jormungand
The Web Is Splitting: Dopamine Thrives, Utility Rebundles
Re:Andreessen Horowitz Returns Slip, According to Internal Data
on Monday September 16, 2019 @12:56PM (#20986067)
paywall ha. Could we perhaps agree that whomever posts an article with a paywall should summarize the points made?
Re:How to Write a Thesis (1977)
on Thursday July 25, 2019 @04:13PM (#20529109)
He was lucky not to have seen "theses" written in my home country Turkey. 90% of them are copy pastes. I saw many PhD theses quoting wikipedia. Ridiculous.
Re:McKinsey Advised Johnson and Johnson on Increasing Opioid Sales
on Thursday July 25, 2019 @04:09PM (#20529060)
Management Consultants: A bunch of 20 sth year olds with fancy degrees and zero experience in growing a business helping huge companies grow by whatever means possible. I always found this hugely ironic.
Re:Why wasn't this page found?
on Sunday July 21, 2019 @03:29AM (#20490347)
One of my favourites: https://gymbox.com/404
Startup Investment to Keep Soaring After Record Year
Re:Spotifree – Free OS X App for Muting Spotify Ads
on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @06:24AM (#20448836)
I don't see any reason to do that for an app whose paid and ad-free version is really cheap for the huge value it provides. Remember when you used to buy CDs for every album.
Re:The internet is an SEO landfill
on Sunday June 23, 2019 @01:44PM (#20257293)
yeah, many studies out there proving that longer text equal to better ranking; which also comes with another benefit of hitting long tail keywords.
Re:The internet is an SEO landfill
on Sunday June 23, 2019 @01:26PM (#20257136)
Unfortunately SEO ruins great, witty and brief marketing texts.
Re:Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers
on Friday June 14, 2019 @09:04AM (#20182594)
and in the meantime real crypto projects like ICON is ignored by all.
Re:BeGoneAds – A Python script that blocks ads by installing common ho...
on Monday June 10, 2019 @02:08PM (#20149212)
You are partially right. There are ads that are truly useful and those which are malicious, such as popunders which often include scammy pops. I use adblock to prevent the latter. There are popunder ad networks which are trying to fight against adblock by introducing "solutions" like anti-adblock, see here: https://propellerads.com/blog/anti-adblock-3-monetize-99-per...
I side with the adblock solutions in this war.