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Have you tried using expo? It makes development with react native much easier and does a bunch of stuff for you out of the box. I'm a solo developer writing a fairly complex mobile…

indeed haha

Worked at a faang for several years. Some things I didint like: - They make team members compete with each other - creating false narratives about peoples career progress - people …

A good way to remember what you read is to become a domain expert and read everything about some particular domain you are interested in. When you read in clusters around the same …

A lot of new technology could potentially solve this problem. There are certain types of roofs being installed called cool roofs that reflect heat and don’t absorb it that keeps th…

Here is what helped me kick two major addictions in my life: I smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day for 6 years straight. It started to take a huge hit on my health and I quit. I smo…

Another thing you have to understand about the us are weak family ties. If you are unemployed in another country you could easily stay with some family member - cousin, uncle etc T…

You don’t think map reduce, tensorflow and the countless other systems that have been open sourced haven’t had huge impact outside of their original use cases at these companies?

The scale that these companies operate on requires huge innovations in software engineering and computer science. Think about all the distributed systems that have come out of plac…

The real problem is that we don’t have good examples of leaders. A lot of the examples we look for in terms of whom to emulate comes from the pop culture view of corporate America …

Ivy League schools already have pretty generous financial aid policies. Most students are not paying full tuition.

I’m currently doing this as well and for anyone else who is doing this you should continuously share your thoughts and progress on Twitter or your blog or YouTube or whatever. It’s…

I understood religion better after practicing and studying meditation. The backbone of all religions is based on the personal mystical experiences of individuals like Jesus, Mohamm…

It’s not very difficult to do financially if you don’t mind moving to a lower cost of living country. You can live pretty well for 20k USD in many parts of the world.

In sports training this is called super compensation. Usually you tax yourself for some period of training and then take a short break. Your body will recover to the initial level …

Praying is a form of meditation. In Hinduism a short prayer called the gayatri mantra is repeated 108 times, three times a day and this is supposed to improve your focus.

I’m a solo SaaS founder and I’ve built and released several products. I would say just work on one complex product from start to finish. Do this however you can and after that ever…

+ a small population of 25 million

This would be super nice to have when developing mobile apps. I’ve used sqllite when developing with react-native, but can see myself using a mongita type solution.

Because Coinbase succeeded others didn't pop up. If they didn't exist others would exist.

I think one of the most disturbing things about how people get rich in technology startups today is that they get chosen by rich vcs to become successful. Let’s say there are a few…

Because you can scale a technology company much faster with less capital and lower acquisition costs today. A lot of the infrastructure has been built out for internet companies to…

Nice job! How did you manage to get over 1000 followers for your bot though?

I've worked at Amazon in the past for almost 3 years. You have to put in some initial time investment of 6 - 12 months to learn everything about your job. After that it's not very …

Low income people in the U.S still have a chance of improving their station in life, although it is very hard. It’s nearly impossible in other countries where poor takes on a whole…