AlexMuir

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by AlexMuir 15y ago
They called Capital One in 2008 but they're still on hold. It's a race to get through to Card Sales before the phones get disconnected.
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
Steve is looking tired. He seems slower at walking and less animated when speaking. But he loves what he does so much that he'll keep doing it until he drops dead on the stage or in the office. It must be inspirational to a lot of people
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
Dolls houses is something you can make with virtually no space - and because it's furniture in miniature some of what you learn can scale up when you've got more room. Things like measuring, marking, joints, and wood types all apply - if y
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
No licensee is going to leak this data. If they're paying, they aren't going to expend any effort to push it back out to potential competitors for free. And yes, non-commercial is a potential competitor.
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
These making skills are going to come back over the next few years - they aren't 'taught', they're learnt. And people are having to learn them RIGHT NOW, because they can't afford to call someone out to change their fuse / fix their washer
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by AlexMuir 15y ago
One of my most striking memories is groups of men sitting on kerbs in Cairo with a couple of battered stone chisels and a hammer. They just sat there every day with their tools, waiting for someone to give them work chipping concrete BY HA
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How did a British polytechnic graduate become the design genius behind Apple?(dailymail.co.uk)
6 points by AlexMuir 15y ago|0 comments
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
I've started dropping my partner in to her work in the mornings. It's a nice time to chat and it means I'm up and ready for the day. I do 'real' work in the morning, house renovation in the afternoon and then more real work after tea.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Crashes safari on my iPad
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Stagecoach, the parent company of Megabus, began growing shortly after UK bus services were deregulated and privatized (mid 90s). Their tactic was to take the busiest (and most profitable) routes in a city and saturate them with buses, char
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
How do you deal with the profile of a key?
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Love this. Marketing is going to be critical to your success - it's a one-off, low-cost transaction that people rarely need, and you're competing against the keycutting booths in supermarkets that people see at least once a week. But you'v
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Sign up for Google's local business centre and they'll send your £75 vouchers every few months. This is a complete piece of shit.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Although they own colour.com, searching for 'Colour' in the App Store takes you nowhere. Doh.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Can anyone remember how they first heard about and started using Google?
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
I volunteered to code the back-end in Google App Engine: a technology I'd never touched before. I hate this confusion between a startup BUSINESS and a learning/teambuilding exercise - this is not a startup, it's a coding project.
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Beware the Google Adwords sharks(blogs.mirror.co.uk)
2 points by AlexMuir 16y ago|1 comments
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Is Airport Express the best option for music? I don't like the idea of tying myself to Apple and iTunes. Nor do I have any use for the Wifi/USB connectivity that seems to make up the bulk of the Airport's functionality.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
I see the logic of wiring different sides of rooms on different fuses but I think this would probably be against wiring regulations in the UK - and possibly against common sense too.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Are these Airports really the cheapest/best way to get music playing? seems like a lot of wasted technology in them if I'm just connecting them to ethernet.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Taking pictures of open walls is a great idea. Thanks for the links.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Since the house doesn't (and never will) have gas, the choice is between electric and induction. Seems that it really is a no-brainer for us. I'd never even heard of induction so I need to do some research here.
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Ask HN: I'm renovating a house, what clever stuff should I build in?
66 points by AlexMuir 16y ago|111 comments
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Perhaps it's exactly the same equation as VCs use. You can have 9 acquisitions that crater, as long as your tenth is a Doubleclick/Overture/Alibaba [1]. [1] Although this seems to be bombing somewhat at the moment.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Three years ago people would read that and feel glad that those areas have improved. Today I read it and feel sad that we are inevitably heading back into similar days.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
A list of startups from both incubators. Seedcamp doesn't seem to have a single exit - is that correct? https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l...
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MegaUpload targeted by Porn Industry(torrentfreak.com)
1 points by AlexMuir 16y ago|0 comments
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Covestor is more along the lines of disrupting Wall St.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Was this at bpp?
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
OT: I'm in Shanghai in mid-January. Keen to meet HN people there - drop me an email if you're around - me@alexmuir.com

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