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Everyone is sharing tactical solutions, which is great, but I've found that the root of the problem lies in not knowing your values, and I wish I was introduced to this concept at …

I highly second using smile.amazon.com to do your online shopping and selecting the EFF (or ACLU) as the beneficiary. There's no change in prices for you; as a result, Amazon only …

I'm a backend developer who's seen a lot of quality stuff for teaching programming, for example: * CodeSchool * Udacity * TeamTreeHouse * OpenCourseWare (MIT, Stanford) My Googlefu…

It seems that a lot of the reasons behind the economic issues that the United States and the rest of world has experienced is a result of exotic financial instruments created to in…

Great suggestions guys, thanks for putting things in perspective and glad to hear fellow Americans are still loving it in the motherland.

Things in Shanghai aren't anywhere near as good as my memory of the States, but I'm concerned that either 1) my memory isn't serving me correctly and/or 2) the US has deteriorated …

I never read the frontpage of Hacker News, only news.ycombinator.com/best in order to save time. However, I've been finding it more and more depressing lately. Is it just me, or do…

I have a US LLC for my online businesses with a business account separate from my personal accounts. However, I'm not exactly sure how to separate them - I obviously use my busines…

Hm, good suggestions - I thought about packaging up all the content into an ebook, but then I wouldn't have a website... Consulting services is a great idea as well but I'm hoping …

I have a PageRank 5 website that I made a couple of years ago when I was preparing to interview for tech jobs in Boston. I collected a bunch of programming interview questions and …

I'm currently floating on a pretty ridiculous niche website: http://www.snowboardsforwomen.com I actually started it for my then girlfriend whom I wanted to go snowboarding with me…

I completely agree with mixmax - webapps are just beginning to garner interest in a variety of different niches. Most of the webapps you see are geared towards tech minded folks, b…

We all know that suits have trouble picking good hackers. But I also think the opposite is true - I have difficulty detecting a savvy business person. I'm in talks with a sales / m…