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by zavulon 17y ago
I couldn't agree any more. I definitely wasn't a stereotypical "sells lemonade door-to-door" entrepreneur in school, or in college. Sounds cliche, but I just didn't care about money. I was more interested in hacking and creating, starting f
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by zavulon 17y ago
... this could be a great idea, but using language like that helps ensure Linux desktop will never get to the mainstream. I understand this is a codename/prototype, but this has gotten out to the blogosphere. Can you imagine Apple or Micros
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by zavulon 17y ago
Not to self-promote, since I pretty much abandoned that site more than a year ago, but back in a day I wrote an article on this topic that was somewhat popular, and I think will be useful to a lot of HN'ers. http://www.alexanderkharlamov.c
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by zavulon 17y ago
If the e-mails are indeed fabricated, this is pretty messed up.. The guy is now a laughingstock on the internet, all the while he's trying to making a living promoting his business. ___________ From: David Thorne  Subject: /  Date: 27 Novem
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Ask HN: Best web or Mac/Unix alternative to Excel?
2 points by zavulon 17y ago|2 comments
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by zavulon 17y ago
I'm going to go ahead and recommend "4 Hour work week" by Tim Ferris, BUT - you have to take that book with a big grain of salt. Some of the stuff he's talking about is fluff, and he's gotten some fair criticism over it - but he has some in
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by zavulon 17y ago
Contract/consultant for now. Eventually, I want to to introduce some products, but at first, financial independence from Big Co. was my #1 goal.
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by zavulon 17y ago
Well, the consulting business is full time already. I'm planning to grow it, and eventually introduce some products, as well.
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by zavulon 17y ago
Hear hear! After a few months of working 15-16 hours a day total, I'm going to force myself to work 10 hours a day max, and focus on having a life in the other time :)
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by zavulon 17y ago
NYC. Planning to be as location-independent as possible, though :)
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by zavulon 17y ago
My own expertise is RoR and Java. But, I've partnered up with some freelancer friends whose skills sets are vastly different. Loginaut is a partnership of independent devs and designers, the idea being that nobody has to pass up any busines
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by zavulon 17y ago
Thanks for the feedback on the site design, everyone! It's far from finished, that was another reason I didn't want to link to it, but I should have been more clear about that :) With all the actual project work I've been doing, the site b
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I did it! I quit my day job!
58 points by zavulon 17y ago|36 comments
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Ask HN: Life insurance?
1 points by zavulon 17y ago|3 comments
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by zavulon 17y ago
Please send me one! http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01jPo8D07dgTS-1ojJHfLfxg==...
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by zavulon 17y ago
Same here. I thought it was pretty significant. Here I'm sitting at a big corporation, hating my life and counting down hours until the weekend... but maybe I should use the arrow keys and control the guy myself. He's not going to go anywhe
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by zavulon 17y ago
I was in a same boat as you are, and I think it comes down to being whether you feel grateful to this country or not. In my experience, living in former Soviet Union was hell. It was, still is, and always will be a shithole, with about 95%
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by zavulon 17y ago
I am really looking forward to this.. Sinclair ZX Spectrum was my first computer, and I taught myself programming on it. It had a great feature where every key was assigned a BASIC command, which made programming really easy for an 11 year
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I want to start a startup, but have no ideas. What should I do?
33 points by zavulon 17y ago|46 comments
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by zavulon 17y ago
I wonder if I'll be able to go on that update site and do it from my iPhone? Around that time, I will be at a bar, either celebrating my team winning Stanley Cup or drinking away my sorrows.. so no way to get to the actual computer.
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by zavulon 17y ago
Less features than what? You criticize their products, yet offer no viable alternative. A better question would be "why do you use X instead of Y", where X is a particular 37 signals product, and Y is an alternative that you like better. Pe
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by zavulon 18y ago
Personally, I see value in it. If I get a shortened URL link from someone, and I'm at work, I would like to go to that site and see what that TinyURL really is before following the link
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by zavulon 18y ago
You don't get sea sick?
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by zavulon 18y ago
I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.7, which I don't want to upgrade. So I'm just going to join the others in "Please add the 'Try anyway'" link
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by zavulon 18y ago
I recommend a book by George Leonard called "Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment". It talks about this topic... very fascinating and useful read (also quite short) http://www.amazon.com/Mastery-Keys-Success-Long-Term-Ful
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by zavulon 19y ago
I disagree completely. In my opinion, quite the opposite, actually. "How to win friends..." gives you shortcuts in life. It's all about pretending to be someone else to get short-term gains. Doesn't work quite as well in the long term thoug