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by RossM 18y ago
I don't know if the Firefox Error Console handles it (it detects CSS and JS errors fairly well) but the Web Developer toolbar has a shortcut to validate the current page.
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by RossM 18y ago
I don't experience slow-downs as frequently with HN as I used to, so I can't quite agree with it being faster. Also while it is definitely quick (as it's static HTML) it could also get out-of-date, HNs low score threshold for front-page ite
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by RossM 18y ago
Twitter's very much like MySpace in the "follow everyone" mindset. Realistically anyone with more than 100 following is either reciprocating every follow they get or just being unscrupulous in who they follow. Either way there's no way that
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by RossM 18y ago
If you're changing the style by CSS (as you should be) then really the content shouldn't be affected, unless you're changing the actual structure. I've never really seen the point in PR tbh, as far as I know it isn't much representation of
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by RossM 18y ago
I think Twitter has much more value as a conversational tool and to some extent (thanks to services such as TwitterFeed) an RSS reader replacement (social feeds if you will). I've tried using it as a "microblogging" tool, and to be frank it
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by RossM 18y ago
Just in case they're all stuffed in a meta keywords tag too.
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by RossM 18y ago
Possibly like the average Twitter user then? :) I guess a better line would be "If a page isn't linked to, does it have any significance?". That makes me wonder how many orphaned pages there are on the web. I guess it's uncalculable (within
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by RossM 18y ago
To be fair, a good proportion of those comments were complaining about "+1" comments left on the issue. To an extent where there were more complaints than +1's.
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by RossM 18y ago
If a site doesn't get linked to, did it ever exist?
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by RossM 18y ago
A test or am I missing something?
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by RossM 18y ago
The live app ( http://chartbeat.com/dashboard/?url=coverhunt.com&k=2ec3... ) is really quite impressive. As far as maintainability goes the page load timer looks very useful.
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by RossM 18y ago
While the comment that many PHP applications depend on a MySQL database (I'd seriously expect WP to have some sort of DAL by now) is true it wouldn't be impossible for someone to write an extension to support Google's BigTable . Article was
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by RossM 18y ago
You could always setup your own (the Arc source is available) - I have a feeling branching out like reddit could dilate the quality here (not that there's that much wrong with reddit (in comparison to places like digg), but it's just differ
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by RossM 18y ago
I'm no security guru but with a little sensibility on the website itself could lessen the security risk from dictionary attacks. If you allow 3 login attempts before requiring a captcha, or set a maximum number of attempts per hour, giving
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by RossM 18y ago
Question closed as "exact duplicate" by *Ross 56 secs ago I'm going to be in a similar situation to you soon, but from what I can tell using Zend_Test ( http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.test.html ) looks to be the easiest way to go
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by RossM 18y ago
I think so. I have a concept I'm working on that's more a request forum than a Q&A board but I'm borrowing a few things StackOverflow has implemented well (nothing unique - mainly the simple wiki revisions). Something else to consider a
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by RossM 18y ago
My feelings are that those who want to read Codinghorror already subscribe to the feed (I'm one of them) - so there should really be no need to pos tthem at all. For me HN is still the place to find things from palces I'm unaware of.
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by RossM 18y ago
I'm interested to how cardboard can support a person (there are what appears to be cardboard steps in there). Is there something special (like some pyramids) going on inside the step? That cardboard table looks impressive though.
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by RossM 18y ago
The thing is, it's not important for the users. I still have to use IE6 occasionally while at college (although this is only the case on the ThinClients, everything else is on IE7) but apart from lacking tabs there's not a lot (on the face
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by RossM 18y ago
What? No MUMPS experience?
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Creating a simple abstract model to reduce boilerplate code(codeutopia.net)
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Selecting all except some columns in MySQL(codediesel.com)
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by RossM 18y ago
I'm fine with adverts on any website, as long as they aren't intrusive or damaging to the flow of the content. I use AdBlock plus but specifically disable it for sites that I know use adverts responsibly. I wouldn't be afraid to add one or
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by RossM 18y ago
This came off to me as a boastful post, showing off that he can afford holidays in these credit-crunchy times. Is this just me or am I being grumpy again?
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by RossM 18y ago
I'm not a hirer but that was the same impression I got. Put it this way, I read A and got bored by B - despite the fact that B is considerably shorter.
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by RossM 18y ago
That's how I feel. I almost wish there were some sort of filter to allow me to filter out Joel, Jeff, 37Signals, TehCrunch etc. from the RSS feed (I prefer to pick and choose from 50 items I haven't seen before). I get around this at the mo
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by RossM 18y ago
Interesting - have Google dropped their funding for Firefox?
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by RossM 18y ago
True, TechCrunch is another of the always-submitted sites here. It wouldn't be too hard to setup a script to automatically post to HN whenever the RSS feed is updated, so this could be done for a special user. Personally, I'm not as bothere
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by RossM 18y ago
I don't quite get the jab at "Permanently under construction" - PHP 5.3 isn't out yet: how can you complain that PHP6 is taking a long time?
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by RossM 18y ago
It might just be me but their processing times seem to have been growing and growing. Also I've been getting frequent erroring machine s(screenshots obscured by dialogs etc.). Might just be my luck though.

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