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Michael .... it’s really bad writing.

You can’t say “hey ordinary person I’ll save you wasting $50k on AdWords” then instantly drop straight deep into the most arcane of mumbled, cryptic, faded rune digital marketing magic speak.

Refer to the comment below from HN user 83457 who explains same but in English.

You sir, should have written the article.

Ah yes, “YC Startup School“ where dumbos like me may learn the basic things, thanks I’ll seek it out to come up to speed.

>>> Thanks to developers’ trust in our core infrastructure and their recommendations, we’re fortunate to have a constant and growing inbound flow of leads and net negative churn, meaning the value of usage-driven upgrades outweighs the loss in revenue from subscription cancellations.

I’m glad they clarified what “net negative churn” means, that really cleared things up.

This is such impressive blather that I’m now convinced I know nothing at all about modern sales and marketing.

It may as well have been written by an ancient alien civilization for all I understood.

Probably we’ll hear something very like this when SETI receives a signal from another star system.

Why can’t users choose their default search on installation?

No.

But I can see this thread is populated with Delphi diehards.

Building desktop GUI apps is pretty niche these days compared with building browser apps.

I have a soft spot for Delphi but this is odd.

Delphi has seen its day. Any number of other languages can be taught for free... python is probably a more relevant choice.

Why?

I wonder what would have happened if Steve Jobs priced Next products at the level that normal people could buy them.

Agreed.

Learning to do what you are told by your manager is an important skill at the start of your career and some people find it hard to learn.

I once had a new employee at the start of his career and he simply could not bring himself to do as he was told to do.

After his first 8 weeks or so I said “you’ve got a week to start doing what you’re asked or you’re fired”.

He started doing what he was asked and became a star employee.

That site has in impressive number of pop outs pop ups fly outs and fly overs.

I put it to you that dropping multiple nukes was not about avoiding ground war in japan.

The US simply wanted to drop the nukes and see the outcome and win the war through pure unadulterated terror and fear.