Wish this was posted a week ago :)

I know! Next year we'll be more planful.

If only there were a startup that provided a Christmas gift reminder service... ;)

I was thinking about Instapainting, but then I realized - way too late for Christmas.

That was one of the tabs I opened. I was kind of hoping they offered gift certificates. My use case is probably letting the recipient choose the photo.

OK, just built the Gift Card feature: http://www.instapainting.com/gift-card

You can specify a recipient email at checkout and we'll send them instructions via a special page where they upload photos, talk to the artist, and track the status with the pricing hidden.

Because I'm lazy, your recipient won't know what type of painting or what size until the artist is finished. But let's just call that a feature for now ;).

From feedback to live on production in under 4 hours. You rock.

Surprisingly bug free so far.

We discontinued gift certificates while we develop something unique.

But you can place an order without uploading a photo and we create a project page after the order.

You can send this page and it lets the recipient upload their photo and talk with the artist.

Urgh I know. Hopefully next year they plan ahead a bit better

Of course eating at a calorie deficit will work for everyone if your only goal is 'lose weight'. If you actually want to be healthy it's more complicated than that.

Maybe, but there is a massive amount of low hanging fruit in terms of making people healthy by simply making them less fat.

I don't think it's cutting off for them. The lack of margin at the bottom makes it feel unfinished though.

Yeah. Lack of margin definitely made me try scrolling down a few times. Also, from the amount of intro, I was expecting a longer, more detailed article. And it didn't seem to conclude so much as stop.

Useful for sketching but any real work is going to be done with an actual drawing tablet like the ones Wacom makes.

I'm interested in something like this for high-end CGI and graphics work. Being able to use a macbook air with a big workstation back end in the cloud would be a dream. I know there are render farm solutions that big studios use but realtime access to lots of computing power from anywhere would be amazing for freelancers and smaller studios.

That's exactly what OTOY are aiming at with their cloud rendering. See http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Otoy-OctaneRender-Cloud-Edi...

Wired has exactly that in every issue.

I'm a UI and motion designer. I use it for curating different types of art that I see around the internet. If I need inspiration for a project its helpful to look through some of my boards for ideas. Sometimes I'll make one-off boards for individual projects also.

I've found it can be helpful for research too as just an organizational tool. For example I'm building an LED display so I've been collecting useful links or cool applications of LEDs on a board.

Here's my pinterest if you're interested:

https://www.pinterest.com/briandegman/

Also once this is a real problem, hopefully there'll be enough people up there to fill up their own Battlefield servers with just moon players.

I think you're probably right. Except in this case, bitcoin was actually designed. Gold and gold deposits just naturally had the right characteristics to work as a currency.

I'm no expert by any means but aren't the account number and routing number both printed on the bottom of every check? Are you saying that simply giving a check to someone compromises your checking account?

Yes, they are printed on the bottom of checks because they are the information that allows conversion of the check into money. Yes, giving a check to someone compromises your account. You're trusting the other person to do nothing other than withdraw the amount on the check, but you're giving them enough information to withdraw whatever you have in your account.

And be charged with a crime for it. That's the other part. Not just trust.