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alanchavez

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    Comment #8178254

    > If I want to make more, I take on more projects. Or you can increase the transactions per customer. You don't have to have more projects/clients to make more money. There are onl…

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    Comment #6127491

    I agree with you on some points, it's a lot of work to earn passive income and during my first year trying to earn passive income on the side I lost money and incurred in a debt of…

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    Ask HN: Should I charge for a closed beta?

    I'm about to finish an application that I've been developing for about a month, and I have a list of 2,000 qualified leads that are waiting for my application to be released. My qu…

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    Comment #6030945

    I guessed the name of the company right away when you said "well known for treating developers right, but I still needed to make sure it was what I thought it was. Could you provid…

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    Comment #6017789

    I read in the yelp reviews that they were singing in the middle of the nights, and throwing out parties during the week. The apartment complex should write lease violations to offe…

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    Comment #5975351

    they could have used a taser

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    Comment #5964742

    Also.. you should drop the "short term" employers like commitment.

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    Comment #5964737

    I think the comments were removed, but one of them said that she should build a body-powered vibrator and she would be millionaire.

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    Comment #5964735

    if you deliver on time, you deliver on budget...

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    Comment #5964728

    I never said you didn't deserve a job, that's an invisible script of yours... all I'm saying is that you're doing it wrong by focusing in the wrong things. Nowadays telling you the…

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    Comment #5964683

    Well that's actual advice boy, it's up to you if you still want to think that someone is going to hand you a job just because you need one.

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    Comment #5964068

    I'm going to tell you what other people haven't told yet. Nobody cares whether you went to App Academy or learned how to code in your mom's garage. Nobody cares if you have enough …

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    Comment #5963112

    I came here to see if anyone else noticed the sexists comments under the article, what a shame. However it's not difficult to find sexists pricks in tech.

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    Comment #5961359

    I don't think podcasts alone will make you a better software engineer. Most software engineer spend countless hours perfecting their craft, and forget about soft skills that will m…

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    Comment #5923130

    So if I crawl lyrics website, am I violating their copyright? I'm not displaying the lyrics, I'm just matching lyrics with user generated content to come up with song recommendatio…

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    Ask HN: Is my Idea profitable? Hint: semantic web crawler for lyrics

    Hey HN! I was recently exposed to CasperJS and PhantomJS and I'm fascinated with these tools. Last night I didn't sleep because I built a web crawler that crawls lyrics websites, a…

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    Comment #5921972

    If you don't have a large professional (not social) network, then you must start building one. Have you tried http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs ?? That's how I found my dream j…

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    Comment #5921951

    I've seen that the people worth connecting with, you just have to google their name, and some random bits of information that LinkedIn gives "for free" and voila, no need for linke…

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    Comment #5915935

    Start collecting your visitor's emails, that's how you start building an audience. Forget about SEO right now, you don't want really want more traffic, you want conversion rate. I …

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    Comment #5915918

    I hope you didn't list that in order of importance. First you have to find a niche. If your product/book/website/blog/whatever is the only one out there, it's a red flag because it…

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    Comment #5889235

    Yeah, I know that. The vast majority of people don't.

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    Comment #5887338

    That's the difficult part, not for me, but for the vast majority of people who don't even know what a DMG is.

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    Comment #5886878

    It's actually easier, unless you're trying to do a clean install. For some weird reason Apple made it utterly difficult to be able to make a clean install.

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    Comment #5886781

    I'd say JavaScript instead of jQuery. Before jQuery going mainstream there was Spry, and then it faded away. If jQuery ever goes away, the good ol' JavaScript will still be there f…

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    Comment #5886761

    I'm not shouting, I'm highlighting the fact that it's not my intention to break anybody's trust. Morality has little to no place in DRM laws.