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by michaelbrooks 9y ago
I don't loathe Snap, but I do dislike their decision for not supporting Windows 10. Microsoft even offered a cash incentive to Snap for creating an app and Snap still outright said no. Surely no matter how much you hate a platform, if
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by michaelbrooks 9y ago
I think he's on about allowing a third party to create and support a Snapchat app for Windows devices. There was 6Snap which worked really well, but got shut down because Snap were forcing third parties to close their apps. Someone als
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by michaelbrooks 9y ago
Well if you can't afford to purchase some books on the subject (which are helpful in their own rights), then I would suggest spending time looking at Blogs that specialise in the subject and check out Reddit's marketing and entrep
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by michaelbrooks 9y ago
Take a look at "Inbound Marketing[0]", it's a good book that shows you how to gain an audience using social networking tools such as Youtube, Facebook, Twitter etc. It's an old book in terms of how fast social media move
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by michaelbrooks 9y ago
It's even more painful when you're a web agency with lots of clients. Especially if they have hosting elsewhere and you don't have access to their emails. You have to contact your client and either get them to set up a specif
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A massive cyberattack is hitting organisations around the world(zdnet.com)
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by michaelbrooks 9y ago
That's all well and good until you get those annoying modals that say something like "We see you are using an adblocker, please disable it to continue". Some sites you can easily dismiss and they'll let you browse after
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by michaelbrooks 9y ago
It's odd, because my first two dev jobs I had to be let go. First time was due to them needing someone of senior skill yet paying for a junior salary and let me go after just 3 weeks, and the other due to money running low and let me g
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by michaelbrooks 9y ago
That reminds me when PETA tried to have whaling removed from Assassins Creed: Black Flag because they felt it glorifies the harming and killing of animals.[0] My reaction was just like "Yeah, because killing whales on a game makes me w
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Could this box make you a better driver? BBC News(youtube.com)
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by michaelbrooks 9y ago
For me, it's more the support you get from using third party APIs. It's nice to break away from companies to a certain extent, but if you need help/support you only have yourself to fix the issue. If you go with a third party
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by michaelbrooks 10y ago
I really tried to hold off on using an ad blocker as I want to support as many content creators as possible, but the minority spoil it for the majority. Websites like Mashable and Windows Central bombard you with ads to a point where it aff
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by michaelbrooks 10y ago
The only place I have seen them pop up so far is in the lock screen. Maybe I've seen more, but just overlooked them. The lock screen ads only show when you use the daily Bing images. You can either set your own lock screen image, or cl
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by michaelbrooks 10y ago
I think it's the addition of adverts in explorer, although from my understanding, they are completely optional [1]. [1] https://betanews.com/2017/04/10/disable-ads-windows-10-creat...
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by michaelbrooks 10y ago
I re-read the post and it does make sense when looking at the term in Wikipedia. It's odd because someone said that it's more of a UK phrase, but being from the UK, I have never heard it before.
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by michaelbrooks 10y ago
Seems to me like they should reword the title. From reading the post, it's more likely they meant "Growing Concern".
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by michaelbrooks 10y ago
What I find kind of funny is Windows has gone through this exact issue with their Windows Phone platform. The Lumia lineup started out okay with a flagship device (920) and mid to high range device (820) a mid-range device (620) and a low e
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by michaelbrooks 10y ago
I think it's about pride. We had a petition which had over 100,000 signatures in which forced them to reconsider, but parliament said that they can't go against what the people have voted for.
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by michaelbrooks 10y ago
I would very much like to leave. :/