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Re: Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

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Post by computomatic »

conductr wrote: post #132
chamomeal wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe you wouldn’t give em to just anybody, but anybody who gets one is guaranteed to remember you! I’d probably even keep it in my desk to play with. After a few weeks I’d accidentally have this guy’s email/linkedin memorized for eternity

I am thinking how most of the people I get business cards from are people I've already invited in to my office and are discussing some potential business relationship. They've often flown to my city, staying in a hotel, paying for transport, meals, etc. The impression they make during that 1 hour meeting is paramount and I think this is certainly going to leave a lasting impression. Most of those business cards just…

This matches my experience fairly accurately except for the one guy I met at a housewarming who handed out cards to everyone. It was so weird - I haven’t seen anyone do that in real life. He had a shop that repairs chipped windshields.

And you know what? About 8 months later my windshield got sprayed by gravel. That guy got the business (he’s a friend of a friend after all, and I had his number in my wallet).

I’d say the issue isn’t that cards are outdated. It’s that people aren’t using them correctly.

Re: Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

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Post by kazinator »

delichon wrote: post #170

Advantages of a business card sized hollow box partially filled with water: * more realistic fluid motion * cheaper, easier build * easier to debug Disadvantages: * risk of wet butt when you sit down * less joy of doing hard things

Disadvantages:

  * excessively fast fluid motion at card scale

Re: Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

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Post by lbourdages »

modeless wrote: post #180

> board edge usb-c port This is awesome. I bet we see a lot of these in the future once people realize it's possible to have a USB-C port on your board with no extra parts and zero soldering.

That must be very fragile! Gotta be careful when unplugging, pulling very straight.

Re: Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

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Post by NikolaNovak »

computomatic wrote: post #181
conductr wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am thinking how most of the people I get business cards from are people I've already invited in to my office and are discussing some potential business relationship. They've often flown to my city, staying in a hotel, paying for transport, meals, etc. The impression they make during that 1 hour meeting is paramount and I think this is certainly going to leave a lasting impression. Most of those business cards just…

This matches my experience fairly accurately except for the one guy I met at a housewarming who handed out cards to everyone . It was so weird - I haven’t seen anyone do that in real life. He had a shop that repairs chipped windshields. And you know what? About 8 months later my windshield got sprayed by gravel. That guy got the business (he’s a friend of a friend after all, and I had his number in my wallet). I’d sa…

I had an ad on Facebook marketplace for a synthesizer. The guy who bought it gave me his business card - cloud architect for a competitor. He didn't give it to me because we were in similar field - we had a pleasant conversation over shareEd hobby and he gave it to me then, after which I realized we were in same field, so clearly he gave them around a lot.

If I consider changing jobs, or if I need those very particular services he's getting a call :-).

Re: Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

conductr wrote: post #132
chamomeal wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe you wouldn’t give em to just anybody, but anybody who gets one is guaranteed to remember you! I’d probably even keep it in my desk to play with. After a few weeks I’d accidentally have this guy’s email/linkedin memorized for eternity

I am thinking how most of the people I get business cards from are people I've already invited in to my office and are discussing some potential business relationship. They've often flown to my city, staying in a hotel, paying for transport, meals, etc. The impression they make during that 1 hour meeting is paramount and I think this is certainly going to leave a lasting impression. Most of those business cards just…

I have what I call my “Victorian Calling Cards.” I’m retired, and have no need to advertise or boast.

They are fairly fancy moo.com cards, with my name, email, and cellphone. Nothing else.

On the back, is a fancy “dragon head” logo (the one you see, if you look at most of my social media accounts). It’s actually my old artist signature. It’s over a burnt umber gradient.

People like them, and use them.

Re: Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

#186

Post by akoboldfrying »

eitally wrote: post #141
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #9

Very nice, but probably a bit too expensive to just hand out. I knew a chap that had a similar hardware business card (I don't remember exactly what it did, but it wasn't as cool as this one). I remember that his card was pretty scuffed up, and he insisted I give it back, after he handed it to me. Bit weird.

I wouldn't even necessarily give one to anybody. If you're looking for a job just point to this block post in your resume/site and that's equally impressive.

Or give out a regular paper business card with a QR code on it pointing to your resume website...

snicker

Re: Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

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Post by ThrowawayR2 »

homefree wrote: post #89
Wojtkie wrote: post #79

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>But that's my 2 cents. Or is it really ChatGPTs 2 cents? Copy-pasting LLM responses is as useful as posting a "let me google that for you" link. It's a lazy response at a minimum.

It’s better than that because it includes the content - more akin to searching and putting the result you find in the comments as a guess. The anti AI HN comments are the new anti Bitcoin - your replies are much worse than someone sharing the gpt output.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950747 : "...HN has never allowed bots or generated comments. If we have to, we'll add that explicitly to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, but I'd say it already follows from the rules that are in there. ..."

Re: Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

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Post by Tempest1981 »

eitally wrote: post #141
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #9

Very nice, but probably a bit too expensive to just hand out. I knew a chap that had a similar hardware business card (I don't remember exactly what it did, but it wasn't as cool as this one). I remember that his card was pretty scuffed up, and he insisted I give it back, after he handed it to me. Bit weird.

I wouldn't even necessarily give one to anybody. If you're looking for a job just point to this block post in your resume/site and that's equally impressive.

Giving the actual card though leaves a feeling of guilt... sort of like those old surveys you would receive in the mail, with a $1 bill included. A hyperlink is forgettable.

Re: Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

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Post by wkat4242 »

bookofjoe wrote: post #148
wkat4242 wrote: post #112

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Wow that's a nice design. £1200 for one though.. oof.

All 24 sold out very quickly, within hours.

Nice one. 28800 pounds :O

For most of us makers it's very hard to make money as our things sell for so little that it's like 3€ per hour to make them. Kudos to this guy, he really does his marketing right.

Re: Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

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Post by xp84 »

physix wrote: post #139
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is true. I remember a story linked from here, recently, where a designer submitted a CV that was a custom-made widget of some kind. He got the job.

In the way back days when we submitted our CVs on paper, I always cut mine to a smaller size than letter, in a branded folder. People tend to stack things with the smaller items on top. I don't know if mine actually was on top of the stack, but I can say that I basically always got the contract.

I believe Sears famously used that same move (probably close to 100 years ago) to cause their catalogs to be stacked right on top of the Montgomery Ward one!
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