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stopon Ask HN: Besides programming, what's a realistic "work from home" job?

Wow. This is awesome. Some great ideas here. I'd love to hear more if you've got them.

stopon Final Cut Pro update will be the “biggest overhaul” since the original

There's been a hell of a lot of updates of FCP the last few years. I'm not sure how much is relevant innovation and how much is simply a strategy for dealing with piracy.

stopon Ask HN: Besides programming, what's a realistic "work from home" job?

A friend of mine tried it and gave me the impression that, because you are competing with a worldwide remote workforce for work that does not require an on-site presence, translation work is extremely hard to come by, unless you have exceptional language skills.

stopon Tell me why I suck

Good point but I would say don't bother asking. The answer will be useless to you because you can't trust its authenticity. Only people inside the company will know the real reason and perhaps not even there.

stopon What Every Startup Can Learn From AirBnB

Even if I wouldn't like the company, however, I'd still consider it bad form to bring their ethics in question without any basis whatsoever.

That's why he explained clearly why is bringing their ethics into question:

To adverise net price and hide their fee until the very end and then smack it to the total just before you book is fucking disgrace, it's unethical, shady and disgusting business practice. (edited for spelling)

So, are you saying it's always out of bounds to question the ethics of a company - or only when you happen to like their business?

stopon Visualization: Movies Are Getting Worse

I'm inclined to think the 70s was the golden age of American cinema (Scorcese, Copolla, Cassavetes, etc).

stopon The obsession with next

Did they ever previously promote the idea that "next" for the sake of "next" was a good thing?

No one ever does that.