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throw0101d 2 days ago

> To what end? Pleasing a few nerds?

It's the nerds that the non-nerds/normies go to for advice on tech-y things. If you can generally make the nerds happy, and earn a good reputation among them, you'll have a customer base from which to expand from.

Or as Tim O'Reilly recommended back in the day, "Watching the Alpha Geeks":

* https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/081119-stanfo...

* https://web.archive.org/web/20130000000000*/http://origin.co...

* https://www.oreilly.com/tim/archives/apple_wwdc2002.pdf