AlexMuir

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by AlexMuir 16y ago
"then I went on looking at scaling" Pick the tools that you are best with and that you enjoy using, fuck the rest. If your product takes off, then worry about scale.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
I think one of the biggest reasons for Twitter's success has been the users it attracts (in chronological order): 1. Geeks - were not put off by 140char limit, abstract usernames, @-syntax, and appreciated the openness of the API. Blogs li
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
50 years isn't all that long - there are plenty of tapes and records that are still perfectly usable from then. As long as you included a decent amount of redundancy you'd be alright with a few hard drives surely? There's always the issue
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Union Square Ventures' portfolio teardown(businessinsider.com)
2 points by AlexMuir 16y ago|0 comments
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
You could almost embed these in a QR Code.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
How would you even go about finding this data out?
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Survey done in late 2008? That's pretty much at the peak surely, I wonder if it's down as the exit routes are largely shut, or up because other investments are offering lower returns.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Opposite for me, bought the 3G and have used it twice out of the house. Maybe just that I'm not travelling much - I'd be getting a mywi though I think as then I could use the dataplan across multiple devices.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
I wonder if part of the reason for groupon's success is that businesses need to drop their prices because of the recession. Instead of directly dropping prices though, Groupon allows businesses to keep their headline prices as they were, b
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
I can't really recommend it to people as a computer because there's quite a bit that it simply can't do. Even if I limit it to simply internet access I still come across sites where I can't book something/choose a date because the JS doesn
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Is there a market for a screen darkening overlay? Even with brightness right down it's too bright for me at night, and I think it disrupts my sleeping slightly.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
I've found the complete opposite - I can hardly work an iPhone keyboard now. I'm amazed at how fast typing on the iPad is - although I've still not worked out where I should be looking keyboard (for finger placement), or text (for typos)
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
There's Dragon dictation software available for it, no idea if it's any good though.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Battery life is simply outstanding.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
+1 on Dropbox. Apple really mashed up the file uploading.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
That's where I'm at too. It doesn't cook your nuts like a laptop.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
You tried Air Video? It's good but you need to have Air Video Server running on your PC (free and painless enough).
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Flipboard obv. Pulse also (both iPad apps). FT Alphaville is an interesting startup-style product from the FT - their Markets Live daily chat is quite cool. But yeah, I think you're right - it seems quiet. What you thinking?
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Even with iOS 4 I think multi-tasking will be crap. Copying and pasting from a web-page to an email is a real slog. The power of multi-tasking comes from having multiple windows visible at the same time and this will never happen.
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Ask HN: Four months since launch: how are you finding the iPad?
58 points by AlexMuir 16y ago|89 comments
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
I don't think mobile search/advertising threatens web search - it's a new industry. People aren't going to search less on their PC because they have a phone that allows them to search. Google moved into mobile because they wanted that add
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
"It's as if Google, not knowing who is winning the war, is fighting it everywhere, just in case it turns out that's where the true enemy is hiding." That's a great quote. It seems that once a company becomes undisputed champion of a particu
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
That episode is a classic, I highly recommend it too - DHH and Jason are a good match.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
The Venture Voice series of interviews with great tech entrepreneurs - http://www.venturevoice.com/
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Reporters Roundtable is a professionally produced weekly conversation about a single tech-topic. It's great - http://www.cnet.com/reporters-roundtable-podcast/ If you handle two hours of Jason Calacanis you could try This Week in Startup
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Imperative I think.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Fb could up the limit for an ip based on the number of users logging in from that location. Plus I'm only thinking the public facing non-friend profile views.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
This is exactly the sort od thing that makes a trip to HN worthwhile! Very cool, Thanks to high-school latin I was able to make a bit of sense of the table of parts of speech. Shame I haven't got a use for it ATM.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Facebook's fuckup is not to have some sort of anti-scraping system running. If they'd limited the number of public-facing profile views to 100 a day per IP address then this would have taken 41,666 days for one IP address (obviously you'd
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Is this a trick where you post an item from 1999 and we all think it's recent? This seems completely pointless -surely anyone able to code HTML is also able to copy and paste a Css file from somewhere?

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