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For me, it depends on the movie. I'm glad I saw Mad Max: Fury Road on the big screen - it grabbed, and didn't let go until the credits. And the audio is a big component of that (at home, I just have regular headphones).

But for 90% of dramas, comedies, etc.? The 4K TV in the living room will do just fine.

Excellent points. A judgment call has to be made if there are two competing videos for the same topic, and around the same length. This sometimes happens, for very popular topics (e.g. HTML basics).

The plan is to have a feedback mechanism that will let the viewers decide if a video should stay or go.

Where possible, attention is called to the credentials of the instructor (much more important and impressive than the credentials of the curator). The first few minutes of the videos are usually enough to convince a viewer that it's a serious video intended to convey information.

Thank you! This one looks really well done. (For anyone wondering, TF = Terraform)

Great question. The optimal way to learn one of these skills through youtube:

- Run the search

- Click through the top 5-10 results

- Investigate which courses are a) complete (i.e. not just pitches for an upsell), b) up to date, c) presented clearly and succinctly

I did all that already for each topic.

Another big question people have: "Where do I begin learning X?" They inevitably get linked to a giant roadmap diagram. On this site, the videos are arranged in a particular order - starting from the very beginning.

Thanks! I will be adding more skills / career tracks depending on feedback :)

OK, so it's not quite a complete learning platform. I've only covered the most popular resume keywords here.

The idea was to find the best YouTube crash courses for every "hot" tech skill. "Best" is subjective, so I had to rely on video popularity, viewer feedback, and my own watch experience to gauge how effective each one is.

This is for folks that:

- Want to quickly refresh their skills

- Want a preview of a technical topic before investing lots of time and money into it

- Have an interview in 30 minutes and desperately need something, anything

The goal is to get people hooked on a subject - give them a basic overview of what's going on, then lure them in with increasingly more complicated tutorials.

All possible thanks to the YouTube instructors who are kind enough to put up amazing content for free.

Thanks!

Just curious: how did you find your serviced apt? Is there an aggregator for Japanese ones?

For B2C:

1. Is there a community you're already part of? Could be hobby / industry related

2. Do you have an easy way to reach them (e.g. through a sub-reddit)?

3. If people are constantly asking for the same type of information or numbers, is there an opportunity to make a Google Sheets document with useful tabular data? (would only take you a couple of hours)

4. If people keep referencing this spreadsheet you've created, you can throw it into MongoDB and now you've got a) something useful and b) traffic.

Is this simplistic and prescriptive? Yes, but better than create-react-app and hoping to build something people need.

Regardless I'm impressed that he's going for very competitive search terms e.g. "best robot vacuums" and "best gaming chairs".

This game is dominated by big brands and aged domains, so if you can squeak in to page 1 for just a single one of these search terms you're well in the money.

The backlink profile is instructive, some solid link building from established domains (esquire, seekingalpha, etc.)

Once again HN gets baited into sending massive traffic into an affiliate link farm! Adding this particular tactic into my repertoire of headlines

Some "suggestions" that helped me get from 1000 to 1300 very quickly:

- Castle very early

- Resist taking pieces for no reason. To take is a mistake

- Use your opponent's time to plan your next move

- If you stop hanging pieces you will automatically be >1200

- Save your bishops, bishops > knights in most endgames

- For every hour you spend analyzing your past games your rating will go up by 10

- You won't improve by playing blitz. Go for 15 + 10 time controls

"Ребят, как же это вы без гравицаппы пепелац выкатываете из гаража? Это непорядок!"

Yep, still need to add Pentax (and some others).

I've heard it's a must-read for sci-fi lovers so I'm excited for that one!

The New Geopolitics of Natural Gas (A. Grigas)

We (Y. Zamyatin)

The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper (C. Petzold)

Endurance (A. Lansing)

Economics: The User's Guide (H. Chang)

Oblomov (I. Goncharov)

Just something I made for fun with publicly available BLS.gov data. The "Score" is not to be taken too seriously as any kind of weighting here is subjective.

Data source: Table 1.7 (https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables.htm)

I'm curious -- what decade was that? I grew up in 90s Russia, it was literally "be home for dinner, be back by dark." The things we did without supervision...

I found this playlist to be helpful as a beginner: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblh5JKOoLUICTaGLRoHQ...

If I only had 2 weeks of evenings and weekends to conjure up some ML knowledge, I would start there. Then you could move on to the courses from fast.ai (https://www.fast.ai/)

1. Get a Ryze Tello drone from the DJI store (mine took 2 days to arrive by DHL), $149 with 3 batteries total

2. Show them how easy it is to program flight plans with DroneBlocks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NGPrMP1r2Y

3. Everyone can try flying it from one smartphone

4. You have out-wowed most of the competition!

BONUS. You now have a Tello to play at home with.

Really curious about the state of agency SEO services these days. Do you guys just do the standard on-page tweaks, or is there some backlink building too?

I once looked into the backlink profiles of a successful SEO agency's clients and I discovered a makeshift PBN going on; they had 100s of sites ready to go and would just add client links to them. In predictable patterns (# of referrer pages would jump weekly etc.) Presumably this is fine because it's working and this is how they promise position increases / page 1 for certain kw etc.

The first thing I look at when optimizing a Facebook ad campaign is to look at performance by placement.

In many cases, turning off the Audience Network will do wonders for your CPA.

How to get the attention of every Bulgarian in SV: The Thread

Rumor has it that their engineers couldn't concentrate...

Food, safety, proximity to other Asian destinations, low cost, fast Internet, everything close by (e.g. one can take a break from Bangkok with a quick flight to the south)... it goes on.

Has anyone here made the move? It would be interesting to hear some real life stories, and post honeymoon-phase pros/cons evaluation of NZ.

Reminds me of this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

For anyone looking for the 80/20 alternative here (80% of the experience/results for 20% of the cost), take a look at the Ricoh GR.

It doesn't have a viewfinder, but the ergonomics are superb. APS-C sensor, fixed 28mm lens (a very sharp one at that), and 16mp. Goes with me on every trip.

Ming Thein's review: http://blog.mingthein.com/2013/05/06/review-2013-ricoh-gr-di...