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by dcurtis 17y ago
No, none of those things made Mint popular. The quality of the product did.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
It is sort of fuck you money, but honestly I'm more pissed off that a shitty company now owns one of my favorite webapps. Mint is now going to die. I also think something must have been going terribly wrong. The exit was tiny considering th
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by dcurtis 17y ago
There are at least five other people as interesting as Mr Q who have made this project completely worth it for me
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Because the free wifi at Oakland is very crappy and I cant deploy the rest of the site's changes.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
No, I've met tons of interesting people. It just takes a while to write.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
If they did that, they'd be sacrificing growth for a small amount of revenue. Apparently they highly value growth at this stage.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
If Apple bought Be, it wouldn't have gotten Steve Jobs. It is possible that Apple would have died, and Be would have suffered the same fate either way.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Sorry, I did not mean to offend you.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Except for the incredible price of EY, of course. It's probably coincidence, but I noticed that all of those other beginning technologies you mention are cheaper than the next step up. Not so with Engine Yard. It's like buying a Porsche, re
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by dcurtis 17y ago
What? Do you really do this? It would drive me insane. Every 48 minutes you're interrupted by an alarm forcing you to stop what you're doing, get up, lose your train of thought, and then start over again? Also, you can't reliably separate t
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Why? Also, he's not a VC.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
To suggest that he consciously said this to lower expectations is probably giving him too much credit. What he said is true enough that I'm sure it was just the first thing that came to his mind.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I'd like to see a list showing each kidnapping, the motive of the kidnapper, and the result of the situation. Is it mostly for sexual abuse? Child labor? What percentage occur in middle class suburbia compared to a poor inner city area?
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Honestly, I am getting sick of people starting comments like yours with a negative sentence about the US. Don't let ridiculous stereotypes get in the way of intelligent discussion. I grew up in the US and I did all of those things you menti
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Just to be clear: a huge amount of this stuff isn't really in CSS3. A lot of it (most of it?) is custom-built Webkit stuff. I'd been curious about why each release of Webkit added more of these obscure features. Now we know.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
We only settled on the final itinerary this morning, and we'll post it soon. I think we have overnight stays in Ft Lauderdale, Denver, Chicago, Long Beach, San Francisco, and Burlington, VT (tonight). Most of the flights leave the early the
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30 Minutes a Day(jackcheng.com)
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by dcurtis 17y ago
These URLs are hilariously and unnecessarily geeky. I'd prefer picking up a phone and dialing "dcurtis" or "edw519." That should ring all associated phones until the person is reached. If I want to only ring a certain phone, I'd dial "dcurt
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Storage and use of electricity, the lightbulb, the personal computer, the telephone, and the cathode ray tube.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I would like to chat with you, just to see why you think that, but I can't find any email address anywhere. Can you send me an email (hi@dustincurtis.com)?
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I'm not sure why, but I'll respond briefly to your three points. 1. It did not need to be open. But I am making a website documenting my journey. Sorry if someone thought it was interesting and posted it to this site where you were forced t
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I did not submit this article. And I am a part of this community as much as you are. People have voted this up, so there seems to be some interest here. The last thing I want is to be responsible for lowering the quality of content on HN.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
She was so addicted to her expensive lifestyle that when she lost her job she couldn't get herself to lower her expenses. You could call her stupid, but I find it fascinating.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I think she was a trader making at least several hundred grand a year. But she lived in an extremely expensive apartment. In the few months after being fired, she spent her entire savings on living expenses. That's part of why I found her s
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by dcurtis 17y ago
"Dropbox synchronizes files across your/your team's computers. It's much better than uploading or email, because it's automatic, integrated into Windows, and fits into the way you already work. There's also a web interface, and the files a
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I'm actually sick of reading countless shallow reviews that just reiterate the crap that you can find by booting Snow Leopard on your own. This article has an amazing amount of information that has not been previously publicized in detail.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
That is the action of an incompetent company.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Not bending over backwards for customers is the action of an incompetent company. Whether by choice or not.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
The difference is that Apple is just being Apple while they try to figure out how to handle the App Store. I'm not saying it is right, but there's a certain intelligence and style behind the way Apple ignores people. Google, on the other ha
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by dcurtis 17y ago
If your customers have to invoke the "legal system" to get around your incompetence, you've failed in every way that matters.

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