Travis

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by Travis 14y ago
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!
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by Travis 14y ago
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 recourse is there against unethical competition? Some com
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by Travis 14y ago
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 articles? I assume some sort of NLP in reverse (natural language
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by Travis 14y ago
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 these concerns...) I also guess that tactics like these wil
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by Travis 14y ago
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 video on youtube), the unattended lawnbot moves the mailbox
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by Travis 14y ago
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 than the site owners. (FTR, I do use a bunch of the privac
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by Travis 14y ago
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 delivered, know your market (what people are paying your competiti
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by Travis 14y ago
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 they need a signature on a purchase form (instead of a compar
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by Travis 14y ago
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 spending the company's money, not theirs; your price will not o
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by Travis 14y ago
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 at how easily corporate employees will reveal budget. Then c
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by Travis 14y ago
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 shop (eg I may desire, but do not receive, privacy from be
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by Travis 14y ago
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.) and compare to similar homes. This establishes a baselin
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by Travis 14y ago
Wouldn't the increased cycling of the batteries significantly decrease their lifespan?
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by Travis 14y ago
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 those site stinks. So I can just use the Felling Lucky on a
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by Travis 14y ago
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 revenue determines valuation. If Sortfolio provides signifi
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by Travis 14y ago
I just quickly skimmed the published paper, but it looks like they controlled for standard demographic variables.
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by Travis 14y ago
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 the time. For items I need to act on later, I use stars. W
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by Travis 14y ago
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 like Windows would store these files closer to each other on
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by Travis 14y ago
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 medical data entry system that is used 10x per doctor per
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by Travis 14y ago
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. But some might not -- might as well use what's worked in
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by Travis 14y ago
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. Especially in the realm of software. By setting a fixed price,
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by Travis 14y ago
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 to be in business long. It also seems like he's saying that
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by Travis 14y ago
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 hundreds of police officers, judges, public officials, and p
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by Travis 14y ago
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 ecologically -- the American "Manifest Destiny" growth wasn't
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by Travis 14y ago
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 overvalued because Amazon.com has been successful. Unless a seri
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by Travis 14y ago
Many on HN were once / still are redditors. Especially proggit. The type of response where you quote part of the parent, don't add any comment or commentary, isn't especially helpful. Addressing your second point: I also thought the comme
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by Travis 14y ago
Time Warner must not have their acts together. Just ran a test using their default DNS (not google), was able to reproduce. Ran a test on Google DNS, could not reproduce (receive an unknown host error). Also in SoCal (TW San Diego). Not
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by Travis 14y ago
I agree. I'm also a little surprised at the false dichotomy presented in this thread. Using hand-wavy or made up numbers is not a meaningful way to have this discussion. Every business has a different decision to make. It feels like this
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by Travis 14y ago
I've been wanting to do something fairly similar. Specifically, I would love to know how you got the zip code overlay data and built your map with zip code overlays. It looks like a deceptively complicated thing. Any information you can
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by Travis 14y ago
I'm not sure I've seen anything like the phrase, "fact of reality that it is morally right" outside of a religious context.

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