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I've read H&P and a bunch of PG's essays. Unsure what conflict exists btw Graham's writings and the content of this guy's powerpoint essay.

100%. I use this every day, esp. when editing my music library.

> Update: This post does not live up to its original title We are building a better Heroku...It should have emphasized the building part, we're just starting. The current 5 minute production app doesn't hold a candle to Heroku at the moment. It should have made it clear the goals is to improve the speed with which you can configure a production app, not a development app. Development apps on Heroku are already close to perfect.

"Stripe is a celebration of the written word which happens to be incorporated in the state of Delaware. We produce prodigious amounts of it internally, most of it widely visible within the company." - https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/3/18/two-years-at-stripe/

* Jiang Wen - Keep Cool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Cool_(film)

* Malle - My Dinner with Andre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Dinner_with_Andre

* Jarmusch - Coffe and Cigarettes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_and_Cigarettes

* this one from Paul Graham: you retain more from reading than you think you do http://www.paulgraham.com/know.html

* this one from James Somers: actively engage (don't read without a pen and paper, explain stuff to yourself as you go) http://jsomers.net/blog/kenjitsu

To my mind, 'what' trumps 'how'. A casual reading of 'Mrs. Dalloway' brings a greater reward than n airport non-fictions.

my touchstone on this topic is Patrick McKenzie's article on salary negotiation (http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/)

question based on premises:

- many people use Sublime for free

- many people don't pay bc the asking price is $80 and bc VS Code and <insertEditorHere> are free

- many people would pay if price was lower

what I'm curious to know:

- for people that do pay, are they paying for personal use or bc their company pays? --> this is what I'm really getting at, whether Sublime's revenue stream comes from corporate or fans of the project

what I'm not assuming

- that $80 is expensive is an absolute sense [as Toast_25 points out, bargin for product value * usage] but rather comparatively expensive (vs. other v good and completely free editors out there)

- that Sublime is making an incorrect business decision (I suspect they'd have more people paying if contributions via Paypal or Patreon were available but also suspect this would have minimal revenue impact, esp. if they maintained the current sales price)

- that Sublime owes a cheaper price to its user based (esp. given that it's providing an awesome product for, again, free)