wprapido

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   by wprapido 11y ago

   evernote + moleskine notepad. draw.io for charts / drawings / mindmaps
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   by wprapido 11y ago

   mail sent
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   by wprapido 11y ago

   indeed. ;) will drop you a line. cheers
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   by wprapido 11y ago

   i'd definitely love to talk to you. how can we get in touch?
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   by wprapido 11y ago

   you should develop for both platforms
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   by wprapido 11y ago

   does it have wordpress plugin?
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   by wprapido 11y ago

   i've worked in cyprus briefly, before it joined the EU, while it was still a tax heaven. i do have some friends, business associates and clients in malta, gibraltar, isle of man as well as plenty of caribbean isles. caymans included as
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   by wprapido 11y ago

   lenovo W, X or T as well as dell E or XPS are good bets
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   by wprapido 11y ago

   i'm a happy dual-boot (win10 + ubuntu 14.04) lenovo W520 user. tried other linux distros as well as freeBSD, PC-BSD, openBSD. never had any (at least seriously work impacting) issues with hardware compatibility
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    is YC fellowship more solo founder friendly than your regular YC program?
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    are they enough? no, they are not. but, they do provide a rock solid foundation. working with someone more experienced and / or hiring a tutor for a bit is also very helpful. there are a few but very important tricks that courses don&#
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    hey, you guys using cheap chromebooks for linux. why do you bother with hacking your chromebook to use linux, while you can buy an old core2duo (or even an i3/i5) fully featured used laptop for about the same amount, often even less? i
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    the best machine i ever had! the only other laptop i liked as much was a powerbook G4 12" mac many years ago
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    in the UK contractors / consultants / freelancers do charge daily and i definitely prefer it over hourly rates or fixed per project prices
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    having studied philosophy helped me more as a developer than anything else
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    german developer salaries are crap. in europe, only UK, switzerland and norway pay better for developers (UK is pretty decent if you are a contractor), but COL is fairly high, too
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    nah. it's 10k for germany. austria seems way more xenophobic and way more hostile
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    it's much easier for you US citizens to get work visas (and a permanent residence permit is automatic after 5 years) than it is for us EU citizens (or for a matter of fact, just about everyone except canadians and mexicans) to get a wo
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    will be visiting chattanooga soon. can you mail me more info at info [a] wprapido [dot] com please
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    lol indeed. ;) i'm an ex denverite who keeps going back at least once a year
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    being destitute indeed is expensive and low income + high costs let you down the spiral
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    my vote goes to denver! affordable, laid back, socially liberal, safe, no huge social gap like in SF, very friendly people, great outdoors, growing tech startup ecosystem
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    as for immigration, yeah it's 3 years of experience equaling 1 year of college / university, but you might need a lawyer. speaking of your unrelated degree. one of the best developers i know has a degree in orthodox christian theo
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    libreoffice draw works fine for most of my charting needs. even google drawings is not that bad. draw.io is plain awesome!
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    israeli re:walk is perhaps the biggest player in the exoskeleton field
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    you should write more often, higher quality and at more places. read more on content marketing. content marketing is powerful, cheap but takes plenty of effort. so it's a great way to get traction as a bootstrapped business without mar
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    sure, it's how most of us work. well, as per default your contracting rates should be at least your salary + expenses and if you are any good (both, as an engineer and a salesman or at least one of the two) your rates should be multipl
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    that's also true. but at such an early stage it really helps if you do it yourself. you can and should hire later
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    i've sent you an email, mate!
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    by wprapido 11y ago

    good quality code is not cheap. doing both biz and tech is not mutually exclusive at an early stage