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NYT Interview with Steve Jobs on MacBook Air, Kindle(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
5 points by dcurtis 19y ago|0 comments
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Why? The internet is a much better and cheaper alternative, and it offers the enormous upside of instant gratification. Software might come on USB sticks for a while in the future, I think, but eventually even that will be delivered digital
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by dcurtis 19y ago
It only billed people who have automatic billing enabled. So from month-to-month autobill people, 7.5 million is probably right. Total income? Probably much, much more.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
This affected a ton of people, so I figured it's at least partially relevant. Who here was multiple-billed?
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Dreamhost made a $7.5 million billing error(blog.dreamhost.com)
6 points by dcurtis 19y ago|8 comments
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by dcurtis 19y ago
The Eee is ugly, slow, and gimpped, so I wouldn't consider that a very good option. Unless all you do is surf the web and check email (and absolutely nothing else).
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Yeah, but he's right. The future of entertainment doesn't have DVDs in it. I'm hoping with Apple TV I can skip BluRay alltogether, but I haven't seen the HD specs from the iTunes store yet.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Yeah, some people convinced me to build a competitor. I will. When it's done in a few weeks, I'll do an Ask YC post about it.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
In a perfectly beautiful capitalist society-- that is, a small community-- I would create a better site and put him out of business. But due to the sheer number of users he has now, the switching cost (for each user) is almost assuredly too
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Oh, I misunderstood. You were comparing the types of people who use CNN to the types of people who use Fox News. Got it.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
True. The reason I so deeply disrespect the man, though, is because with that 10 million dollars he has done absolutely nothing to advance the experience of people on his site. It's also possible that he could take his huge customer base an
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by dcurtis 19y ago
CNN.com actually is a beautiful site.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
You're right, he most certainly doesn't deserve to be successful. I love this line from nyt: "Spending time at Plenty of Fish is a visually painful experience." You have to have a really screwed up interface to make someone call it "visuall
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Maybe I slightly exaggerated.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
I'd say that the lack of OpenID on consumer sites is fortunate, because it would just confuse 95% of people. It confuses some geeky/internet-savvy people too, just because of the horrifically bad implementation and design of the OpenID syst
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by dcurtis 19y ago
You were "forced" to use bugmenot? Why not just choose a unique ID? I don't understand some of these people who are hyper-security-conscious to the point of insanity. It affects their enjoyment of the internet.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Yeah, I run red lights because I dun like them. They're just not me.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
It seems simple, but this quote probably had the most profound impact on my life, more than any other quote I've ever read/heard: "When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday
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by dcurtis 19y ago
What the scientologists do every night...
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by dcurtis 19y ago
But he'd have an army to take over after him!
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Yeah, can you change the active/inactive link color to #ccc? Or make it customizable?
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Thanks. I made the top bar white, and it really makes everything dramatically cleaner looking.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Yeah, http://dreamhoststatus.com/ They're rebooting after a failed update or something. edit: it's back up (12:41am pst)
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Dreamhost. And they're pretty good about it, too.
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Wow, thank you so much. The javascript stuff to make the forms pretty (and disappear when active) is the very next step. Login cookie is next. account/login tabbing: I'll fix that. Thanks. The time calculation is based on midnight of the da
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Interesting thoughts. But the fact remains, they weren't really using the neurons as a "brain", which is what the article/headline claims, they were just using sophisticated software to find an ewualibrium point and self-correct. They were
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Yup, that's on the list of things to do!
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Thanks!
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Ask YC: I built this to learn Rails in 2 days. What do you think?
25 points by dcurtis 19y ago|25 comments
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by dcurtis 19y ago
This "journalist" should be ashamed of him/herself. What a load of crap. This is no more amazing than putting a rock on a string and telling a computer to correct the plane's roll when the rock moves away from 0 degrees. Also, the article h

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