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by nickconfer 8y ago
I doubt there will be enough users who feel the same way to make this a reason why theaters remain. The same argument has been made about sound quality, and overwhelmingly now the sound quality in streaming services has improved, but is no
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by nickconfer 8y ago
The issue here is not is the theater still relevant, but can the economics continue to support theaters. If the trends in ticket sales continue, it seems like theaters by and large could be a thing of the past. It really is not about wheth
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by nickconfer 8y ago
This seems like a short-term problem. It would be like saying Netflix doesn't have content worth streaming, besides documentaries. A lot of people originally had this opinion of Netflix streaming services, and over time they fixed it
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by nickconfer 10y ago
The simple answer is realize your more nervous than the person or group interviewing you. You may not be completely yourself as your nervous, but they are being themselves. If they act aggitated, aggressive, nervous, rushed, etc... Thats m
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by nickconfer 12y ago
I hope this doesn't happen. With Google weakly policing illegal content, labels really do have a bad situation here. They either take the deal Google has given them which is bad, or say no, and risk getting removed from YouTube and ha
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by nickconfer 12y ago
This is not correct. With Google now having Chrome and other tools, there are many ways for Google to find out a URL exists. You may want to send a follow up email with a quick link for the user to add a noindex meta tag to the page, or ev
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by nickconfer 12y ago
Hi Yegg. Very interesting update. Two suggestions for places.. 1) If I search "self storage columbia mo" I get place results but if I "search self storage 65203" I do not get place results. I noticed this does work fo
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by nickconfer 12y ago
One business model has worked for a long time and the other has failed a lot. Haha, maybe that statement itself is not very correct though considering the car industries recent history. I think you've started a very interesting discus
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by nickconfer 12y ago
ha, could be :)
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by nickconfer 12y ago
This seems like a difficult business to execute on. 1) You need capital to buy the machines to give out and slowly collect $60 on. Once the capital runs out, more is needed, but without getting capital quick enough, new customers have to b
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by nickconfer 12y ago
My startup is probably going to use Google storage at this point. We are hosting video that only gets accessed a couple times, but needs to be available for 1 year, so the reduced storage cost is going to be big for us.
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by nickconfer 13y ago
I wish there was more information in the article about how it effected conversion rates. They've created an interesting model here though.. Its basically free or one price, unless you're really big. If you're really big, th
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by nickconfer 13y ago
I think the obvious answer here is there won't be a next-gen social network that is Facebook. Instead there will be several social networks that are laser focused on being the best for X. Ala Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Vine, Pinterest
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by nickconfer 13y ago
I like iOS 7, but I'm a little worried about how app designers will do with the new look. When you compare the apps currently out that have been updated, you can see a lot of companies are struggling with flat design. Something that s
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by nickconfer 13y ago
I'd give it an update or two... Apple tends to have this issue at first, either because of something in their updated OS or 3rd party software. It usually gets fixed pretty quickly though.
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by nickconfer 13y ago
Agreed. Most businesses actually don't care what a service costs if it does two things.. 1) something useful they need 2) cost is low enough that they don't need to get approval
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by nickconfer 13y ago
A/B test pricing changes if you do anything. Most companies have a problem of undercharging for a service, not overcharging. Keep in mind your dealing with programmers on Hacker News, but most non-programmers don't think anything
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by nickconfer 13y ago
Not sure how you can make this assertion. You don't know how many employees she's let go, how many Jobs let go, and there is no evidence that the new hires Yahoo has made are not high quality employees.
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by nickconfer 13y ago
Three reasons. 1) Apple has more active credit cards than Amazon. 2) If someone were to purchase a book on an iOS device it is more likely they have an active credit card on their account than an Amazon account with an active credit card. 3
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by nickconfer 13y ago
The original iOS YouTube app was done by Apple. Google also has a YouTube API with easy code examples and resources for iOS developers, today. I have to agree with Microsoft here. It seems they are doing everything they can and getting no
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by nickconfer 13y ago
Sell it on flippa. You'll get more interest and bids.
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by nickconfer 13y ago
Its interesting the title says people hate the new icons, when they only preferred the old icons. Theres a comic to explain this situation quite well. http://theoatmeal.com/pl/state_web_winter/facebook_layout
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by nickconfer 13y ago
Right now yes. In the future, who knows. It doesn't seem like this would go away though. Each of the big streamers are building a specific base set of streamable content. Amazon is focused on newer films more so than Netflix and Hulu. Hul
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by nickconfer 13y ago
Sorry for the snarky comment. I usually don't make these types of comments but shutting down a service, asking users to do the leg work to solve game credit problems, and then marketing a new service in the same post bugs me.
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by nickconfer 13y ago
In short. Google+ is thriving, but we decided to shut down Google+ Games. Look away... Look away. If you paid for anything contact the companies that are already tired of us and have them solve your problem. Oh and by the way, try our ne
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by nickconfer 13y ago
I'm not sure they could buy it. Path was offered $100 million early on from Google when they first released and were not getting traction. They rejected it. David Morin appears to want to build a company for the long term, and so selling
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by nickconfer 13y ago
I'm definitely curious to see how Path's growth works out now. It seems that since they are focused on close friends and family that phone contacts will work for this to some extent. They definitely pose a threat to Facebook's stream quali
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by nickconfer 13y ago
They've had incredibly strong growth since the release of Path 3.0 (in Path growth terms that is). They've been growing at 1 million users a week recently. They were also moving consistently into the top grossing apps in the app store. I ag
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by nickconfer 13y ago
They actually started with a 50 friend limit. The problem was when they had it at this, most active users had less then 20 friends they followed with Path... So they upped it to 150, and now they are seeing users in the 50 range they origi
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by nickconfer 13y ago
I imagine Facebook has already considered this problem and it is not a big concern (and likes are their ad business, so they want lots of likes, but real likes to better target ads)... First, I'd imagine a second double tap will instantly u

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