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by dcurtis 18y ago
Sorry, I guess I didn't say that right. I meant that you shouldn't charge for things that customers have the perception of being free to you. People don't seem to like that. A customer will think "Oh, more invoices if I pay X dollars more!"
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Actually they sold it three times. First to Excite@Home, then CNET, then American Greetings.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Yeah, SSL costs in total $30 a year, for all customers. No company should be reckless with customer information, regardless of the tier they purchase. Only charge for things that actually cost you time or money, otherwise your customers wil
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by dcurtis 18y ago
It's possible. I'm happy to drive up interest in this though. It looks like a genuinely awesome product.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
If I was going to launch something like this, I'd want to keep it secret until it was ready for market. Arrington obviously made a mistake by posting the photos, and it ruined the surprise. I took them down to be nice. TechCrunch has never
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Did Arrington actually pull off the CrunchPad WiFi tablet?(blog.dustincurtis.com)
74 points by dcurtis 18y ago|50 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This is not newsworthy.
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Senate majority vs. national debt(iamwil.posterous.com)
26 points by dcurtis 18y ago|21 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Here's a very interesting quote: "If you want to be rich one day, fall in love with a business that you own. Be passionate about its success and love it like you would a child. Don't worry about getting rich, that is something that happens
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Sell it before you build it(venturehacks.com)
91 points by dcurtis 18y ago|32 comments
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The Sorry State of Music Startups(techcrunch.com)
31 points by dcurtis 18y ago|16 comments
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Change the word "item" to "edit" in the URL.
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Startup Lessons from The Snowball(howradical.com)
2 points by dcurtis 18y ago|0 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
You're right that /dcurtis could have different information. But I am talking about webapps that would return a 404 for http://example.com/users . The vast majority of major apps do not use urls the way you described. Unless you absolut
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by dcurtis 18y ago
You can't use the excuse that "the software urges me to do it this way, so I'll make the user's experience suffer." As a developer of user-centric software, it is totally your responsibility to do al the hard work for the user. That include
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by dcurtis 18y ago
There are two things to take into consideration here. I agree with the premise of what the author is saying, that URLs should be as short as possible, but I also think URLs should be informative as well. The amazon.com/wii url is great beca
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Their numbers for Safari are hilariously wrong; they suggest Opera has a bigger share (at 1.9%). Considering all other metrics seem to indicate Safari has a 3-6% share now, this leads me to question all of their other numbers.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
And somehow, you managed to cause a bug in Twiddla I have never seen elsewhere. When you make the window smaller, some of your content actually goes off the edge: http://dustincurtis.com/screenshots/Team_WhiteBoarding_with_...
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Woah. I don't think that's a good way to be thinking. One of the major downsides of internet-based television is that the video quality is typically very, very bad. To take over TV, you need to at least match the picture quality of made-for
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by dcurtis 18y ago
There are two in Detroit. Warren, MI, where the next closest theater is, is half an hour away.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
For those who are curious, here's the browser makeup of Hacker News traffic to all of my articles that have been on the front page here: http://dustincurtis.com/screenshots/Browsers_-_Google_Analyt...
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The sad state of Detroit: outlook falls with home prices(chicagotribune.com)
37 points by dcurtis 18y ago|30 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
There was a flash somewhere in the video of the house's computer display showing how much power was being used and indicating it was switching to solar panels when the sun was out. I think the home is kind of the last frontier of digitaliza
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Starting on page 17, Buffet discusses the failures of Freddie and Fannie and their oversight committee, the OFHEO. It's a fascinating read. This particular caption is my favorite on derivatives: "Improved “transparency” – a favorite remedy
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This is interesting to watch. I notice you type something, you delete it, and then type something different quite a bit. When you write on paper, how do you deal with this constant deletion?
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I think a lot of the growth problems might have to do with the devaluation of karma. The solution to this might actually raise the quality of comments and front page stories. When I posted a comment here a year and a half ago, I felt like e
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I have a surprising graph to show: here's the OS makeup of Hacker News traffic from a post I recently had on the front page: http://dustincurtis.com/screenshots/Operating_Systems_-_Goog...
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Maybe a good idea, but they used Comic Sans for the description and that is the sign of amateur. After they lost all of their own data, I really would never trust anything with these people ever again.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
How awesome would it be if someone sued them for this? It's worth snooping around to see if what he did was illegal.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This is not how it has always been. The quality of Adobe products has gone down over the last few versions. CS4 is the worst. Photoshop has an incredible number of bugs. So many that it is almost unusable. It occasionally crashes while tryi

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