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Re:Ask HN: How to Price a Product on Sunday August 11, 2024 @02:58PM (#41218521)
The book Monetizing Innovation, to me, has been the smartest approach to pricing I've encountered: https://www.amazon.com/Monetizing-Innovation-Companies-Desig...

Basic idea is that you should design the product around the price. Do price discovery before you do anything else.

Podcast ep here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6veeCbKIzw

Re:The Objects of Our Life on Thursday July 18, 2024 @12:40PM (#40997359)
"The author of this article" is Jony Ive, who very possibly has dipped into other chapters of computer history
evidenced by the huge variation in word count among his short stories. some are a couple pages, while others are essentially novellas.
As Ben Thompson pointed out recently, unlike Google and OpenAI, Meta benefits from open source AI taking off because that makes everyone better content creators, which accrues further value to their social media platforms.
Re:Show HN: Names on Saturday January 21, 2023 @05:06PM (#34471106)
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Re:NeevaAI on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @06:08PM (#34332778)
Google has the same answer tbf
Re:Link: Simple, secure one-click payments by Stripe on Thursday April 14, 2022 @04:54PM (#31033152)
Expired in 2017 which led to the recent rise of one-click checkout startups
I didn't even know he was sick
Re:Facebook Renames to Meta on Thursday October 28, 2021 @03:08PM (#29030220)
meta.com – used to be a Chan-Zuckerberg initiative to discover scientific papers. Now it's Facebook's corporate home. Hmm.
"I still like writing things out in longhand, finding that a computer gives even my roughest drafts too smooth a gloss and lends half-baked thoughts the mask of tidiness"

-Obama

I wonder if there's any metaphorical value in this phenomenon
Re:OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC) on Thursday April 01, 2021 @05:15PM (#26666135)
"mars can't wait" lol
Re:What’s expected of us (2005) on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:38PM (#25120309)
Didn't know this story was originally published in Nature. I read it in his excellent short story book Exhalation and loved it like I did many others in that collection.

Chiang is like Kafka and Borges in that he writes plain prose that blows your mind.

Re:Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis [pdf] on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:42AM (#24859232)
This would explain why NYC flattened and then reduced the first curve relatively quickly.
Re:Beg the Question on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @07:26PM (#24771496)
"Assuming the conclusion" has a clear meaning distinct from "non-sequitur."

"Non-sequitur" evaluates a statement's relationship to a previous statement.

"Assuming the conclusion" evaluates a statement on its own.

Fitting this article was written by a fella named Moore
Re:The Era of Visual Studio Code on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @11:05PM (#24562522)
Not a problem I've encountered, but one that will be solved by the robust extension ecosystem of VSCode. You can apply this to any UX problem you might encounter with VSCode.
I can't believe how funny this writer is
Re:Bardcore on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @11:24PM (#24360547)
lit
Re:Ventoy makes making bootable USB drives easy on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @03:35PM (#24275133)
"makes making"
"It didn't help that he crashed while doing so."

...is the subtitle. Might have been nice to say in the headline, which is clickbait.

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