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   Secrets of sauna(yle.fi)

   5 points by aacook 5y ago|0 comments
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   by aacook 5y ago

   There have been a bunch of times in my life where I spent all day or even a few days on a difficult design and/or code problem. Then as I'm just barely coming out of it in the morning — bam — some novel solution to what I'd s
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   Sending Free Artwork Postcards on NanaGram Just Because(nanagram.co)

   2 points by aacook 5y ago|0 comments
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   by aacook 5y ago

   Great question. Every cell carrier processes images before delivering to the recipient. Like, if you send 3 or more photos almost every cell carrier will downsize the images. While this isn't an extensive test, I just tried renaming a
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   Apple Has New Tools to Protect Children. But at What Cost?(nytimes.com)

   23 points by aacook 5y ago|7 comments
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   by aacook 5y ago

   I last noticed this happened on July 28th. Took about 5 minutes to come back up. Hopefully we're back online soon. Edit: Back up for me after 5 minutes.
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   Is Digital Ocean Down?

   16 points by aacook 5y ago|14 comments
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   by aacook 5y ago

   NanaGram founder here. (I use F5bot to get alerts of mentions.) Saw Yayagram the other day and love it! My grandma was a telephone operator for decades and would have been over-the-moon using Yayagram. This is a truly underserved space. The
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   Cancelling NanaGram is as Easy as Using the Product(nanagram.co)

   1 points by aacook 6y ago|0 comments
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    Charlie Waite Meets Intrepid Camera(youtube.com)

    1 points by aacook 6y ago|0 comments
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    by aacook 6y ago

    This story is a few days old. On the 24th the Select Board had a meeting. Cavacco put forward a motion to do a security investigation into the issue. Not a single other board member seconded the motion.
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    A Plymouth Select Board member says town manager monitored her emails(boston.com)

    2 points by aacook 6y ago|1 comments
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    by aacook 6y ago

    Yes, they're just good enough to print on a 4x6. If you send 1-3 photos at a time, the resolution tends to be better. If the sender is on an economy cell carrier, they also tend to be more aggressive with downsizing. iCloud sharing alb
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    by aacook 6y ago

    Didn't know that about WhatsApp. How far down to they downsize? I've been testing the new Twilio/WhatsApp integration and when I last checked like 6 months ago it looked like the images were full resolution.
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    by aacook 6y ago

    What kind of printer do you have?
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    by aacook 6y ago

    Are some of your older relatives not on FB? I've been looking at a way to subscribe people to a digital delivery of photos — we have a loose version of this via a weekly Saturday morning email you can subscribe yourself to (to see what
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    by aacook 6y ago

    Thanks for sharing NanaGram. :)
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    by aacook 6y ago

    This is so awesome. Didn't know about this until your comment. Thanks so much for sharing. I love how bill lets users use his photographs for the postcards. I've dabbled with releasing a text-to-postcard service but standard 4x6 p
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    by aacook 6y ago

    Could've been PicPlum: https://web.archive.org/web/20120108183334/https://www.picpl...
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    by aacook 6y ago

    I'm not aware of one but I'd love to know about it. I wonder if it was a postcard you sent? There are a couple native apps that focus on postcards that are doing well.
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    by aacook 6y ago

    Sweet! With all the junk mail we seemingly all get, something from a loved one is cherished for sure. Related, we're about to print 20,000 NanaGram envelopes (up until now it's been basic white envelopes) with a red foil liner to
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    by aacook 6y ago

    I really appreciate this feedback. We have plenty of people who are on those services and still enjoy NanaGram. There are also lots of younger grandparents who love getting physical prints too. I'm not super well versed on printed phot
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    by aacook 6y ago

    We ship worldwide. This is a good question. To be honest, I'm not thinking decades out. My siblings and I tried to set my grandparents up with devices which never worked. People often tell me the same when signing up for NanaGram. Prod
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    by aacook 6y ago

    You too! That's awesome. Text reminders are where it's at. Do you have a website yet?
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    by aacook 6y ago

    There are some giants in the space for sure: Walmart, Amazon, CVS, Walgreens, Shutterfly, Snapfish, and many more. None of them did what I needed: Nag all my siblings on a regular basis to send photos to my elderly grandparents. Print quali
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    by aacook 6y ago

    YC W21 will be remote. Applications are due in 10 days on the 23rd. I put together this Google Doc to make it easy to draft and share with proofreaders. To make your own copy go to File > Make a Copy. https://docs.google.com&#
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    YC W21 Remote Batch(blog.ycombinator.com)

    82 points by aacook 6y ago|54 comments
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    by aacook 6y ago

    I have been wondering about this argument about the decline. Check out these numbers: https://facts.usps.com/table-facts/ From 2010 to 2019: -Overall annual operating revenue has increased from $67.1B to $71.1B -First-
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    by aacook 6y ago

    This was a solid read and hits close to home. I lived through this last summer. I'm in Plymouth MA which is just outside the critical zone of the outbreak described in the article (we entered "moderate" risk). I remember the
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    by aacook 6y ago

    This is beautiful. Great job.