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Giftcards are not cash either!

Unless there is an obvious incentive to purchase a giftcard -- critically for a store/vendor which you already have near-term plans to spend money at -- then avoid them. Eg. I recently purchased one which had an effective 20% savings due to some holiday promotion and will be done spending the balance some time next week. Even then I barely decided to do so.

I don't know how we got conned into trading our money for giftcard balances at par.


When I was a child in Britain I'd usually get at least one 'Book Token' gift at each birthday, whether from a friend or relative.

It ensured I bought a book with the £5 they sent, and it was redeemable at pretty much any bookshop, large or small — so it was relatively safe.

I see the system still exists: https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/


I'm disappointed that they're gift cards and not physical tokens.


People are perfectly happy to give other people specific gifts, which are even more constraining than gift cards. This doesn't seem that surprising.


Hopefully! But until then we do have the C64 version to enjoy: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1216


I think that Smash Designs' Second Reality has the most amazingly programmed SID music out there, I'd love to see a write-up of how that was made.


Why doesn't Nokia allow me to preorder or sign up to be notified when the device is released/available in my market?

A search for g22 on nokia.com yields zero (!!) results. https://www.nokia.com/search/global/en/G22

I'll be shopping for a new phone soon and am interested in this model. But wow, they've missed a huge opportunity to capture that interest and let me know when I can buy!


I can get notified with this link (in spanish, though): https://www.nokia.com/phones/es_es/nokia-g-22/buy?sku=101S06...


Thank you for sharing, I'll give it a try

Update: "Lo sentimos, algo ha salido mal. Comprueba la dirección de correo electrónico y vuelve a intentarlo."


The announcement says it'll be renamed to "Red's First Flight" and be re-listed "pending further review".

I wonder if this is simply a rebranding so that the original no longer appears for "Angry Birds" searches in the app store. Namely that subsequent versions make more $ per install, and having the original at a low price point is cannibalizing sales of the newer more profitable titles.


Then why only do that on iOS, and completely remove it from Android? The Play Store also supports renaming listings...


Think “scummy anti-SEO practices”. It’s so that when people search their Purchased Apps index for Angry Birds, having not recently installed it, the older flat-price no-IAP version isn’t shown in the results, and they’ll be more likely to install an IAP version instead. (iOS lets you install apps you’ve installed previously, even if they’re delisted.)


> why only do that on iOS

Higher-margin market, which means hope for up-selling.


"The definitive list of good and bad apples."

Definitive, eh? Qualifiers like this are amusing, as they're generally self-proclaimed.

However, having a domain like applerankings.com, as well as a comprehensive, in-depth and entertaining library of apple reviews, definitely helps make the case.

What other heuristics have you seen out there that help make a self-proclaimed "definitive source" become an indisputable one?

Edit: looks like the site came online last year with that same claim, so time is not in their corner.


I think the amount of fees per block is what's "insane" here.

Going back a day shows that the fees were on the order of ~3 eth per block (https://etherscan.io/blocks?p=300) whereas now they're averaging around ~20eth per block.

In other words ETH holders are very motivated to move their tokens right now, and the amount they're paying to do so reflects this.


I imagine much of the traffic is likely out of China?

It sounds like the CCP is moving to ban clearance and trading institutions in the space, stopping short of banning personal holdings. (something in the name of protecting people? https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinese-financial-payment...)

A lot of people probably trying to sell off now or moving their holdings to exchanges located outside of China.


Helpful (http://helpful.com) was working on this as well but got acquired (or maybe acquihired?) by Shopify. I'm not sure how much traction they got or if the product was just before its time. I suspect there are a bunch of lessons to learn from their efforts.


Union Square Ventures invested in them a few years back, and blogged about their rationale and some info on where Tucows is/has been headed as a business:

https://www.usv.com/writing/2017/02/tucows/


I stumbled upon this site when taking a trip down memory lane. Recalling the FILE_ID.DIZ file format[0] from my BBS days, I typed in the closest matching URL (file-id.biz) and found this curious interface.

I've only found one command so far after a bit of exploring: help → "I am not what I am."

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FILE_ID.DIZ


I tried some commands in [0] and common words in [1]. All return "Bad command or file name."

I did find that `ver` returns "FILE-ID.BIZ for the World Wide Web Version 1.2, (C) 2020" (default message).

And that commands are case-sensitive and white-space sensitive.

I'd be curious to see if anyone digs up anything else in the future. For now, I'm done with this little diversion.

[0] - https://www.ubuntupit.com/best-linux-commands-to-run-in-the-...

[1] - https://www.ef.edu/english-resources/english-vocabulary/top-...


I noticed the TM used in the title: "Open Startup™". I wasn't sure if TM was used in jest here or whether there was actually an organization behind it holding the exclusive right to use the term.

Anyone know? Is there an "authoritative" source for open startups -- a list, practices, etc etc?

The closest I could find was:

- a TM, "100 OPEN STARTUPS", held by a Brazilian company [https://trademark.trademarkia.com/100-open-startups-87085663...] edit: they have active US and EU trademarks on the term

- Baremetrics' list of open startups, did they pioneer this approach? [https://baremetrics.com/open-startups] edit: openstartups.com redirects here

- A seemingly independent list [https://open-startups.xyz/]

It'd be ironic for the term "open startup" to be locked up behind a TM and a "governing body", so I'm inclined to think it's not. However, the use of the TM here got me wondering.


We use it because we want it to be a common term for startups. We copied it from @levelsio who tweeted about it [1].

According to wikipedia the use of the trademark symbol indicates an assertion that a word, image, or other sign is a trademark; it does not indicate registration. It's not super relevant for our page though.

[1] https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/968219339588493312


If you want it to be a common term for businesses of different sources, isn't that the exact opposite of the purpose of a trademark?



I've never heard the term Tradesnark, thanks for sharing.


OP is a close friend of Pieter Levels (of Nomad List) and if you go to nomadlist.com/open you'll see "Open Startup™" as well, linking to open-startup.com which redirects to this tweet:

https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/968219339588493312


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