In an attempt to get more mileage from my iPhone 6S and prolong a future phone purchase, I recently did the $29 battery replacement. I hoping that I avoid getting a new phone for another 2 years.
Where I live in Colorado, we see active preventive measures on pubic, government owned lands as opposed to very little mitigation on large swaths of private lands.
In the Sierra range the government is now funding a very expensive clear-cutting campaign to try to rid the forest of the 60 million estimated dead trees that have created a perpetual autumn-like landscape of golden trees. If the forests been subjected to well-regulated and sustainable harvesting, not only would the trees have been cut down as needed, but the state of California would have collected tax receipts. Instead, clear cutting is now a cost to government.
I also live in Colorado and I've really noticed active preventive measures after the Hayman Fire. I'm not sure why the private lands are so unmitigated. Do you have any thoughts.
I signed up for your service. Do you have any competitors in this space? I thought the experience overall was very simple. Are you thinking about adding options for the prints? For example, glossy v. matte or 4x6 v 5x7?
Edit: I see you replied to someone else and I cannot tell if the service is actually live (as in my card is going to be charged and photos are going to ship).
It’s live, and thanks for signing up! The photos you text in will ship in a month from now.
We’re definitly going to add other options in time. Right now we’re trying to get the MVP right with 4x6 glossy prints.
There’s a few other services that let you send postcards (expensive) or use apps to let you grab pictures from your phone. The apps tend to have more friction than just sending an MMS and to my knowledge, we’re the only ones that let you add the captions for context for your grandparent.
Would love feedback as you use it more. We’re pretth fast at building stuff and love hearing ideas from our customers.
Another option that would be good would be to allow to crop. I know I sent some photos in that are not 4:3 so I'm curious to know how they will print. I'm assuming they will be centered by whichever print to ship service, but others that may not understand what's happening here might have some heads chopped off in a printed picture.
Thanks for signing up Matt. Just sent a response to the support ticket you sent. Thanks for taking the time to let us know about that bug.
We have the ability to do matte or glossy already and I just need to get in there an add it as an option. I'll make a note to ping you once that's ready.
The service is live and ready. Your first order will ship in 30 days from now! :)
I had to do something similar. I have 25Mbps/Mbps DSL where I live for $70/mo. If I wanted to upload a file for work (10-20GB), I would have to drive to my office about an hour away. I recently found a co-work location that is 15 mins. away so I go there when I need to.
It is sad that I have no other hard line option other than DSL in my area. Satellite and Verizon Wireless for home are other nonfeasable options available.
When I take out my web pages, I do it with a sniper rifle, and it does not result in a 500 error, rather an HTTP 410 (which in my opinion would take make more sense in this case).
The requested resource is no longer available at the server and no forwarding address is known. This condition is expected to be considered permanent. Clients with link editing capabilities SHOULD delete references to the Request-URI after user approval. If the server does not know, or has no facility to determine, whether or not the condition is permanent, the status code 404 (Not Found) SHOULD be used instead. This response is cacheable unless indicated otherwise.
The 410 response is primarily intended to assist the task of web maintenance by notifying the recipient that the resource is intentionally unavailable and that the server owners desire that remote links to that resource be removed. Such an event is common for limited-time, promotional services and for resources belonging to individuals no longer working at the server's site. It is not necessary to mark all permanently unavailable resources as "gone" or to keep the mark for any length of time -- that is left to the discretion of the server owner.
I am genuinely confused about your comment. Are you being sarcastic? In the future, you may want to add some more commentary that would make your comment interesting and/or valuable to the members here. HN is a great site because the people here offer thoughtful commentary.
I wasn't being sarcastic. I was simply saying that I bet Facebook is beginning to worry about some serious competition.
What's really great about HN (now I'm being sarcastic), is people who will nitpick at tiny things you say, and then reinforce their pedantics with "This is what makes HN great" or "HN isn't about this". I was just making a simple comment. Is that now allowed on HN?
No one's saying that simple comments aren't allowed, but I'm not sure that your simple comment contributes much to the conversation. Maybe if you explained why you thought that you think that Facebook is beginning to worry about serious competition, you wouldn't get a reply asking what you meant by your otherwise simple comment.
When someone nitpicks at a tiny element of a larger post, that's pedantic. When all you posted was something tiny, however, you're inviting further inquiry by being unspecific and vague.
pg, the site founder, observed once that longer rather than shorter comments tend to be valued by other participants here (as judged by comment karma scores). The subset of HN participants who read my comments appear to share this opinion, as my longer comments do tend to gain more karma than my shorter comments.
To explain to you the specific reaction to your one-sentance comment (great-grandparent here, immediately below the submitted article link), I really couldn't tell for sure if you were being ironic or meant the literal meaning of the sentence you posted. A longer comment usually makes that of issue more clear, which is important in a medium where we are not speaking face-to-face and seeing each other's body language or hearing tone of voice.
I recently watched "Killer Stress", a National Geographic special, on Netflix. Robert Sapolsky (cited in the article and an awesome crazy-haried guy that lives with the Baboons) talks about how it is stressful to be at the bottom. By taking blood samples, he is able to measure stress levels.
Sapolsky sounds liks a stand up guy. If you read the article, Sapolsky does not discredit the new findings, "The study is both impressive and surprising, said Robert Sapolsky".
"We acknowledge that ours is not the most secure approach." Sounds more eloquent than, "We acknowledge that ours is the least secure approach." Although, the 'smileys' were a nice touch and made me feel more secure.
