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anarchitect

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About anarchitect

http://nickboyce.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #20480618

    Brilliant stuff. Fascinating to see how seasonal some of the searches are – "rosé" and "Aperol" spikes in July and December (southern/northern hemisphere summers?), "carbs" and "lo…

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    Comment #20278151

    > Monzo let you deposit cash and cheques at the post office Not quite. You can deposit at any PayPoint location (mostly corner shops and the like), not Post Offices [0]. They also …

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    Comment #18919235

    > Farage admitted the morning after the result that the £350m a week to the NHS was a lie The bus was part of the official Vote Leave campaign not Farage’s Leave.EU, so that partic…

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    Comment #18919222

    You’ve linked to an article about Soros advocating a second referendum, not funding the Remain campaign. Meanwhile, the Leave.EU campaign is being investigated for receiving fundin…

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    Comment #18123943

    I think it would certainly be very interesting if more companies provided rationales behind some of their corporate policies. Perhaps this would create more of a discussion and bet…

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    Comment #18123939

    I'm curious what would make someone get into stuff like this anyway?

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    Comment #18003904

    I’ve worked on dozens of these “print on demand” programs over the last 10+ years for museums and galleries like Tate, MoMA, The National Gallery etc. They are a fairly standard pa…

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    Comment #17282420

    I’ve met a bunch of new people since I got a dog, in public and in the co-working office. Some have come to be good friends. I should point out that meeting people was not my motiv…

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    Comment #17144836

    I do E-commerce consultancy, CRO and Facebook advertising (still figuring how much to specialise). I was fairly fortunate to bring by previous employer on as first client, the rest…

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    Comment #17135528

    I'm in my first month freelancing. The last time I wasn't in a full-time job was when I was running a small web design company in the 90s (it still exists and is run by @prawn). Fi…

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    Comment #15332765

    This could be a useful place to discuss all the newest ICO's coming out in real time. The unique rank is "Friend of the Universe" by the way. http://icogo.biz

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    Comment #14997569

    Same experience here. The day after finishing Cockpit Confidential I experienced my first go-around landing in bad weather. I wasn't nervous because I had some idea why it occurred…

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    Comment #14496613

    My understanding is that contactless cards have limit of £30 per transaction in the UK. Apple Pay (perhaps it's the same with Android Pay?) has a significantly higher limit.

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    Comment #13955163

    I'm happy to pay for things that provide value in my life. I pay a modest amount to some bloggers directly via Patreon for what I could otherwise get for free. I'm also considering…

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    Comment #13838606

    We're not a startup, but we've had great success with Helpscout too. Our customer service team absolutely love it, to the point where it's difficult to convince them that Intercom …

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    Comment #13063125

    We have just completed a profitable FB campaign (5.5x ROI), after many attempts. The key for us was: (1) Audience. We created a lookalike audience based on the attributes of our hi…

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    Comment #12407340

    Just wanted to say I had a really positive experience as a Trussle customer recently :)

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    Comment #12145054

    (1) Is a killer, unless collaborating over distance comes naturally to the team.

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    Comment #12144965

    I have a remote member on my team who came to us as part of an acquisition. He travels to our London office once a fortnight. It works well, but I wouldn't hire remote workers for …

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    Comment #11835688

    My London team is based in WeWork, Old Street (London). We have 10 memberships, of which 8 have dedicated desks. At £400 per desk it's not cheap, but definitely comparable to equiv…

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    Comment #11465571

    I’ve run almost exactly the same number of experiments as the author, and experienced the same frustrations until recently. It sounds as though the author needs to combine the "How…

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    Comment #11266848

    Reminds me of how someone embedded the chip from their Oyster card (London travel card) in a magic wand :)

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    Comment #11132247

    How does this "organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful"? I'll be disappointed if there isn't some ulterior motive at play. Some in this threa…