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Re:We’ve made the difficult decision to shut down Revue by cheriot on Thursday January 05, 2023 @01:55PM (#34264642)
Surprising they couldn't make this work. It seems like every substack author promotes their work on twitter. Maybe it's just hard to avoid tossing a few babies out with the bath water when reducing headcount by 75%.
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Re:We’ve made the difficult decision to shut down Revue by input_sh on Thursday January 05, 2023 @02:36PM (#34265306)
I don't think there was an actual attempt to make it work. They've acquired it, slapped it below the profile, and when Musk took over Twitter it was immediately obvious it's going to die.
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Re:We’ve made the difficult decision to shut down Revue by ianvisits on Thursday January 05, 2023 @02:16PM (#34264985)
As a saying it's been around for over 500 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_throw_the_baby_out_wit...

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Re:We’ve made the difficult decision to shut down Revue by Rebelgecko on Thursday January 05, 2023 @02:32PM (#34265236)
I tried to double click into this but I think there's an impedance mismatch. When you have the bandwidth, can you ping me back with some extra color on how this phrase fits in with synergistic corporate jargon?
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Re:We’ve made the difficult decision to shut down Revue by uuddlrlrbaba on Thursday January 05, 2023 @03:02PM (#34265681)
Let's put a pin in that, it's bigger than a breadbox and we'll have to circle back when there is more bandwidth.

It's bizarre to me that my original comment was downvoted/flagged. Guess it triggered the tech managers on HN

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Re:We’ve made the difficult decision to shut down Revue by BoorishBears on Thursday January 05, 2023 @02:15PM (#34264966)
It's an idiom that dates back to the 1500s that means accidentally getting rid of the good part of a subject while trying to get rid of the bad part.

Not exactly corporate or jargon.

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Re:We’ve made the difficult decision to shut down Revue by adrian17 on Thursday January 05, 2023 @02:16PM (#34264984)
It's also present (as in, a direct translation) as a casual phrase in other languages, like Polish.
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