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jormungand··on Andreessen Horowitz Returns Slip, According to Internal Data
paywall ha. Could we perhaps agree that whomever posts an article with a paywall should summarize the points made?
jormungand··on How to Write a Thesis (1977)
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.
jormungand··on McKinsey Advised Johnson and Johnson on Increasing Opioid Sales
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.
jormungand··on Why wasn't this page found?
One of my favourites: https://gymbox.com/404
jormungand··on Spotifree – Free OS X App for Muting Spotify Ads
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.
jormungand··on The internet is an SEO landfill
yeah, many studies out there proving that longer text equal to better ranking; which also comes with another benefit of hitting long tail keywords.
jormungand··on The internet is an SEO landfill
Unfortunately SEO ruins great, witty and brief marketing texts.
jormungand··on Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers
and in the meantime real crypto projects like ICON is ignored by all.
jormungand··on BeGoneAds – A Python script that blocks ads by installing common hosts files
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.