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1,316 karma · joined May 5, 2014

no, not that one, the other one.
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robtaylor··on Coronavirus Work from Home Model
Before the pivot to Covid content, the previous articles from the same creator included ...

"How to Deliver Your Funny Speech" "What The Rise of Skywalker Can Teach about Storytelling" "8 Reasons Why Your Ad Attribution Approach Is Wrong" "What I Learned Building a Horoscope That Blew Up on Facebook"

Not for me, Clive.

robtaylor··on A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught?
"https://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/1guiav/we_have_anal...

We have analyzed for those wondering!

robtaylor··on The world's first Bitcoin-settled index futures
Send us £1500 and we will give you $62 sign up deposit bonus.

Random new internet site promises to let you have your £1.5k back too!

Not for me, Clive.

robtaylor··on Time to Take Down the Mona Lisa?
This is reflection on modern tourism, which has changed due to digital.

I visited Louvre in September just before the painting moved. Queues were several floors long, complete with videographers following brides around to get the right shot, others having gimballed footage of every moment.

The pure embarrassment to see the line finally break after two hours of queuing to rush forward, to gain that extra half metre closer, and snap snap snap... no interest in looking at the painting but a torrent of pictures/video with quick reviews to improve shots before being told NO MORE by an exasperated staffer to then rinse and repeat.

Do you actually see the Mona Lisa if there is no stabilised moody video of you pondering to prove it?

robtaylor··on The .app domain is now availiable
You don't.
robtaylor··on [dead]
This is a ring of truth for Michael Avenatti's twitter statement https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/99395999276299468...

"After significant investigation, we have discovered that Mr. Trump’s atty Mr. Cohen received approximately $500,000 in the mos. after the election from a company controlled by a Russian Oligarc with close ties to Mr. Putin. These monies may have reimbursed the $130k payment."

https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/99396033944320000... has more, this references https://www.dropbox.com/s/pskgpwr15r48tx5/Executive%20Summar... which itself makes the AT&T claim - now verified by the company themselves.

What was going on in 'late 2017 and early 2018' that would interest AT&T?

robtaylor··on Photo of Zuck's notes, by AP's andyharnik
Direct link to :large version on twitter image host https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DadTMxlW4AAUz_h.jpg:large
robtaylor··on Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ
Which now has a web interface http://maps.snapchat.com
robtaylor··on China is trying to police what people are saying about it around the world
Sources?
robtaylor··on UK Electronics Store Maplin Goes into Administration
The number of times a cable or adaptor from there has saved the day...
robtaylor··on Financial Times journo's private messages quoted to her at China visa renewal
term used from tweet

"....he saw that by surveilling my private messages and not on my public feed...."

robtaylor··on The 12 Do’s and Don’ts of Web Design
The creators of Flash have some nerve running that article :-)
robtaylor··on Tsunami warning ends for B.C. after large earthquake strikes off Alaska
https://twitter.com/SF_emergency/status/955764708442714113

San Francisco Department of Emergency Management has tweeted that people within three blocks of the coast or five blocks of the San Francisco Bay should be prepared to evacuate.

Tsunami Watch for #SF. If you are w/in SF & 3 blocks of the Pacific Coast or w/in 5 blocks of SF Bay, PREPARE TO EVACUATE SO YOU ARE READY IF EVACUATION IS NEEDED. Check on neighbors who may need help. Visit http://sf72.org/hazard/tsunamis to see if you are in the evacuation zone.

robtaylor··on A letter about Google AMP
Complaining about google for using their bat and ball in their backyard?
robtaylor··on India’s millions of new Internet users are falling for fake news
Many of those responsible for that code and even directing the developers are reading these very comments.

They are making a £ v moral decision.

robtaylor··on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket sets up at Cape Canaveral ahead of launch
Yes, click the link.
robtaylor··on Argentina says signals detected, likely from missing submarine
Several 'failed satellite calls' have been detected (how?) attributed to missing military sub.

https://twitter.com/BreakingDotUK/status/932041323816906753 quoting Reuters.

Fingers crossed!

robtaylor··on Twitter announce verification change, white tick is now literally an endorsement
Credit to https://twitter.com/44/status/930934240228675584 who observes:

"Twitter's action on verification is puzzling. They're admitting they've wrongfully conflated the program with endorsement and then proceed to remove badges from people violating rules. This entrenches exactly what they said they want to get away from!"

"instead of making verification about identity, now begins an endless, unresolvable series of editorial decisions that they'll be forced to defend"

(and yes, it is a white tick...!)

robtaylor··on DNAinfo and Gothamist Are Shutting Down
This is cultural vandalism driven by spite.
robtaylor··on If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint
As there are a few mac gurus on this thread - an OT question... colleague has 2014 rMBP and used HDMI out and a DVI adapter via thunderbolt port to have two external displays.

Sierra update killed that - only one display will work at a time.

prams zapped, settings fiddled with, cables tested in millions of combos and even playing with AppleGraphicsControl.kext

Any other ideas? Seems nuts an update can kill such a thing!

robtaylor··on Giving you more characters
Sad!
robtaylor··on Giving you more characters
@Jack said "Proud of how thoughtful the team has been in solving a real problem people have when trying to tweet. And at the same time maintaining our brevity, speed, and essence!"

https://twitter.com/jack/status/912784057863245824

How many people did it take to come up with double a char limit, and how is that 'thoughtful' or 'solving' anything? Total guff.

The start of the end of twitter hashtag hottake.

robtaylor··on [dead]
Does the NYT add value to https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/... ?
robtaylor··on Announcing Ethereum and Litecoin vaults
it becomes quite warm storage
robtaylor··on Spanish police doing an intervention in Fundació puntCAT office
There is a good indie english language publisher in Spain https://twitter.com/thespainreport who is providing decent coverage of the ongoing issues.

(I have no affiliation or connection)

robtaylor··on How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster [video]
"I didn't want to be the CEO of SpaceX, I wanted to be a Lumberjack." - Elon Musk
robtaylor··on Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
They do and have said it would be a negative ranking factor.

So yes, one google product can result in a penalty with another. You will probably make a few quid more on adsense though.

robtaylor··on Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads
This was something from January (2017) and trailed in 2016.

It also covers the adsense product - so using google product can affect your google rank.

HOWEVER there are many many news websites that have not been penalised despite a full range of pop ups, interstitial and screen take over adverts.

Anyone from Google able to explain why there is such a discrepancy?

robtaylor··on Ask HN: Would it be legal if I put my web scraping scripts (lib) on GitHub?
I am building something along those lines so always interested to see which sources / methods are used - any public links?
robtaylor··on A black market where people pay for Instagram verification
SEO was the idea behind it, authority websites etc.

Was a long time ago so could not give authoritative answer on traffic, the aim of post was to highlight that staff at orgs can be er, pliable it seems.

For the record I never dealt with someone at the BBC just a chap who said he could get links added - took a punt for a few grand and he came through.

Interestingly I have just googled the guy... and the company is more formal now but still offers 'natural' editorial links including the BBC as an example.

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