Throwaway90283
Joined 11 years ago
Joined 11 years ago
http://www.droid-life.com/2015/04/21/this-is-google-contribu...
It looks overpriced. I need to be signed into my Google account at all times when browsing the internet, pay $10-15/mo, and even then, it's only removing something like 50-75% of advertisements. It's more expensive than ad block, it removes less ads than ad block, and it leaves a big empty space that ad block can typically remove.
This sounds like a poor experience for the end user, and I can't see it catching on.
I'm assuming this is another Google service that'll die before I'm able to try it.
Instead what's going to happen, T-Mobile and Sprint both agree to offer the same performance, or focus on different regions.
It's like selling slices of pizza on the street. If you're smart, you and your competitor agree to sell at $5/slice. If you drop to $4, sure you'll get more customers for a short period of time, but then your competitor drops to $4, and now you both just cut 20% off your revenue for no reason.
That has nothing to do with volume training, that's just proper weightlifting in general.
It's a mess, you're having a drink and meet someone in your industry. Oh, visit my site, it's john.ninja, or http://john.ninja. They'll give you the 'huh?' look, and you need to explain that it ends in .ninja instead of .com.
You'll always need to write a longer address and can't say john.ninja. You'll always need to explain in a little more detail how to visit the website. If your site ever becomes a huge success, lots of people will be visiting john.com, so hopefully they don't run a similar business or anything inappropriate one day.
Imagine if you were Netflix, and you ran the business using the domain Netflix.video. You would be going insane right now, and be willing to spend a small fortune trying to get a hold of Netflix.com. If you bought the domain for 20 million, people would agree it was a good move and investment. That's just how important having the .com domain is to a business.
Why? If I write on a poster john.com, or on a cereal box, or on my business card, or I say 'visit us at john.com' on the radio, or my tv commercial says john.com at the end, people know exactly what to do. They recognize the words john.com as a website they can visit or search.
Now, if I say, 'visit us at john.ninja' on the radio, people have no idea what I'm even referring towards. If it's on my business card, people are wondering if my last name is ninja, or maybe this is just a fun play on words, and I refer to myself as john.ninja and the dot in-between the words is for design purposes. To fix that, you need to write more, www.john.ninja. However, it's still difficult for people to digest. Most people would probably ask, 'that's a website?', and then they would just visit google and type in 'john ninja', which may or may not get them to my site.
Lynda brought me from not knowing how to declare a variable, to being able to develop a simple site with a database, user registration, commenting, administrative pages, etc, in a very short period of time. It's a great resource to hit the ground running in a week. However, like you said, you then need to to grow using other resources to learn how to sprint.
If you want to see officers wearing body cams one day, you're better off getting involved in politics.
If Google Contribute (https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/) doesn't pull a Google and remain invite only until death, it'll simplify the process and we might see this become a more common approach.
I really don't like the idea of every site attempting to roll out their own solution. It would be nice to have a system to manage subscriptions across a variety of websites. I log-in, and I can see all the sites I'm subscribed to at the moment. I can then toggle individual sites on or off with the push of a button, or I can change payment plans for individual sites (if I switch to the HN $2/mo plan, my username appears in blue). Sites could then query the payment info using some kind of API and user tokens, to see what user is currently subscribed to what plan.
Or, if you're staying somewhere for a few months, then offer couchsurfers a couch to sleep on. People are always passing through, so you give an interesting person your couch for a couple of nights, and discover the city with them.
It's made my travels a lot more fun, and I now pick places to live that are popular on couchsurfing because it's that much easier to meet people.