"Fascinating" indeed... I've no problem with the general practice of selling lost or mis-directed packages that are reasonably never going to be claimed, but if the facts are as the columnist writes - with one box of 88 books x $28.95 being sold under the $25 threshold, the USPS should be worrying less about the PR damage and more about keeping its (dwindling) customers happy.
Dwindling customers - numerically speaking, sure. But volumes they seem to be ok on. Especially when you consider all of the last mile work they are doing for UPS & Fedex.
Sounds promising - anything that can improve on our current use of the frankly non-intuitive Google Analytics in providing clear metrics is worth a shot.
Sigh. I just got back from Zion and had absolutely no problem with this policy... worst case - you buy one round of sodas drinks, then refill with water for the rest of the trip. No brainer.
APIs are definitely the way forward but there are still some hold outs - and increasingly, many of the social platforms such as Twitter and LinkedIn are putting limits on the type of data they share.
in my view, it's user growth. get more users consuming from your platform, then they can consume it across all their media and devices and on some of those transmission platforms or devices you can monetize.
Yup - this has really been a humbling learning experience for us... shame as well, because we ended up missing out on the sort of feedback HN community often provides.
Well - it sounds like all these comments are from actual users... but TBH - the positive comments are great, but we’re much more interested in the constructive (and blunt) feedback HN is known for… any thoughts?
They may be from actual users of your program, but votes and comments here need mostly to be by actual users of HN.
Votes and comments for promotional reasons are against HN's rules and tend to get accounts and sites banned. We want people to participate because they find a story intellectually interesting, not because they or a friend have something to promote. It's totally fine to post your own stuff, but after that, the HN community needs to drive.
Being offended is understandable if you are a real user and just really excited about this project.
But then the underlying problem is that all these comments seem fake, which clearly indicates they don't offer any value and only hurt the product. So I'd say if you really love riddle.com, either just upvote the post, or add something meaningful to the conversation :-).
