MrMcDowall

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Cinematic User Engagement(mcdowall.info)
1 points by MrMcDowall 14y ago|0 comments
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Mock Roles, not Objects [pdf](jmock.org)
1 points by MrMcDowall 14y ago|0 comments
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by MrMcDowall 14y ago
Law No. 2 of The 48 Laws of Power could have made you more wary about this situation: Never put too much trust in friends; learn how to use enemies. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_48_Laws_of_Power
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by MrMcDowall 14y ago
She should also add comments...
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You are your best client (or how to evaluate a startup you want to join)(mcdowall.info)
1 points by MrMcDowall 14y ago|0 comments
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by MrMcDowall 14y ago
Whoops! Thanks :) That really would have been Transhuman...
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by MrMcDowall 14y ago
It's not about having people with the same name, or identifying a person uniquely for the purposes of a program. It's about people changing their legal birth name in the future to a unique choice that means something to them so that they ca
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by MrMcDowall 14y ago
Yeah, Stripe doing it like a Boss :) That said, you know there's programmers out there not using the Stripe Button and coding forms by hand that will have validations on them for the First and Last name because they think it's the right thi
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by MrMcDowall 14y ago
I think mostly it is because of the legal status that names convey - contracts can only reference tangible names for people or organizations in them, not abstract concepts. So I guess it's not the Government who would and do happily use SSN
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by MrMcDowall 14y ago
Did you read the post?
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by MrMcDowall 14y ago
In regard to your first point, yes of course they can handle multiple equivalent names for display, but if you want to use Facebook as your Identity, then there can be only one. The person at http://www.facebook.com/john.mcdowall is not m
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by MrMcDowall 14y ago
I wrote about a similar topic the other day, too: http://mcdowall.info/posts/The-Future-of-Social-Networks/
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Timeline.js - Beautifully crafted timelines that are easy, and intuitive to use.(timeline.verite.co)
3 points by MrMcDowall 14y ago|0 comments
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by MrMcDowall 14y ago
Yes. It also has the tops chopped off some times due to bad sizing.
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by MrMcDowall 14y ago
Thanks for reminding me of this!
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What a Dead Man Named FM-2030 can tell us about the future of user names(mcdowall.info)
63 points by MrMcDowall 14y ago|52 comments
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The Future of Social Networks(mcdowall.info)
4 points by MrMcDowall 14y ago|0 comments
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by MrMcDowall 14y ago
A very good point.
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The Best Hardware Is Not A Perk(mcdowall.info)
2 points by MrMcDowall 14y ago|5 comments
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by MrMcDowall 14y ago
I wish I could upvote this 10,000 times.
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Small ideas are not the problem(copy-cat.co)
4 points by MrMcDowall 14y ago|0 comments
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Henry Miller Was A Better Programmer Than You Are(mcdowall.info)
2 points by MrMcDowall 14y ago|0 comments
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A Prediction: What Github Will Do Next With That $100M(mcdowall.info)
2 points by MrMcDowall 14y ago|0 comments
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What Working for a Software Compnay in the 21st Century Should Be Like(mcdowall.info)
1 points by MrMcDowall 14y ago|0 comments
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Facebook is the Space Shuttle of Software(mcdowall.info)
1 points by MrMcDowall 14y ago|1 comments
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by MrMcDowall 14y ago
You can still have embarrassingly early releases to smaller audiences, as long as you go about the process of selecting a few of your target customers and explaining to them the purpose of these early releases. Reach out to two or three of
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Getting Reid Hoffman wrong (& right)(copy-cat.co)
10 points by MrMcDowall 14y ago|6 comments
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Watch me work: Video of me building a new Rails app from scratch(blog.firmhouse.com)
79 points by MrMcDowall 14y ago|22 comments
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by MrMcDowall 15y ago
Indeed... and then I read on Wikipedia that despite everything that happened over the 'firing' and cash settlement, they went on to form another startup together!
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My notes from the movie Startup.com(mcdowall.info)
8 points by MrMcDowall 15y ago|2 comments

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