edge technology, I remember a friend
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by Isofarro 12y ago
Seems like a normal case of jet lag. 6000 miles east, +9 hour time difference between San Francisco and Cannes. When the sleep wall hits, it hits hard.
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by Isofarro 12y ago
Yes, Amazon have a rule to deploy during working hours, during core hours when engineers are around and available should things go wrong. Also, Amazon is one of a number of organisations who don't deploy releases on Friday.
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by Isofarro 12y ago
Not ExpressionEngine per se, but CodeIgniter that came from it. Thanks for the Craft CMS pointer. I did not spot that when looking for something more modern that supported custom content types last year. I played briefly with Bolt CMS, but
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by Isofarro 12y ago
To be a viable web app development model Wordpress really needs to follow down the ExpressionEngine -> CodeIgniter route. Slowly evolving into a set of modular components that work together. (Or how bulky symfony evolved into lightweight
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by Isofarro 12y ago
"because Google has now given other websites the ability to destroy your rankings. That just doesn't make sense." Makes sense to me. * Take a snapshot of the link graph * Hit spammers hard with negative penalties. * Wait for
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by Isofarro 12y ago
" You can negative seo a site out of existence in about two hours and for about $75. It is actually super quick. Once you do it, it can take anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months for the site to loose it's position or be removed. &quo
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by Isofarro 12y ago
"That he stuck to his guns is imo a mistake, that google can be manipulated into dropping sites from their rankings at the behest of others is a serious problem." There are two main ways of dealing with issues: * Prevent them from
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by Isofarro 12y ago
"If there are 10 competitors in your niche (and many will have more like 100), you can do this to five of them at random and google would have no way of determining who the perpetrator was." For a pure blackhat operation, it would
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by Isofarro 12y ago
"I don't think it requires any assumptions about Cutts's ambitions, but rather about how much effort it would take an annoyed spammer/black-hat to point some of their tools at the highly visible source of their frustrati
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by Isofarro 12y ago
Are they taking their old SEO vendor to court, or are they just going to let them get away with it knowing full well other businesses are none the wiser?
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by Isofarro 12y ago
"We get it, you don't like SEOs, but these changes clearly hurt innocent people who know little or nothing about SEO." These changes are clearly hurting SEOers who practice massive link building regardless of quality, too. Th
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by Isofarro 12y ago
"So the people at the mercy of Negative SEO are the people least equipped to defend themselves: small hobby site owners, webmasters with personal blogs, small businesses etc." There's a filter you've missed there - those
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by Isofarro 12y ago
"Just because someone participated in affiliate marketing in previous years, with consenting partner sites, before it was outlawed by Google, does not make them immoral and irresponsible." Interesting. Show me where in Google&#x27

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