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pramiton Ask HN: Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your life?

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. For the language and the story. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. For the language and the story.

pramiton Ask HN: Share your personal site

mediavidea.blogspot.com

pramiton Ask HN: Share your side project

Good work. Is having text fields same as adding annotations?

pramiton Twilight of the Taj Mahal

Did you copy all this from some govt. website?

pramiton Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?

Created an online book cms, launched a series of career and self improvement guides, a food calorie burn calculator with a twist, a multipurpose heath stats calculator, and am currently finishing a small ecommerce platform as well as a small community for sharing polls etc.

pramiton Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?

My run at it: Running a news site (Bighow.com), selling an all-in-one skills guide (thesuccessmanual.in), and an educational quizzing tool (basicversity.com)

pramiton Ask HN: How do you create productive habits?

Shameless plug: The Success Manual https://www.thesuccessmanual.in/category/time-management-pro...

45 Things You Should Know About Being A Productivity Superstar http://www.thesuccessmanual.in/chapter/45-things-you-should-...

The 25 Most Useful Productivity Methods http://www.thesuccessmanual.in/chapter/the-25-most-useful-pr...

20+ Best Productivity Techniques For The Workplace http://www.thesuccessmanual.in/chapter/20-best-productivity-...

pramiton 500+ Free Places to Learn on the Web

May I suggest BasicVersity? http://basicversity.com Test and improve your basic knowledge of anything.

pramiton Ask HN: A novice programmer asks you for one educational resource

Basicversity - http://basicversity.com

pramiton HN Meetup, New Delhi

I would love to turn up.

pramiton Ask HN: What first aid classes would you recommend?

http://basicversity.com/quiz/first-aid-basics http://basicversity.com/quiz/first-aid-vocab

pramiton Ask HN: Book about startups?

Rules for Startups http://rulesforstartups - main points from 50+ books.

pramiton Ask HN: Hacker scene in New Delhi?

I am from Delhi. Working on a couple of smallish projects, including a small iPad application. Yes, I agree, it would be great to meet. Email: pramit.news at gmail.com ; twitter.com/pramit.

pramiton Geekli.st gets $600k to build a place for geeks to get noticed.

Sounds similar to Honestpage.com, where you can share things you want to be remembered for in life.

pramiton Ask HN: Best Books for Learning Web Design?

The Success Manual - contains summaries of some useful web design books. http://thesuccessmanual.bighow.com

pramiton Former GM exec, Bob Lutz: Fire the MBAs and let the engineers run the show

I have covered this 'MBA - good or bad' quite often in the past. http://thesuccessmanual.bighow.com

pramiton Techmeme vs Hacker News

The greatest difference b/w HN and Techmeme? It is the great quality of conversation between all you intelligent people out here.

What does Techmeme have? Just some Tweets?

pramiton What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?

The Success Manual - Actionable summaries from 200+ Most useful books. http://thesuccessmanual.bighow.com

pramiton Ask HN: If you could recommend only three management books...

Shamelss plug: The Success Manual - Contains concise actionable summaries from 200+ Greatest Business and Self-help books of all time. 600+ pages PDF $14.95

pramiton Why you shouldn't bother with an MBA

This is an issue we have discussed here at Hacker News. Shameless plug: I for one have tried to push the cause of No-Degree-MBA. For example, you have The Success Manual which contains actionable summaries from 200+ greatest business books self-improvement books of all time. http://thesuccessmanual.bighow.com

pramiton Ask HN: What skills do you think are necessary to succeed in life?

Being thankful for what you already have.

pramiton Ask HN: Any sales techniques I should learn for my business?

(free) The Superstar Salesman's Handbook: 150+ Greatest Tips on selling http://bighow.com/news/the-superstar-salesmans-handbook-150-...

pramiton Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why

The Success Manual http://thesuccessmanual.bighow.com - Contains concise summaries of 200+ most useful business and self-help books of all time.

pramiton Ask HN: Good books?

The 100 greatest books of all time everyone must read http://bighow.com/news/the-100-greatest-books-of-all-time-ev...

pramiton Ask HN: How do I teach myself better writing skills?

The Success Manual http://thesuccessmanual.bighow.com Has summaries from useful writing books, experts and great writers as well.

pramiton Ask HN: Who is currently broke due to being in a startup?

To fund my local news sharing website bighow.com, I sell The Success Manual, a compendium of business and self-help advice.

pramiton Why Startup Founders Should Stop Reading Business Books

A better bet is to read the distilled wisdom of all the best business books of all time - The Success Manual - something I helped edit - is one of them. Check it out at http://thesuccessmanual.bighow.com

pramiton Ask HN: The best university degree(s) for a budding entrepreneur/engineer?

Read The Success Manual - Summaries of 100+ greatest Business and self help books of all time http://thesuccessmanual.bighow.com

pramiton My Lousy College Experience With Computer Science

This is also a useful read, although about the viability of business education http://bighow.com/tags/doweneedmabs

pramiton Nicholas Negroponte: The Physical Book Is Dead In 5 Years

That is why I provide The Success Manual, (summaries of 100+ greatest business and self-help books) only in digital format. http://thesuccessmanual.bighow.com