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lix2333

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About lix2333

Creator of noexcuselist.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #11592893

    Whoah, they pulled alien blue?? Never going to delete that app.

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    Comment #8216809

    Yeah, the 'no excuses' part was more in the vein of "you have no excuses not to learn something."

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    Comment #5801231

    This is actually a common misconception. No matter how much you donate (or a corporation donates), you'll still end up net negative.

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    Comment #4881890

    Any exit plan yet? I'm in the same boat.

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    Comment #4671721

    Wait...75 dollars on 33k page views from ad sense? Is that normal?

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    Comment #4666369

    When my website hit the front page, I got around 60k visits. I was getting about 2k regularly before then. Short blog post about it: http://noexcuselist.com/blog/effects-of-hackern…

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    Comment #4378701

    As others have said, you should put your email in your profile. I have something you might be interested in, but I have no way of contacting you.

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    Comment #4330925

    I guess there's a couple of reasons why I haven't gone that route: 1) I'm not technically skilled. I work as a banker, so in order to make some of these changes, I'd have to find s…

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    Comment #4330743

    Thanks. I will update.

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    Comment #4330739

    Yes, that happens to be the only one I have at the moment. I have 2-3 photography ones that fit under art as well... I was also looking for art history for my own interests, and th…

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    Comment #4329327

    Hey, thanks for the link. I've looked pretty hard for sites that teach cooking and they're pretty hard to come by! The cooking for engineers has been the best one that I've seen. I…

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    Comment #4329127

    Thanks for the suggestions. I agree with you on all of those points. I think for the next version, it would be great to have icons and more of a description. As of right now, if yo…

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    Comment #4328824

    I'm a big fan of Memrise. I think one of the best features is that it uses the community to suggest ways of remembering a word. People remember things differently, so if you have t…

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    Comment #4328752

    This is basically what I was thinking about doing earlier. "This is actually something I was thinking about. For instance, say someone wants to learn Ruby. They could go to noexcus…

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    Comment #4328702

    I agree with you on 'picking one' and sticking to it. Maybe I should highlight one source for each that I strongly recommend or something? Also, thanks for the heads up about the D…

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    Comment #4328686

    This is actually something I was thinking about. For instance, say someone wants to learn Ruby. They could go to noexcuselist and find a step-by-step process that someone has made …

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    Comment #4328672

    Hey guys, I'm the creator of the site. Thanks for posting it Joel! I've been trying to delicately balance the line between too many links versus not enough links. I created this si…

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    Ask HN: Going to MBA for a degree in Entreprenuership

    I've been going back and forth about this for a while. What are the reasons someone would want to get an MBA if they want to come out of school to join a startup or found their own…

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    Comment #4296467

    Maybe there is and I just haven't heard about it. I haven't been looking in that area at all. That's a great idea though, thanks.

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    Comment #4288532

    Hey, great site. Looks like you and me were thinking along the same lines. http://www.noexcuselist.com

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    Comment #4266124

    Check out noexcuselist.com for a lot of resources

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    Comment #4252420

    Thanks for the reply. Its great to know that networking and meeting developers at meet ups can lead to partnerships. I will be looking out for these events in my area. I'm working …

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    Comment #4252096

    What was your role at Goldman? IB Analyst? Ops? Did that experience help you with starting this business? Did you have programming/web design skills beforehand or did you join up w…

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    Comment #4189994

    I would like to know as well. It's hard to find anything going through the usual routes (ventureloop, etc)

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    Comment #3891679

    Can't find a business co-founder? That's pretty unusual it seems. What kind of work do you expect your business co-founder to do?