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by smortaz 15y ago
Yup. We've been in open beta for a long time (contacted some of the same folks/ppl that they do)... wondering if we inspired them ;). Flattered if so. We like CC - they're good people.
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Sorry about this folks - we'll make it more explicit :(. Also would love to find out which countries you're from & how bad the junk mail problem is over there. thx.
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This is why I love HN. Great advice & to the point :). We actually experimented with various msgs & lots of people resonated with the Environmental angle. Here are some mind numbing stats: 1. Over 100,000,000,000 pieces of junk ma
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by smortaz 15y ago
Thx lucaspiller: some info in this thread + blog post at: http://www.paperkarma.com/blog Sadly US only for now. Where do you live & is there a junk mail problem there if i may ask?
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Thanks anigbrowl... your comment is very inspiring! Re Biz model: priority one is getting enough of a user base so we have a ticket to the dance. After that there are several possibilities, some of which are implemented already, but not ac
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mvanveen, here's a link to our blog post which goes into a little more detail: http://www.paperkarma.com/blog/ In short, we don't do anything that you couldn't do yourself... we just make it a tad bit less painful. The general pipeline is
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Feedback taken to heart rpint - changes coming. thx.
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jazzychat we're both extremely privacy conscious individuals and from day one pledged our own version of Do No Evil. In fact, during sign up, we ask for minimal info to get the unsubscribes processed: ie name & address -- which by the w
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Cofounder here... camtarn - you're quite right & thanks for confirming our hunches. Will update the site during the next couple of days (UI & text). thx.
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Pyvot is worth mentioning - if you use Python and Excel, it's a live pipe between the REPL & Excel that gives a nice Pythonic interface to Excel.
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It's a wrapper around the Kinect SDK, so not in its current form. But being OSS & Python, anyone can take it & massage it into something similar for Linux/Mac Kinect libraries.
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If you like Python, our group just released PyKinect which enables you write Kinect games/apps using Python as the name suggests (note: CPython, not IronPython). You can check it out at http://pytools.codeplex.com and click on the PyKine
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by smortaz 15y ago
At Microsoft we have all types: IDE diehards and those that are happy staying with vim/emacs. There's also a group that uses a text editor 90% of the time and fires up the IDE only for the debugger and perhaps GUI builder. Which of the 3
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Show HN: Please rate our new Python IDE support (free, OSS, from... MSFT)(pytools.codeplex.com)
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by smortaz 15y ago
PyCharm is awesome. [shameless plug]: if you're using VisualStudio, give http://pytools.codeplex.com a try... free & open source from msft.