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A nice article to manipulate your competitors from doing a market survey!

"rapid adoption of new drugs has substantial benefits in the form of increased life expectancy, higher productivity and lower non-drug health care expenditures" - Do more drugs!

Don't treat HN like Quora.

sarcasm, my dear friend, should not be used on HN these days.

HN is filled of brogrammers these days, the ones who will change the world, and are reading HN to know, how to do it.

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Author seems to be a "wannabe"!

Tell your parents NOT to impose their ambition and frustration on you!

Reading HN is a waste of time. You should come here to know, what NOT to do.

nobody poops?

When I was in 2nd Grade. I used to think my maths teacher was the most intelligent mathematician in the world, and then I grew up.

He still teaches maths, the way he used to do. There are still students in the 2nd Grade, they might think alike.

But then, I look back at him, his teachings(maths lessons) do not add value to me anymore.

On the other hand, there are mean people I know of amongst the meanest on earth. They do play tricks, figure out people who are inexperienced and trick them. They will keep doing the same, its in their genes. Those shameless jerks, will remain shameless. Desperate for success, by hook or by crook, and so will their off springs be. Desperate.

This gives me a feeling.The quality of folks lurking on HN has gone down.

I mean, people could not get this saarcaaasm!

This makes me sad!

This gives me a feeling.The quality of folks lurking on HN has gone down.

I mean, people could not get this saarcaaasm!

Who writes JS these days? Will it go with Angular/jQuery?

Your product, can't get traction on its own. It needs focussed effort to gain traction.

what according to you are the incorrect assumptions which I am operating on. My goal is to make somewhere around 60 - 70 USD/hr. and am willing to invest 2-3 months of learning.

And I already have 2 years of professional programming experience in Python.

the land of "outsourced work" - India.

I am not looking for shortcuts, but then I do not want to be researcher. My goals are simple, learn which shall be able to fetch me revenue.

Let me know what and how much, and I shall put in efforts.

the SOB phrase, never heard that adjective for the man!

Yep, it is helping!

When you talk about maintaining relationships further from the first meeting, how would you generally advice?

I mean people are genuinely busy, so to keep in touch sending random mails is not the key, nor will anyone meet you every time you ask for it.

So how do you look at taking things further after the first meeting?

doesn't instead of dosen't

One thing that I would like to point out is, being financially successful and extremely competent programmer are two different things. An example Zed Shaw is an extremely good programmer, but if you read his legendary rant "rails is ghetto" you come to know besides being an extremely great programmer he had to struggle financially.

So being a good programmer is not synonymous to having your bank accounts with decent zeroes following some non zero number.

Incidentally, yesterday I was talking to a programmer who had been coding for 17 years, he codes bots for games in C++ when not coding other stuff. He did not take his degree seriously, and today is looking for an MNC to hire him, so that he gets married, for the chic wants a secure life.

What did the good programmers do differently? Its a difficult question to answer. Having said that, couple of things are:

1. starting early

2. getting lucky

3. focus and hardwork

4. marketed themselves properly

5. surrounded themselves with better programmers, to get better at it.

6. capitalized on the opportunity of solving a tough and challenging problem.

ending on a pragmatic quote: passion burns out, what sustains is greed. (taken from "Do you want to be doing this at 50")

Slightly OT: But what are the characteristics of a clever joke? I found it funny enough. Just to analyze my own sense of humor.

https://twitter.com/ankit_fadia this is his twitter acct. you can blast him off there as well. he is a self-proclaimed ethical hacker. The previous sentence is correct till the point "self-proclaimed".

Thanks! could you please point to the link of 4HWW and could you please upvote, so that it gets more eye balls.

Truly agree to it. Quitters don't win and winners don't quit!

OMG! i didn't know that. Thanks for enlightening me. But i along with other fellow geeks would want to see more tech stuff than why people have got used to corruption and talks about protests etc.

Unlike elsewhere protests are peaceful. People sit for fast, and that allows the govt. to easily pass away. The whole political system is full of such people!

where were you till date. World has missed you, so how can you take your opinions further into actions? Or was this a thought bubble which came and went away?

How are hackers supposed to hack it off? I don't understand why such news travels to the top of HN. In case no one has a soln. for it, why write big posts? IF you gotta do something go and do it, i am pretty sure, the ones who are most concerned won't be hanging around here. This seems to me OT.

Lovely Stuff. Could have been great had you mentioned, the good and bad parts of each of them, or probably what one can learn from the other.