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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by jbreckmckye on Monday November 27, 2023 @08:13AM (#38431911)
I think you are hung up on some careless phrasing on my part.

I'm lambasting the "growth strategy" that leads companies to release worse products via over-optimisation. I am pointing out how this sort of 'growth strategy' would lead to absurd behaviours if a human applied the same logic.

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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by theodric on Monday November 27, 2023 @08:46AM (#38432171)
The risk of posting on HN is having your rhetorical flourish taken literally, deconstructed, and criticized in excruciating detail: QED.
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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by HelloMcFly on Monday November 27, 2023 @09:27AM (#38432585)
I think the problem here is that "growth mindset" has a more specific meaning to many readers that is not at all synonymous with "growth strategy", and there's some crossing of streams going on.
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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by throwaway_08932 on Monday November 27, 2023 @09:11AM (#38432402)
This risk multiplies when you have the audacity to make a joke on HN.
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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by gretch on Monday November 27, 2023 @10:46AM (#38433636)
Unfortunately this guy broke the first and most important rule of telling a joke -> it has to be funny.
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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by willsmith72 on Monday November 27, 2023 @09:55AM (#38432919)
"Growth mindset" has far more and different meaning to "growth strategies of companies"
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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by kibwen on Monday November 27, 2023 @10:36AM (#38433463)
FWIW, I call this "the virus mentality". Growth at all costs, even if it means the death of the host.
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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by ChainOfFools on Monday November 27, 2023 @11:14AM (#38434085)
Well they do call it viral growth unironically. I think the ambivalent moral motivation behind it would be a little better surfaced by calling it the cancer cell mindset.
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