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How Much did it Cost Youtube to host Gangnam Style?(forbes.com)
7 points by ruswick 14y ago|2 comments
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by ruswick 14y ago
Fair enough. The notoriety or devotion to the brand and other "soft" benefits also have weight on the utility of a product. The traits like material used and engineering are encompassed within the utility. If an app runs better, it's worth
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by ruswick 14y ago
It's been one day. That is too short a period of time to determine anything. Given the rush of people buying it on the first day, a high rating is to be expected. What is your point? Incidentally, I do think that apps ought to cost less tha
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by ruswick 14y ago
Value is determined not by the amount of work put into it, but by the precedent set by the market. So long as there are free and sub-$3 clients, $20 is anomalous. What gets me most about arguments like these is that you are pulling numbers
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by ruswick 14y ago
I don't think the "I'll pay anything" guys make valid points. Most people do not judge the reasonability of a price on the amount of work that is put into a product. (Nor should they.) When one purchases something, they ought to evaluate th
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Ask HN: How to start a career?
7 points by ruswick 14y ago|2 comments
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by ruswick 14y ago
This is neither here nor there, but I don't understand your "1 hour of pay" comment. Although it was ambiguous, I'm going to interpret it to mean that "most of HN" makes more than 24$ (equivalent to a one year subscription) per hour. I thin
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by ruswick 14y ago
I don't think this is true (game consoles notwithstanding). Throughout history, there have been but a few mediums in use at a single time. Most of the time, all these platforms were supported. (Now, it's any number of content distributers o
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by ruswick 14y ago
I think that this framework isn't applicable to most because people who sincerely enjoy working are anomalous and in the minority. Even people who "love" their jobs do so not because the job is "lovable" in and of itself but because it is t
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by ruswick 14y ago
Is this a neat idea? Sure. But it's nowhere near $150 worth of value. (And, based on their "limited time" copy, it's likely going to rise to a more egregious price in the future.) I'm actually dumbstruck that they've sold 2500 of these. Adm
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by ruswick 14y ago
Does anyone know whether or not App.net has plans to release an official app for iOS and Android? One of my major apprehensions (besides what I believe to be a still unjustifiable price) is the fact that most of the current apps available a
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by ruswick 14y ago
Although the app's lack of proper search and laughable location plotting, my chief issue with the new Maps is the aesthetic, which I consider to be unequivocally inferior to Google Maps.
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"Handmade" software is BS.(ruswick.tumblr.com)
1 points by ruswick 14y ago|0 comments
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by ruswick 14y ago
This just seems obvious to me. Granted, I'm only 16 and have had but one foray into the world of corporate employment, but the notion that someone can learn a skill early in their life and practice it indefinitely without expanding or impro
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by ruswick 14y ago
For whatever reason, this counts prefixed whitespace as a single word.
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by ruswick 14y ago
I don't see any value in this as a product. $25 for a shirt is incredibly expensive, especially printing is limited to text in one typeface on one side of one type of shirt. It's pricey and limited. I just don't see why I would want to use
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by ruswick 14y ago
It's evident that you don't know what you're talking about. That is not a service in any meaningful way. A service is any kind of action performed for compensation. That action cannot be the actual act of compensating. Does Walmart give you
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Why Branch is Doomed(danr.us)
2 points by ruswick 14y ago|0 comments
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by ruswick 14y ago
Pricing for what? Users? That would be an unequivocal death knell. Developers? Possibly. However, it's doubtful that Twitter stands to gain any significant revenue from charging for an API. Their audience for advertising is so much larger a
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by ruswick 14y ago
How many of those apps are people using T or running ThinkUp instances? It's doubtful that many of these apps offer any functionality that could qualify them as a client.
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by ruswick 14y ago
No. The price of mobile service is the same for both subsidized and unsubsidized users. When you buy a subsidized phone, you don't redistribute the cost. You eliminate part of the cost and in return forfeit a number of freedoms to your carr
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Stop Calling it a $600 Phone(ruswick.tumblr.com)
2 points by ruswick 14y ago|3 comments
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by ruswick 14y ago
1) When you buy software, you often aren't paying for the brand. As was stated in the original post, purchasing software is often done blindly and is a total gamble. Given that the brand of most software is worthless and the cost of product
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by ruswick 14y ago
His argument was twofold. I think you're right in that he touches on the effects of supply and demand in relation to job availability. However, he also touches on the fact that you need to work hard and "make yourself valuable" in order to
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by ruswick 14y ago
As a junior in high school, I think the notion that our generation is entitled or that we simply put in a perfunctory effort and coast through the education system expecting jobs on the other end is entirely fallacious. We're all fairly rea
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by ruswick 14y ago
$5 a month is $60 a year, which is a price increase.
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by ruswick 14y ago
It's true that App.net won't have to compete against itself, but it will have to compete against Twitter, which is free and already has the momentum. The API doesn't seem as massive as you think. From what I understand, it's just a read/wri
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by ruswick 14y ago
It will so long as that model inhibits people from joining.
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by ruswick 14y ago
I have no doubt that their product will be nice. However, unless they get gobs and gobs of users, the value of the product will be significantly diminished. Obviously, a world where millions pay for App.net is great. They thrive as a busine
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App.net is Destined for Failure(danr.us)
14 points by ruswick 14y ago|20 comments

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