MartinMcGirk

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by MartinMcGirk 12y ago
I think this is great too. I've just finished reading through it for the first time - many more times will be necessary until I properly understand it, mind you - but I love seeing creative uses of programming languages like this. I se
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'Sleep startup' Casper dreams of overturning the mattress racket(theverge.com)
3 points by MartinMcGirk 12y ago|0 comments
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
This. I went on the page and couldn't for the life of me work out what the service was for or about. I had been redirected to http://volleyit.co/sign-up so I even manually took the "sign-up" bit out of the UR
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Facebook and virtual reality: A game of goggles(economist.com)
1 points by MartinMcGirk 13y ago|0 comments
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
DK2 is expected to start shipping in July, no date has been set for consumer release but people seem to expect a consumer product release date either at the very end of this year or sometime in 2015. Any dates around the consumer product re
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
I'm in the UK and I had to pay $35 shipping and $77 Tax, bringing my total order to $462 or about £277.89. I only have a hobbyist/tinkerers interest in developing for anything for this, but I figure that (in my opinion) the Rift i
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
SMS was (still is) huge in the UK too, but all of my friends started using WhatsApp because you could send pictures to each other on WhatsApp without having to use MMS which cost more, was always a hassle to set up and wasn't available
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
I had a couple of minor styling issues once with one of Squarespace's templates. I emailed customer support and they pretty much could not have handled it any better. They were in constant contact with me and fixed both my problems (wh
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Fighting for more #transparency(blog.twitter.com)
1 points by MartinMcGirk 13y ago|0 comments
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
And there's an interesting idea for a browser extension. If the page the user is looking for no longer exists, check the internet archive and present that instead.
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First World War diaries go online to mark centenary(nationalarchives.gov.uk)
1 points by MartinMcGirk 13y ago|0 comments
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
This is exactly right. Ever since they brought in in-app purchases to the app store they have required a 30% cut of everything. This isn't a dig at bitcoin specifically. My local bus service sells bus tickets through an iOS app and the
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
I guess because the title here says "photograph" it didn't occur to me until the second visit that I could click and drag to look around. When I did though I got hit with the "Oh wow. That's incredible." sensat
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
I live in Scotland - What on earth is salad?
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
Ideally the user would choose the time the mail gets delivered. I have to have my phone on during the night in case of emergency and there is nothing more infuriating to me than a company that sends me email in the middle of the night, caus
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
For further information about vitamin D, I always recommend one particular episode [1] of the TWiT Security Now podcast where the host Steve Gibson talks for about an hour on his research into the effects of vitamin D and how he thinks that
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
Well, best of luck. I really hope it goes well for you. The design does look great.
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
In the spirit of constructive advice - and perhaps I'm missing something - but I just looked at your site and while it all looks very sci-fi and slick, I have absolutely no idea what the game is, how it works or why I'd want to pl
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
I read a post earlier today about an Oculus Rift application built on the Unity 3D engine that can be used to let people virtually explore houses or offices before construction has been started. The post had some architect quoted as saying
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
I was under the (perhaps false) impression that living costs were so much higher in these places as to make saving just as tough as working anywhere else on a lower salary? If I'm wrong about that I really need to go get an American Vi
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
>saving 6 months worth of expenses on a tech salary when you have no dependants is trivial I have no dependants, I am 25 and I would love to be earning the kind of money in my tech job that made saving 6 months worth of expenses "tr
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
I actually switched from my iPhone 4 and bought a Lumia 1020 to give Windows Phone a try. I can't speak to the technical camera jargon as I'm not much of a camera nerd (yet), but what I can tell you is that the camera is phenomena
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
I only just picked up a Lumia 1020 two days ago after using an iPhone for the last 2 years, so the jury is still out for me on whether I prefer it or not and how well it suits my particular set of needs. I'm not even sure I can accurat
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Small Empires 005: Shapeways [video](theverge.com)
1 points by MartinMcGirk 13y ago|0 comments
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
I would argue that, in general, people aren't caring. We are caring; the small band of software and technology enthusiasts who develop software and online businesses. We care. But in the grand scheme of things, people don't care s
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
As a UK resident, I feel like I can speak to the question of whether we can describe the UK (I pass no judgement on the US) as oppressive or a police state, so here's my take on it. I don't necessarily agree that GCHQ or the NSA s
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
I can confirm it doesn't work on the new maps beta - that's what had me confused. Incognito mode worked a charm though. Great easter egg and thanks for the help viewing it
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
If you can live without great code formatting support and you don't mind paying for it, then I really can't recommend Squarespace highly enough. I fancied blogging, but I already have so many god-damn side projects on the go (my e
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Google Hangout with Elon Musk and Richard Branson (live)(youtube.com)
5 points by MartinMcGirk 13y ago|1 comments
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by MartinMcGirk 13y ago
Most insightful comment I've read all day. I had never thought of it like that before, but it rings true and now Twitter's success makes perfect sense to me (at last). I'm now wondering how (if) you could tread the line betwe

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