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by dcurtis 18y ago
Yeah, it used to be considered a model African country, with the highest increases in standard of living year/year of any country in the world. Robert Mugabe destroyed Zimbabwe. Wikipedia has some really excellent further reading on Mugabe
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Zimbabwe introduces new $50 billion note(cnn.com)
47 points by dcurtis 18y ago|66 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Nice article, but I have one thing to say: your list of priorities for features is probably what you think you want. Before I got the iPhone, I never browsed the internet on my Treo because the experience was just absolutely terrible (the
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Britain's first cancer-free designer baby born after being screened for deadly gene(dailymail.co.uk)
1 points by dcurtis 18y ago|0 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
How they can justify this? Skype should use my unlimited data plan that I pay for to route the call completely independent of the carrier.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Rightscale's UI is horrendous. It is so bad that I would rather use the command line tools.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Amazon already does this. Actually, I think it's required to list an item on Amazon.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Wow, this console is actually really awesome. It's the first non-command line based tool package that I'll actually be using. I was surprised when they launched AWS that they didn't have something like this in the beginning. The service see
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I think they're making progress, but they still don't get it. They don't understand how to make or market great consumer products. For the Pre, their marketing materials are all screwy and confusing. The device and UI are just complete ripo
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by dcurtis 18y ago
My biggest gripe is that the white margins on the right and left are totally screwed up in desktop browsers and especially on the iPhone (forcing it to be zoomed out). Because of the way the site is built in tables, the white borders just w
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by dcurtis 18y ago
It's a stepped rate. You pay .15 for the first 600, then .12 for all aditional data beyond that.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
You can export data from Google Analytics pretty easily to CSV or excel.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
JamLegend has definitely sucked up a lot of my time. I love that game. Gaming in the browser, especially multiplayer interactive gaming like JamLegend, could become a huge industry. The number of players in the space right now is very small
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Lots of ways. Vegans are an extreme minority. I assume most medical diets are designed for the majority of people. They probably had to formulate a special diet for him that was vegan, and it may have taken a while to find the proper mix. A
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by dcurtis 18y ago
If Steve Jobs died tomorrow, Apple's stock would fall a gigantic amount and anyone who owns it would be totally screwed, at least in the short term. It is in Steve's best interest to at least give people a small idea of what is going on wit
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Also, he's a vegan which could complicate his nutritional problems.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
37signals made a bad decision with this, in my opinion. They don't emphasize the expensive packages first, to make the cheaper packages seem more affordable. They make the one you want huge, and the 49 dollar price, at first glance, seems e
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Daily + hourly + monthly backups to S3, my local machine, and a USB flash drive that I keep in my wallet at all times: http://www.amazon.com/KingMax-Microsoft-Certified-Drive-Wash...
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by dcurtis 18y ago
My Twitter network is completely different from my Facebook network. That is why Facebook can't easily kill Twitter.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This is also explained well by Kevin Spacey in the movie 21.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
For 99% of users, the OS is the transparent windows and colors and user flow. No one cares about the "underlying OS" as long as the experience of using it is good. The reason I think it's amazing is because they have managed to add all of
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Windows 7 does, amazingly, have the same classic mode. When you switch to it, everything looks exactly like Windows 98.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
What? This is totally false. Windows 7 is a great step forward from Vista. They have removed all of the crap that was bloating the OS and pissing off people who like XP. It's the XPificiation of Vista, and they managed to pull it off. They
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by dcurtis 18y ago
You are misinformed. See this fantastic diagram: http://i33.tinypic.com/2yor21y.png
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AxonFlux, a new posterous on Rails, scaling, and software eng. Upgrading to Rails 2.2.2(axonflux.com)
2 points by dcurtis 18y ago|0 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Neat. This seems to be a typing tutor-ish app designed for people who already know how to type.
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The Untold Millions(37signals.com)
71 points by dcurtis 18y ago|39 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Heather Armstrong does this monthly for her daughter publicly on Dooce.com
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Why do the UI designers have to... wait a minute, there aren't any! If he spent half the amount of money he spent on this amazing office for a kick ass UI team, he would increase sales by an enormous amount for Fogbugz. I know so many peopl
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Freemium business model case study: AdultFriendFinder ARPU, churn, and conversion rates(andrewchenblog.com)
34 points by dcurtis 18y ago|1 comments

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