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by dcurtis 17y ago
I think if someone is paying to have a letter sent, it should be made of high quality paper and be sent with a high quality envelope.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I'll only send letters to the US, but you can obviously order letters to be sent from anywhere in the world.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Well I just built this for fun, and I will definitely end up in the red overall. How many people would use a physical mailing service like this, if it had an API and lots of options for paper and envelopes?
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Well, the dollar breaks down like this: * 10c to paypal * 44c to stamp * 40c for envelope and paper I make about 6c on each letter.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I had a beagleboard (beagleboard.org) sitting around in my closet, so I figured I should do something with it. When you create a letter on Snail, the beagleboard pulls from the heroku database, formats the letter, prints it, and then sends
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I find it fascinating that Wolfram Alpha provides absolutely no references for any of its information. The author of the article makes comparisons of the costs of tangible goods to arrive at the 500k number.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I'm not sure, but I think an anechoic chamber is a different, more deprived, experience. I've been in the one at NPS in Monterey, and it's a very strange experience. No echos, no external sounds, no vibrations, still body temp air, and no l
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Just curious: why do you think people care about geography more than skill?
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Amazingly, the new iMacs have s-IPS screens, too! So not only are you getting a free Mac, but you're getting a tremendously higher quality display as well. (Actually, I don't think any other LED-backlit IPS screens exist for sale.)
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by dcurtis 17y ago
WebOS, with its cards metaphor, is extremely impressive. The Pre is not. When Palm gets the hardware fixed/updated and the software optimized, I think they will have a very good Blackberry/iPhone competitor. The interaction and interface de
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I think Japanese is a bad example. If you spoke English and moved to Spain for three months, and you spent an hour or more a day actively attempting to learn the language, you would catch on very quickly.
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If you're reading this, you're lucky(stevenkovar.com)
5 points by dcurtis 17y ago|0 comments
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Netflix "DVD quality" is nowhere near true DVD quality. It also only steams stereo audio.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I've never seen a social lizard, and they've had 65 million years longer to evolve than dinosaurs.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
My initial reaction was negative, especially without the red dot, but it grew on me. I started paying more attention to the content of the comments rather than relying on point bias from the community. But it hasn't been enough time to real
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I was kind of enjoying it. Can we try for a week, maybe? Also, the new comment ranking algorithm seems to demote highly ranked comments a bit fast. I can't click the comments link for an article and then read a few good comments immediately
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by dcurtis 17y ago
This reminds me of how venture capitalists will sometimes ask founders about their TAM, or "total addressable market". The TAM is basically the amount of money you would make if every single eligible human being on Earth purchased/consumed
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Search isn't a business. It's just a technology they developed. If Google hadn't found their advertising business, they would have failed. You don't want Google's search technology because it will make you money. You want it because it has
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Facebook is already there. What makes you think they click ads? I've heard the opposite.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Not really. Google is an advertising company now. When they started, they had no idea that's what they would become. Search is being leveraged for eyeballs to sell advertising space. Google still does search, but it's business has nothing
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Who are you? Why does it seem like you're angry all the time? I pointed out an observation. Your response used the word fuck and then called me lazy, which is extremely rude. Would you have said that to my face? This isn't personal, dude.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Fuck that. Don't you think that reaction is a little bit extreme? Unlike you, apparently, I don't have time to read all 800 comments on all the threads on this site.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
You know how sometimes online stores won't tell you the price of something until you add it to your cart? Hacker News feels kind of like that now. Like price, comment score is the best indicator of context, class, and quality. I feel kind o
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I do not consider getting a tiny subset of the tech audience using OpenID a case for it being a success. In fact, it did that years ago and has gone nowhere since.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Are you sure you want OpenID to get more exposure? It already failed once due to hideously poor execution and terrible usability problems. Attaching oauth doesn't seem to solve any of the big problems. It just masks them behind a protocol t
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Oh, wow, interesting; I hadn't thought about it that way. (The R does still have a little serif though, which always bothers me.)
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Except, for some reason, the capital R in Helvetica, which is a very curvy letter.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I'm confused. Carol Bartz is not stupid nor a bad leader. In the early 1990's, Autodesk was failing. It was unfocused, undefined, and it was easy to see the atrophy of quality in its products. There was no leadership, and the young company
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Health care is fixed easily with money, which investors have. Visas are not as easy, so they're a bigger problem.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
This is ridiculous. I am starting find it hard to take these guys seriously now that they're going around suing everyone in a seemingly arbitrary manner.

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