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by mpclark 14y ago
Can't stop people writing them, but it's certainly time to stop clicking on headlines that end in question marks...
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by mpclark 14y ago
Early on there just weren't cross compilers and "real computers", at least not in the British "back bedroom" games scene. I didn't write on the Spectrum, but certainly on the Dragon and the C64 it was a case of write, save, execute, reset,
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by mpclark 14y ago
I was there, at the PCW Show at Earls Court, when the Spectrum was launched. Well, it was actually just a brochure that was launched IIRC. But it was incredible; the 13-year-old me and hundreds of other people all just sitting where they co
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by mpclark 15y ago
It's also important to point out that I find your wife beating unacceptable...
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by mpclark 15y ago
It's worth noting that this and other recent problems are only with Google's mobile wallet implementation, not an issue with NFC.
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by mpclark 15y ago
I wonder if it is possible for anyone to make a fast profit once they cross to the other side of the legal/illegal line, or if one has to be just as skilful as a successful legitimate businessperson to do it...
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by mpclark 15y ago
>low self-esteem Somebody tell Kim Schmitz...
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by mpclark 15y ago
It is missing the point rather impressively to comment on this fellow's product. It is the clever pitch that makes this front page worthy.
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by mpclark 15y ago
What we need is for big, well funded companies to somehow use their influence to get bad laws changed...
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by mpclark 15y ago
One more point -- just a little one -- is "don't pitch a journalist and then refer him/her to a story recently published by a competitor publication for the details."
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by mpclark 15y ago
No, but this is how the iPod beat every other mp3 player -- it was just undefinably better to use. Typography is one of those features; most people don't think they even notice it, but they do.
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by mpclark 15y ago
Exactly! Google+ is brilliant for business use. I'm sharing stuff with colleagues far more effectively (and selectively) now.
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by mpclark 15y ago
...but not for long, because his CTR will be down on the floor. This feels to me like a clever solution for a problem that doesn't exist.
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by mpclark 15y ago
I was disappointed to see this story pop up in my Techmeme feed yesterday. IMHO getting tech stories from the Daily Mail is dangerously close to jumping the shark...
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by mpclark 15y ago
Having thought about this some more, I have taken Facebook off our site. As a business we may suffer some downside as a result, but I want to (a) protect the privacy of my site's users and (b) be able to hold my head up and say I'm not part
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by mpclark 15y ago
Yes, this is a great idea. 'Passive' like buttons. There's no need (from my POV) for them to be active.
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by mpclark 15y ago
So how many of us are concerned about this from a personal privacy point of view, but still have all the Facebook buttons and markup all over our sites? I'm a little concerned that, as a website operator, I really ought to work with Faceboo
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by mpclark 15y ago
It's pricey and often complicated to incorporate NFC at this stage. The phones that have it so far are more like experimental/reference platforms than anything else. When NFC is available on combo chips it will be everywhere, and manufactur
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by mpclark 15y ago
Importantly, it is utterly futile to expect a shop assistant (let's say a waifish 17-year-old girl) to tell a customer (for our purposes today, a 30-year old champion cage fighter still bruised from his last bout) that their signature doesn
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by mpclark 15y ago
Sleepinmybed.com -- get paid for staying in someone else's home
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by mpclark 15y ago
Journalists aren't all Woodward and Bernstein. In fact, most of them aren't. They are, in the main, reporters . They report what they've been told, pausing only to package it up and make it more digestible to the reader. To hold the media
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by mpclark 15y ago
Quite. It all adds up and it's unnecessary. It's not green . It's wasteful. It's not elegant. But I fear it is the way things are going, because I've seen this before -- I used to write games in lovely, pure, beautiful assembly language, t
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by mpclark 15y ago
Plot thickens? I see no thickening of the plot here, or even any substantive new information. Just a me-too article with a slightly clever headline...
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by mpclark 15y ago
Well, that's an interesting comment because last time I was in London I noticed they've really jacked up the cash price of single tickets on the tube, to the point where you'd be an idiot not to get an Oyster card because using one makes mu
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2 points by mpclark 15y ago|1 comments
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by mpclark 15y ago
I hate myself for this, but "pleaaase" -- mike at mikeclark dot eu
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by mpclark 15y ago
They used the same invite-only strategy with Wave, didn't they? That was a ghost town when I finally got in...
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by mpclark 15y ago
Bad show, thinq, that I had to read right through this story to get to the bit that says 'all of the forgoing is a crock of shit'.
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by mpclark 15y ago
With all due respect, there's an awful lot more to it than that. There are also the many, many relationships that need to be set up to get a mobile wallet going. This is certainly part of what irritates PayPal.
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by mpclark 16y ago
Don't know about the LLC/S-Corp end of things, but on the 'how should I split it?' stuff I think Joel Spolsky's response here makes a lot of sense: http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-s...

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