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It's amazing to read through all the comments. I think of you all as more intelligent than "normal people" (Non HN readers, lol), but the amount of unabashed, unfettered bias in the replies is fascinating. The number of replies without a disclaimer like "this is just my own experience, but here's what I think..." is just amazing.

That's my main takeaway from this discussion. All the other points became secondary.

Your price quotes for AWS support are wrong: Business support is 10% of your usage, or $100 USD whichever is higher. Enterprise support is 10% of your usage or $15k USD, whichever is higher. It's actually more complicated if your spend is high. Better point people to the info page here: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/

FYI, this article does not claim to be an analysis of product market fit.

I think the point is: If you had no abilities, and only f*cked stuff up without outside help, but you had solid product market fit, that's the only thing that matters because everything else you can acquire (including funds to compensate for your shortcomings).

At first it does sound wrong, but as I think back to all successful people I've known, including the ones that I could not for the life of me figure out how they got more success than I (eg, grade school dropouts, alcoholics, etc), I _can_ see how they leveraged an insight about PMF to achieve many things that I've always wanted and never achieved for myself. Very enlightening, but still kinda sad, actually, lol.

Is this a joke reply? All I could find on Ty Webb is a bunch of Caddyshack references (I can't stand golf, so was clueless). Can you provide a link to the talk you're talking about?

It was called "product market fit". Earliest mention was in 1972: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=product+market...

If you're saying it died before it went to 25% of the world's population as a userbase, then you are using a definition of "death" that no one else is using.

shrug that's why one would consult with a contingency-based employment attorney.

Employment law attorneys work on contingency, so no expense to you. You start on the wrongful termination suit, get evidence, and then go after the other company based on what you discover from your previous employer.

Among the best mental health decisions of my life is to get rid of Twitter from my everyday life. I still have an account (the only reason to delete it would be as a sign of protect, but I don't care, and Twitter doesn't care that I don't care). I do not visit the site on my own. There's just so much negativity, cruelty, and stupid thoughts. How can anyone post anything insightful, nuanced, and worth reading with such a character limit?

I realized that interesting tweets (or rather, Twitter threads) have a way of finding me through other means. That's the only time I visit Twitter.

I'm ok on missing out on ideas that do not find me through other means. The vomit to caviar ratio on Twitter is way too high.

But it's not a political party, and that's the entirety of the problem.

If people think they are buying a drug from a manufacturer they are wrong.

No one is saying that (at least on this thread).

All I'm saying laypeople assume the mfg is the bad guy when it comes to high drug prices. Time and time again on the news we are told that X drug costs $$$$$ in the US and the exact same drug costs orders of magnitude less in some other country. Everyone points the finger at the drug mfgs.

What I'm saying is that it's good that the secret is getting out that the mfgs are not necessarily the bad guys, and there's all these other companies involved in the drug price crisis.

I meant the manufacturer controls the price at which they sell. Ie, if drug X costs $15 to make, and the manufacturer chooses to sell it to retailers/distributors at $2000, they are free to do that.

I'm not sure what your point is: It seems you are cherrypicking and then generalizing. For example Duloxetine (generic for Cymbalta) is $4 at CostPlus and $15 at the Walmart link. That in and of itself really does not prove anything either. I may be wrong, though, it's just one additional data point.

Maybe you can do the analysis you mention and publish it? The worst that will happen is that all us laypeople will be better informed.

I think though that CostPlus, if nothing else, has opened the eyes of a great many people who just assumed medicine was like any other product where the manufacturer controls the price and if someone is making obscene profit, it's an outlier like the Shkreli douchebag. Now a lot more people know that it's possible to pay a lot less. Even on TikTok I'm seeing people paying much less for their prescriptions when they bypass the insurance company and pay full retail price, which is counterintuitive as hell, and I personally would have never guessed.

So all in all, I think it's hugely positive that the secrets are getting out, and CostPlus is invariably a large part of that.

That's a very pre-emptively defensive statement... Why doesn't HN like to hear this?

I would rephrase it as "The App Store policies were always for the benefit of Apple (and customers)."

The priorities have shown very clearly over time.

LOL, so true. I often need to have online meetings with engineers that for some reason prefer Linux as their desktop OS. Guess which meeting participants _always_ delay the meetings because they can't get their audio/video working for routine meetings?

If that happens to pretty tech savvy software engineers, the average user has zero chance of using Linux as a desktop effectively.

I'm with you, but this is the wrong place to come and say that. That attacks the ego of many people on here.

EDIT: But read the other comments on here and they actually prove you right: First hand reports of low build quality by the same manufacturer (downvoted, of course), someone saying "someone should just add X feature and I'd buy it" (as opposed to true-to-open-source "I'll add X feature, which will make it it a kick ass product")." Another comment that says "Yeah it runs many distros, but none of them polished". It all just sort of proves what you are saying.

Not sure if people care about this point on HN. I mean if downvoting someone cost 10 of your own karma, then you bet people would use it more judiciously.

I don't think it's odd, tbh. People downvote stuff they do not agree with, even though the downvoted statement contains no opinion nor attack. That's just how people behave online.

What do you guys think of "dry run by default" where you have to turn dry run OFF via an argument? I've done this on some of my utilities just because screwing up the arguments would result in much grief (lost data).

Genuinely curious: Has change of this magnitude ever been achieved entirely by voting? It feels to me like it can only be achieved by revolution (ie, replacing the government entirely with a new government that does what the people actually want). I very well could be wrong.

That may be the case, but that's not the reason for this one. Read up a bit on the reasons MS had. At the very least it's not a trivial "not invented here".

I think your question is a good one, and one that a vast majority of times it's just people or companies wanting to invent something for the sake of inventing something. IN this case, the posted link to the repo is unfortunate because there are so many better links to the announcement.

Here's one that touches on your question: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/what-is-microsoft...

Set up a budget. At least Azure has those, and you can set whatever limit you want. If you hit the limit, the access will be cut off (and VMs shut down, etc). Your data will not be lost, though. When the new billing period rolls around, all will be back to normal.

I highly recommend something like this if you want to learn the cloud and do not have an employer to sponsor an account for you.

All these suggestions of using a throw-away CC number to avoid paying the bill are just unethical, IMO. No need to resort to those measures.

This is one of those headlines that are missing the word "yet" at the end. All of the problems brought up are solvable, given enough time and resources.

Also given some f-ing ingenuity. This quote is just disingenuous: "the savings are canceled out by the land required to install the solar panels". Can't you just install solar panels vertically as well? A single web search for "vertical solar panels" brings up alternatives and even this article from 2017: https://offgridworld.com/3d-solar-panel-towers-increase-ener... . I'm sure a thorough search will solve that problem right away.

I just think the author has a beef against this type of farming and is playing dumb to validate his opinion.

LOL, why would "we" need more context? It's her own experience, she's making her own choices, and she's telling her story. If she feels she was harassed, then she was harassed. She's not suing people, she's not shaming anyone in particular. That's really the end of it.

I'd not have the gall to demand evidence and pass judgement on the life experience of others.

This person owes us nothing, and if anything, we should thank her for sharing her story, and no more.

Same here. Seems to be a paywall. Try http://outline.com/https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56010...

That article mentioned Delphi and Object Pascal, and it brought back many fond memories. I absolutely LOVED Delphi and Object Pascal back in the day. So clean and so fun to program in. If Borland hadn't f-ed it up and had stayed around until now, I'd be the biggest Delphi fanboy.

Alas, that was not to be. Modern languages are fun and all, but not Delphi-back-in-the-day level fun :-).

Stopped reading and closed the tab at "JavaScript disabled by default. Websites should only be using JavaScript to enhance the overall user experience".

Good luck putting your thumb up in a try to eliminate the sun. Absolutely never gonna happen.

Either this project is someone's wishful thinking of what a perfect world looks like to them (in which case I'm not interested), or this is actually a serious attempt to enforce arbitrary rules on web sites, and the authors are trying to do it at the expense of the users, in which case I don't care either.