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by dcurtis 17y ago
I agree with you. But after my experience with American Airlines, I felt personally insulted. This particular fight is personal.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
You're right. Lots of research and testing would need to be done. This is just a seed. I did think about a lot of this stuff, though. For one-way flights, you just put one date in, rather than a range. As you pointed out, this has some prob
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I have since removed this section. Thanks.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
You're right. I meant design team. I changed it from "web" to "design."
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Sure, maybe you enjoy navigating their odd hierarchy of complex member statuses. I'm pretty sure most people don't enjoy that. At the end of the day, American Airlines loses 300 million dollars a quarter. They're doing something wrong. And
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Hey thanks for pointing this out. I added a sentence at the top to clarify the article and toned down the hyperbole.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
This reminds me of a guy named Tehching Hsieh, who voluntarily isolated himself in a cage in his New York City apartment for a year. The cage and pictures of him are on display at MoMA. http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/322
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by dcurtis 17y ago
What? No double popped-collar neon polos? I thought that was his trademark. On a serious note, please make the website as great as the iPhone app. It's really lacking, and that integration will be really cool.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Using it, you can tell there is some huge potential. For example, these nifty queries: us debt / us population / us life expectancy in days http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=us+debt+%2F+us+populati... and (MSFT net income / MSFT employ
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Valleywag’s departing editor reflects on his time at Gawker Media(bloggasm.com)
6 points by dcurtis 17y ago|0 comments
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Well, I can say one thing: SSH over satellite internet is... an interesting experience, to say the least. A 2 second delay is really annoying.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
In general, you are supposed to lock the database for a couple seconds, take the snapshot, and then unlock it. This prevents that kind of data corruption.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Twitter stores all of the messages and gives the impression of being a queue that you should read. Imagine if you inserted your facebook feed into your twitter stream. It would be so much useless junk, that you'd be unable to actually commu
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A thought: disposable realtime notifications for webapps(blog.dustincurtis.com)
40 points by dcurtis 17y ago|29 comments
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Interesting. I'll update my post. Also, hilariously... http://dustincurtis.com/screenshots/Actual_Browser_Sizes_%28...
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Two annoying UI mistakes websites make(blog.dustincurtis.com)
21 points by dcurtis 17y ago|25 comments
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Microsoft is not capable of making the world's best calculator or the world's best notepad. That's the real problem.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Apple has less than 1% the number of developers working on OS X than Microsoft has working on Windows. Im sure the problems are a lot easier to deal with.
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Why Windows 7 is not the answer(blog.dustincurtis.com)
28 points by dcurtis 17y ago|53 comments
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Also, Facebook is just really well designed software, which I think counts for more than any of the things you mentioned. There's no reason to leave.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I was skeptical when the article didn't mention any numbers, and even more skeptical when the report's summary didn't mention them. But then I saw this graph, and I'm really kind of surprised at how big of an effect tiny amounts of lithium
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by dcurtis 17y ago
OpenID is a horrible user experience because it forces the user to set up an account externally to the site they want to visit. This is unintuitive, potentially insecure, and annoying. OpenID is worse in every way to an internal authenticat
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by dcurtis 17y ago
That email stuff is a blatant rip-off of Posterous. The more I read about the new Friendfeed beta, the more it feels like a Frankentwitter, collecting various features from other services and injecting them into the Twitter UI. I wonder wha
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by dcurtis 17y ago
The best example of this is Posterous. You just email something to post@posterous.com and you instantly have an account and a blog. You can then just keep using it or you can add a password and "claim" it later to get access to other featur
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by dcurtis 17y ago
No, it's Stack Overflow's fault for using such a terrible authentication system. OpenID has pretty much proven itself to be a failure in user experience. Facebook Connect has accomplished most of the goals of OpenID, anyway. They should use
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by dcurtis 18y ago
It makes a lot of sense. Imagine you have a fund that you need to invest into new, unproven companies at the early seed stage. You can find companies the traditional way by having meetings, getting referrals, soliciting applications, etc. B
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This $10k program is a special summer funding session. NYCSeed is actually an established angel investment firm that does invest significant amounts.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
What is wrong with Brooklyn? If you start your company in Manhattan, you're just needlessly increasing your burn rate and reducing the amount of time you have.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This is a terrible article. How did it get 7 points?
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by dcurtis 18y ago
When I see stories like this, I always wonder what happened internally at the company. When they launched the DiggBar, I'm sure most people at Digg thought it was a good idea. But they must have had some reservations. They must have acknowl

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