thekeywordgeek

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by thekeywordgeek 7y ago
I was contorting with a tape measure and typing them in, so my apologies I can't. :)
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by thekeywordgeek 7y ago
I like it! It seems to have a problem with half inches for me though and generates an error message. Latest Firefox/Ubuntu.
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Anatomy of a failed Kickstarter campaign(thekeywordgeek.blogspot.com)
1 points by thekeywordgeek 11y ago|0 comments
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A practical antenna testing range(thekeywordgeek.blogspot.com)
2 points by thekeywordgeek 11y ago|0 comments
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The sad state of the Raspberry Pi software ecosystem(thekeywordgeek.blogspot.com)
2 points by thekeywordgeek 11y ago|2 comments
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by thekeywordgeek 12y ago
A big thank you for enquiring on my behalf! A 503 would still require a GAE instance to be running so wouldn't necessarily deal with my problem. I have seen "noindex nofollow" kill a site stone dead in the past so I am very w
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by thekeywordgeek 12y ago
I'd be concerned as to adverse effects on my indexing. But it wouldn't fix my problem as it would still be a request that would require a GAE instance to handle it. (edit) Yes, the bot is still hitting the GAE site atm even though
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by thekeywordgeek 12y ago
Absolutely, even I can't say I'm deserving of a free lunch.
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by thekeywordgeek 12y ago
Really big :) Its source is the English language, so if there's a word or phrase that gets used, it has a result. Corpus linguistics is fun like that.
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by thekeywordgeek 12y ago
Absolutely, It's only coincidence that Google are both the host and the spider. I really would appreciate the ability to throttle it though.
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by thekeywordgeek 12y ago
See my reply to jacquesm above. Very wary of blocking, as sometimes persuading the engine you've unblocked it afterwards is nigh-on impossible.
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by thekeywordgeek 12y ago
Google doesn't respect crawl-delay, sadly. They rely on the Webmaster Tools setting, which is unavailable to me as I've described.
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by thekeywordgeek 12y ago
I am a little concerned about doing that though. Having seen sites killed stone dead by people blocking stuff by mistake in robots.txt and the engines then never looking at them again I'm very wary indeed of blocking stuff I intend lat
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The day I was DoSed by Google(thekeywordgeek.blogspot.com)
152 points by thekeywordgeek 12y ago|63 comments
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by thekeywordgeek 12y ago
Indeed it is, and using the Spectranet board. The Pi simply provided synchronisation, each Spectrum had the whole piece in memory as BASIC code. We had a bit of a discussion about how it might have been done back in the day using 1 bit inpu
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by thekeywordgeek 12y ago
The original Sinclair ZX Spectrum manual featured a listing to play a few bars of Mahler's First, with the reader asked to play the whole piece as an exercise. Here's Matt Westcott completing that exercise with the help of a few f
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A 32 year old BASIC programming challenge, solved(youtube.com)
6 points by thekeywordgeek 12y ago|5 comments
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Someone who can't see 3D images uses an Oculus Rift for the first time(thekeywordgeek.blogspot.com)
1 points by thekeywordgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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The most valuable piece of code I ever wrote(thekeywordgeek.blogspot.co.uk)
2 points by thekeywordgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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Why electrical network frequency analysis might be unsafe to trust in court(thekeywordgeek.blogspot.co.uk)
3 points by thekeywordgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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by thekeywordgeek 15y ago
In their dreams. My lexicographer and lawyer colleagues have faced this one many times. As I understand it once a trademark enters common usage as a verb it is safe for inclusion in the dictionary, as a noun it isn't. http://oxforddictiona