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Absolutely. The biggest criticism of KonMari from Japanese is "no duh." Even the techniques for things like folding and arranging clothing so you can see everything at a glance are…

Only looking at lifetime value delivered ignores the competition, much of which is free and easy to switch to. Also support costs typically go down over time; most support effort i…

Not something we haven't seen before, culling unprofitable users. Agree with the commenter that said the app is worth about $10-15, and should never have been made subscription-bas…

Thanks for the insights. I've been fighting this fight for over 17 years now. The landscape has changed a lot - mostly for the better IMHO. In particular, issuers are taking more r…

Agree. Lots of money still being thrown at Drupal agencies.

I use SourceTree for a couple of my projects, but thanks for the heads up on Tortoise. I'm not a power user, I think I just needed something free with a private repository.

Ironically the 4chan crowd who create most of the world's shareable GIF content are either banned from Twitter because a feminist got outraged or have left of their own volition.

Geez you frontapp guys send me a lot of unsolicited email. Every time I launch a new site, there you are, annoying me again.

Hi - for some reason the search bar keeps changing my search terms eg Australia --> Australium

Wow. I feel like an abuse victim that has just had an intervention. Now that you mention it, I've seen this phenomenon at almost every open source project I've peeked into over the…

"Are you seriously using that coupon company instead of Groupon?" This was the bitchy-voice Groupon sales rep phoning me direct when I used a different coupon service in Japan. I a…

I recently caught a 69-year-old acquaintance setting up a new Hotmail account. I knew he had one from a long time ago so I asked him why he needed a new one. "I need to create an a…

They answered this recently I think in an AMA. It's to do with legacy and making sure the great thing they've created doesn't die. It becomes less about the money rather quickly.

By virtue of the fact that Atlassian chose not to list in Australia they have sent a message to government. Turnbull appears to be the kind of prime minister who could make Austral…

> By early 2014 the three had $4 million in seed funding and had narrowed their focus to Bitcoin apps. But they found that the software tools they needed to build those apps didn’t…

Absolutely it's about the status. No-one in the industry wants to be the person saying "Um I don't have Bloomberg Chat. Can you email it to me instead?" Regarding just replacing IB…

I agree with all points regarding the impact. The reason Twenty20 was incremental was because it took an entrepreneur like Packer, with connections and money, to prove that cricket…

incremental improvement

Bill Bryson has a good take on it. Read http://www.wandererscricket.com/Yank_view.html in its entirety for full effect.

Cricket is a great example of where disruption created a larger pie for the incumbent. Kerry Packer popularised the One Day International at a time where the (five day) Tests were …

"Finding" a co-founder wasn't a choice for the uncountable husband-wife partnerships over the ages. Sometimes for better or for worse you're stuck with your spouse as your co-found…

TIL "polyannish" [sic] is a word. Agree Ribbonfam peaked with the Gervais Principle essay. Agree with some of the criticisms here. Will add my own: the first three essays are somew…

North Korea uses loan words, albeit from Russia.

You're not the only one that is bothered by the article. The thing that triggered my radar was that the entire thing read like fiction. If it looks like a duck,... The dictionary s…

I'm struggling to take seriously any article from the NYT that is supposed to invoke outrage since I got duped by that recent nail salon article.