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How to Create a Business that Prints Money | Forever Jobless Step 1: How can you create something of value in a market better than what’s out there? Step 2: When you do that, how can you reach your potential audience? If you can answer “yes” to both, do you have something you think you’ll enjoy, and can make an amount of money that may be interesting to you? Cool. Jump in. ...

What is the “irreducible core” of Bitcoin? | Richard Gendal Brown The world’s first internet-scale decentralized platform for value exchange … … implemented on a decentralized global asset register … which is a decentralized consensus system Perhaps Digital Scarcity is the irreducible essence.

mrsdentonorahippo: blueromance : markmejia : High School Fashion, 1969 emmagrant01 : The existence of photos like these (and similar photos from the 70s and 80s and so on) makes me wonder yet again why current-day movies set in this time never seem to be able to get the hair and clothing right. I was in the 7th grade. This is pretty much how it was. ...

Responsivator View & share how sites look at different screen sizes Works with localhost too.

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Very interesting round up of all the simple math needed to run a services business selling “hours”. (via My New Startup is Wasting $35,550/month | Forever Jobless )

Starter’s Guide to iOS Design In this guide I’ll describe the deliverables you’ll be expected to produce, outline the constraints of the medium and introduce fundamental iOS and UI design concepts .

Richard Feynman, the Challenger Disaster, and Software Engineering : Gustavo Duarte With respect to software, I take out four main points: Engineering can only be as good as its relationship with management Big design up front is foolish Software has much in common with other engineering disciplines Reliable systems are built by rigorously tested , incremental bottom-up engineering with an ‘attitude of highest quality’

The default state of any new idea is failure. It’s the execution–the fight against inertia–that matters. Dustin Curtis (via The Fight ) It’s so easy to get stuck in the waiting place, putting things off until later, even when those things are vitally important to making your dreams come true. But the truth is that, in order to make progress, you need to physically and mentally fight against the momentum of ordinary events . ...

Frida Inject JavaScript to explore native apps on Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS. Scriptable Your own scripts get injected into black box processes to execute custom debugging logic. Hook any function, spy on crypto APIs or trace private application code, no source code needed! Stalking Stealthy code tracing without relying on software or hardware breakpoints. Think DTrace in user-space, based on dynamic recompilation, like DynamoRIO and PIN . Quick-start Instructions ~ $ sudo easy_install frida ~ $ frida-trace -i 'recv*' Skype recvfrom: Auto-generated handler: …/recvfrom.js Started tracing 21 functions. 1442 ms recvfrom() # Live-edit recvfrom.js and watch the magic! 5374 ms recvfrom(socket=67, buffer=0x252a618, length=65536, flags=0, address=0xb0420bd8, address_len=16)

Type-System Criteria · ongoing by Tim Bray Cri­te­ria Let’s call them the Bánffy-Bray cri­te­ria for se­lect­ing be­tween sta­tic and dy­namic type sys­tems. Sta­tic typ­ing’s at­trac­tive­ness is a di­rect func­tion (and dy­namic typ­ing’s an in­verse func­tion) of API sur­face size. Dy­namic typ­ing’s at­trac­tive­ness is a di­rect func­tion (and sta­tic typ­ing’s an in­verse func­tion) of unit test­ing work­a­bil­ity.

As a general rule: with IAPs, go big or go home. Jeremy Olson (via Yep, paid apps are dead « Tapity )

How to Change the World: Guy’s Golden Touch “How can I get people to evangelize my product?” The short answer is called “Guy’s Golden Touch.” You might think this means, “Whatever Guy touches turns to gold.” If only this were true. The actual definition is, “Whatever is gold, Guy touches.” “What are the characteristics of a great product?” Think: DICEE Deep . A great product is deep. It doesn’t run out of features and functionality after a few weeks of use. (…) As your demands get more sophisticated, you discover that you don’t need a different product. Indulgent . A great product is a luxury. It makes you feel special when you buy it. (…) deep down inside you know you’ve rewarded yourself when you buy a great product. Complete . A great product is more than a physical thing. Documentation counts. Customer service counts. Tech support counts. Consultants, OEMS, third-party developers, and VARS count. Blogs about it counts. A great product has a great total user experience—sometimes despite the company that produces it. Elegant . A great product has an elegant user interface. Things work the way you’d think they would. A great product doesn’t fight you—it enhances you. (…) Emotive . A great product incites you to action. It is so deep, indulgent, complete, and elegant that it compels you to tell other people about it. (…) You’re bringing the good news to help others, not yourself.

How to Steal Killer Sales Copy Straight from Your Prospects' Mouths What’s in these 2 warehouses? Pure copywriting gold. … Also known as “customer reviews”. Warehouse #1: Amazon Reviews Most services are tied, in some way, to products. So if you offer a service, read the related product reviews, and steal from there. For example: If you offer a project management service, mine reviews for books about how to manage projects If you offer a directory of professionals – like AnyFu or Sortfolio – pull from reviews of biographies of the legends in those professions If you have a deal-of-the-day site, spend a little time on Amazon reviews for every product you host every day If you’re an unknown fashion designer on Etsy, pull from clothing reviews that highlight the things people want when they don’t care about big brands and labels If you’re a freelance graphic designer, find new ways to express your value by reading the reviews for Adobe Photoshop and for books on DIY design Warehouse #2: AppStore Reviews If you’re in the mobile app, digital product or game business, the AppStore is loaded with customer reviews that will help you write sick copy that resonates with prospects. ...

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The future of sustainable app development is to give away as much value as possible and empower those who receive more value to pay more for it. David Barnard (via Blog: The Sparrow Opportunity )

Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures (by John Goatstream ) We present a muscle-based control method for simulated bipeds in which both the muscle routing and control parameters are optimized. This yields a generic locomotion control method that supports a variety of bipedal creatures. All actuation forces are the result of 3D simulated muscles, and a model of neural delay is included for all feedback paths. As a result, our controllers generate torque patterns that incorporate biomechanical constraints. The synthesized controllers find different gaits based on target speed, can cope with uneven terrain and external perturbations, and can steer to target directions. ...

Joseph Campbell’s classic “hero’s journey” brings the whole world of myth, sales, and Hollywood into renewed focus. (via Joseph Campbell was right. (Frodo, Harry, and Luke prove it.) | DanRoam.com )

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Origins of Common UI Symbols They are road signs for your daily rituals — the instantly recognized symbols and icons you press, click and ogle countless times a day when you interact with your computer. But how much do you know about their origins? Power Command Bluetooth USB Play Pause Sleep At FireWire SBBOD (spinning beach ball of death) Ethernet See also The Secret Histories of Those @#$%ing Computer Symbols | Wired.com