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The Tone Matrix(lab.andre-michelle.com)
7 points by chops 18y ago|1 comments
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by chops 18y ago
When I was a consultant (2003-2006), I billed at $60/hour. Three years ago, I launched a website that I had built in my free time to make some extra bucks. When it started eating up my time (and making more money per month than I had ever
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by chops 18y ago
This interview is great stuff. Some great quotes: "You think the teachers were proud? If a kid wanted to draw or write poetry or do anything artistic, they were full of praise. But as soon as they found out what I was doing, they shut me
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by chops 18y ago
This is a great point! While PG suggests that it's better to have a small number of rapid supporters than a large number of moderate supporters, it's important to find the maximum on the curve. The question is how many rapid supporters woul
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by chops 18y ago
Indeed. Unless it has some user-agent detection for Googlebot and other search spiders, it's completely immune to search engine spiders. I think it'd be a worthwhile experiment to add an HTML version (like Gmail) just to see the results.
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by chops 18y ago
Funny, as you posted that, I was adding my "excessive js animation" addendum.
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by chops 18y ago
A few thoughts: Your page feels extremely sluggish. On your site, you have to hover over things to see the prices. That's not good design. On your competitor's site, you're able to quickly scan the page (and use the mouse scrolly to get mo
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by chops 18y ago
But why should not an author be happy to see people exposed to his ideas, to their benefit, in the cases where it does him no material harm? It's not my place to tell the IP owner what he should or shouldn't do with his property. The cop
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by chops 18y ago
It doesn't matter if they were going to pay or not. One needs to have a right to copy something before one can do it, and only the copyright holder has the right to grant that to another. There are no exceptions. If anyone can copy anoth
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by chops 18y ago
The victim is the copyright holder. Just because someone doesn't wish to buy a movie (book, song, whatever), doesn't give them the authority to copy it.
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by chops 18y ago
Or, at the very least, a trilogy. The book is already divided into three parts, so you have natural breaking points.
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by chops 18y ago
Of course they don't discuss internet downloading, these essays were published in the 60s, and she died in 82. What she does mention is "unauthorized reproductions" of which piracy is explicitly. Once something is in the public domain , t
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by chops 18y ago
I loved Atlas Shrugged (though it did take me a while to complete the speech), and coincidentally, I'm working on Dune right now, but I'm honestly struggling, and I haven't even reached page 100 yet. It's just a little slow for me. Though
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by chops 18y ago
Piracy is a concept that relies on the concept Intellectual Property. From: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/patentsandcopyrights.html Patents and copyrights are the legal implementation of the base of all property rights: a man’s right
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by chops 18y ago
Maybe you could link a legitimate copy, rather than the pirated copy? Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Fountainhead-Gary-Cooper/dp/B000HWZ4A2... Netflix: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/The_Fountainhead/70055755?trkid...
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by chops 18y ago
While that's kind of true (after reading a book which extols rationality and logic above all, seeing constant irrationality in daily life does tend to make someone a little apprehensive), I find another common symptom of the post-Shrug read
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by chops 18y ago
He didn't force anyone to do anything - his customers voluntarily chose to deal with his business. He offered a service that was in demand and was paid a fee for it.
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by chops 18y ago
Regarding negotiation, low-balling and high-balling don't make sense in all situations. Especially if you are in a situation where the relationship between the negotiating opponents after the transaction is important. I agree that there a
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by chops 18y ago
That was one of the first bits of advice in the book "Secrets of Power Negotiation" (something I read because I'm not a very good negotiator): Ask for outrageous concessions, you never know if they'll go for it. Lowball purchases hard and
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by chops 18y ago
they would for sure not have a classical music CD in their car. Point taken, but an aside: I find listening to classical music in the car to be an exercise in futility. The dynamic range of classical makes it so that you're constantly ad
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by chops 18y ago
It's obviously not going to be a huge source of income, but if it a few percent of revenue or something, depending on the amount of work necessary to make it happen, it might be worthwhile. Example: I've been a fan of the Warcraft universe
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by chops 18y ago
Something rings so true about this. Treat your customers like you actually like and trust them. Give them more reasons to give you money, and they'll gladly do it (special editions, re-releases, etc). The author could take advantage of hi
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by chops 18y ago
It is a form of DRM, but the delivery mechanism is just so easy that's it's worth the tradeoff. Any game you ever install through Steam is remembered by Steam. Format your computer? No problem, Steam will reinstall all your (Steam) games
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by chops 18y ago
There's nothing unprofessional about turning down money if accepting it makes you uncomfortable.
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by chops 18y ago
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Any other 'sconsinites?
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by chops 18y ago
That's good to hear that the recurring billing is as pleasant experience. I pretty much assumed as much, given how smooth Auth.net is for single transactions. Honestly, I'm quite pleased with using Auth.net and would indeed recommend it, m
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by chops 18y ago
I use Authorize.net and am quite pleased with it, though, admittedly, I've never used any other service. I don't currently accept automated payments through them, though they do have a recurring payment functionality built in. I haven't us
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by chops 18y ago
This is something I'd very much like to see.
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by chops 18y ago
He does show his face on the "More Info" page, though. http://www.thegreatzucchini.com/about.htm
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by chops 18y ago
That comment totally struck me while reading the article. I thought, "Wow, what an awful and fake little world that must be." God forbid you be "talked about!"

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