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by saluki 8y ago
y, I used to think this way. We went on a river clean up(major river in the midwest), they take you in a small boat up river and drop you off. I wasn't expecting we would not accomplish much. 8 of us a mix of kids and adults we collect
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by saluki 8y ago
You see them some in the US, there are also some that are that are made from corn. They feel/flex like plastic but are biodegradable.
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by saluki 8y ago
y, the social network is a great movie. Even if it isn't 100% accurate it's an amazing story and fun to watch. The recording failed sign ins to harvest the journalist's passwords always intrigued me. It does make you think wh
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by saluki 8y ago
As far as working, I think you might be happier doing your own thing. If you have some runway I would look at starting your own company. It sounds like you might be happy with a lifestyle business. Inspiration: @DHH Startup School Talk (200
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by saluki 8y ago
First if you are a full stack developer with experience with (those) you would definitely be employable. So I wouldn't worry. Since you use PHP and are mentioning frameworks, check out the Laravel framework. It's rails like and ha
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by saluki 8y ago
Sounds like he's making too much money as a surgeon so there isn't a need for him to focus on the startup. One thought is he could invest money in to the company instead of working on it to retain his 50% equity. So he could be th
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by saluki 8y ago
y, sounds like a change like this: The system, known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, was incorporated because the plane has larger engines placed further forward on the craft, and so has a chance of facing a
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by saluki 8y ago
The biggest selling point is this. You can trade hours for javascript money but can you make money while you sleep or lie on a beach? Your side project (SaaS, info product) can. If you have the entrepreneur drive you'll already be thin
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by saluki 8y ago
y, it's nice having a book on a phone or iPad or kindle, but it's not the same a flipping through a physical book, adding post it notes, marking notes in the book. Probably miss physical books more for something you are studying r
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by saluki 8y ago
Try to make an online portion that is subscription provides all the value. Use the electron portion as an offline data collector for the web app. Once the event is over the electron app uploads the data to the web app where they interact wi
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by saluki 8y ago
Doing a quick search I don't see anything, here's a HN thread from last year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18010871 Maybe a good opportunity for a Python developer to put one together?
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by saluki 8y ago
y, recommend you check out the Rails and Laravel SaaS in a box offerings. Rails https://bullettrain.co/ Laravel https://spark.laravel.com/ They are good to get up and running quickly, I used spark on a SaaS
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by saluki 8y ago
That's the direction I would focus, having kids will change your perspective and life in a good way. Being able to spend lots of time with them growing up will be awesome for you.
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by saluki 8y ago
I have bought quite a few ebooks from LeanPub. It was a great experience, they email you when there is an update to a ebook you have purchased. Take a look their site and how they work with authors. https://leanpub.com/books
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by saluki 8y ago
My Great Aunt is in hospice care at home, I was talking with her yesterday about a sign she had by her pool when I was growing up. Welcome to my OOL notice there is no P in it and I'd like to keep it that way.
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by saluki 8y ago
https://www.starwars.com/video/execute-order-66
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by saluki 8y ago
Double True, but I'm expecting to start seeing thousands of keywords in the footer of sites white text on a white background. It's like SEO is coming full circle. Just surprised Google is allowing ancient SEO tricks to work again.
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by saluki 8y ago
It feels like maybe Google had a changing of the guard and a new batch of engineers are making decisions and missed out on a transfer of knowledge from the previous engineers with both search and SEO. I'm seeing my search results show
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by saluki 8y ago
We had a family member have all their teeth pulled and go with dentures/implants and it seems to have triggered aggressive Alzheimers as well.
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by saluki 8y ago
Check out the book Head First HTML and CSS. It gives you a great foundation and is interesting to follow along the way. Get a basic hosting account, register a domain, learn how to setup a website use FTP. Next go through the book Head Firs
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Double True!
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by saluki 8y ago
Thanks for sharing your story. I am a huge fan of gumroad, I remember your interviews on podcasts when you launched. I have a couple Gumroad T-Shirts that are still my favs. I have bought info products using Gumroad and it's a great ex
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by saluki 8y ago
Can you put that portion in a plastic pipe/conduit when they come to re-install it? At least the portion they are chewing?
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by saluki 8y ago
The hope the dream, chasing the SaaS. Lots of developers succeed with side projects, products/SaaS. It isn't easy, but it's possible, worth chasing. Checkout @DHH's Startup School Talk for some inspiration. https:/
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by saluki 8y ago
If you just want to be able to build something I would get started with your own building your own project. Since you already know html and css you have a head start on people starting from scratch. Don't just focus on just the front e
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by saluki 8y ago
SaaS is hard, I've worked on several SaaS ideas but haven't found success yet, this could be the year though. It's about execution and keeping at it. There is tons of great advice and inspiring podcasts, but you have to do th
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by saluki 8y ago
Most startups could be killed with a single feature initially. If you're interested in working on it and have passion about it go for it. Most big corps have lots of layers/decision makers so chances are slim they would attack you
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Doing milestones prevents them being unhappy with the app when it's complete and you unhappy because you aren't being paid. Stick with what you know, was just throwing it out there. y, it's important to keep the framework upd
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by saluki 8y ago
Make sure you have a tight scope, have a note that features beyond that scope will happily be quoted and approved by them as an additional milestone/fee. Break the project up in to milestones. I would move your estimate up to 300 hours
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Usually they just come to you or find you on their own. You do keep an eye/ear out for them so you notice when opportunity knocks. For me it is usually something I need or a client needs to automate, or something where a web app could

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