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On the post: You Don't Own What You Buy: The Tetris Edition

Matt Brubeck ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2020 @ 01:13pm

Re: To be fair…

EA is shutting down two apps: Tetris Blitz, which is free-to-play, and Tetris Premium, which is not. Tetris Premium is a "purchased" app.
On the post: Commerce Dept: Steve Jobs Had Patents, Steve Jobs Made Cool Things; Thus Patents Are Great

Matt Brubeck ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2012 @ 12:18pm

The same evidence suggests that turtlenecks drive innovation in technology!
On the post: Sarcasm Wars: Proprietary SarcMark Gets Some Sarcastic Open Competition

Matt Brubeck ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2010 @ 03:14pm

MetaFilter's hamburger

Last year the MetaFilter community proposed the "hamburger" emoticon for this purpose: {/}
On the post: Amazon Launches Payment Service… Again

Matt Brubeck ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2008 @ 04:30pm

Amazon FPS

Just to clarify, Amazon Flexible Payment Service (which you linked to in the article) is still around, and still in beta. It's different from Amazon Checkout, though. Instead of a consumer-oriented solution with a web-based checkout page, it's a web service that programmers can use to build their own payment interfaces or workflows.