Torwald

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by Torwald 4y ago
AirBnB?
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by Torwald 4y ago
It's not a leap at all. If you are knowledgeable in advertising you wouldn't spend the time for such erratic behaviour, for various reasons. For instance, you can't see the overlap of people who work on the OSS code and those
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by Torwald 4y ago
Well, I wouldn't mind to see that ad, if it's done tastefully. It's just, I would also think that you are not capable to run a real ad campaign, which in turn would make me loose trust in your business. If you can't run
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One Browser Tab Only(stevepavlina.com)
1 points by Torwald 4y ago|1 comments
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by Torwald 4y ago
Tony Robbins says in one of his audios (can't remember which, otherwise I would link), that 80% of the books he sold are just collecting dust, because people just buy them in order to pat themselves on the back for having done somethin
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by Torwald 4y ago
README.TXT ist not all uppercase because of anything Unix, but because VAX/VMS had six dot three chars long file names and all of them upper case.
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by Torwald 4y ago
> There's no form of marketing that I "like" or actively reward, at most there's marketing that I fell for. You don't like Paul Graham's essays? Because they are marketing. One of the best I've ever see
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by Torwald 4y ago
You certainly are not an idiot, if you managed to do all that work up to professional standards. You didn't say how much you charged for that job, so it is impossible to give assessment there. But it is almost certain you charged way t
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by Torwald 4y ago
Because "mobile first."
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by Torwald 4y ago
https://beorg.app
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by Torwald 4y ago
The US has more "agressive" ads than Germany, because in Germany exists law against such agressiveness. For instance, you are not allowed to put down a competitor, not even mention their products. "Law against unfair competit
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by Torwald 4y ago
Sit down with people from the target audience and let them use the thing you are going to write about. Observe where they struggle. Let them articulate what they are doing and why. You wouldn't believe…
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by Torwald 4y ago
It was the first CPU of the Macintosh under Raskin. When Jobs took over the switched to the 68k.
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Using the file system for your notes (2009)(dougist.com)
1 points by Torwald 4y ago|0 comments
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by Torwald 4y ago
You ask: "Is it very hard to do that" which is a bit ambiguous as a question. But here are some tips for starters: - Pick a niche for your app that is very nerdy, don't do something mainstream, that would make too mayn people
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by Torwald 4y ago
> I think fitness is a bit of a unique market because, in my experience, people are more willing to spend money on it compared to other types of software. It is one of 3 markets that are like that: health, dating/relationships, fina
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by Torwald 5y ago
I found it in the students library and I had a C64 at the time and I thought "Wow, this is it! This is the official, real language for the Commodore, 'cos COMmodore and COMal, obvious, right?"
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by Torwald 5y ago
COMAL is one of these little computer tech gems that just went overboard with currents of tech market history.
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by Torwald 5y ago
I understand with text files you like the flexibility and independence you describe. You call that the value of plain text and I agree. However, that doesn't make me lose control over my content, if I don't use plain text files, w
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by Torwald 5y ago
The app lock-in doesn't make me lose access to my content. Many proprietary formats are supported by import/export in major apps. There are converter tools. Also, I do not need to switch apps. The problem with corruption is solved
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by Torwald 5y ago
> the guarantees that your content is truly yours (no lock-in). Maybe I am a magician of some kind, but my content is always mine, regardless of the file type I use. For the sake of argument, let's say I have a floppy disk with a Vi
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by Torwald 5y ago
I think this warrants a re-link: http://www.paulgraham.com/nthings.html
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by Torwald 5y ago
I think this is the right answer, compared with something the grandgrandparent touched upon: windows apps from third party vendors do not act as competitive advantage anymore. (This us also due to how Windows OEM contracts work.)
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Mathematical Definition of Folgezettel(forum.zettelkasten.de)
1 points by Torwald 5y ago|0 comments
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by Torwald 5y ago
Not on the Mac. If you take MS Office and the Adobe stuff aside, the iconic indy Mac apps are still ruling their respective categories.
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Slow Death of IE and Progressive Enhancement (2018)(alistapart.com)
2 points by Torwald 5y ago|0 comments
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Run a Amiga Workbench simulation in your browser(taws.ch)
8 points by Torwald 5y ago|1 comments
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by Torwald 5y ago
They definitely had the engineering talent. Atari, Commodore, Digital, Digital Research, were lacking the management talent. They had the nicest gear, but the suits botched it primetime. That's why I drink. Now, more to the point of th
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by Torwald 5y ago
Emojis are different from chars insofar as that the former are always (not by necessity, but in practice) multi-coloured. A set of mono-coloured emojis is probably a good idea.
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by Torwald 5y ago
Omni Outliner, Nirvana, Things, maybe Omni Focus, Evernote

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