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marveller··on On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs
I agree with you. But only if you are a motivated person. It saddened me when I had to give up on them by founding out that they (most people, even the close ones) are not motivated due to fear, laziness, and disbelief in own powers and possibilities of improvement.
marveller··on Ask HN: Making money with ebooks and video courses vs. writing apps?
> And I remember the quote from the "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" author: "I'm a bestselling author, not best writing author".

"The Rich Dad, Poor Dad" targeted a huge generic market vs nich tech market for "Javascript" (very tough market). Your book will also be competing with Video tutors like:

http://www.lynda.com/search?q=javascript

For only $25/mo, you can have access to all the courses in their library.

marveller··on The Home Depot confirms payment systems breach
Thanks for the references. After some research, I decided to go with YNAB http://www.youneedabudget.com/ it has a desktop and mobile apps and uses your dropbox for syncing data.
marveller··on The Home Depot confirms payment systems breach
Billguard asks for my online bank username and password, it's a deal breaker for me. Do you really trust them? https://medium.com/@hyphenated/mint-com-and-billguard-are-ly...
marveller··on Japanese companies seek international graduates
This foreigner TV talk show discusses about this exact issue in Korea (starts around 14:50) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x24chlk
marveller··on Show HN: Self-hosted project management application
Nice app. Just a question about "Free updates for a year", what's the cost after a year?
marveller··on It takes more than practice to excel
Absolutely agree. Why was this downvoted again?
marveller··on Ask HN: Which CRM for a solo-freelancer in 2014?
This one is interesting http://todotxt.com/
marveller··on Ask HN: What's your favorite keyboard for programming?
Logitech K750, wireless solar keyboard.
marveller··on New open source Disqus alternative: Debiki Embedded Comments
Thanks for creating this, will be testing this soon.
marveller··on Ask HN: Which MacBook do you use for development?
13" 2013 macbook air, thinking about installing Ubuntu or Mint Linux which I think is much more flexible and open.
marveller··on Ask HN: Please explain Pinterest
Here is the book http://www.amazon.com/Pinterest-Savvy-Followers-Strategies-B...
marveller··on The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone
Yes, hence the feature phone :), no GPS, no email, no browsing records, etc.
marveller··on Lessons learned from my failed startup after 2 years, 300 users and 0 revenue
If the founder is a developer, yes, I totally agree. But for business person, no, I don't. Just like OOP programming, I think a team needs to be comprised of unique committed talented professionals that can do their own job very good: marketing, sales, social networking, programming, designing, business managing, legal, etc. (skills might overlap).

Even if you are Jack of all trades, you won't have the time to execute all the tasks well on your own. If the developer looks down on you because you don't know how to code, then that is not your ideal candidate or your business or talent is not convincing enough.

marveller··on The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone
Humm... I was going to buy the new iPhone, this changed my mind. Maybe I should just get a feature phone instead.
marveller··on Ask HN: What's the best way for a foreigner to improve English to a great level?
Watch netflix videos w/ subtitles on. Mimic lead character's speech. Record your speech and compare it, repeat. It always worked for me.
marveller··on Show HN: Omegle-style random chat combined with a recommender system
I would change the domain to stranger.io or strangers.io instead... it's available :)

Great job with the site.

marveller··on Vim.js - JavaScript port of Vim
I use Vim for everything, this is great!
marveller··on Hacki.ng
Already saw this link weeks before.
marveller··on Ask HN: Which is the better language to use Perl, Python or PHP?
About Perl http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/115851/is-per...

PHP vs Python article from 2 years ago http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/20493/Why-PHP-Is-Fun-an...

If you are going to use PHP, Laravel 4 framework is probably the best choice https://tutsplus.com/tutorial/why-laravel-is-taking-the-php-...

Symfony 2 and Silex (for small projects) are great frameworks too

But if you already know and love Python, stick to that. It's a great language.

marveller··on UPS Also Said To Be Testing Drone Delivery
Yes, that really makes sense so it can cover more distance.
marveller··on Edward Snowden nominated for TIME's person of the year
Interesting, rigged to let Miley win?

http://www.dailydot.com/news/time-person-of-the-year-miley-c...

marveller··on Edward Snowden nominated for TIME's person of the year
This is really fishy.
marveller··on Compress 7G to 1K with epic vaporware
Very excited but confused! Is this for real?!
marveller··on Help change a NY law that costs new businesses $2,000 each
But there are costs for registered agents?
marveller··on Why I use Vim
I thought people were crazy using vim, because I wasn't able to edit any text! Now addicted to vim, can't use any other editors anymore.
marveller··on DigitalOcean Sucks. Use DigitalOcean
Agree, I am also running out of disk space now, don't need additional RAM or CPU power.
marveller··on Frontend: The web visual editor
I have been watching on this CMS for some time, great job!
marveller··on Show HN: Better photo filters for web
Thanks for sharing!
marveller··on Show HN: Better photo filters for web
Great idea, also listed at http://stockphotos.io/resources/photo-editor/
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