lifetime

A couple of months back they sent an email that they are "discontinuing" lifetime accounts.

Compare the first 2/3rds of Matasano's lifetime to the last 1/3rd.

Instead they are now spinning off a new "Textdrive" that is supposed to "take over" the lifetime customers.

A lifetime servant is conditioned to be deferential, in every part of their life, not just while working.

I love that this is the top story on HN. I only wish that PG got as much flack for his startup economics hype piece[1] and proposition to compress a lifetime's worth of work effort into four years.

You've got a lifetime of shipping successful software businesses ahead of you, regardless of what happens in the next short while.

It is vital for these games to add content monthly if not weekly, and these games are released with a large number of known bugs that are slowly fixed through the games lifetime.

With the lifetime account fiasco still ongoing [1], they should probably shut up.[1] Joyent/Textdrive sold lifetime shared hosting accounts for a one time payment in the beginning.

I'm particularly fond of situations like this where the procedure is, for the normal person, a once-in-a-lifetime event.

Considering how much progress has been made in formal methods since 1970, I expect that finding 10 annoying bugs in all of the software I use will be trivial for my entire lifetime.

First, in total Microsoft has been far better at consistently extracting significant profits from the gaming market over the lifetime of the current console generation.

'.It's easy to say that being raped should be like breaking a leg: an unfortunate event that can happen during a lifetime in human society with all its strange and from which you can recover after some pain and trouble.