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by gcatalfamo 3y ago
I'll double down with another anecdote: It is very common sense here to say "Ok, I'll cover Netflix, you'll cover Disney+/Spotify/other" The moment when one of this services doesn't allow sharing anym
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by gcatalfamo 3y ago
Europe is culturally VERY different from US and Canada. Although you may be right, I would never expect Netflix to admit my thesis, even if well known around here.
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by gcatalfamo 3y ago
>> Do you think most sharers are contributing to the price? All of them? Certainly not. Many? Yes. >> There might be some friend groups who split the cost of an account between them, but I suspect far more common is that pare
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by gcatalfamo 3y ago
From the comments in this thread, many are not understanding that password borrowers are typically contributing to the account owner's monthly subscription, and many account owners, when faced to the full price of the subscription will
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
chatgpt didn't have geographical limitations when it came out, greatly aiding its virality.
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
Farenheit 451.
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
but telemetry HAS to do with my product, not you.
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
> You can't use a blunt usage metric to tell whether a feature works or not. It only tells you that the feature is popular for some reason. That reason might be that it works, but often the reason people use a feature a lot is it&#
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
> Only 1% of mobile phone users need 911 regularly. Lets remove that feature.0 If this is the type of PM you are accustomed to, fire them. Because that's a dumb argument.
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
That is usually information you already know from other sources (e.g. is the 1% feature a feature that is pivotal to getting new users?) (e.g. is the 1% feature a feature that is key for a specific audience within my total addressable marke
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
As I said that is a "piece of information", not the whole story. Making an axing decision with ONLY that information would be outright idiotic. Telemetry has to be designed as well, to piece as much as you can, and then you comple
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
As I said that is a "piece of information", not the whole story. Making an axing decision with ONLY that information would be outright idiotic.
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
> And it’s a malevolent spectre if you’re the 1% of users who actually use a niche feature in something, since developers will use that knowledge to take it away. Yes, but also no. If my resources are not infinite, knowing that an &quo
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
Can you make your blog subscribe-able? Although I don't agree 100% with this entry specifically, it is particularly refreshing to read something unfiltered, witty written and yet unafraid to meet controversy. (which don't often
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Gmail spam is out of control
88 points by gcatalfamo 4y ago|94 comments
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
Six months of daily is practice is a tolling amount of grinding before knowing if it works, for an ADD person...
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
Is your answer giving any insight to OP on how they should do it?
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
** PLEASE READ ** You are not in grind mode. You are literally (mildly) depressed. Every project you don't finish makes you feel increasingly unaccomplished, and tech is big on survivorship bias on great successes, while you are ther
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
I know it's not very HN-y to say "I agree", but I think your comment encapsulates wonderfully the general topic, in a concise and very well put paragraph. edit: I am also commenting to retrieve it in the future.
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
I agree 100% but, if you wanted to change ecosystem as whole (not just for music), what alternatives are there, really? They clearly get away with this because whatever you'd change it with you'd be far worse off.
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Ask HN: How to Sell in an Unknown Market?
2 points by gcatalfamo 4y ago|2 comments
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
Cool project, although the name kinda clashes with the well-known https://www.sketch.com/ in the UI/UX design space
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
CNCs are current manufacturing tech now more than ever, don't know what you mean by CNC peaking 50 years ago. Anyway "tech" in the original post was clearly contextualised non-manufacturing tech which is the predominant con
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
Agree, but I honestly can't fathom the productivity/gaming benefits of the X models compared to such difference in power draw compared to the "regular" 7900
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
An incredibly broad, stupid and merciless generalization - which still applies here - is that while there are people in tech with very deep knowledge of the world (for personal curiosity and such) there are many, many people in tech with
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
Or maybe just give the opportunity to _undo_ it by re-clicking it shortly after if misclicked instead of hiding it in the void.
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Ask HN: How to test ability in finding information?
1 points by gcatalfamo 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How to bring innovation in a sector that doesn't care about technology?
1 points by gcatalfamo 4y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Why did Apple stop selling network devices?
4 points by gcatalfamo 4y ago|1 comments
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by gcatalfamo 4y ago
I SO expected this to be about the basics of wine making (the beverage) and kind of let me down after opening the link. Please somebody make wine-making 101

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