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by dcurtis 18y ago
Also he points to BoingBoing as having a substandard design, but really it has one of the best blog designs out there. Whoever designed it has an excellent understanding of typography and spacing.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I use my MacBook Pro for design in Photoshop and development in TextMate + terminals + webkit. It's nice to be plugged into a screen, of course, but I can operate just fine with six spaces at 1440x900. I've become quite efficient with it, a
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I think in many ways those are the same thing. It depends on how wide of a market you want to capture. If you're just solving a single problem, like web forms (wufoo), then it's easy as long as the problem is real. If you're trying to start
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Thanks. The point I was trying to make was that developing a philosophy behind building a company is not generally considered a strong requirement for most web companies. And if you develop a powerful enough theory for your market, and then
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HIV appears cured after stem cell transplant(cnn.com)
42 points by dcurtis 18y ago|12 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I'm curious if anyone is using Woopra? It's really cool realtime analytics. The application is written in Java, but it's like crack. I leave it open, starring at it for hours as people visit my site. It could use a lot of work though. I see
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Hey, you developed Clicky? Can you send me an email? I have feedback! hi@dustincurtis.com
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by dcurtis 18y ago
That is probably the most intelligently written description of why Hulu will not destroy broadcast television I have read. Why do so many people not understand the attention-grabbing quality of "liveness" with broadcast television? When wil
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by dcurtis 18y ago
What practical use does this serve? Just for fun hacking? For anything of significant use, I think you need something like the Beagle Board (beagleboard.org) or a Gumstix. Anyone know of any others?
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Why bad taste rules in business endeavors(garry.posterous.com)
26 points by dcurtis 18y ago|6 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
But it did fail. For those 21 million people, the video stopped or it kicked them out or there were audio problems. I am not sure why the article plugged some obscure video streaming software. CNN.com already does peer to peer video transfe
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I would agree with you if this was about any other company. Spirit is widely considered the worst airline in the industry for many reasons. A couple years ago, the CEO accidentally replied all to a customer complaint when he meant to forwar
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Zappos has amazing phone support. They require all employees from all departments to spend time talking to real customers. Even Tony, the CEO, does customer support calls.
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Getting There From Here(newyorker.com)
3 points by dcurtis 18y ago|0 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This isn't totally true. When CompUSA was going out of business, great deals could be found on the final days before the stores closed. I got a brand new MacBook, worth 1299 at the time, for 359 and a Velodyne subwoofer (299 normally) for
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TechCrunch Tablet Update: Prototype B(techcrunch.com)
89 points by dcurtis 18y ago|76 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
They example they gave was this: Imagine you're operating on a person and you accidentally leave a sponge deep inside their abdomen. The nurse, following the checklist, tells you and you go back in and remove it. In the process, you cut an
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Heroku is free. It's also easier and available right now. I uploaded the code for http://fuel.dustincurtis.com and it was working within 10 minutes. For most of my little fun projects, I don't need an entire instance, and Solo is extremel
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I'll be there. Been wanting to try Republic for a while.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Well, she saw that Motorola was failing and she bailed. I can see how that would create some disconnect and disharmony.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
They did set up a study, informally, like you would do in most sciences for an exploratory experiment. But it was shut down by the FDA. And to comply with FDA rules (which are designed specifically for drug testing and exploring new surgica
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Wow, I did some quick research on Padmasree Warrior, and she's incredibly smart. From the Mobilize '08 keynote: "We have this question today, this question of where mobile devices will go in the future. So the question at hand is, 'What is
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Any doctor who reads the study and sees the 50% reduction in death rate in surgeries and 90% reduction in accidental deaths in the ICU would be negligent to ignore checklists. If this surgery checklist and the ICU checklist were to be imple
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Finally. The idea for a checklist in clinical settings was originally conceived by Peter Pronovost at Johns Hopkins. Last year, Gawande wrote an awesome essay for the New Yorker about the ICU checklists that were attempted in the US (saving
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Possibly, but all of the services Google cut were due to mistakes made in the past couple years. I think the more likely explanation is that companies are using this "downturn" as an excuse to cut the crud without the bad publicity. The eff
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by dcurtis 18y ago
A hormone imbalance is serious. Anything "more complex" than that is very serious. Anything so serious that it could cause a CEO to leave a company for six months is extremely serious.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Yeah, there's something about watching a progress bar get to 100% that is very satisfying.
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Many agencies are represented, not just bigspaceship.
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For commercial online enterprises, "raising awareness" is a euphemism for "getting signups." Although I think Alex is, at heart, genuinely interested in helping the environment (he has a PhD in environmental science and is an environmental
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by dcurtis 18y ago
After seeing this post, I remembered that they gave me a beta account a while ago. With some source I already had, tied to another db on another host, I was able to get http://fuel.dustincurtis.com up and working on Heroku within about 10

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