Throwaway12830's comments

I think their existing logo is far better. The one above looks too modern, minimalistic, abstract, and edgy. For HP, I kind of expect something a little more curvy, playful, and potentially colorful.

I went back after seeing your comment. This looks like Pinterest if it existed in the 90s.

Same here, I think I've taken over a dozen flights, short and long distance in the last two years, and Hipmunk didn't find the best deal for any of the ones I tried. Old Expedia typically came up with the best price, and Kayak and FlightNetwork showed promise. Google Flights is one of my favorites because you can easily browse a calendar and see a graph to find the lowest prices (my dates are always flexible). Also, they have a map, so you can see the prices flying to any other nearby cities or airports to spot great deals you'd overlook. I've never booked through Google though, I just find the flights, then one of the above sites typically finds the same flight for $10 less, so I just go with them because I already have an account. Either way, no luck with Hipmunk, but maybe they work well for domestic US flights, since I have no experience there.

I think you struck a nerve here because your entire argument is based on an assumption. Do you have any evidence he's endangering other people? Do you know something we don't, like there's a playground passed those trees, or he just pulled up in this public space and launched the jet without permission?

If not, then don't insult someone that appears to be extremely competent with years of experience, and call them irresponsible because you're jumping to conclusions.

Agreed. However, no one is going to compete with Airbnb anytime soon. To compete, you can't just be a little better, you need to be a lot better. Reason being, people have accounts on Airbnb, they have feedback, and they're familiar with the experience. If a slightly improved HN is released by someone tomorrow, we don't all jump ship, because we're invested in the current community. For us to leave, it would need to profoundly improve on the experience or offer incredible content. Likewise, to compete with Airbnb you would need a completely different approach or business model, or have a selection of apartments that are far beyond Airbnb in quality and affordability.

Airbnb pushes out updates frequently, their site offers a great experience to the user, and they have a solid team of developers that stay ahead of the game. They're going to be here for a while.

Agreed. Then we can finally send Arial and Verdana to the grave and use other fonts. We're tied to these fonts at the moment because they're the only option for sharp body text on low PPI displays.

That's a generalization. Looking at analytics for my site, about 1-2% of people out of 50k daily unique visitors are on mobile. The site is geared towards young, tech savy males.

Almost all of them are browsing on traditional resolutions and displays. In my case, it's mobile last.

Since we're talking about road space, check out the 20 lane highway in Burma. It has a lot of soaking up to do.

http://i.imgur.com/DKRsGZ4.png

It was on an episode of Top Gear. It's typically empty, and in the above image you have government officials going to work.

Let me get this straight, you don't feel bad about owing Walmart $10, because they factor that loss into their business model, and expect it to occur?

Well, you should care, because they factor it in by increasing prices for consumers. You're just getting everyone else that shops at Walmart to cover your debt. That's irresponsible, and I see no difference between owing Walmart $10 and owing your friend $10.

This seems incredibly strange. Personally, I don't see how it's going to add value to Reddit and help build the community. Mixing money into the site is going to complicate things, bring forward a lot of challenges, and it's going to be a large time sink.

I think Reddit has more important things to focus on, and I don't find this to be a good use of resources. Reddit is also slow to roll out changes, so if this has a negative impact, it'll take them a long time to pivot back on track.

Perhaps it's going to be a minor feature that the majority of users never know exists, and things will continue as they do now. If it's a major feature, I think it'll be a flop, and open up room for competition.

Edit: To expand a little more, what's the best case scenario they're hoping for here? They think the community is going to grow and more people will flock to the site because of this change? Reddit is anti-corporate, the community likes to feel small, even though it's one of the largest communities on the internet. When they associate money with the site, people will look at it as more of a business, and I think that'll drive more people away than it brings in.

Why doesn't Reddit just launch an image hosting platform? Why do they send all this traffic to imgur and gfycat, when they could roll out their own solution for the community? They can spin it off into a separate service to attract non-Redditors, and with all the incoming visitors from other sources, they can refer more people back to Reddit. To me, this seems like a no-brainer, since a large portion of their site revolves around images, and they're giving that traffic and monetization away to third parties at the moment.

I've been living abroad in a dozen different countries for years, and I use credit card for most daily transactions, since I'm not charged a fee, and the exchange rates are competitive.

When it comes to cash, I just pay the $5 ATM fee. When I visit an ATM, I pull out at least a few hundred dollars in cash, leave the majority at home, and carry what I need.

Groceries are by credit card, rent is online, so my only cash expenses are street food, going out to pubs, and other minor things. Therefore, let's say I take out a few hundred dollars a month. That's a $5 fee per month, or $60 per year. In my opinion, that's incredibly cheap, and I get the freedom to use any ATM for my cash withdrawals on my travels.

I wouldn't have an issue paying $1,000 for a landing page, but I do have an issue paying $1,000 for a landing page where the developer only devotes a single day to learning about my business, understanding the problems we're solving, writing copy, designing, and coding.

I'm looking at the before and after example, and there are just a few words changed, previous headlines enlarged and colored, and a call to action at the very bottom. Yes, those are positive changes, but for $1,000 I'm expecting someone to bring far more to the table than a few minor tweaks. If you're asking for a premium price, I'm expecting a premium service.

I agree with all the other posters, and believe performance and form factor have reached a point that makes frequent upgrades less common. However, I'll add one more point into the mix...

Modern computer specifications are confusing. Back in the day it was extremely linear. Oh, your computer is 233 MHz, this new one is 300 MHz, or 450 MHz, or 1 GHz. It was like owning a Supersoaker 2000, and wanting the newly released 3000.

Now, I have no idea what I even own. As someone else said, it's a dual-core something or other. There's no upgrade path, or direction for consumers to follow. If you walk into a store, it's quite confusing, and it's difficult to make sense of all the recent hardware, and I think it leaves people not knowing what they want to buy, or what's even considered an upgrade.

After seeing the proof, I was still confused what I would receive, and thought maybe the blocks were placeholders for the text that would appear in the final print. You should definitely make this more clear, because the phrasing on the site gives the impression you'll get the actual code.

Without a doubt you'll get lots of requests for refunds if this isn't adjusted.

It really is incredible. I mean, in the original link, look at the image of Arnold used for the video before playing. It's a blurry, greyscale section of his face. Nonetheless, most people could easily recognize that face as being him.

Billions of people in this world, we all have a very similar facial structure with two eyes, a nose and a mouth, and yet you can recognize that small blurry face in a fraction of a second.

I imagine it's similar with animals. You can have thousands of birds in a flock, and they can recognize their mate instantly. To us, we'd have to carefully analyze the birds for days or weeks to make that same match.