alanchavez

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by alanchavez 12y ago
> 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 only so many projects you'll be able to work
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by alanchavez 13y ago
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 around 50K USD... but last month I finally got the han
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Ask HN: Should I charge for a closed beta?
1 points by alanchavez 13y ago|2 comments
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by alanchavez 13y ago
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 provide a little bit more of details on how the founders disa
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by alanchavez 13y ago
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 offenders (or Google)
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by alanchavez 13y ago
they could have used a taser
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by alanchavez 13y ago
Also.. you should drop the "short term" employers like commitment.
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by alanchavez 13y ago
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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by alanchavez 13y ago
if you deliver on time, you deliver on budget...
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by alanchavez 13y ago
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 truth is being arrogant and rude, oh we
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by alanchavez 13y ago
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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by alanchavez 13y ago
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 skill to rewrite the linux kernel from scratc
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by alanchavez 13y ago
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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by alanchavez 13y ago
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 make you more "likeable" and will help you adv
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by alanchavez 13y ago
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 recommendations.
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Ask HN: Is my Idea profitable? Hint: semantic web crawler for lyrics
3 points by alanchavez 13y ago|5 comments
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by alanchavez 13y ago
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 job! and I'm hunted by in-hou
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by alanchavez 13y ago
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 linked in.
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by alanchavez 13y ago
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 know people who own websites with hundreds of
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by alanchavez 13y ago
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 might mean that there's
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by alanchavez 13y ago
Yeah, I know that. The vast majority of people don't.
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by alanchavez 13y ago
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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by alanchavez 13y ago
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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by alanchavez 13y ago
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 for us.
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by alanchavez 13y ago
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.
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by alanchavez 13y ago
No, I'm not.
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by alanchavez 13y ago
If I weren't taking responsibility myself, I wouldn't be asking this question, don't you think? Precisely because I DO NOT want to break the trust (nor the law) is the reason that I'm asking the question.
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by alanchavez 13y ago
That's what I thought, I've actually been thinking to allow the e-book to be downloaded only once a day and since it's a digital file, the person who downloaded the file has 24 hours to delete it from their system. Obviously
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Ask HN: What DRM Free really means?
1 points by alanchavez 13y ago|8 comments
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by alanchavez 13y ago
Do you own a dog? If you do, have you watched your dog while it is asleep? Just as humans, dogs go through sleep phases and even though humans have longer sleep phases; dogs have a REM phase. Once dogs get to the REM phase they're in a deep

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