AlexMuir

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by AlexMuir 9y ago
I'd never even heard of synthwave before I did spent 5 hours on Audio Jungle trying to find good music for this video. Now it's all I listen to while I'm coding.
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
String. Coat hangers. Bits of wire. Sticks as fishing rods. We tried various ways and in the end I mainly used some conductive cotton thread that I bought from Adafruit ages ago. It was strong enough to take a lot of weight, but nice a
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
It took 2,500 photos and 4 days to shoot, followed by about 8 days of photoshopping & grading.
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Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine(howacarworks.com)
845 points by AlexMuir 9y ago|188 comments
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
No idea why you’re being down voted. I don’t see any significant change from the WWDC demo months ago so this can hardly be called a ‘reveal’
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Genius who helped found Bitcoin kicked worker in the bottom(manchestereveningnews.co.uk)
1 points by AlexMuir 9y ago|0 comments
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by AlexMuir 9y ago
I'm not sure where I read this suggestion, but a couple of months ago I unfollowed everyone on FB. Now my newsfeed is basically empty - and my Facebook experience is much improved. I highly recommend it.
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by AlexMuir 10y ago
What would be a good way to start meditating? Nothing too intense - just to dip a toe in.
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by AlexMuir 10y ago
I'm sure there's a point in on the adoption graph of any technology which should be labeled as "Used to generate PR buzz". Second Life, 3D printers, etc. My gut feeling is that it comes just before the mass realization
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Kickstarter's Annual Public Benefit Report(avc.com)
1 points by AlexMuir 10y ago|0 comments
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by AlexMuir 10y ago
How a Car Works: http://www.howacarworks.com Revenue from Adsense and iOS app salse. Profits around $2,000 per month. I'm now working on a video series about how cars work which I hope will be a good seller.
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Mystery as wrecks of three Dutch WWII ships vanish from Java seabed(theguardian.com)
1 points by AlexMuir 10y ago|0 comments
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by AlexMuir 10y ago
Good luck using Sublime or atom over SSH.
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CoreUI: Open-Source Bootstrap 4 Admin Components(github.com)
1 points by AlexMuir 10y ago|0 comments
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Ethical questions raised in search for Sardinian centenarians' secrets(theguardian.com)
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Realtime Mobile Usage Statistics(dealsunny.com)
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Thoughts: 20 typical types of 30-something men(thesense.co)
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“Two years in Bitcoin” by a mildly interested outsider(alexmuir.com)
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FlagStories(flagstories.co)
24 points by AlexMuir 11y ago|0 comments
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by AlexMuir 11y ago
I think a lot of the successful Social-Network-for-X apps hit a critical mass before FB groups became popular. It's going to be much harder to do that now because now Facebook for X is the X group on Facebook.
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by AlexMuir 11y ago
I know many small physical businesses who get almost nothing from their website, and a huge amount from their 10,000 followers on Facebook. Coffee shops, tradesmen, bars. Facebook isn't a competitor to most B2B products, but it's
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Facebook is the new Excel(alexmuir.com)
565 points by AlexMuir 11y ago|250 comments
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by AlexMuir 11y ago
A little under $1 for every home in the US [0], so far. [0] http://www.statista.com/topics/1618/residential-housing-in-t...
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by AlexMuir 11y ago
I'm interested in the mechanics of this because it seems to be a very difficult scam to pull off. First they need to hack a tradesman's emails, then register a similar domain, then open a bank account in the same name (presumably
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Email scam costs couple £25,000 – but no one will help(theguardian.com)
3 points by AlexMuir 11y ago|2 comments
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Mondo raises £1M in 96 seconds(alexmuir.com)
3 points by AlexMuir 11y ago|0 comments
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by AlexMuir 11y ago
I think this is a great example of finding an unglamorous problem and then relentlessly executing on it. It's been a pleasure to watch. - There is clearly an opportunity here and it's more work than simply writing a webapp, puttin
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Crowdcube site brought down by demand for Mondo investment(twitter.com)
6 points by AlexMuir 11y ago|0 comments
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by AlexMuir 11y ago
Thanks for this write-up. I was a somewhat inspired by Monograph when I started on Car Projects (a space for people to share their garage projects). I had seen Monograph somewhere a while back, and then when I wanted to find it again I&#x2
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by AlexMuir 11y ago
That's definitely true. I'm completely hopeless at sales. But I've contracted Google (via Adsense) to sell my ads. For which I pay them a ~30% commission. Conclusion: the Independent's ad sales team is a lot better at

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