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by dcurtis 15y ago
None of those are actually any good. I installed the Travelocity app, and after fighting with the keyboard to select the airport from a dropdown, I got a javascript error that rendered the app useless. PhoneGap does not make good apps.
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by dcurtis 15y ago
I think selling people's data after asking them to pay for something like this, even if it's public data on Lifepath, is kind of a shitty thing to do.
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by dcurtis 15y ago
What doesn't add up? It's an auction. My plan is to open source it on Github or something if no one thinks it's worth 10k.
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by dcurtis 15y ago
The bonus would, however, be taxed as income and not as capital gains. That's kind of a bummer.
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by dcurtis 15y ago
It's not called Final Cut Pro 8, is it? It's exactly like the difference between Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X: enormous and transformative.
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by dcurtis 15y ago
Any video editor who is already switching from Final Cut Pro 7 to Premiere should be fired. Obviously later versions (hopefully sooner rather than later) of Final Cut Pro X will have multi-camera support. FCP 7 is still as good as it was la
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by dcurtis 16y ago
Regarding 1, it actually does post the payment over HTTPS via javascript directly to the payment processor from your browser. I wasn't really trying to do a controlled experiment, otherwise I would have done the other things you describe.
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by dcurtis 16y ago
Ha. Funny that this showed up here. But, after all, it was a hack-ish experiment... So far, 24 invitations have been purchased. Which is amazing, considering that I just put the form up there as an experiment (and a joke) to test a new clie
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by dcurtis 16y ago
As far as life expectancy, if you do three things to the data: 1. Normalize it to account for war and crime-related deaths, so you only get data that shows improvements to medical technology, 2. Look at worldwide life expectancy, not just U
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by dcurtis 16y ago
Yes. You should stop using "You should follow me on twitter".
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by dcurtis 16y ago
I'm surprised that San Francisco is only mentioned in passing. This list seems to me like the old view of Silicon Valley. (Or, maybe, if you had to describe the valley geographically.) It feels like the new Silicon Valley is in San Francisc
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by dcurtis 16y ago
The AOL you knew before November 24th, 2009 is dead. Don't make the mistake of underestimating the new AOL. It's a profitable media empire that is growing rapidly and knows what it wants. It made $500mm in revenue last quarter. Here's AOL's
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by dcurtis 16y ago
The Apple board has consistently granted him options, but he never exercises them (except for a couple grants in 1998-1999 that brought his company ownership to SEC-required levels for the CEO position). He has given up billions of dollars
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by dcurtis 16y ago
I wonder what is keeping them from doing an IPO. Selling a company as large and as profitable as GoDaddy at a public auction seems very strange.
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by dcurtis 16y ago
I don't think I've met anyone who can sell a design philosophy as well as you can. It's definitely a talent that requires skill and practice.
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by dcurtis 16y ago
This is almost exactly what actually happened with WebShots (only with smaller amounts of cash). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webshots
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by dcurtis 16y ago
The comments on that article are fascinating. If you start with the link above, you'll see a bunch of really brutal comments about Yarlagadda (they seem suspect, but there are so many of them, it's hard to tell). If you continue through the
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by dcurtis 16y ago
The thing the differentiates WebKit from IE in a good way is that it's completely open source and it's used and built by several competing companies working together toward a common goal.
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by dcurtis 16y ago
"jQTouch and Sencha Touch are doing mobile web development a great disservice by only supporting the latest-and-greatest WebKit platforms." How is focusing on the future doing a disservice to anyone? We're at the very beginning of the mob
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by dcurtis 16y ago
Come on. Hardware is hard. They've clearly made a huge amount of progress recently, and I'm glad to see them update the blog. That doesn't excuse their pretty bad communication over the past few months, but they're a small startup and they'
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by dcurtis 16y ago
I don't know the specifics and I don't mean to suggest that what Hurd did was excusable. I am just exploring my thoughts on HP's strategy and how this affects the company and the industry.
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by dcurtis 16y ago
This is really sad. HP has been making a lot of really interesting strategic decisions lately, some decisions that I think have been set up through acquisitions and product development over the past few years. Mark Hurd seemed to know what
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by dcurtis 16y ago
Neat ideas. He mentions "true to browser type rendering" multiple times, which basically means "shitty type rendering." Browsers, at worst IE and followed closely by Firefox, are horribly bad at performing proper antialiasing for some reaso
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Squarespace raises $38.5M from Index Ventures and Accel Partners(blog.squarespace.com)
39 points by dcurtis 16y ago|20 comments
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by dcurtis 16y ago
The letdown of Hulu Plus and the horrendous monstrosity that is Netflix (and its even worse iPad app) are at least movements in the right direction. I find solace in the mere idea that one day I might be able to go to a website, select an
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by dcurtis 16y ago
This has nothing to do with features or platforms. Fring said it was based on Skype, it provided a bad experience, and therefore damaged the brand of Skype. Skype has every right - an obligation, really - to protect its brand.
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by dcurtis 16y ago
There is a lot of awesome information at http://venturehacks.com
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by dcurtis 16y ago
Warning: this only works if you are genuinely good at what you do.
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Import your photos from TwitPic to Posterous(blog.posterous.com)
4 points by dcurtis 16y ago|0 comments
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by dcurtis 16y ago
Ikea is so good at not paying taxes that I would say the whole company is a tax evasion hack. The number of subsidiaries in random countries and crazy charities that make up the company is astounding. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA

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