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by Torwald 6y ago
> and in those cases it's fine to hire a consultant to help. If I want to be that consultant, what area would be a good choice to become proficient in on that level?
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by Torwald 6y ago
You might find it interesting then, to learn about the Swiss style: https://www.printmag.com/post/swiss-style-principles-typefac...
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Picnic CSS – Lightweight Library(picnicss.com)
1 points by Torwald 6y ago|0 comments
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by Torwald 6y ago
Please clarify your date format. Is that 1st of March or the day before 4th of January? According to my European sentiment it's the 3rd of January, is that correct?
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by Torwald 6y ago
Basecamp pioneered that over 10 years ago. Here is an interesting rebuttal of Jason Fried on that topic: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1209-forbes-misses-the-point-...
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by Torwald 6y ago
These two options can work well: 1. The Radiohead model: download and pay anything from 0$ to X$ as you wish. IIRC with the Radiohead release X == 100$. 2. Sell Merchandise. If your game features a character like Lara or Mario, this could g
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by Torwald 6y ago
The grandparent did not say that inflation is dishonest. He said that the political class is dishonest, because they do take money out of the taxpayer's pocket via inflation. Presumably the grandparent sees this conduct as more dishone
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by Torwald 6y ago
This comment on YouTube summs it up: <<Sean Wu: "This man trolled bill Maher when he bill Maher was trying to troll him.">>
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by Torwald 6y ago
Not really. Even in his first tenure with Apple, Steve Jobs held Sony in high regard as a sort of blueprint for Apple. This idea of the consumer electronics leader, that Sony was in the 80s with the Walkman etc, inspired Jobs long before he
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China Inc will recycle used white guys(reuters.com)
4 points by Torwald 6y ago|0 comments
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by Torwald 6y ago
There are several markets. It is a very different thing, wether you are responsible IT guy for a +20 seat Agency/Studio, where everything has to run top-notch all the time and everyone is schooled in Adobe from college on. Or if you ar
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by Torwald 6y ago
In which ways does Craft remind you of Google Keep?
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by Torwald 6y ago
In which ways does Scrivener remind you of Google Keep?
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by Torwald 6y ago
Reminds me of Scrivener.
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by Torwald 6y ago
https://www.asktog.com Is also a big contributor to this field.
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by Torwald 6y ago
Apps on the iPhone. When Apple introduced the iPhone, they told third-party developers to build web apps for the phone, presumably because they hadn't the dev tools ready yet. But everybody wanted to build native apps. That's the
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The Next Wave(seth-brown.net)
1 points by Torwald 6y ago|0 comments
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by Torwald 6y ago
The comparative initiative in Germany was BTX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildschirmtext In the United Kingdom, I think, the respective effort was Prestel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestel
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by Torwald 6y ago
I did not comment on Blender as a software other than indicating that I do not know it well enough. I commented about the market for this category of software. What I said about Krita is true. I think you don't understand that market a
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by Torwald 6y ago
The BeOS is also featured in Neil Stephenson's "In the beginning there was the command line" https://steve-parker.org/articles/others/stephenson/index.sh...
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by Torwald 6y ago
Krita is good software, but it is lacking usability. How could I sell ist against Acorn or Pixelmator? The latter is at 20$ and has superior benchmarks due to M1 support. It is available for the Mac and the iPad as well. It has the perfect
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by Torwald 6y ago
I loved the SymbianOS machines back then, but I finally got me a Palm. The thing with these machines was one of usability. The Palm took off, because it was the first such device that was of better usability than a paper planner. At least i
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by Torwald 6y ago
This is an interesting challenge. But, up until today, the problem is, except for maybe Firefox, there is no GPL desktop software, that is good enough to get sold, regardless of licence. (No, the GIMP is not good enough to do professional g
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by Torwald 6y ago
> I tend to agree. However, there are some very, very large clients out there who have the resources… As far as my business experience goes, I would say this is what can make such a system: your sales force. Have a very good sales team t
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by Torwald 6y ago
> For anyone who wants to put their money where their mouth is Hahaha, no, this is just an opportunity to bash Apple, no need to actually do something about it. Anyway. This looks very interesting, thanks for linking. Can you tell me on
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by Torwald 6y ago
The Win95 UI was a copy from NextStep, down to the teal desktop, every nerd understood that one at the time. Sure, some elements from prior Windows version survived, like the DOS icon. > Windows 1.0 (minimized apps at the bottom of the s
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by Torwald 6y ago
For example in the media. Let's take major newspapers like _The Times_ or the _Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung_ as examples. You will not find any article that mentions 2nd amendment rights while not taking side against gun ownership. E
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by Torwald 6y ago
These machines featured RiscOS as the operating system. It is the OS on which the Dock (as in macOS Dock, Taskbar) was invented.
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by Torwald 6y ago
That's wrong, though. You should first port Rust to the Amiga and then over there start to rewrite everything from scratch.
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The Jony Ive Principle (2015)(medium.com)
2 points by Torwald 6y ago|0 comments

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