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viame

47 karma · joined January 22, 2012

Always looking for new opportunities. Tech & construction. Previously in the food industry.

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viame··on Ask HN: How did you get started with the programming languages you use?
I love Waterloo - the city that is.
viame··on German president to boycott Olympics in Russia over human rights
Germans have a president? Wth is Angela running the show?
viame··on Killing cancer like the common cold
Title Police. :D
viame··on Japanese plan to solve world’s energy problems: Turn moon into a solar panel
Focus on Fukushima first, and many other things that are happening here and need to be fixed, prior to solving world's energy problems and turning moon into a solar panel. WTF is wrong with people.
viame··on Coin
This is great. I love it. I want to know what did the girl do at 0:11 that he had to look away. :D
viame··on My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work done
Very nice, I bought my mom a Macbook Air, but I will try installing Ubuntu on my dads laptop and see how it goes. I would also like to see some high-end construction homes he does, if possible.

Thanks

viame··on [dead]
Yes, this is a useless post. And even if it did happen, who cares?! I am sure that SOMEHOW the Like would show up on her page during the investigation. She shouldn't even be on FB in the first place, so again, who cares.
viame··on Google Web Designer
Hah! I did exactly the same, went to code view and closed the application. x-D
viame··on Myst Online: Uru Live Again
I remember playing this 13 years ago, what a game. I might have to find an old Windows machine to play this again :>
viame··on [dead]
Also it doesn't matter if you make 200k in Toronto or 100k or less in Waterloo. Living expanses in Toronto are almost double. Car insurance is almost triple, if you want to have one. Cities are 1 hour away from each other. And taxes ... :) I won't get into that.
viame··on Is it okay for me to initially charge low rates on an Elance?
Some personal thoughts and opinions here:

People that go on Elance to find workers, well, they get what they pay for. I am sure that there are some great freelancers out there but you are far better to find yourself local clients, charge more, and get referrals.

Really, try face to face business first. More and more people are realizing that talking to India at 4am is pain in the ass. Also, a lot of people think that they can go on Elance and hire a guy that is charging 14 goats, and they expect this to be done as if they were paying him 100 goats.

However, face to face business will really depending on how you present yourself, your age and if you can sell.

All these websites: Elance, 99 designs, etc etc are making money for their co-founders (hopefully), and very little for freelancers. Getting 40 logos for 299 dollars? 40 people working for 299 and 1 of them is getting paid.

Don't sell yourself low.

PS. I deal with small businesses that tried these things, even larger companies that make millions of goats / year. And they tell me these stories after they hire me. I laugh! :)

viame··on Tesla to triple supercharger network by the end of June
Yesterday I was driving from Waterloo to Toronto and saw two Tesla S models within 30 min from each other. What a nice car! Does anyone know if there are charging stations along 401? Maybe that's why I can't find anything online ...
viame··on Can Yahoo Buy Enough Companies to Compete With Google?
Very simply, they cannot. You need to know how to run a business and how to adapt to changes, if you want to be as successful as Google. In my opinion Yahoo! needs to learn that first.
viame··on How To Live The New American Dream
She should create an ebook - 55 year old makes $899.00 per day as a programmer - make monies online in 1 month. Would probably sell as well!
viame··on Facebook in talks to buy Waze for $1B
Escape traffic? The Government says never! City traffic is worth more than $1B dollars. I am surprised that BP is not buying this to shut it down the next day.

:D

viame··on The story around the Linode hack
This translation makes more sense. If this is all true, this is a great story and I want to make a movie out of this. Also, who cares that Linode got hacked. Facebook/Twitter have more information on you than Linode, and they share it with the Gov. The only thing that I wouldn't want is my data to be lost (if i didn't have any backups)

Just a personal opinion.

viame··on Manchester City Council
I completely agree with this one. I do design and code and it really pisses me off how pages are designed (I design ugly websites, and pretty ones as well, but whoever I design for, it works).

Everything looks like a theme now-days, and oversized as well because it's responsive. Some stuff is just useless and every designer keeps saying ' less is more, less is more ' while designing stuff like this? Less IS more when you know how to use it, when to use it, and what it really means.

I would give this website 2/10 for their effort.

viame··on Probably the worst URL scheme ever
I was just going to say that! Before I saw this post I was on LinkedIn looking for something, and you simply cannot miss when something like this shows in your address bar:

...gid=3396514&goback=%2Enpv_152562310_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_*1&trk=NUS_JGRP-grp-nm

viame··on Live: ISS Spacewalk
Sweet, that's for doing this and clarifying.
viame··on Live: ISS Spacewalk
Lots of voices. Are the instructions given in English and translated to him?
viame··on Live: ISS Spacewalk
Well they seem to be hooked to the ISS rails with a blue cable. The orange one seems to be hooked to one of their blue ones and also the the rail. This looks amazing!
viame··on Never Say WordPress When Selling a Web Design Project
I feel the same way. When I chat with clients about a project, I focus on their business and clients. I get involved a little bit, see what they are all about (and after that they want to hire me as their employee, but that's another story, I should start blogging about it, hah!) I will definitely try to take the "Do not mention technology" approach to see how this may change things.
viame··on Google Apps Services Were Down
Getting the same message. However, this is happening to some of my logins only. Same with e-mails, some of them are working fine and some of them are timing out or asking for passwords. For a second I thought someone hacked my e-mail. :>
viame··on News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier
AMEN! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg5wkZ-dJXA minute 4:30
viame··on Hackers can be business guys, and other lessons from Paul Graham
Great answer, nothing to add, nothing to take away. =) I haven't met Paul Graham but when I was watching this video I couldn't stop thinking that he should be an actor. At least his voice should be used in a commercial, a cartoon or elsewhere.
viame··on A simple dark theme and accompanying color scheme for Sublime Text 2
I have been using it for a couple of day now. This theme is absolutely amazing. I love all Sublime themes but this one just shines through. Colours, especially within the sidebar (the new folder icon as well) are probably the greatest stand out feature. Thanks again for sharing.
viame··on [dead]
This was definitely a gift sent to Iran. :D I wonder what can be done in this situation. Would the UK's police work with Iran's police to get it back?
viame··on A simple dark theme and accompanying color scheme for Sublime Text 2
Looks very nice. I love how the folders and coloured, gives me a better idea which folder I am in. Also love the text colours.

Thank you

viame··on The Quickest Wins in SEO
Probably one of the better SEO articles I have read in a while. I wish clients could understand this.

Just want to point out that your Twitter share button should point to the article's page (current page) not your main url.

viame··on Just Landed
From my experience all I need know is if there is a delay or not, which I check quickly on the airport's page. If on time: For international flights and large airpors if you have about 1h to travel (traffic, distance etc) leave when the plane is landing. By the time the plane gets to the gate, people get out, find their luggage and so on, it will be ~ 1 hour. You won't need to park your car, go straight to the door for pickups.

Speaking from experiences. Also my gf is a FA.

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