MartinMcGirk

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   by MartinMcGirk 13y ago

   I did for quite a while actually. I loved the social browser concept, but the fact that I couldn't get extensions like lastpass to work in Rockmelt killed it for me and drove me back to vanilla Chrome. I still wished them well though,
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   by MartinMcGirk 13y ago

   It is a very valuable member of the Commonwealth, but as I understand it it uses a mix of Commonwealth English and US English and I didn't get round to including it as an option.
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   by MartinMcGirk 13y ago

   Canada was a toughie that I meant to get around to later. I was working from the reference at http://wikitravel.org/en/English_language_varieties which has three categories of English; "Commonwealth English",
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   by MartinMcGirk 13y ago

   I too feel this pain acutely, to combat it I wrote a small and VERY basic JavaScript file a while ago to change this on the fly on a webpage based on your GeoIP location. https://github.com/MartinMcGirk/English.JS
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   Hyperloop to finally be revealed by Elon Musk on August 12th(theverge.com)

   1 points by MartinMcGirk 13y ago|0 comments
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   by MartinMcGirk 13y ago

   One would hope that at some point previous to this they had a video on a separate version of the page and did a bit of A/B testing themselves.
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   by MartinMcGirk 13y ago

   I find DownForEveryoneOrJustMe ( http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ ) to be an invaluable tool for this kind of question.
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   by MartinMcGirk 13y ago

   Thanks, I see that now. Paperback version it is.
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   by MartinMcGirk 13y ago

   Question to those that already have this book - is the book full of diagrams? I ask because I could get this on kindle instantly (but diagrams suffer) or in paperback in a week or so. Is it worth getting the physical book over the e-book fo
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    by MartinMcGirk 13y ago

    I read a comment on here a fortnight or so ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5761783 ) about how all-caps messages send faster over slower systems. I thought it was interesting that the US navy has recently dropped t
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    US Navy drops all-caps communication requirement(navytimes.com)

    7 points by MartinMcGirk 13y ago|3 comments
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    by MartinMcGirk 13y ago

    It's not just the small players that preserve such excellent retro-design insight. May I introduce the HBO Corporate website: http://www.homeboxoffice.com/
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    Apple CEO Tim Cook's congressional testimony live(mercurynews.com)

    2 points by MartinMcGirk 13y ago|0 comments
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    by MartinMcGirk 13y ago

    Thanks, I had already considered switching "trousers" with "pants" and "pants" with "underwear", in which case it's all in the ordering lest you find "trousers" being replaced with "underwear". Context is a tricky one. It should be doable,
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    Show HN: English.JS - GeoIP based spelling correction between EN-GB & EN-US(mcgirk.com)

    2 points by MartinMcGirk 13y ago|2 comments
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    by MartinMcGirk 13y ago

    Thanks for the link
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    by MartinMcGirk 13y ago

    I am also interested in this. I know where I can get detailed news and analysis in the Tech industry, but I haven't come across too many good resources for the space industry. If I could find great news sites or podcasts or similar I'd cons
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    by MartinMcGirk 13y ago

    I can't even begin to describe how psyched I get when I see demos like this. The advances that SpaceX and their competitors are making in terms of making access to space cheaper are what will eventually lead to the human species settling on
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    by MartinMcGirk 13y ago

    Link it to the accelerometer and gyroscope and watch as your photo flaps about as you move your phone. Combined with tearing up your photo I bet it would get a few downloads.
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    by MartinMcGirk 14y ago

    Looks good, I look forward to exploring the site properly after work. One small niggle for you to address though. Log out and go to your home page. Navigate to the About page. Now try and get back to the home page without using your browser
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    by MartinMcGirk 14y ago

    I happen to think that you are wrong. As someone who only started teaching himself the python language last week (but who has seen it around the web for a lot longer) I would naturally assume that "Python server" was some variation of the p
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    by MartinMcGirk 14y ago

    In case anyone is interested, I've spoken to a friend of mine who was once a manager at Tesco and I can shed a little more light on the matter. The red number which the author had so far been unable to decipher is the "discount-reason-code"