craigmc

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The first computerized retail banking system(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by craigmc 13y ago|0 comments
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Heroku Latancy Issues(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by craigmc 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Founders, what would you tell yourself at 15?
11 points by craigmc 13y ago|15 comments
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by craigmc 14y ago
That is the world wide web. You published it and anyone could save a copy of what you published (right-click, save as) at any time. This is no different surely?
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Apple value falls below $400bn, as Warren Buffett says 'ignore critics'(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by craigmc 14y ago|0 comments
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by craigmc 14y ago
Depression is not a barrier to doing a startup. Indeed, given that a large number of people (statistics vary widely as to the exact %) suffer from depression at some point in their lives, it is likely that there are far more happy outcomes
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Facebook emailed me the same question 24 times in a month.(lefthand.me)
2 points by craigmc 14y ago|1 comments
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Fake it 'til you make it - How one woman tricked herself into cycling the globe.(indianajune.com)
2 points by craigmc 15y ago|0 comments
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Here's to another year chasing dreams...(instagr.am)
2 points by craigmc 15y ago|0 comments
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by craigmc 15y ago
Read the comment again dude. Never suggested that this (or similar) judgements are worth it. Also, I asked her, she didn't. Nor do the hundreds of thousands of other people who fall for these scams. Fact is though, unless the tech compa
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by craigmc 15y ago
I liked the use of the "whack a mole" analogy. Here (for those who don't know) is how this industrial-scale counterfeiting scam works: 1. Set up OSCommerce or Magento site with design roughly copied from legit rights owner. 2. Get local 'm
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by craigmc 15y ago
Over a 2-3 year period I have observed (by dint of having a frequently outranked legitimate site) probably in excess of a hundred websites run by counterfeiters (of brand name products) reach top positions for a small set of related and hig
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by craigmc 15y ago
Glad it was useful. If you can teach yourself visual basic then I'd suggest that you teach yourself some programming. You are unlikely to acquire enough to do the heavy lifting on this venture, but every hour you spend learning how to manip
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by craigmc 15y ago
Couple of suggestions (take them or leave them): 1. say what your idea is. Or at least the sector / problem you are addressing. 2. say what technology set you are using. You say you are currently getting a 'prototype website' built, so you
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Another Groupon Horror Story.(dailymail.co.uk)
2 points by craigmc 15y ago|0 comments
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by craigmc 15y ago
You can (or could) buy 'aged' hotmail address for cents - these have never been used by real users. As for captchas a quick google search will offer up a heap of solving services, many even with APIs! The only way to protect a service again
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by craigmc 15y ago
I just meant that this deserves more than a yeah "people screw up" response.
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by craigmc 15y ago
But this isn't a moderately large company, and while it is not possible to get the full story from just one account, if one is to accept the OP's account as fact, then it is fairly poor form being shown from those running the startup. By no
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by craigmc 15y ago
I am a complete apple fanboy, but I still think Bill Gates is a legend. Microsoft made mistakes, but they made the PC the device that it is today, and they forced others to redefine themselves to compete, which raised the bar. However, Bil
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by craigmc 15y ago
Do these discount dresses come with the same rw social experience that tends to accompany bridal shopping? Glasses of champagne at (multiple) fittings, long lunches afterwards? Even where a bride doesn't have the budget for a designer dress
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by craigmc 15y ago
If you look at the numbers of a service like Dropbox (which I know is not a direct comparison, but is at least in an approximate neighbourhood), then you can see why an $1.8m investment in this sort of service would make sense - it can theo
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The BBC asks if daily deal sites have had their day?(bbc.co.uk)
32 points by craigmc 15y ago|22 comments
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by craigmc 15y ago
According to a bank at least... Also, if you live and breathe the internet, it all is easy to forget that for a lot of people it only plays a minor role in their lives: Only 32% would "shop online where they could"...!?
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The UK loves online banking more than Facebook.(heraldscotland.com)
2 points by craigmc 15y ago|1 comments
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by craigmc 15y ago
Perhaps because one (an individual's fashion sense) is entirely subjective (and ultimately fairly trivial) and the other is not. Anyway, my main point was that introducing the existence of another perceived injustice is completely irrelevan
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by craigmc 15y ago
"I just can't see a young person rejecting a field because it's too sexist" In the field of law (which is my original background) you can pretty much walk into any sizeable firm, look around for the female partners and know you have identif
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by craigmc 15y ago
Are you suggesting that slighting the intellect of women and doing likewise in respect of the fashion sense of a (minority/majority?) of men are equatable wrongs? And if you are (p.s. they're not), then what relevance does it have to this t
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by craigmc 15y ago
Great response. Anyone using your site today and thinking that it is close to being the finished product... well, presumably they've never been in a startup office and looked at the massive roadmap of features, ideas, entire new sites, etc.
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by craigmc 15y ago
You are clearly mistaking the BBC for some grubby commercial organisation. Ta, Person 4,282,072,850.
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by craigmc 15y ago
I think the problem a lot of lawyers have is failing to acknowledge the realities of a BIG A v small b situation like the one in pud's example. Of course, it is not the lawyer's place to make decisions on behalf of his or her client as to h

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