bpick

Does anyone have any recommendations for a better, more economically reasonable printing service than Zazzle? The sheer cost of it is prohibitively expensive, and makes it tough to imagine small businesses or artists being able to afford using their service.

Pandora spent much more effort attempting to get me to sign-up (and re-sign-up) than they ever did trying to retain me.

The customer service experience was harrowing, featured slow response times, an indifferent attitude to my issues and a wholly inadequate resolution leading me to quit the service.

Every so often I would see news coverage about them struggling and all I could think was, "guess things on the customer service side haven't changed."

Just be ready for them to hike your rate without any type of alert after the initial period expires. This applies even to gifted subscriptions like the one I was given for Christmas. The customer service was...unsympathetic.

Could be more relevant in Colorado and Washington. Just kidding.

Not to mention you need an account with them in the first place and Braintree is well known for having a ludicrously strict risk team.

So yes, this is just a marketing gimmick.

What someone should do is create a site where you can email your resume/letter in and have it attractively handwritten on nice letterhead.

Who's with me?

catcherbren

I posted this yesterday, IMO Npr's write-up is more interesting: http://www.npr.org/2011/06/13/137029208/heart-with-no-beat-o...

Comparing Nanotech, Education, and future IT to other revolutionary technologies is interesting but nothing radically new. It can be especially difficult to direct money to these new frontiers when the infrastructure of yesterday is becoming increasingly potholed.

Forward into uncertainty as a means of raising our ceiling? Or stand our ground and try to raise the floor?

Don't forget that IBM is HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey if you move each letter over one on the alphabet.

(H A L) - (I B M)

Albany, for the win.

I recall reading that the same kind of thing used to happen with standing field armies, (think Napoleon sized blocks) where you could almost instantly assess an opponents forces based on simply recognizing divisions, regiments, etc.

My guess is Napoleon-era field marshals did a cost-benefit analysis and decided that managing their forces simplistically (i.e. no irregular sized units) outweighed whatever inconvenience enemy intelligence posed.

Relating this to the OP my guess is the Germans made a mistake and overlooked the serial numbers, rather than simply not caring.

Your work looks great, I'd love to have you help me out. I don't mind seeing these types of posts on HN, as long as they have the skill to back them up.

Rock on.

And if I did?

I am going to go on a hiring spree for all of my ideas. It'll be a knock-down drag-out round robin tournament of start-ups. At the end of each week (month?) we have elimination.

Survivor: Silicon Valley

If you love sports in general you might be out of luck. I love baseball in particular hand have no problem paying the 100 bucks for MLB.tv to watch any (and every) game that I choose, often in high-def, on whatever device I want.

I'm not certain about the other sports, but for baseball there is no real reason to be tied to cable.