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We usually use PayPal or Google Checkout, but our clients often want to use their business bank's merchant service e.g. Barclays EPDQ. This can sometimes pose a problem, as we use Ubercart and have to find/develop the necessary adapter modules.
The short sentence format sounds compatible with some sort of Twitter interaction. Have you considered allowing users to tweet their review and use a hash tag to reference your site and the film in question? Or have it the other way round - they can sign in with their Twitter account (or use OAuth) and their review gets tweeted. Those are just quick ideas - there must be something that can be done in this space.
There is definitely something more to people who create, as well as consume. Whether they be a knitter, gardener, musician or developer.
So it's on the horizon. The speaker actually powers a mobile phone as one of his examples.
Previously I've worked in banking tech and this procedure was always followed (with data scrubbing), but it was also low risk since we were already on a secure network in a secure building.
For a startup with sensitive live data though, I can see why it's best to keep prod data out of test environments and therefore lower the chances of laptops being left unlocked or print outs lost that contain sensitive data. It's clearly a cheaper and better solution to keeping everyone in a secure building and limiting their remote access.
If I'm ever feeling de-motivated I listen to a Mixergy interview and the story alone can make me focus on whatever it is I'm doing and see things in a broader context.
Merrill Lynch was not bought by BoA until September 2008 and the merger did not legally complete until December of the same year (followed by company-wide rebranding throughout 2009). So I think the flow on the graph shows those that were made redundant when Bear Stearns collapsed in March 2008 and then went on to employment with ML before the BoA merger, which happened nine months later.
EDIT: grammar.
And a podcast a day - astonishing output and great interviewees. The advice in these interviews, along with advice on HN, constitutes my main source of not-on-the-job entrepreneurial learning, a sort of 'startup MBA'.
* The equation doesn't take in to account the constant influx of new people in London. And who's to say she is of British nationality?
* More importantly, where does he state the chance of the 'chosen' one liking him? Further to this - and I don't want to generalise here - but in my experience, this is precisely the type of humour that women do not find funny.
Finally: "on a given night [..] out in London there is [..] a 1 in 285,000 chance"
Should this be in a given instance? I live in London and probably walk past 1,000 people every day. I know that's not a meaningful interaction but, using his variables, in a given day that means there's a 1 in 285 chance I walked past 'the one'.
Life is cruel. As someone else has said, hang out in some university bars and break the random sample.
EDIT: Grammar, spacing.
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day … you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don’t think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.
(more detail: http://www.secondactive.com/2009/08/boost-your-productivity-...)
I would also add 9a. Understand what was causing the bug once it's fixed. I'd say a key hallmark of a bad engineer is if they are happy with a fix even though they don't understand what the underlying problem was.
"If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless." -- Robert H. Schuller
"If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough" -- Mario Andretti
"When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something." -- Steve Jobs
I take it you are driving, but for people that get public transport I would plead Do Not Read Newspapers - they will only make you feel anxious, depressed or angry at the start of the day. It's more enjoyable and effective to read a book on a subject you want to learn about or something fictional for escapism.
- How do you define 'illegal fileshare'? Based on the network used? The content of the file?
- How would this be implemented? Would the ISP do the blocking?
- What's to stop the 'criminal' from using a wifi connection elsewhere?
- What effect does this have on the neutrality of the net in the UK?
(Sorry, posted this comment on another thread before seeing this)
- How do you define 'illegal fileshare'? Based on the network used? The content of the file?
- How would this be implemented? Would the ISP do the blocking?
- What's to stop the 'criminal' from using a wifi connection elsewhere?
- What effect does this have on the neutrality of the net in the UK?
In the UK, the same statistic is traipsed out whenever it snows - 'Snowfall costs UK economy £X billion' - but come on, you can't measure opportunity cost like that and you can't value the positives of getting a day at home with family or friends.
The purpose of life isn't purely to work or increase GDP. Whatever it is, it isn't that. Take a long lunch, enjoy yourself, keep an eye on the metrics but don’t go crazy like this.