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Erik Rose
Personal blog · grinchcentral.comprogrammingsecuritycareer
Erik Rose's personal blog at grinchcentral.com covers programming, security and career. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The one comment cites the blog's argument that subscription pricing is deceptive and harms software quality, linking it to App Store and OS vendor incentives. HN readers link it for that position.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
In software, at least, I've argued that subscription pricing is innately deceptive and, long term, deleterious to the quality of the product. It's a market distortion born of the App Store model, where it's difficult to charge for updates. And that, in turn, is an artificial constraint imposed by OS vendors who have an incentive to keep people on the latest OS (without breaking their apps). There's a full-length ran…
Comment linking /an-open-letter-to-subscription-software-authors
on “Subscribers are the new, new thing in business”Submitted Privacy: An Operational Definition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Interviewing (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Will Stab Password Management In The Face as a story · 1 points
HN discussion