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mariobertschler

34 karma · joined October 21, 2012

Full stack programmer.

Born in Austria, started as a young ski racer and programmer, became a globetrotter, lived in south america while studying in Germany, achieved his academic goals by receiving a Master degree in Computer Science at the University of Hagen in Germany, published a paper (http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/ps/pubs/ICST2009.pdf), worked 6 years as a programmer and Head of Software Development at a startup in Austria being a partner.

Currently working at Scribd, the world's digital library.

Founder of Hellotracks, a location based SaaS to improve team coordination.

Focused on Web & App.

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mariobertschler··on Desktop Operating System Market Share
I see this rather in favor for Mac OS X as their upgrade system definitely works, 10.8 is not old at all (2012), Windows NT is from the 90s mostly pre-internet. It's putting things into perspective.
mariobertschler··on Desktop Operating System Market Share
Notable: there are almost 3x more Windows NT devices online than Mac OS X 10.8
mariobertschler··on Google vs. Apple – The Smartphone Race Is Over, and a New One Begins…
for the record, I did not claim that Android wins over iPhone, the point is that the article claimed the opposite
mariobertschler··on Google vs. Apple – The Smartphone Race Is Over, and a New One Begins…
> Apple won the smartphone wars a long time ago.

This is a bold statement. On what measure? Last that I've seen is that almost 87% of the smartphone market is dominated by Android.

It might be true for app monetization, but definitely not as a whole.

Good read though.

mariobertschler··on Qualities of clean code
> it's easier to fix dumb code, than refactor an overengineered mess

Very True!

mariobertschler··on It Is, in Fact, Rocket Science
I agree with the story and liked it - but the aha moment still might be at a lonely place doing something totally different. The human brain needs both intensity and distance to generate new thoughts.
mariobertschler··on Startup Ideas: a response
exactly... few others realize are worth "doing", because (a) market isn't worth it OR (b) competition is too big..

Everybody knew search is a big market, but few people realized that you can become a big player besides Altavista ad Yahoo! in 1998

so the statement remains correct....