slightwinder

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1411.
by slightwinder 8y ago
It's a catchy title, and that guy is spamming HN in the last months about his app, so he likely has some fans reacting to this.
1412.
by slightwinder 8y ago
I thinks today it's more a wiki-styled CMS with block-based documents for DRM & Payment, plus automatic content-proxys. Though, some of the ideas were around with WWW too, like traceback/pingback for back-communications betwee
1413.
by slightwinder 8y ago
It's a german site, the english article is just an exception. They have on average one english article per year, so they don't bother adapting their site for other languages.
1414.
by slightwinder 8y ago
Highly optimized and well defined solutions are by definition inflexible. Because they are the result of removing everthing which is not relevant for the task. If you are a company handling thousand of letters per minute, then you don'
1415.
by slightwinder 8y ago
I don't think they share any information, or maintain address-databases. Usually there are official geodata (maps, postal codes) and customers normally don't report back their own data to the government. Anyway, logistic of postal
1416.
by slightwinder 8y ago
What I mean is, in many countries there all are third-parties, because there is no monopoly on postal services anymore. So they must cooperate in some way and share the redirection-database. And this means implementing this would be very ve
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by slightwinder 8y ago
That would only work if all post-services would work together. Otherwise it would still be relayed to your redirection-service first, where it receives a new address-label and gets send out again. I think those services exist in some countr