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AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: What did you do differently to ensure completion of your side projects?
Totally, especially when we care about those people and when we value their opinions.
AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: What did you do differently to ensure completion of your side projects?
I tell all my friends about it.

I owe them to finish my projects, they know that if I promise something I deliver.

This helps, I'm working since oct 2016 on a project, I don't like it anymore since march 2017, the honeymoon is over, the tech stack is boring and the project makes me upset every time I have to write code.

I'm still coding every day, it should be done next month.

AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: Have anyone traveled the world while working as a freelancer?
Would you then keep the land and move permanently to that location, or would you just sell it after a few years?
AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: Have anyone traveled the world while working as a freelancer?
I don't like to be on the run all the time, a nice homebase with regular travels is just fine for me, I guess you could do the same, even with your fam.
AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: Have anyone traveled the world while working as a freelancer?
Totally and it's also cheaper in the long run.

I don't know if you are aware of this group on reddit.com/r/digitalnomad but there are lots of info about people who 'did it'.

AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: Have anyone traveled the world while working as a freelancer?
I could ... but for some weird reason I'm still sitting in my hometown.

I occasionally do trips but I'm not traveling the world, maybe next year I'll spend some time in other countries.

AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: What tech stack to choose in my first stint as a freelance developer?
In my opinion you should know Spring MVC ( or boot ) as a Java freelancer.

I'd also go with Spring because they have a huge market share and many projects require Spring knowledge.

By knowing Spring you are expanding the circle for possible clients.

Play/Dropwizard are nice frameworks but they don't bring you any value as a freelancer because nobody will require knowledge/experience in those frameworks.

AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: How long did it take you to go from side project idea to launch?
Oh ! got it now.
AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: How long did it take you to go from side project idea to launch?
Why would a guy living in Germany register an Austrian Domain?
AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: How long did it take you to go from side project idea to launch?
Hey great work thanks! I used it a few times with good results.

Would it make sense for your app to also link topics to distance learning universities ?

I mean you could contact them first then talk about a commission fee, if someone joins their course they should pay you

The same thing could be done with coursera and edX.

AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: What are real Ruby on Rails alternatives in 2017?
By no XML, they mean that you don't have to do any configuration in xml files. You can declare everything as a bean.

Example: // enabling ETAGS

    @Bean
    public Filter etagFilter() {
        return new ShallowEtagHeaderFilter();
    }
There is also the option to do many things in a yml file like you are used to from Rails.
AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: Share your top 10 cli commands
Try ctrl + l, should do the clear.
AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: Share your top 10 cli commands

     1	796  18.3664%    ls
     2	718  16.5667%    cd
     3	373  8.60637%    gradle
     4	342  7.89109%    git
     5	231  5.32995%    vim
     6	182  4.19935%    cat
     7	130  2.99954%    gulp
     8	124  2.8611%     .
     9	99   2.28426%    psql
    10	94   2.1689%     curl

"." == alias to "cd .."
AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: Which book had the biggest impact on your personality?
I agree, it's recommended to read a summary of all his texts.
AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: Do you lift?
Yes, I do [0] strong lifts, I also run 3 times a week.

[0] https://stronglifts.com/5x5/

AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: Which book had the biggest impact on your personality?
'The world as will and representation' is probably the most important.

I would actually just recommend a book that does a summary of all his books, that's enough in my opinion.

His stuff is very hard to read and I often had to ask professionals who then translated or explained it to me.

AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: Which book had the biggest impact on your personality?
Everything that Arthur Schopenhauer wrote.

It's a lot about finding purpose in life.

I started reading his stuff and then I became angry at him and at me.

At him because he showed me that I'm a slave of nature and at me because I started questioning life and humanity.

Then I started to disprove his thesis and found my own purpose in life, not only that, it also gave me a much better understanding of human nature, which can be used in marketing or product design.

AlexAMEEE··on Best modern language to learn object oriented programming
I wrote many lines about Scala but then I lost the motivation to finish it.

So I'll just write, Scala.

AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: What do want to see in programming language?
I'd like a programming language that kicks the programmer in the nuts if he over engineers things and writes unreadable code.
AlexAMEEE··on Emacs is sexy
No, because we simply don't compare elephants with fruits, we also don't compare a text editor with an operating system.
AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: How do I learn faster?
Thanks I'll check that out.
AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?
They are also betting and why shouldn't they publish results that would let them win even if that's not the correct result ?

One could argue that the masses would always return the correct score but imagine 50 people debating about sports, there are 50 opinions and the truth somewhere in between.

And therefore those people also called 'scouts' must be trained in order to accomplish the job.

AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?
1. Sports betting

2. Oligopoly[0] just a few companies who deliver live results.

You would need a ton of cash upfront, to hire people who would watch the games and would press buttons in order to inform you about results so you could parse them and deliver live results which eventually would become a live API.

But as you can see, there are people involved in this, who watch all those games, if you can manage to automate this, without requiring too many people, you are a rich man.

Let's put in that way, almost everyone consumes their API if they are offline, we are offline.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly

AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: What are some good places to post a Java EE blog?
You could post on Reddit, /r/java, just ignore the Spring/Pivotal Zealots.
AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: How would you solve the chicken and egg problem ( Dating Sites )
Do you know a service that sells traffic ?
AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: How would you solve the chicken and egg problem ( Dating Sites )
This is great, thanks for the eye opening suggestion.
AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: How would you solve the chicken and egg problem ( Dating Sites )
There are some good points, especially the flooding method.
AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: What are your favorite browser extensions?
In my opinion, the best Vim implementation for the browser. I tried many .. but this one is incredible.

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/vimperator/

AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: Does Chrome still 'call home' even if I use another search engine?
> What data?

Browsing habits, visited sites etc...

AlexAMEEE··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
I'm currently writing a shitty CRUD job board, because we don't have enough job boards already.

I ran out of ideas...

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