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Re: Nickb, Are you okay?

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Post by SwellJoe »

A-Merchant wrote: post #49
SwellJoe wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fight the good fight, my friend. I'm afraid I'm just not willing to invest that much time in costing them money--because the amount of money it costs the sender is significantly lower than the value I put on my time. Sure, if enough people do it, they will eventually find it unprofitable to send their junk...but the human resources wasted in getting to that point is overwhelming. Maybe I should hire a neighborhood ki…

If you're paying a kid, might as well pay him/her to do this: http://www.dearbulkmailer.com/

A winner is you!

Re: Nickb, Are you okay?

#52

Post by m0nty »

Xichekolas wrote: post #30
m0nty wrote: post #16

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Kind of, although more like reddit's "hide" feature. There's also a GM script to do like the extension you link, but it has menus so there's no need to edit an array. No time to find link but it will be on userscripts.org somewhere.

Fine, I added a UI to it... http://www.andrewfarmer.name/2008/04/hn-blacklist-now-with-u...

Thanks! We need a YC'er of the week award :)

Re: Nickb, Are you okay?

#53

Post by Prrometheus »

carterschonwald wrote: post #28
Jesin wrote: post #27

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Either your sarcasm detector is broken for writing this response, or mine is for thinking you were serious. Or perhaps I'm getting a false positive and both of the above posts were serious.

all I know is that this thread has too acerbic a tone for its own good

Surgeon General's note: This thread is a good source of Vitamin C.

Re: Nickb, Are you okay?

#54

Post by jdavid »

SwellJoe wrote: post #42
amichail wrote: post #38

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There's a startup idea somewhere in there.

I met a guy at Startup School that was planning to build a universal address book that would insure people and businesses knew where to send your bills, tax forms, and how to call you, etc. He intended it to be a tool for handling permanent moves, but I think there's the same set of problems. Making it worth anything requires huge uptake and getting huge uptake without value is impossible. Personally, I like that eve…

i would like my "address" to move to the location of a massive scanner than can scan and email me all data. then my spam filter can catch, the snail mail spam, and all of my mail gets shredded and recycled.

Re: Nickb, Are you okay?

#55

Post by Xichekolas »

m0nty wrote: post #52
Xichekolas wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fine, I added a UI to it... http://www.andrewfarmer.name/2008/04/hn-blacklist-now-with-u...

Thanks! We need a YC'er of the week award :)

I'm not sure I should win an award for creating a blacklist. I mostly did it because it was a fun exercise in javascript (which I am learning).

Re: Nickb, Are you okay?

#56

Post by vlad »

jdavid wrote: post #54
SwellJoe wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I met a guy at Startup School that was planning to build a universal address book that would insure people and businesses knew where to send your bills, tax forms, and how to call you, etc. He intended it to be a tool for handling permanent moves, but I think there's the same set of problems. Making it worth anything requires huge uptake and getting huge uptake without value is impossible. Personally, I like that eve…

i would like my "address" to move to the location of a massive scanner than can scan and email me all data. then my spam filter can catch, the snail mail spam, and all of my mail gets shredded and recycled.

http://earthclassmail.com

http://paperlessmail.com

Re: Nickb, Are you okay?

#57

Post by m0nty »

Xichekolas wrote: post #55
m0nty wrote: post #52

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Thanks! We need a YC'er of the week award :)

I'm not sure I should win an award for creating a blacklist. I mostly did it because it was a fun exercise in javascript (which I am learning).

> I mostly did it because it was a fun exercise in javascript

Me too :) Although I'd recommend using jQuery if you have time to learn that as well. Makes DOM-related stuff easy so you only need to roll code for the things which are unique to your app.

Re: Nickb, Are you okay?

#58

Post by crisachow14 »

wheels wrote: post #11

In the future, I'd like to suggest that all regulars post their vacation schedules and travel times to news.YC so that we can make sure you're ok. Please also post your mom's phone number so that we can call her and tell you're doing alright and that the weather is great in Whogivesashitistan.

You should also probably post your social security number in case you don't post your schedules and we really need to find you to tell you that missing startup school is not ok.

Re: Nickb, Are you okay?

#59

Post by Xichekolas »

m0nty wrote: post #57
Xichekolas wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure I should win an award for creating a blacklist. I mostly did it because it was a fun exercise in javascript (which I am learning).

> I mostly did it because it was a fun exercise in javascript Me too :) Although I'd recommend using jQuery if you have time to learn that as well. Makes DOM-related stuff easy so you only need to roll code for the things which are unique to your app.

I'm actually taking the opposite approach... I started using jQuery to do all my DOM related stuff, but now learning actual javascript for the fun of it. It really is a surprisingly flexible language.

Re: Nickb, Are you okay?

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Post by jyothi »

cstejerean wrote: post #32
wheels wrote: post #11

In the future, I'd like to suggest that all regulars post their vacation schedules and travel times to news.YC so that we can make sure you're ok. Please also post your mom's phone number so that we can call her and tell you're doing alright and that the weather is great in Whogivesashitistan.

All regulars: before deciding to take a vacation please create a poll and make sure you get a majority approval from the community. An army of satellites, airplanes and robots will be dispatched to locate any missing person and if found guilty of violating the aforementioned rule you will be responsible for covering the costs of the search and rescue operation.

UAVs ;)
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