alex_martin

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Ask HN: Why don't banks take your photograph?
4 points by alex_martin 15y ago|8 comments
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by alex_martin 15y ago
This is Full Tilt Poker - I can't put poker in the title.
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FTP Shuts Down. Players to lose everything.(betting.betfair.com)
3 points by alex_martin 15y ago|1 comments
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by alex_martin 15y ago
I wonder if this is a side-effect of (relatively) high engineering salaries. Financiers say 'ok, fine we can take paying $100k a year because we can write out your options at will.'. It may be a wider symptom of VC starting to attract more
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by alex_martin 15y ago
Between this and the CG Japanese popstar it looks like we won't be able to trust video any more than we trust digital photos now.
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by alex_martin 15y ago
This may be the first time the public gets really riled up by hackers in (almost) the same way they do about murders and robberies. I can imagine a police appeal for information resulting in literally thousands of names of hacker-types bei
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by alex_martin 15y ago
I really like Fred Wilson's blog. But I'm wondering - he reckons there's a bubble in startups at the moment, should he be trying to exit USV investments [1]? I understand his complaints from a series-A investor perspective, but many of th
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by alex_martin 15y ago
Do we really need the fucking (R) sign after every mention of Blackberry. I went into the article thinking perhaps I'd written off RIM too early - not likely.
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by alex_martin 15y ago
Aircraft must be the antithesis to Agile work and continuous iteration. It's a completely different mindset to anything I've done. Imagine it: 'I pushed a new flight yoke to 737 v2.199. It crashed so I've fixed the bug in v2.200. '
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by alex_martin 15y ago
A restaurant the runs like an Amazon warehouse? Where the staff are controlled by a little robotic handset. "turn left and pick up credit card terminal. Then go to table 32." "say: 'how was your food today sir?' Sounds fucking awful even if
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by alex_martin 15y ago
Is there a similar list of widely believed conspiracy theories? Or, even better, a list of conspiracy theories which have been proven true.
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by alex_martin 15y ago
The 'App Store' brand is so important to Apple now that they have no choice but to go hard to try and own it. It won't look good for Apple's claim if Amazon can stand in court and list off reams of other App Stores.