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This didn't render in chrome, I had to look at the source of the page to read it. ""It's only £2 - less than your morning latte." I see this a lot, Netf
by mcormier 13y ago
This didn't render in chrome, I had to look at the source of the page to read it.
""It's only £2 - less than your morning latte."
I see this a lot, Netflix being the famous recent example. On the surface it seems reasonable; if you would spend this much on a small cup of coffee, why not spend it on our product instead?
But comparing to my morning latte is actually an incredibly high bar to set. What's valuable to me, as a human, is not the coffee itself but the experience. I spend half the morning looking forward to it, and half the afternoon in the afterglow. There's not just a drink, there's a place to sit and relax, free-flowing internet, pictures on the wall, and a waitress who fakes enough interest in my day that I actually believe it. Heck, at the café I'm writing from now the coffee itself is downright awful. But the moment I sat down I felt an eagerness to write. I've got more done in ten minutes here than in the four hours at home preceding it.
A cup of coffee might not be worth £2. But happiness is, and that's what I'm buying. If you want me to buy your thing for £2, it had better bring this much joy into my life. Otherwise, I'd rather have another cup.
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- kyle_t 13y agoMust have been fixed, working fine in Chrome for me.
- lmm 13y agoI haven't changed anything. It's fine in chrome, but does use javascript.
- vacri 13y agoIt's one of those new, cancerous sites, where nothing is visible unless javascript has been enabled. Because you need to enable javascript from two different sites in order to read a paragraph of text that could have been formatted using the HTML from back in the Mosaic days.
- mcormier 13y agoThe firewall at the company where I'm currently at appears to be blocking http://strapdownjs.com/v/0.1/strapdown.js http://strapdownjs.com/v/0.1/strapdown.js but not the github.io domain. They have strapdownjs classified as a spam domain.
- dylangs1030 13y agoWell said, I think this is a good rebuttal to setting low bar for downloading seemingly small things simply because people buy "real world" trivialities. I think everything you said is true, and in addition, I believe we've been conditioned to be more welcoming to physical purchases. A physical purchase of $10 is a concrete, observable deficit that we can touch and hold. A $0.99 purchase online is virtual...it's an unbounded abstraction with no immediate anchor for our enjoyment to dismiss as a "good buy."
- kephra 13y ago> This didn't render in chrome, I had to look at the source of the page to read it. This is a classical example of doing css+js wrong. Loading the page with js disabled, shows a blank page. Disabling css, shows the content in a nearly non readable way, with extremely long lines. Looking at the source tells me, that its not even HTML.
- krapp 13y agoIt's not even as if the content is being added by javascript, it's just markdown which gets parsed by js... the content is there, it's just being hidden by an inline css rule. That's the most annoying thing to me, although it's probably to prevent a FOUC. It is html though, but not really proper html. They're sending the html5 doctype for instance, but not declaring a content type, and I think (but i'm not certain) that the xmp tag is all but deprecated by now.