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by drsim 12y ago
Direct Debit in the UK does this. You can cancel any instruction at any time, usually through your online banking where all instructions and charges are listed. It is widespread and the norm for subscriptions.
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by drsim 13y ago
Batter your Mars bar and deep fry that too
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by drsim 13y ago
A few years ago I was debating with a colleague on the de/merits of checked exceptions. I was pro, but after reading through these gems about why Microsoft didn't put them into c# I changed my mind: http://blogs.msdn.co
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by drsim 13y ago
Oh dear. The schoolkid gets caught and says 'yeah, but Jim did such and such that's worse'.
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by drsim 13y ago
Great idea. It's a shame Netflix isn't a part of the TankTop core service... their loss as this app may help people decide to switch away: cheeky! :) Ex-Lovefilm customer, now with Netflix but unfortunately I don't share with
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by drsim 13y ago
An engineer reinventing the wheel, other than an intellectual exercise, can be a symptom of them being bored with their work or not feeling ownership of the company mission. Building something from scratch exactly how you want to is stimula
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by drsim 13y ago
Kudos to hubspot: they're pushing out some nice js pieces from their app
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by drsim 13y ago
Spot on. There's no doubt as a candidate you need to be comparable but you differentiating yourself is a multiplier. I applied for a marketing job at a fire safety firm. I'd never worked under a marketing job title (business devel
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by drsim 13y ago
As a customer of the Campus location I love the simplicity of paying with Tab. From my perspective this plus the 10% bonus when topping up over £10 is nearly there... if only these guys could've survived long enough to make this viable
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by drsim 13y ago
Nice idea, much like Soundrop (initially just a Spotify app but I see they have a web app now). I was an avid user of Soundrop when it first came out. Why I've stopped using Soundrop is that most folk, myself included, just go into th
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by drsim 13y ago
I worked as a business development guy on a major contracts team. So my usual role was finding £100k+ contracts and negotiating the tender process. I'd regularly get bonuses when the deal was closed. However I really was a coder. I pro
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by drsim 13y ago
Erm... I hate to say this about an Economist article but it seems to be hot air: completely ignoring conversion attribution. The headline numbers are aggregate revenue from ad spend. I'm intrigued about the 'lumpy behaviour'
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by drsim 13y ago
I grew up a Witness too (left some time ago). I like the spirit of the article but the inaccuracies do undermine the credibility of their sources. Here's what they got wrong: "...talk about... New Light and the Ark of Salvation&qu
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by drsim 13y ago
This is what they're dancing around, instead releasing tidbits of info that make it look as if it's not as bad. Just because the transfer mechanism is sftp doesn't matter. My supposition is that prism is an auto-importer of t
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by drsim 13y ago
Thanks :) I enjoyed putting the e-book together
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by drsim 13y ago
Flashback. I worked on a failed mindmap startup with a web-based tool just like this (it was 1999 so of course it was Flash!). As the other commenter said, there's a split in people who learn well with mindmaps and others like me who prefer
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by drsim 13y ago
...so add a GA event to every action that's of value to you: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
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by drsim 13y ago
They're the exception rather than the rule. The majority of the time you won't get any value from a visitor unless they complete an action while they're there. That's a bounce. blog.yourcompany.com isn't doing it's job unless it engages som
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by drsim 13y ago
What's the purpose of getting someone to read your blog post? Rarely is it just that. You'll want them to share/comment/subscribe/sign up for a trial/dive into finding out more about your product/buy. Doing these things will cause them not
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by drsim 13y ago
Recently a customer posted a very bad review of my app on a public app store. They called me personally a liar, claimed I took weeks to respond to email, that my service lost their business sales and they paid for a service I didn't provide
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by drsim 13y ago
I'm certainly going to try this in future negotiations. However I'm sceptical that a prospective client/customer is going to show their hand by revealing (albeit on a swapped piece of paper) their maximum bid in many cases. No-one wants to
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by drsim 13y ago
Interesting individual. Wiki on Clint Curtis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Curtis .
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by drsim 14y ago
When I was a permanent employee or contractor I'd always check in on the CW Jobs salary checker ( http://www.cwjobs.co.uk/salary-checker/salary-calculator ) when negotiations came around. I found the salaries and day rates there are a littl
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by drsim 14y ago
Ah, it could well be the Food on the Table guy. All the best for your company!
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by drsim 14y ago
Absolutely spot on. I would even extend this to developers. Why take a week to build a way to automate something that takes a human half a day when you don't know if anyone is ever going to pay for it? I don't remember the company, but I wa
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by drsim 14y ago
As soon as I seen the factory pattern here I had a flashback. Great parody.
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by drsim 14y ago
A combo of doc + a branch commit would be spot on. You're right on the code bomb problem, but I think a good review involves making a judgement on the entire codebase. Something may be the 'right' thing to do but completely uneconomical due
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by drsim 14y ago
In my previous life as an enterprise code monkey I've came across good and bad Architects. Just knowing and being able to tell me how something could be done better is valuable. But I found my frustration often was 'just f*ing do it!'. If a
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by drsim 14y ago
Yeah, it does sound tough and kudos for pushing through. You should really dissect Skyscanner though. I've just done a search for London to Denmark in April on both your site and Skyscanner. Skyscanner: I'm shown all available cities and th
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by drsim 14y ago
Great blog post and great perseverance. But I prefer Skyscanner's 'whole month' search. I can see flight prices for the whole month to a whole country on a single screen. With yours I see seven days at a time. And it takes an age to see the

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