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holaberlinon EBay Losing Traffic To Amazon After Strategy Shift

I assume you mean the risk of using PayPal. That's the main reason I don't use eBay.

holaberlinon Job Applications and the Entitlement Complex

... if they show you who they are and you like them. I noticed from the hiring process where I work that hiring decisions are often based on personal chemistry, sometimes without regard to qualifications. Or more precisely, qualifications are sometimes used to rationalize a hiring decision that has already been made on the basis of personal chemistry. And I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing -- I'm more likely to be productive if I like my coworkers.

holaberlinon Looking for single hackers to review my site

Your front page needs a serious design reconsideration. Besides that, two minor points - The two bunnies humping each other in the upper left corner - I guess that's supposed to be funny. Didn't really do it for me. Also, why mention "Release 488" on the front page?

holaberlinon Big Websites Start Running Bigger Display Ads. Big Mistake.

Robin Wauters, who is making $10 an hour blogging in his underwear

I'm not sure what kind of point you're trying to make with a bitchy statement like that. Are you saying he makes a lot of money for a blogger or more than he should for someone who writes in his briefs? Also, has he in fact admitted to working in his underwear or are you just trying to smear him? Perhaps it's just a popular sport around here to make ad hominem attacks on Techcrunch writers behind their backs.

holaberlinon US Mail (USPS) launches virtual box simulator

This is a great idea. But I wonder why USPS uses a different domain for this. Seems like a legitimate domain because there's a link to prioritymail.com from usps.com also. But having two separate domains could be confusing to customers, I would think.

holaberlinon Ask HN: Please review my new project: almost.at

Congratulations. This is remarkable.

What's the backend like?

holaberlinon What was your darkest hour like?

That's a cheap shot although you made me laugh. But let's for a moment assume that one person's walk in the woods can be another person's nightmare. (Especially if they're really dark, creepy woods - but I digress).

Job hunting is stressful even at the best of times. And this is certainly not the best of times. On top of that, you are considering a possibly necessary major shift in direction in your career and lifestyle so that adds to the stress of this. The process of searching for a job has a bearing on so many aspects of who we are that some people can be so paralyzed by the thought of it that they will stay in the same job for years to avoid searching for a new job (points finger at self). I sympathize with your situation. Getting support from those close to you as well as trying to participate in enjoyable activities that help you to maintain your sanity are likely to help you get through this without feeling too overwhelmed. Whatever direction you choose, when you emerge at the other end of the tunnel you are likely to wonder what you were so worried about. Best of luck.

holaberlinon Get Better Advice by Taking Notes

Evernote?

http://evernote.com/

holaberlinon The Psychology Behind Item Collecting And Achievement Hoarding

"Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 2:11)

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible,_King_James,_Ecclesiaste...

holaberlinon Sinatra clone in Scala

It looks like there is no separation between view and controller. Mixing HTML into your controller methods seems like a step backwards.