AlexMuir

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Ask HN: What are examples of 'open' social networks?
2 points by AlexMuir 16y ago|2 comments
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
This is the best one yet - I can actually see myself using this. It's hard to know what terms people have used on HN when searching for something. The Ask HN archives are a brilliant resource.
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Ask HN: How do you manage your wealth/savings?
1 points by AlexMuir 16y ago|0 comments
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Reading a thread without voting makes me appreciate sorting by points. Do I really have to read all comments to find the funnies?
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
The substance of that comment is that the xbox 360 has not been cracked open like the classic xbox.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Why is anyone up voting 'agreed'? If you agree, just vote for the comment surely?
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Do it. I put jolicloud on my aspire one. So much quicker. Having tried ubuntu though I'm not sure whether I'd just put that on next time and ignore jolicloud's social wrapping.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Good call. And the xbox 360 has proven remarkably immune to modding.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
I agree that price isn't the issue, but by being free (to con sumers at least) these alternatives are ubiquitous, and therefore widely recognized as better. If they were paid for none of us would have used them, so we couldn't all agree tha
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
I just don't get this insistance on control over utility servers. If we take sensitive businesses out of the equation there's really no argument for it. How many times has gmail been down for me? Never. What about exchange/lotus notes? At l
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
This was what I thought until I installed ubuntu. Maybe it's the honeymoon period, but it just works. I doubt your mum is doing heavy graphics work or playing games and those are the only two things that are keeping me on win 7. The interfa
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
And their web stuff isn't strong enough to hedge them against a diminishing desktop market.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
PowerPoint and publisher are the two office apps that seem to be hardest to replace. But they're both ripe for web-based alternatives.
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Ask HN: what does Microsoft sell that you can't get for free?
27 points by AlexMuir 16y ago|116 comments
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
The chap who created Elements on the iPad made more in one day than he made from his website in the previous x years.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Check whether it lets you export. That could be a massive pain further down the line.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Over what though? And what's the point if no-one knows you're protesting.
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Ask HN: Why is there still no facebook app for iPad?
2 points by AlexMuir 16y ago|5 comments
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
I can't see any reason why they would do this now. Apple already have the infrastructure to distribute the content, the user accounts, relationships with studios etc. Apple could set up Netflix in a couple of months - it's little more than
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
I very rarely do this, I just use Windows photo preview. I must be the exception. Being downvoted is a great way to force you to rethink something.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
They're both selling content to watch on your TV. Albeit with different business models. They are both after $X a month, just in different ways.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
A potential big threat for Twitter as it's a much richer way of following musicians - and if video content on iTunes starts to take off then also actors etc.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Steve, no one gives a fuck about photo slideshows.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Netflix - Good or bad news for them? They're on the Apple TV, so that's a plus. But Apple are now direct competitors, and they control the platform.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Read the thousands of other questions asking the same thing. Obviously you know the answer, if not then you're wasting your time.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Surely there must be people on HN who were posting while they started up, and went on to be successful? The site's been going three years now...
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
There's an interesting problem here. Any criminal accusations against him are going to be presumed false by virtually everybody. Imagine if he'd been arrested for possession of drugs. Would you believe that? No way. So he's pretty much alri
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
That's a great example. He wasn't involved in startups though, more an academic capacity turned into a business. Pretty much a classic example of working on something quietly and turning it into something awesome.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
You're underselling yourself massively here. You are in the minority - you can't move for tripping over developers. I can't get a decent sales/marketing/ops guy for blood nor money. Find a startup that you believe in and just approach th
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
PHP + Yii Framework + jQuery + MySQL. It does everything you'll need - quickly and neatly. It's got the good bits of Ruby on Rails with the benefits of using PHP (huge amounts of tutorials, modules, components etc). Fuck worrying about w

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