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I loved body language by Allan and Barbara Pease. It is short, to the point and has nice diagrams.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Definitive-Book-Body-Language/dp/0...

>I'm tired of working on things alone. I start making progress, then fizzle.

Could your burn out be related to lack of progress on personal/professional projects? For myself at least on days when I am not moving forward on a personal/professional level I can get a bit down. So the cure that works for me is to gain a net +ve movement everyday.

For work projects that could mean writing code for a new feature/fixing that inconsistent left margin or devouring my blog posts for any typos. Small victories in professional projects can can give me a boost in my personal life

On a more personal level this means reading another chapter of say "Mike" which drives the story forward. For a while I weaned off reading and the books that I was reading on at that time were left unfinished which affected my work as well as it left me dissatisfied with the current state of my affairs. Anyway, what I am trying to say here is that making progress on a personal level is just as important as making progress on a work level. Small victories in one can give you a much needed boost in another.

also check out this post : http://thefreelancery.com/monday-answers-1-hustling-burnout-...

Comments in Hindi are not much better either. I suppose being shitty on the internet transcends any language barrier.

I use xubuntu because it's lightweight and runs fast on my weak laptop. I tried ubuntu before that but it became impossible to run anything else with it installed. Maybe I should have just changed the desktop environment but I thought why not go with xubuntu instead. I have been very happy with it. It's got everything that ubuntu does plus it uses fewer resources. Win win for me.

Pricing your self is just one aspect of being a successful freelancer. There is a lot of other stuff that you have got to keep in mind including: client satisfaction, getting paid on time(or at all!), finding new clients, letting go of existing clients, dealing with failure etc

One of the books that has really helped me and the one which I refer to constantly is "thefreelancery" by walt kania [1] Give it a read. I am sure you will find it useful.

There is another book that focuses more on the "survival" part of your freelance journey. The freelancer's survival guide[2] by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.

My experience has been that

a) your rate usually depends upon your perceived ability to successfully deliver. Prove to your prospects that you can and they will be more willing to give what you ask

b)Don't mention where you are from (unless you are okay with your prospects discriminating on price based on your location, it's sad but it's true)

c) If you have trouble finding >$50/hr jobs then what you do instead is quote a fixed price (non refundable 1/4 in advance) and finish the job in fewer hrs it takes some practise to identify high income and low effort projects though

All the best :)

[1]http://thefreelancery.com/portable-wisdom/ [2]http://kriswrites.com/freelancers-survival-guide-table-of-co...

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tldr; you tend to remember a) things that interest you and b) things that you repeat.

I am also very fond of reading but I usually read fictional books. One of the things that I have noticed is how I tend to remember the plot even after a long time. For instance a few days back I was reading a Sherlock Holmes story (the speckled band) after about a decade and I was surprised at how well I remembered the solution to the puzzle. Incidentally I have also noticed this on previous occasions like when I turned the pages of count of Monte cristo or the three musketeers or other books that I enjoyed back in the day and I instantly found myself "in the world" when I expected to be "out of place".

On the other hand I tried reading a Shakespeare play that I had the opportunity to read before in my high school and I didn't remember it quite as well. No wonder there because I never enjoyed his work even though I tried many times. So my conclusion is that I tend to remember things that I like. Even if I forget them I get up to speed very quickly.

But the problem is there are things that are good for us that we might not enjoy. I don't particularly enjoy reading non fictional books but I know it is important that I read them if I want to learn. So I read them slowly making progress each day. Often taking handwritten notes and re reading things that I found interesting the first time around.

I have this theory that if you read anything some parts stick in your brain and they stay with you forever. Even if you feel like you have learned nothing you always take something with you. It could be a changed outlook on the subject or maybe a better understanding but you never leave empty handed if you read. I have no evidence to support what I have said though it's just something that I have noticed in my self :)

I have found "The Noel Smith-Wenkle Salary Negotiation Method"[1] quite useful. This might not help you right now but keep in mind when you interview again.

[1]http://infohost.nmt.edu/~shipman/org/noel.html

Ha ha well okay. The alt text of the image is displayed only when the image can't be loaded. I set the src attribute to a non existent resource. So an image tag was used to show a text that the "image is not needed". Yeah I know not that good :)

it is here if you want to see it in action

http://brislink.github.io/specter/

Go all the way down on the page.

I don't know if it's funny but I once added a "This image is not required" in the alt text of the image. The src pointed to a non existent image. Haven't seen anyone else laugh at this but myself :)

I am working on wrinq

http://www.wrinq.com/

wrinq allows landlords to collect rent online from their tenants and issue rent slips once it has been received. Besides that it allows the landlords to keep a track of their expenses (on the property) and see how much they profits they earn monthly ,yearly etc. Admittedly this would be much more useful for people who manage more than one tenant.

It will also keep a track of tenants who pay on time so in case if wrinq ever gets successful I would have an opportunity of doing a spin off that "hooks" potential landlords with good tenants (but that is distant future)

Target audience : Landlords who don't live in the same house as the tenants and who possibly have more than one tenant to manage.

Launch Date: Well I want to collect a few emails this time around before launching. See if there is any interest for what I am doing. Right now I am working about 25% on the product (technology wise it is pretty simple) 75% on it's marketing (haven't started actively yet).

But I am thinking December should be a good time to launch.

Trivia:

wrinq is an acronym

Wield Rent and Issue Normative Quittance.

To be honest I only made it up after I decided wrinq sounded cool and got the domain for it :)

Tech stack :

I am using openresty and couchdb on the server side.

Jquery and simple grid[1] on the client side.

[1] https://github.com/ThisIsDallas/Simple-Grid

I like simple grid.

http://thisisdallas.github.io/Simple-Grid/

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Well I think he was just comparing it to the corresponding erlang programme on a single core. I don't see Joe saying anywhere that it will run N times faster than a c program.

Wow this is just what I have been looking for. A few questions:-

1. Is it possible to download files in html format? I really prefer ebooks in html cause I can attach my preferred "readSettings.css" to it that way. *

2. Is it possible to run a custom script after the book has completed downloading?

3. I don't understand what you mean by "Making meta-data about the texts easily accessible through a database" in the description. Can you expand a bit on this?

4. Is it possible to specify other donwload contexts like "genre"

Oh Thanks a lot for this :) I always wanted a command line uitlity for project gutenberg.

* I also think that html files are lot easier to read on the phone as you can style them where as with the txt files you have got no choice but to use horizontal scrolling unless you are in a landscape mode.

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Location: Gurgaon, India

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Technologies: couchdb, elasticsearch, nodejs,erlang, openresty

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Email: akshatjiwan@gmail.com

I just finished Right ho Jeeves by PG wodehouse[1].

I am reading essays in the art of writing by RL stevenson.[2]

I want to read an adventure story next. Moby dick[3] seems to be one of the most popular ones on gutenberg so it will probably be my next choice.

[1]http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10554

[2]http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/492

[3]http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701

This is a fun exercise :)All right. Let us first analyze what the requirements should be. Obviously I am assuming a lot of things and thinking about this in a way I would go about building a (minimal)forum on raspberry pi:-

1. There should be a couple of predefined categories.

2. There should be a way to authenticate/authorize users.

3. There should be a way to search the previous posts.

4. There should be a facility to moderate.

Static forums

Very neat idea. All we need is a simple webserver, I am thinking, nginx that transforms and renders our posts to a user. Our first requirement that of predefined categories can be easily met by creating sub directories inside the directory that will be served. And we can avoid duplicating the pages between the sub directory (ie. a tag) and the main directory by using symbolic links[1] and configuring nginx to serve the symlinks [2]. Moderation of posts can be done by migrating a post in and our of a `moderate` folder that is not served by the application. But that obviously limits the moderation only to the webmaster. The trouble arises in two cases

a) When we need a facility to manage sessions. There is no way we can do that in static pages.

b) It will be quite difficult to create a search index for our application.

Now nginx is a good choice as it is pretty light weight and we will keep it. But what if we could have another application that can easily talk with nginx, manage user authentication for us, allow us to create search indexes, takes care of our data and still be light weight. Other have already suggested sqllite.How about couchdb?[3]

First couchdb has built in authentication and authorzation support. It will take you no more than 3 http requests to implement your own register-login-logout-scenario[4]. Second it is pretty easy creating simple search indexes with couchdb[5]. You can serve your forum directly from couchdb. It does not statisfy your orignal requirement of no database but it certainly gives you a way to work without any application layer. But perhaps most importantly it is very low on memory consumption. Not as low as sql lite but still quite low.

[1](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1951742/how-to-symlink-a-...)

[2](http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#disa...)

[3](http://couchdb.apache.org/)

[4](http://www.staticshin.com/programming/easy-user-accounts-man...)

[5](http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/View_collation#String_Ranges)

Two books

1. Learn you some erlang (http://learnyousomeerlang.com/)

Why?

Because it is written in a style in which technical books are rarely written. It has cartoons, jokes, references to pop culture but still it conveys the core subject exceedingly well. I understand that this is written in style of learn you some haskell so I am going to read that as well at some point. The best part is you can read the book second or third time and still have fun.

2. Joe Armstrong's thesis(http://www.erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf)

Yes it is another erlang book but it is written so well! I don't read thesis (or to be perfectly honest I try reading them but I can't understand most of them and lose interest after some time) but somehow I Joe's thesis made sense to me. It might be because of his clear writing style I can't say. But every time I read this book I find a certain phrase that sticks with me while I am writing programmes. Joe is a quote machine :)

3. Essays in the art of writing by R.L stevenson (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/492/492-h/492-h.htm)

Just read the opening paragraph and see for yourself if you don't want to read any more :)

>Some loot traditionally comes from the body of the monster itself, like a rat's tail or a wolf's fur which you can bring to the next merchant or quest-giver for reward

Monster hunter follows this idea as well. Almost all the loot comes from killing and carving monster. When you are on a quest you can do some stuff on the side like fishing/mining etc and you will get rewards which can be used in crafting weapons and armour.

>To me SQL is still the best query language we have

I agree 100% there. I think orient db proves that it is possible to use sql in a no sql database. Though I think not all databases are designed to support entire sql querying mechanism.

I was hoping that aphyr would cover couchdb at some point. But since he didn't I assume he tried it and was satisfied with it.

But it might be that it is an ap system and there was nothing much to say there.

>where people are told to do work and not worry about it's reward.

Not sure if it is in the vedas or not but it is in Gita. Any way yeah I think it is a good principle to follow in life. Happiness should come from the act of doing work which is in our control not from it's reward which we can not control.

He did give erlang a try and tweeted about it 4 years back. I think judging from some of this other comments on disqus(I can't find them at the moment) he did not like it very much.

https://twitter.com/tjholowaychuk/status/16988926506

I am looking for contract/freelance opportunities

Location : India

Remote : Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: node js, erlang, nginx-lua, couchdb/couchdb-lucene, elastic search.

Resume: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/akshatjiwan

Email: akshatjiwan@gmail.com

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I am good with

erlang, nodejs, nginx-lua, couchdb/couchdb-lucene, elasticsearch

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Almost all graph databases use gremlin as querying language but I really love orient db's approach of using sql[1] for querying graphs. It feels more natural in my opinion plus it lowers the barrier to entry for people who already know about sql.

Some of the things I like about cayley

1. Switchable backends(I wonder if I can configure it to use couchdb as a store)

2. Documentation get right to the point. When I first tried my hand at graph databases I could not understand where to start but cayley's approach is pretty straight forward and it wins plus points from me for including a big dataset :)

A question: I see no mention in the docs about running it on multiple nodes (where does it stand with regards to CAP etc)

[1](https://github.com/orientechnologies/orientdb/wiki/SQL)

I have started to enjoy nothing happening to my blog. Since I am sure that nobody actually reads my blog I write fearlessly. Some times the posts are so silly that I would have been embarrassed if some one actually read it.

Any way I go back to my old posts from time to time and have a good laugh about them. Nothing is the best thing that has happened to my blog.

It could be true. But I haven't found any other chess website that does that. Anyway what is more interesting to me is that lichess is an open source application and the core devs are taking feedback from the community and implementing new ideas.

And at least for chess tactics it has replaced chess.com for me.