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As a EU founder I think the article misses the two primary reasons Europe isn't doing well with startups. 1) Target market USA: natural target market of 320 million people with a v…

Quick correction: it's not true that rdiff-backup has to be installed on the remote server. Rdiff-backup works brilliantly with a dumb target for storage and that's how we use it i…

Although I don't know the specifics for Braintree, it's not contradictory to accept VC money for bootstrapped companies. If a startup goes from 0 to 10M revenue without taking any …

With the exception of image gallery carousels for mobile devices. Those can work great.

Another reason why / short term & software / is the currently the sweet spot is because it allows for short feedback cycles. A startup is a company that searches for a viable busin…

This seems to be a regional issue that mostly affects the UK.

The most obvious reason is that pg writes an essay when he has an idea or an insight he wants to think and write about. New insights don't arrive on a fixed schedule. If pg had bee…

Good point about the link to Lotus Notes. However, infrastructure decisions are usually made for short term reasons, and that's often an OK trade-off. Inky looks awesome, by the wa…

Exactly. pg has also written about "using your email as a todo list" (in Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund) to partially address the problem of email being more than just a dumb box …

The teardown iFixit link, hidden in the last paragraph: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Ouya+Teardown/14224/1

Exactly. Or to put it in a different way, the total time you spend waiting for your car to recharge/refuel is way lower for an electric car. The electric car is optimized for the 9…

Most importantly -- when researchers know their data and methodology will be out in the open they'll have a big incentive to make it look clean and presentable. They know they risk…

See also this (much better) interview with the same guy: http://bigthink.com/videos/gravity-doesnt-exist

The economic malaise in Spain is really unbelievable. Take a look at this chart: http://bit.ly/YNOc4q (Also view "Unemployment" instead of "Unemployment rate" on the left menu to s…

> It's always seemed crazy to me that just because electric cars are non-polluting, people forget that dangling on the other end of that charging cable is probably a coal-fired pow…

What Siracusa describes as Technological Conservatism is probably more of a status-quo preference. I think this is because there are two opposing forces are work. 1. Innovation is …

See the first answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/83983/why-isnt-the-len-fu...

In my experience this isn't true at all, at least if you target startups and SMB. We have a task management product which is used by many lifehackers around Europe, and we get requ…

Additionally, if you're willing to go to the dark side... If he's independently wealthy he probably has a lot more to lose than you do. You can use this as leverage. If you can get…

I don't think you have to worry much about this being a public mark on your record. Bogus lawsuits happen all the time, and especially if the lawsuit is dismissed or if you win it …

> "Even with optimistic assumptions, the International Energy Agency estimates that, by 2035, we will produce just 2.4 percent of our energy from wind and 0.8 percent from solar." …