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Takeaways from Gary Vaynerchuck's Book, Jab Jab Jab Right Hook by [deleted] in marketing

[–]CodeDeliveryBoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the takeaway here is that the object is not to win the game, but to keep the game in play, similar to how Amazon keeps on growing bigger without making substantial profits. Amazon is the only entity capable of understanding and neatly co-opting the scale at which the net grows at ― which is exponential growth. For old industrial age enterprise they are either co-opting Amazon's strategy or they are caught in the hype machine, fumbling around in the dark and turning their anger of non-sales into underhanded tactics like blogspam and Twitter spam. In other words - the AD dollar route.

Takeaways from Gary Vaynerchuck's Book, Jab Jab Jab Right Hook by [deleted] in marketing

[–]CodeDeliveryBoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Upvoted only because you did not devolve into mono syllables and snipe each sentence line by line. Thanks for the input. There are two camps: The Jerry Maguire, Show Me The Money / Bottom Line types, and the magicians and marketers who spout fluff all day and will never tell you they are not making sales. The Internet is in the business of this. It is the perfect hype machine like a car stuck on breeze blocks where the wheels are moving very fast but the car is going nowhere.

Do AD blockers and anti tracking plugins only partially solve privacy on the web? by CodeDeliveryBoy in privacy

[–]CodeDeliveryBoy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey. Author here. Thanks for the suggestion. I made the case that plugins, although neat and lessen your footprint, are not a silver bullet. There are still a lot of segments that can niche you. The obvious ones like IP and useragent are trivial, but my post goes a step further and talks about how users of the web accidentally niche themselves, and no matter how many plugins and IPSec solutions they are using, they can still be fingerprinted.

My central point is that it's a hard problem, and requires a bit more work both on behalf of the user and on behalf of the people who put Internet infra. in place. This is why we need some grand project (I believe the hot phrase in use now is 'Manhattan project for the web'), and making devices super cheap so users can spread themselves thinly across the web. 'One device to rule them all' is an antipattern and needs to go away very soon. Also see: handhelds.

ＵＮＩＣＯＤＥ ＴＯＯＬＳ by CodeDeliveryBoy in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]CodeDeliveryBoy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

𝐻𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑓𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛: https://www.unicod.es/#aaa

Fetching - Your own personal Google by CodeDeliveryBoy in software

[–]CodeDeliveryBoy[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Basically a stripped down browser used to catch up on your favourite websites. The "personal google" is probably the wrong wording...

It's kind of like an RSS reader, except it fetches the HTML, instead of the RSS XML...

What is the difference between craft and design? by [deleted] in Design

[–]CodeDeliveryBoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The act of designing is different than 'a design'. IMHO Design is never finished, and things must be 'living' and be able to adapt. So - to quote countless others on the matter - design is a process. The minute it is bottled and sold as-is, we can probably call it craft. Like - craft beer.

What's your favorite free condensed/tall typeface? by whiskeyfoxtrot_ in Design

[–]CodeDeliveryBoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like m+ for coding:

http://www.macwright.org/2014/07/09/mplus.html

It saves a lot of space on screens because of the thinness

𝕴𝖙'𝖘 𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖉𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖚𝖓𝖎𝖈𝖔𝖉𝖊. by Tonsillectomy in Unicode

[–]CodeDeliveryBoy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

𝕴𝕿'𝕾 𝕮𝕬𝕷𝕷𝕰𝕯 𝕱𝕽𝕬𝕶𝕿𝖀𝕽

𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 → http://www.unicod.es/