AlexMuir

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by AlexMuir 15y ago
I absolutely agree with this. Hopefully with different guests each week it becomes easier to start with who people are, rather than some inane nonsense.
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
Thanks. Some great listening there, some that I've listened too, and others that are new.
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
Thanks. I've been doing nothing with this domain for months. This morning I finally got down to something and got this up. So many things that I could have procrastinated on but I thought I'd just get it up and out there.
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Show HN: Help me launch a weekly HN podcast(hnpod.com)
105 points by AlexMuir 15y ago|32 comments
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Vector Racer(harmmade.com)
4 points by AlexMuir 15y ago|1 comments
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
Some of the companies have not publicly launched yet. I understand that the event is invite only, and mainly for investors.
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Up and then down: The Lives of Elevators(newyorker.com)
2 points by AlexMuir 15y ago|0 comments
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
http://www.bingocardcreator.com/ Not beautiful in the traditional sense (sorry Patrick), but he's A/B tested it to death and I'm certain that this is a highly effective landing page.
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
https://trello.com/
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
http://basecamp.com/ New landing page for the new Basecamp.
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Ask HN: Best product landing pages
7 points by AlexMuir 15y ago|6 comments
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Millions of dollars and 40 years - this is the result(xanadu.com)
5 points by AlexMuir 15y ago|1 comments
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
It absolutely has to be the living room. And domination of the laptop market. http://www.alexmuir.com/2011/12/apple-must-build-a-console/
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CCTV at Petrol Stations will automatically stop uninsured cars drawing fuel(mirror.co.uk)
2 points by AlexMuir 15y ago|0 comments
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
The vital question: Is mobile traffic going to (proportionally) increase in the UK, or is desktop traffic going to increase in Nigeria? Are people using mobile in Nigeria because they don't have a laptop? Will they be using their Raspberry
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Google helps me live like an Englishman among savages(alexmuir.com)
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
I wonder if big, successful tech companies should be dipping into their pockets to fund internet training- not as charity, but as an investment. eBay, Facebook, Netflix and Google, for instance. Between those four, there must easily be an
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
If such a link is suspected then we should spread it far and wide, rendering it effectively useless.
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
Oh come on. Grow a pair of balls - if you've just been 'trapped' by a link then have the guts to go to court and fight for something. Don't be such a bloody wimp.
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For growth: it's choices that matter, not sales(alexmuir.com)
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
So does Facebook, as shown 107 days ago, and continuing today. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3145857
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
I've just moved from years of PHP to RoR. And there's a lot that I miss about PHP. Deploying Rails Apps is still a motherfucking nightmare - I hanker for the days of just git pulling and changing a couple of config vars. I can google any
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Compare the cost of living between X and Y (cities)(expatistan.com)
2 points by AlexMuir 15y ago|2 comments
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
That statement doesn't imply anything of the sort. I acted as agent for the copyright holders.
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
I followed the procedure to the letter - that was the whole point of the experiment. Do you honestly think they have a whole team of people diligently working through DMCA requests? Of course not - it's the foundation of their whole busin
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
At the risk of megadownvoting here... Megaupload never complied with DMCA requests - I made several as part of some research and never received any response. The site charged for access to, and provided advertising around, pirated content.
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
The Samwers hit it big with MyCityDeal ($350m-ish) and seem to be trying to replicate its success. Wimdu, their Airbnb -clone is doing well and offers a very decent alternative to Airbnb. (There are differences: Wimdu pays affiliates 10%
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Apple suspends iPhone sales in China(heraldsun.com.au)
4 points by AlexMuir 15y ago|1 comments
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Stupid is the new Business Class(alexmuir.com)
1 points by AlexMuir 15y ago|0 comments
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
This reminded me to finish a post I drafted a while back: http://www.alexmuir.com/2011/12/stupid-is-the-new-business-c...

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