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A little late to the party, I'd love one too though. Signed up for the beta invite on the site with leleu ~atsign~ industrialinterface ~dot~ com Thanks!

Sorry for the delay in responding. I really like what you said up here and upvoted you for it. In the hope you see this, I have another question for you: in the startup world, what…

I think this is pretty neat, although it does come with many unintended consequences for spam. Does anyone have more information on the technology they use to generate these articl…

It's rather hyperbolic to say it's "the worst kind of manipulation", and that it will ensure "customers never trust you." (Disclaimer: I'm not on facebook/zynga in part because of …

Isn't it a bit of a stretch to suggest that Youtube taking down videos is damaging to the owner? I see the analogy more like this -- if you place your mailbox on my property (your …

I see what you're saying. But excepting the cross-site tracking, aren't all of those privacy leaks just data that my browser is sending? Seems to me that's more my responsibility t…

No easy answers, but if it's a big enough deal ($100k US or higher...) it may be worth finding someone who can negotiate for you. Or sell for you. If you focus on the value deliver…

In my experience, a corporate employee needs to be able to relate a fixed cost (or fixed cost estimate) to their superior. This mostly holds when the project is a line item, and th…

I agree with this. The "price shock" reaction that causes consumers to recoil and not listen to your value prop is significantly less likely in a corporate situation. They're spend…

I can't offer any absolutes, but I would recommend that you continue a conversation with them before quoting a price. Try to determine (estimate) their budget. You'd be surprised a…

Honest question -- why do we assume our actions deserve privacy on the internet, when we access someone else's site? We don't have the same expectation for e.g., when I walk into a…

My energy provider (SDGE in Southern California, USA) takes a fairly straightforward tiered approach to energy cost. First, they take your house arrangement (sqft, year built, etc.…

Wouldn't the increased cycling of the batteries significantly decrease their lifespan?

All the time. I installed a Chrome extension that triggers the "i'm feeling lucky" result when using the Omnibar. I look up baseball player stats all the time, and the search on th…

I agree that it would affect the final number, and probably adjust short term revenue (and thus value). However, I also think it's a misplaced (but common) mindset that short term …

I just quickly skimmed the published paper, but it looks like they controlled for standard demographic variables.

Disagree. And if you're telling someone they're doing something wrong, you may be overemphasizing your point. I use priority inbox to filter out the messages that I ignore 99% of t…

Does this imply for certain contexts, the Windows model is superior? Say you had a "write/update infrequently, read many times" system profile with 10% disk space avail. It seems l…

I'd like to add that an hours_saved calculation is a great hack for building internal projects/tools. Even moreso if you are saving the time of expensive personnel. E.g., I build a…

The reason it's a stupid way to design a virus currently is because that was one of the primary attack vectors in the past. Yes, most decent mail systems will protect against this.…

Think of the incentives for the other side of the equation: the price setter. The product or service in question provides a different amount of value to different purchasers. Espec…

I believe he is warning against the Coffee Shop fallacy. IE, you may like coffee, but if you think running a coffee shop is a good way to enjoy/experience coffee, you are unlikely …

An even more extreme example than Capone is Pablo Escobar. He fashioned himself as an honored man of the people in Columbia, even as he was ordering the (often brutal) executions h…

I think it's a bit nuanced. Consumerism, from an economic perspective, can be a fast, efficient driver of economic growth. However, it often isn't sustainable growth (not just ecol…

All else equal, maybe. You know what screams "bubble" to me? Everyone defending valuations by comparing the company du jour to Facebook. It's like arguing that Webvan wasn't overva…