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Isofarro
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"marketing helps a customer go to business X rather than business Y" That is a succinct description of a zero-sum game. * Business X gains the same amount business Y loses. There is no additional value!
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"I never "link built" anything, the links just happened naturally" Great. that's what's supposed to happen, links accumulate naturally. (I'm deliberately ignoring the inconsistencies in your story, BTW ;-)
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"This method works 100% of the time" How many sites did you try this on? One? In your existing setup, how many competitors could you take out now before Google notices the pattern you've adopted? Take a look at the footprint:
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Ignorance is not a valid defence. Yes, it's harsh, but that's what entrepreneurs sign up for when they start their own business. Directors of companies are held responsible for the decisions they made. Delegating that decision to
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"One I feel has the potential to be even worse than spamming and link boosting." In the short term, maybe. In the long term, no. How many times can this weapon be used before it leaves a nice juicy fingerprint, or sources of negat
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> The only thing search engines can do to stop SEO spam is to avoid giving any weight to spammy links. That didn't work before. Zero weight for spammy links is gamed by spammers by spamming everything at full blast. There was no dow
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Spammers targeting mattcutts.com doesn't make sense. You are assuming Cutts plays the same SEO-game, and has the same "I have to be number one for my keywords" ambition, which isn't a given. All spammers do by targeting
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There's something funky going on with your homepage. 1.) Open homepage 2.) Click the /matches endpoint link. Json displays 3.) Click back button. Expected: The homepage displays. Actual: The URL changes back to the homepage URL, b
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"Now nearly all screenreaders can run JavaScript." Saying all screen readers can run JavaScript is like saying all graphics cards can run JavaScript. Screenreaders don't run JavaScript. Screenreaders are not web browsers. A S
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"the added expense alone is not enough to justify treating people with disabilities as second-class citizens, who have to be "minded" rather than allowed to freely navigate their own communities, "because it's a bit
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" 1) We don't cater to IE9, which is at 5.11% according to stat counter. IE9 is a bad choice point for this - it's the first IE that had auto-update. Everyone left. We're catering to IE8+; 8 is currently at 6.5%." W
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I think Emacspeak was the only screen reader that supported even just a limited subset of aural styles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacspeak
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Accessibility is more than just Perceivability - a characteristic robots would appreciate. Accessibility includes Operability and Usability, these are more human focused, and less robot focused principles. What's the point of having a
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I am thankful you still had a choice to continue reading or not. I am thankful you had the choice to use a user-stylesheet to override both the font-family and the text colour into something more readable for you. I am thankful that the abi
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"My point is that the percentages of disabled users are often far below what would make financial sense to support" Yet every dollar spent focused on web accessibility further improves the usability of the site for your entire aud
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"but it will get you most of the way to WCAG." Or, you could start with the 4 principles of Accessibility (Perceivability, Operability, Usability, Robustness) and build a working knowledge set on that. Screenreaders are complicate
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"Solutions that start with 'let's change the world' never, ever work. Let's fix screenreaders. And help the blind by analysing what;'s in front of them, rather than changing it." It's not screenreader
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Flash dominated the Web more than Internet Explorer (even at IE's pinnacle). Somewhere in the mid 90% of visitors had Flash installed at it's peak. Open standards did not beat Flash. A bigger proprietary platform bully sent Flash
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The Swift Programming Language: A Swift Tour
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The Swift Programming Language: Summary of the Grammar
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The Swift Programming Language: The Basics
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The Swift Programming Language: About Swift
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Apple's Swift [.. focus on speed and ease of use
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Swift (programming language)
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Infinite scroll search-friendly recommendations
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A six game match is not a statistically significant set of data. And Deep Fritz hasn't played many humans in those 8 years since. The Deep Fritz on the rating list, is that the same Deep Fritz that played Kramnik? (Notably the hardware
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Computer software don't play that many human tournaments. It's a rare sight, even when they were clearly weaker. There's a lack of data, so the result is inconclusive. Computer software doesn't play chess. It doesn'
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Shredder (on iOS and Android, at least) has the capacity to tailor it's playing strength based on your success with it. It tries to match your own playing strength to give you a more interesting game. As you win it gets stronger, as yo
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Stockfish has been available for quite a while, and over the last few years has been recognised as being the strongest open-source chess engine. It's fantastic to see it take on the best commercial engines toe-to-toe and come out on to
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Only realistic if they were preparing for some sort of Man vs Computer tournament. Computers don't play like humans, and they are consistent in their weaknesses as well as their strengths. As players are more exposed to playing against
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