If they let me strap a high capacity card to its neck, and fly it back and forth between my office and apartment, allowing me to avoid large transfers, this would still be faster than Comcast and I would pay a premium. :0
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#12Come on, drones would be a million times better than this.
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#13It looks like these guys applied to YC 2 years ago. http://blog.flypigeon.co/our-application-to-y-combinators-w1... Is this still being worked on and planning to actually release?
Their fleet hasn't changed in 2 years (I remember seeing them back then). Should we interpret this negatively (no growth in headcount!) or positively (no turnover!)? https://flypigeon.co/fleet
Their last tweet - RIP, pigeon fleet.
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#14They should use this protocol as their API: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
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#15Come on, drones would be a million times better than this.
Someday we will look back and laugh that we had to use pigeons to send letters
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#16If they let me strap a high capacity card to its neck, and fly it back and forth between my office and apartment, allowing me to avoid large transfers, this would still be faster than Comcast and I would pay a premium. :0
There was, as I recall, a contest in South Africa about exactly this - could a pigeon carrying a USB stick beat a normal file transfer.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-safrica-pigeon/pigeon-tra...
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#17Wonder if Pidgin will support Pidgeon as a backend? Both of them seem to like purple.
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#19wow thats something new!!
However, When it comes to emails and spams, what is the meaning of the word "inappropriately"? Thats the question.
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#20Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=flypigeon.co.