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by ruswick 14y ago
But what practical purpose does breaking down your income serve to readers? Will it help them increase conversions, save time, or increase efficiency? Even if it did yield some practical value, expenses and income are so idiosyncratic as to
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by ruswick 14y ago
This still makes it superfluous. Very few people are ever going to achieve the success that Patrick has. If earning such a huge income off of various lifestyle businesses was within reach of most people, they would be doing it. Stories like
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by ruswick 14y ago
This practice just seems absurd. What is the practical purpose of this type of post? Several people have written pieces enumerating their various income sources and listing their enviable accomplishments, and have gotten on the front page.
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by ruswick 14y ago
In my opinion, passive investing rarely has the capacity to earn someone a substantial amount of money. Large, stable returns occur in only two situations: 1) You invested a huge amount of initial money, so even a low yield returns a lot of
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by ruswick 14y ago
Even if one extrapolates earning out over the time-to-produce, it's still quite a sum of money. The actual time vs. value comparison is irrelevant, though. Regardless of the time and effort it took to make, the 26k figure is pretty remarkab
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by ruswick 14y ago
This question assumes that people have some sort of innate passion or obscure talent that they wish to pursue, which is not always the case. For instance, I have no objectives in life other than to maximize income and leisure, and to pursue
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by ruswick 14y ago
Yes, it should be ignored. That's my point. I'm saying that investment and shouldn't be taken into account when gauging first-day success, because that quality and time-investment don't factor into first-day success. No one knows how long
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by ruswick 14y ago
If anything, the first book is a better indicator of pure marketing-based success, considering that you didn't have a following at that point. For the record, I'm not asserting that it's bad that you made so much money based on theses facto
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by ruswick 14y ago
1. Over 25% of households in the country live on less than 26k/year. You have obviously succumbed to some sort of upper-class myopia. Not everyone is rich. 26k is quite a bit of money. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_
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by ruswick 14y ago
Was your first book anywhere near as successful in the first 24 hours as this one?
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by ruswick 14y ago
I'm fascinated with and profoundly envious of people who can accrue huge sums of money in such short periods of time. Given that this was all done within 24 hours, it's unlikely that many sales came from the quality of the book: people won'
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by ruswick 14y ago
Seeing as how the former option is the current precedent in software, they are probably going to sell your data. In my opinion, this is totally "acceptable," and even preferable: my personal information is abundant, and is infinitely and tr
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by ruswick 14y ago
1. Haskel 2. Rails 3. Typography theory 4. Statistics 5. More political philosophy 6. More arcane photography methodology/techniques This is all in addition to the general academic edification entailed by high school.
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Ask HN: Who's Hiring Summer Interns?
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by ruswick 14y ago
Although I'm generally hesitant to purchase books, this appears to be a fairly interesting product. I'd likely buy it immediately were I in an economic position to do so. Unfortunately, I'm simply unable to justify such an expenditure...
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by ruswick 14y ago
...leads. Admittedly, it's incredibly unlikely that this is some sort of recruiter scam, but it's not as if what he said was incoherent.
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by ruswick 14y ago
It's an incredibly expensive (1.5 cent per call) solution to what appears to be a non-issue. There are a myriad of open-source Markdown parsers, most of which are incredibly fast and easy to implement. What is the issue being solved, and wh
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by ruswick 14y ago
I don't think it's unreasonable to include, base on the assumption that they exercise it infrequently and with discretion. For instance, they probably wouldn't go after a blind user that uses some sort of auditory interface. Instead, they p
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by ruswick 14y ago
It does matter when a potential buyer will mentally juxtapose the cost of production with the price being charged. If the individual can reproduce the same value at a lower cost by producing it themselves, they will likely do so. This is wh
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by ruswick 14y ago
That gramatical error was particularly grating. As for the price umbrella created by introducing the $250 product first, I'm unsure. When dealing with very large sums, it's difficult to make one value appear comparatively "trivial." $70 is
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Codecademy, MOOCs, and Jobs(ruswick.tumblr.com)
3 points by ruswick 14y ago|0 comments
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Agreed. In this situation, the individual students have agency over their level of stress during that specific week. It's absurd to make generalizations about the school because a large number of individuals decide independent of one anothe
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by ruswick 14y ago
The gender breakdowns are of particular fascination.
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Turn your Pocket Queue into a Physical Book(blackstrap.it)
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How to Hack Chipotle(thoughtcatalog.com)
20 points by ruswick 14y ago|21 comments
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Show HN: My first Chrome Extension(github.com)
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by ruswick 14y ago
I saw the words "curated tips" included on the title and promptly closed the page.
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by ruswick 14y ago
The visual design and choice of typeface are both excellent. Great job.
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by ruswick 14y ago
This sort of thing never appealed to me. It seems sort of superfluous: with good tagging and organization, you should be able to retrieve bookmarks with ease. Paying for a service just seems wasteful, and I certainly have no intention of su
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by ruswick 14y ago
This is very problematic and disconcerting. However, I feel like the true reason that this gentleman is upset that he was disillusioned after his pristine opinion of Apple was ruined. That Apple would "take care" of him. This is not the cas

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