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If he made $200 in less than a minute would you say he's making close to $9M?

Meh, another heavily search engine optimized article from an affiliate. I skimmed throught it, but one particular thing caught my attention:

> Initially, for pulling photos from my Canon 5D Mark III, I went running back to my old MacBook Pro. Over time, I've had to do that less and less. Now that I have an iPhone 7 Plus, I haven't gone back to my Canon once.

This is just ridiculous. How you can compare a high grade professional DSLR to an iphone? He's either lying about owning 5Dm3 or just spent heaps of money on something he doesn't need.

Found them online and applied via e-mail :)

It depends what do you mean by that. I don't think you can actually learn something just by watching other people doing it, but online courses are a good start. I started to learn programming from an online Ruby on Rails course, then I created my first website (something like 9gag) and landed my first job after a couple of months. It happend to be a small company that has later created a mobile app that we managed to scale from 0 to over 100M users. I was even a main backend guy in there for some time. So yeah, watching videos might definitely be a good start, but I'd say the actual "learning" is a long process and requires lots of attention.

I guess it all depends on what you understand by the quality of life. If you are talking about a high purchasing power you get in exchange for your work then US is second to none, at least according to my research. I might be wrong, because I've never lived in US myself, but I was based in both Europe and Asia and it seems to me that IT salaries vs taxes and costs in your country can get you much further than in other places.

Nonetheless, there are still some spots with decent wages like London (particularly strong in fintech, but there's also lots of startups), Ireland (if you prefer to work for a branch of an American big-co), Singapore and Hong Kong if you'd like to change your environment entirely or even Australia. It all depends on your experience and selling skills though, as in most these places outside of US the difference between a senior's and junior's salary might determine your ability to rent a 3-room apartment vs a 100 square feet room in a shared-house with 8 flatmates :)

Most importantly, choose a place that you have a genuine interest towards. The rest doesn't really matter that much. If you pick a crowdy place you'd get a lower life quality in terms of purchasing power and living space, but higher from a cultural/social point of view and more job opportunities as well, so yeah, that's your tradeoff.

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We're also building iOS and web versions now and all of us developers working on the app are weightlifters with 3-10 years of experience :) Please take a look at it and tell me what you liked and what you didn't. Thanks

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While I agree with most of what you wrote, I also understand where it all came from. We have a handful of browsers which all implement w3c guidelines in their own way and there's no single de-facto standard of how one should write for web. Yet we write milions of different websites and they have to be properly displayed on at least a couple of popular browsers, no matter how bad they interpret the guidelines.

Yes JS is a major pain in the a and there are loads of various packages achieving the same things floating around, there's no agreement regarding which package manager to use and everybody uses different implementation or wrapper (es6, es7, typescript, flowscript, coffee), but if you look around you can find solutions that are actually really helpful to manage the mess. It helped me a lot when I started to write JS in a OOP fashion utilizing dependency injection and MVVM. The real trick is to realize which technology is really helpful and which is just bloat. I don't think this is much different from the backend programming.

In terms of CSS it's a whole world on its own and I keep repeating that managing it properly is well underestimated. It requires making lots of predictions about how you might extend your site in the future. Luckily, there is also plenty of great reusable boilerplates made by very smart people like bootstrap or materializecss. Bootstrap did change a lot how we write and think about our styles. Btw, leave classes for styling and use ids for js instead.

Finally, I don't agree with your opinion on HTML at all. It's super simple and you can build anything with it. I have learned the basics and built my "home page" when I was 12. These days kids are probably building sites before they even go to school. Also, as mentioned above you have to fit dozens of different browsers and hundreds of thousands of various devices. I find building UIs on iOS and Android not much easier, even though you build for a single system. Nonetheless I'm waiting to see how people could improve building UIs in the future, without falling into "everything looks and feels like wordpress" kinda world.

Is it just me or the author of this blog post has a very annoying way of writing? He keeps explaining things and then a couple of lines below he writes something like "remember the discussion above?" or "if you remember correctly ...". Hell, sure I remember, because I just read about this 10 seconds ago. Do people really have such a short attention span and can't remember what was in a previous paragraph? Repeating stuff over and over seems almost like content farming to me.

I am a big fan of the health & fitness guide that's in stickies on 4chan.org/fit and I'm serious :) Direct link:

http://liamrosen.com/fitness.html

Lots of good stuff on nutrition and training without BS.

Don't know where you guys come from, but I think you were incredibly lucky. If I remember correctly, the probability of getting one in my country was around 2%. I tried 5 or 6 times already, a couple of times together with my wife (who is from another country) and we haven't been that lucky.

> The future business leaders of America... fuck...

* Didn't know they need a visa to China.

* Paid $730 for 3 visas.

* Didn't know there's a border between HK and China.

* Didn't know there's a public transport in HK and didn't need to take cabs for 200 USD.

* Didn't know menus in China are in Chinese.

* Had to eat McD on their 4th day in Asia.

* Had McD again on day 5.

Hilarious story :)

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I've been working on web apps and servers for mobile apps with heavy traffic for the last 5 years. Spent 4 years in an American startup that develops one of the iOS TOP10 Photo/Video apps (100M+ users). Would love to work on some interesting problems with great devs and learn new stuff, no matter the stack or technology (AI, VR, drones and spaceships all welcomed). Early stage startups are fine too :)