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by ytdytvhxgydvhh 6y ago
I generally prefer boring, mature technologies or things I already know over resume-driven development as well. One potential gotcha though — today’s uncool thing that you know might be tomorrow’s thing that no one else knows The last proje
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by ytdytvhxgydvhh 6y ago
They’re supply constrained on both Fit and HR-V. The factory is going all out, but building a new factory isn’t a short term thing. So they can build all of the more profitable HR-V and sell every one or they could mix in some less profitab
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by ytdytvhxgydvhh 6y ago
If you’re Honda and you’ve got a factory that can make 100000 cars a year, would you rather make 100000 cars that make $2000 profit? Or 50000 cars that bring $1000 profit and another 50000 cars that bring $2000 profit? If you’re Google and
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by ytdytvhxgydvhh 6y ago
I’m not sure that it’s insane to kill off profitable products. Some folks were upset recently that Honda is discontinuing the Fit subcompact hatchback in the US. That’d be easily understandable if it were an unpopular, unprofitable product.
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by ytdytvhxgydvhh 6y ago
It’s like when motorcyclists say “safety first” about wearing a helmet and other protective gear. If they really put safety first, they’d choose a safer form of transportation. They mean “given that I’m going to engage in this risky activit
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by ytdytvhxgydvhh 6y ago
I agree with you both in theory and I’ve limited my purchasing from Amazon for such reasons. But I’ve come across products where the company has a first-party website to promote their product, but no first-party way to actually purchase the
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by ytdytvhxgydvhh 6y ago
I see there are already a ton of replies about push vs pull but the other (non-technical) aspect of a newsletter is the expected cadence of publishing. Some blogs have long gaps between posts and others have multiple posts per day. Newslett
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by ytdytvhxgydvhh 6y ago
Ben says: “Any company that wishes to achieve scale needs to do so in its home market first, before going abroad” Not really sure why this would be the case. Spotify didn’t do this did they?
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by ytdytvhxgydvhh 6y ago
What if manufacturing isn’t the source of end-user lemoniness? These cars go through QC - maybe some QC folks are more slipshod than others, and the main source of lemons are the ones who were inspected by terrible QC inspectors? Or maybe t
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by ytdytvhxgydvhh 6y ago
> Buying insurance on something you already know is going to happen or not is fraud, plain and simple. I don’t think that’s quite the right definition. I know I’m going to die. I bought whole life insurance. I have not committed fraud.