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by dcurtis 18y ago
He suggests his plane gets better gas mileage than his car. People keep asking, "Where's the flying car?" Well, we have it. It's called an airplane.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Why would you have 70-80 tabs open in anything? When I have a lot of tabs open, I feel dirty and cluttered.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Wow, I thought he was just some obnoxious prick, but he's actually an extremely intelligent guy. He gets American business.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
The purchase of jet fuel can very rarely directly kill someone. A prescription, on the other hand....
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Beauty is in the Processing-Time of the Beholder(seedmagazine.com)
1 points by dcurtis 18y ago|0 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
The background/foreground issue is still accurate. The window changes almost imperceptibly from active to inactive.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
What you are describing is the power of the open market; it's what happens when you don't have an oligopoly like we have here in the US.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I've never seen a "leading telecom" messaging system send my single message simultaneously to a thousand people via email, sms, IM, and a web interface within a minute. SMS by itself is slow, unreliable, expensive, and only goes point-to-po
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by dcurtis 18y ago
At the very basis, an upvote means "I want other people to see this" and a downvote means "I think this is a waste of other people's time." Your voting habits don't influence what you see at all, so it really has no personal effect; you're
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Ah, I was wondering why this was happening. At least I'm not the only one. I honestly wonder if Twitter would be the same if it didn't have all of these problems. There would be nothing to lovingly make fun of.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
You might be right. On the other hand, the article does paint a picture of a greedy, evil asshole with no respect for other people or for his own word. Who do you know with a business card that says "I'm CEO... bitch."? There are ways to gr
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Talking Business: The Sinatra of Southwest Airlines Feels The Love(nytimes.com)
1 points by dcurtis 18y ago|0 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Isn't it a bit presumptuous of Michael Arrington to suggest that this story is directly causing the stock price to fluctuate? I mean, seriously, it's TechCrunch.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This isn't a small number of articles; it's a growing trend that started about four months ago.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Not on top of the remainder of the 2 year contract from the last iPhone. (i.e. rather than extending your contract to 3 years, they just delete the old contract and create a new one that is 2 years)
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Actually I thought this was a very un-evil thing for them to do, considering my experience with cell phone companies in the past. They could have said that you can't upgrade, or that upgrading would tack on two additional years. Instead the
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I have a feeling he'd be able to get a traditional publisher pretty easily.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
This just goes to show how lost Google is regarding design. They had no idea what kind of favicon to create, so they created 300 different ones (some of them absolutely hideous) and chose an ugly lowercase G that doesn't match Google's bran
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Disqus explains what happened this morning (or how to handle an outage)(blog.disqus.net)
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by dcurtis 18y ago
He will most likely duck out of the acceptance process for those companies, and let the other judges (calacanis, etc) make the decisions. There is still an obvious, ridiculous conflict of interest.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I agree. But not only are the technical problems with most rich applications fixed by 280 north, but the UI is beautiful, easy to use, and awesome as well.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
What if CS4 is GPU-accelerated and offers the same (or more) performance as the jump to universal binary? Would that be an incentive to buy the upgrade? I'm curious about how slow people feel Photoshop is; it works really quickly for me doi
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by dcurtis 18y ago
That's not really an alternative. It's equivalent to SVNx for Subversion, which has a horrendous UI. The appeal of Versions is that it adds polite, beautiful interaction to something as mundane as version control. I'd rather use the command
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An Informal Proposal for CSS Class Selector Inheritance(erickerr.com)
2 points by dcurtis 18y ago|0 comments
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by dcurtis 18y ago
Versions was first publicized about two years ago. Their site has been saying "coming soon" forever; I figured it was vaporware. I am stunned that it was actually released. Hopefully, they can quickly adapt the beautiful UI to work with git
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by dcurtis 18y ago
There are a couple of things. Satellite and EVDO. Both are downgrades, but better than a 5gb bandwidth cap.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
You mean Netflix meets Bittorrent meets the US Government.
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by dcurtis 18y ago
It doesn't matter that the target audience works on Windows. That's no excuse to make hideous looking software. The argument he uses for creating a great environment for his programmers works the same way regarding his software-- creating a
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by dcurtis 18y ago
I don't get it. Why does Joel Spolsky spend so much time on the look and beauty of his office, but allow his websites and products to be so horribly ugly? It appears he treats his programmers like royalty, but where are the UI designers? Th
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by dcurtis 18y ago
The Octoparts have such a great, inspiring story. It's the quintessential startup: some guys have a problem they personally encounter, they casually decide to fix the problem for themselves, and a business is created almost by consequence.

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