doug_m

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by doug_m 16y ago
I guess you don't live in Scotland. We'd call 5 to 10 minutes of sun 2 or 3 times a week a heatwave.
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by doug_m 16y ago
As someone just about to see my twenties consigned to history here you go: * There is plenty of time to try a few things out and not feel like your doing anything wrong. I went from school to university and threw myself into a career and it
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by doug_m 16y ago
Really? even Alexander Fleming before his accidental discovery of penicillin?
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by doug_m 17y ago
Rob covers the basics below but bear in mind you can take out insurance policies that pay out if you have to take long-term sick absence. Obviously these thing vary depending on age etc but my girlfriend has a policy like this and one for u
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by doug_m 17y ago
I'm in the UK too and its all manager's discretion so it varies massively. One place I worked even let a guy save his allowance and work 4 days weeks from September to December. Another from time to time asked people to cancel their leave a
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by doug_m 17y ago
Anywhere I've worked (UK) there's been a limit to the number of sick days you can take and restrictions on having to have a doctors note depending how long you were off. Currently I think I'm allowed 5 in a year off and after 3 within a wee
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by doug_m 17y ago
Actually does he not admit he doesn't give a straightforward refusal because the idea of the coverage actually makes him think its worth it? rather than the consequences of the confrontation. The consequences feature in his thinking about i
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by doug_m 17y ago
I think Dropbox is valuable enough to become ubiquitous but one imagines they need to grow to a certain size before such a feature exactly is rolled into a version of one of the big operating systems. Not that what they've done isn't techni
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by doug_m 17y ago
http://www.evanwondrasek.com/post/143027043/autopager-enable... I like it too but liked it more when I turned off the spam it adds to google results
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by doug_m 17y ago
It was a really interesting article but it draws a very general conclusion, that we can learn from the copy-cats "look how much they changed the business model" and listed a few examples, from a very specific example. I mean, it what way we
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by doug_m 17y ago
Not just a well executed idea. Its another situation like StackOverflow where they can tackle chicken and egg situation others can't because of their exposure.
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by doug_m 17y ago
I'm sure its just the way it was written but it sounded a lot like the CEO was totally inappropriate, chucked a maddie and then backtracked - there's certainly a bit of ambiguity that the author might not have noticed, knowing the man perso
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by doug_m 17y ago
Charlie Brooker is a pretty well known personality in the UK and he makes TV shows and writes columns in this kind of ranting hyperbolic style, in no way is it supposed to be taken seriously. I'm a fan, his shows like Newswipe and Screenwip
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by doug_m 17y ago
I don't see the comparison with respect to dating, this is sanctions against a media company on the basis they gave unfavorable coverage. As far as the scale goes, this is what it is - its cost TC 600,000 followers on Twitter - if there is
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by doug_m 17y ago
I'm probably slightly playing devils advocate but I don't mean to be controversial for the sake of it, I just think this is interesting. TC is media/journalism and even if that's at a tabloid level personally I do believe that companies sho
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by doug_m 17y ago
Of course I see what you're saying, its not a question of whether it is or isn't good will - it's whether you're comfortable with a company exercising this kind of power against a media company on the basis said company wrote something whic
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by doug_m 17y ago
I'm not sure that "perfectly entitled to perform" statement holds up. "Legally" entitled to perform, yes... "Morally" entitled to perform, hmmm. It does seem Twitter was willing to deprive a benefit (read exposure/revenue) granted to TC on
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by doug_m 17y ago
Sorry but the fact that twitter did this to Techcrunch must be masking people's views here, otherwise I can't understand the comparison with someone's diary. At the end of the day I value journalism of this kind which is in part investigati
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by doug_m 17y ago
I think I'm a reasonably private person, bit of twitter no photo's + no facebook but I suspect I'd buy one of these and wear one once in a while. If use of these was as widespread as say twitter, then there's countless things I'd be interes
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by doug_m 17y ago
When I read Joel's articles I know I enjoy them, I know they're interesting and I learn from them but also that I'm reading marketing for his products and brand - its win-win and I subscribe to his marketing output along with everything els
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by doug_m 17y ago
Glasgow, Scotland
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by doug_m 17y ago
"hey’ll quickly understand the value of their content, which, with rare exceptions like the Wall Street Journal, is something very much like zero" This is very much untrue, at least in the UK. The quality dailies have had a very strong year
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by doug_m 17y ago
http://www.cmcpr.co.uk/main/news.php?content=news_article&#3... The Institution of Engineering and Technology in the UK did a survey recently but they seemingly haven't published the full results though they do mention they might provide
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by doug_m 17y ago
In the UK we're just getting redirected to ciao.co.uk, here's a link for reference that shows a screenshot of the shopping pages they're seeing in the US - http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/05/microsofts-bing-hides... If anyone has anyt
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by doug_m 17y ago
That really depends what the individual shops are selling - I remember reading that almost all Amazon's revenue for CDs came down to a collection the same size as you'd find in a large high street cd library.
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by doug_m 17y ago
Would love a few folk who know how this works to clue me and anyone like me in on what this could be doing in five years? Take a DVD player as an example, if he was inclined to load the data I could put in a model number and it could show m
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by doug_m 17y ago
I agree - in the UK Twitter seemed to stay under the radar for a long time compared to the US then one week the BBC seemed to brief staff on it and the large scale public adoption was overnight and very much celebrity or central-media drive
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by doug_m 18y ago
I'm not much of a twitter user but the uptake in the general public in the UK in the last two weeks is crazy - its gone from no-one to everyone in the space of a week. Personally I think there was some kind of internal BBC briefing about us
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by doug_m 18y ago
I've friends who've done your point 1 for ITunes in the UK - register a US ITunes account with a relative's address but never set-up a credit card. Then you purchase ITunes gift vouchers for a dollar above value from ebay and apparently sav
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by doug_m 18y ago
I do agree with the overall theme of your post but its not a "wash your hands of it and move on" situation. The fact is we're in such a rush to launch our websites and start being businessmen who actually talks this kind of thing through? W

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