Rory McMeekin

Student dabbling in too many things for his own good.

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A Beta OS can be dangerous

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I awoke a few days ago to a rent-money reminder from my landlord — I’d forgotten to wire the money due for last month’s rent before I flew out from my home country to WWDC (Apple’s annual developer conference).

Not to worry, I thought, I’ll just log into my bank’s mobile banking app on my iPhone and send it over like I usually do. Except this time, my mobile banking app wouldn’t exactly work… And by that, I mean it wouldn’t let me log in. Then it hit me, my now-buggy banking app was freaking out as a result of me installing iOS 8 on my only iOS device.

Once I realised that I needed my banking app to authorise my login to their online banking web portal, combined with the fact that I’d forgotten my telephone banking passcode (who uses telephone banking nowadays?), and that there are no branches of my bank in the US, I knew I was in a bit of a tough spot. Such a tough spot was only...

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Dogecoin’s Goodwill

Dogecoin is emerging as a cryptocurrency to be reckoned with; its altruistic tendencies highlight its growing force.

I went to bed on Wednesday night after seeing that Dogecoin’s subreddit had just announced their plan to send India’s luge contender to the Winter Olympics, after someone caught hold of his struggle to get funding. Unfortunately, my Dogecoin client had yet to sync with the network (I have been a bit behind lately), and therefore I was unable to invest. Not to worry, I thought, I’ll have a chance in the morning.

Boy was I wrong.

I awoke to a frenzy on the subreddit, as its participants had manager to raise the entire funding goal, Ð4million (roughly $6k USD, in just three hours. Granted, one donator had contributed 75% of the donation raised, but this does not detract from the spirit that the rest of Dogecoin’s community seems to currently possess.

Much of the...

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