AlexMuir

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   by AlexMuir 12y ago

   The one in your jeep probably puts out 150W, as opposed to the 3kW that's needed to run household appliances.
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   by AlexMuir 12y ago

   Just wondered what you're doing in Cairo? I lived there for three months and liked it, but agree that it's also frustrating.
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   by AlexMuir 12y ago

   I was amazed by that figure as well. They are six-foot extensions that decrease fuel consumption by about 4 to 6 percent [1]. I'd imagine that insurance and warranties mean that operators can only use approved Boeing parts. [1] http
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   by AlexMuir 12y ago

   No idea how this is getting so many points. There's absolutely nothing of any practical interest here. Use version control and documentation... End of post. I'd say these are more industry standard practices than leading edge.
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   Uber(alexmuir.com)

   1 points by AlexMuir 12y ago|0 comments
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   How one firm came to dominate the world of extreme sports(m.bbc.com)

   2 points by AlexMuir 12y ago|0 comments
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   by AlexMuir 12y ago

   I travel a lot. And I'm thinking about buying a houseboat in France. I wish I'd seen this years ago. Happily purchased. I can't believe this hasn't come up before - we had a big discussion about working offline on cru
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   Dash – Beautiful instant offline docs for almost everything(kapeli.com)

   404 points by AlexMuir 12y ago|170 comments
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   by AlexMuir 12y ago

   Sad that this hasn't been as popular this year! Good work though, looks like I've made my annual loss on betting.
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    by AlexMuir 12y ago

    All FB and Instagram content seems to now be deleted. Probably learned from 50cent's Twitter stock-ramping faux-pas a few years ago [1] Probably makes it more likely to be happening. If true, this makes sense framed as an acquihire. $
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    View From Your Window Contest(dish.andrewsullivan.com)

    1 points by AlexMuir 12y ago|0 comments
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    by AlexMuir 12y ago

    "[A team of eight researchers led by Daniel Bonn] placed a laboratory version of an Egyptian sledge in a bin of sand that had been dried in the oven. Then they threw down some water, and measured the grains’ stiffness." Surely th
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    by AlexMuir 12y ago

    This is steaming bullshit. Surely anyone believing this is being influenced by bitterness about Adsense outcomes, or a desire to see a miss-step from Google's golden goose? I'm flagging this story. I've not seen the decline i
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    by AlexMuir 12y ago

    They are completely unresponsive, at least in my experience.
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    by AlexMuir 12y ago

    I initially wanted to charge takeaways £20 a year to list their menus. No-one was interested. Over the entire life of the site I've probably had five people list a menu. I walked the streets of London and Manchester collecting menus
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    by AlexMuir 12y ago

    Here is the problem with valuing a business like this... It's my business so I know that revenue has actually risen year-on-year since I set it up (and on just looking is actually $9,000 a year) So for me, I know that I couldn't
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    by AlexMuir 12y ago

    The Big Eat http://www.thebigeat.com Menu and takeaway listings (mainly in the UK). Makes around $6,000 per year of Adsense. It's been fairly untouched since I started it in 2006. Has good pagerank for a lot of takeaway
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    by AlexMuir 12y ago

    I see no reason why a head injury shouldn't equally change a personality to become less criminal. Head injuries have completely unpredictable effects. My core point is that prisons are full of violent people, and violent people punch a
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    by AlexMuir 12y ago

    That is vs 30-40% of the general population. There's nothing unexpected here. Youths mostly go to jail for violence. The more fights you get into, the more likely you are to be injured. I'd imagine that there's a far large
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    by AlexMuir 12y ago

    Well that just cost me 30 minutes. Excellent. Well done.
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    by AlexMuir 12y ago

    Another effect of the internet is that it is now trivial to find out the second-hand value of something.
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    by AlexMuir 12y ago

    "Danny Dorling, professor of geography at Oxford University, says we have six times more "stuff" than the generation before us." I run a storage business and I can say that this is no longer the case with the younger gen
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    UK government built phone-tap tower inside nuclear plant in the 90s(lamont.me.uk)

    3 points by AlexMuir 13y ago|0 comments
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    by AlexMuir 13y ago

    Being lego, this actually solves a lot of my immediate worries: Sets can be weighed back in. Missing pieces are held in stock and can easily be replaced. Lego can go into a washing machine/steriliser. It is light and virtually impossi
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    by AlexMuir 13y ago

    I believe the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) only keeps two hours, but the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) records for considerably longer. Both make up a black box. It will certainly be far more difficult to establish what happened without voi
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    by AlexMuir 13y ago

    It generates that text from geolocation and is a brilliant move.
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    by AlexMuir 13y ago

    I chatted a while back with Kresten Buch who set this up. I know he's keen to attract experienced developers/founders to mentor teams there. If you seriously fancy broadening your horizons and spending a few months in Africa then
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    Google ads are now virtually indistinguishable(alexmuir.com)

    1 points by AlexMuir 13y ago|0 comments
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    Daily Mail – live traffic dashboard(dailymail.co.uk)

    1 points by AlexMuir 13y ago|1 comments
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    by AlexMuir 13y ago

    Very late, but a) Ferraris are fun, b) it's a life's ambition fullfilled for him, and c) it's proven an excellent investment for him.