By the way, is the “yet” what is regarded as “editorialized”? There’s hardly any “original title”, apart from frequently changing status updates in the body.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29058685

I believe it was the “yet again”, which implies that it is down frequently. Personally this is the first time I see it down, even though I heard that I had another incident recently.

Thanks. It has indeed been down multiple times recently, both for active DDoS and for maintenance in response.

A week ago, there was a post titled “Fastmail is having problems again”, so today, “yet again” seemed adequate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28963609

Their response from a few days ago, including mentions of similar services affected, e.g. Mailbox.org and Posteo: https://fastmail.blog/company/fastmail-fights-off-ransom-cyb...

Analysis of the same tracking mechanisms from September 2018, and its discussion on HN late last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21034849

Popularized by Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, as per https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/18/planning/

There is a very old version of this, indeed:

“Plans are worthless when the fighting is once begun, and all depends on the inspiration of the moment.” (1877)

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/18/planning/

You’re right about the gold rush being over. But what certainly remains true is that, although your product may be failing, it could be possible to identify individual features or adjacent markets that are more promising.

For YouTube and Groupon at least, it definitely was the latter. This can be seen in the sources.

Well, would you say that the pivot from a dating app to what YouTube is today is a joke? Is that just a refined product? Same for games turning into social networks or productivity tools.

It's not the action itself just the impreciseness of the label that I'm objecting to as I do think there is a difference between a video dating app that re-uses their underlying technology to become a general video hosting service (a refinement) vs say a Magic the Gathering collectors site that becomes a cryptocurrency exchange or a product company that just cancels their product and rebrands as a consultancy.

You would be right – if the point was “just pivot and you’ll succeed”. It’s not.

You’re right, these are perfect additions. No idea how they could have been missed. Thank you!