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by dcurtis 18y ago
This is sort of related to the traffic here: a snapshot of my Google Analytics after having a link on the front page for about three days. http://dustincurtis.com/screenshots/ga.jpg (This is the post, for reference: http://news.ycombinat
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by dcurtis 18y ago
From a purely legal standpoint, "some or all of its assets , including your Personal Information," could be argued to include the user's data under "assets." That's not to say Dropbox would do that. But it probably would be nice to explici
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I have an honest question: Why does anyone want Ruby to run on Windows? The cost of switching to Ubuntu and running Ruby there is probably way, way cheaper than rewriting all the libraries to work on Windows. I don't understand why this is
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by dcurtis 18y ago
There's nothing exciting here at all. Except for the bit about music, it's all the same stuff Zuckerberg has been saying for months.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Ha, what a coincidence (or not): I wrote the article, and I'm a UI designer. I've been trying to figure out a way to use peak shift in UI design for a while. Mainly, I have been wondering if the same principle occurs not only to things some
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by dcurtis 18y ago
"a venture-capital-backed entrepreneur who starts a company that goes public" There's, like, four total people in the world who match that description in web-based companies over the past few years.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Why do you think people overvalue Twitter? CNN is starting to embrace it as a news source, and that's huge.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Interesting. I wonder why HN didn't catch the URL.
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The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway(aiga.org)
5 points by dcurtis 18y ago|4 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Which companies?
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by dcurtis 18y ago
The author never describes the results of those studies.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Congrats to CO2Stats. Take that money and do good for the environment (and make yourselves rich also, of course).
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This makes sense. But has any human being-- or any animal in nature-- ever ingested deuterium in any significant amount? How can you not know if this will change ever-so-slightly the way DNA transcription takes place, or example? I just thi
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by dcurtis 18y ago
What? This is on the New York Times? Tesla does not make faberge eggs or something. It makes all-electric vehicles. They are expensive now because the technology is new. But it is the future. The price will come down. This is not a subsidy
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Show me the study where a researcher feeds some animal deuterated water and then show how its life is extended by a statistically significant amount. Before you can actually produce such a study, this entire article is sensationalist and th
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by dcurtis 18y ago
S3 is a really bad example because they provide infrastructure. Their customers actually see their entire site go down. Those kinds of companies are the exception. I hope Heroku has rigorous testing and scrutinizes every change, even though
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This thinking has always kind of confused me. Why are customers/users at a big company more important than those at a startup? Just because there's more of them, now you can't make mistakes? If you have the agility to make rapid production
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This is how DNS works. It has nothing to do with NameCheap.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Wow, I learned so much from that article. Thanks for linking it.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This reminds me, in some small way, of the Peanut Butter Manifesto. Except that Sun is (as far as I can tell) failing at everything they are spreading their peanut butter on.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
What do you mean? You can't even comment on a Tumblr! There is no community there by design.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I second the "most recently updated" list on the Explore page.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I mean, traditional news outlets like CNN and New York Times have not significantly changed the way they deliver news online compared to newspapers or television. And I think there's a lot of room for innovation. Except for CNN, no one has
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Really? From research I have done in the past, I never noticed any discrepancy in infant mortality between African Americans and white Americans in the United States. Remember where you learned this? I'd be interested to learn more.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Only half? That is a gigantc number of people and it is growing every day. And still there is no great news outlet that truly understands how to use the internet. It is a wide open opportunity.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This actually is an excerpt from a very good book called Fast Food Nation.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
It's hard to filter things to their essential features, but that ability is kind of what defines a good entrepreneur. Building those essential things-- those things people absolutely need to use your service (and maybe to differentiate it)-
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I kind of disagree with this. I've seen many startups make poor hiring mistakes that eroded culture, slowed development, and added layers of management that were unnecessary. All of the hires, of course, were made based on the theory that t
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Yeah, if anything, those answers pique my curiosity.
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Burned Once, Intel Prepares New Chip Fortified by Constant Tests(nytimes.com)
5 points by dcurtis 18y ago|1 comments

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