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War and peace by Leo Tolstoy. I loved it because, among several other reasons, it masterfully portrayed flow of time, as in transformation of people over a long period of time.

- Never work on things that won't sell.

- Keep up with market trends.

- Strategize marketing/sales first, implement later.

Just finished "How to win friends and influence people?". A friend recommended "Crossing the Chasm" so will be picking it next.

Why not?

There's another thread going on with the same question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9400288

Some of the answers there are very interesting.

As for myself, I got a chance to help a local body of entrepreneurs to organize their meetup events. Working closely with them has helped me make more meaningful relationships than formal mentorship/advice requests to strangers.

Thanks @michaelpinto, your comment is helpful. I know some bits of project estimation, but I'm looking for some cohesive strategy that'd help us develop an operating rhythm. I'll read the book you suggested. Thanks for the pointers.

Thanks Michael. We live in same city, but how does taking off a day help in project management?

Please pardon my ignorance, I have just learned this term after realizing how well it explains 26 years of my life. Wikipedia defines the syndrome like this:

"Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger disorder (AD) or simply Asperger's, is an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests."

From this definition, I get the impression that "difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication" is what defines AS. I'm very curious to learn why you think it is overgeneralization.

Thanks for feedback, @Gustomaximus, it's certainly helpful. Yes, I understand it can't become a big hit, but I'm just hoping to bring it to a point where it is generating revenue to some good level of its total potential.

Thank you for offering your opinion for next ideas, I'll certainly get your view on one another thing we're building.

A new subreddit /r/UntouchablesOfHN?

anonymouslives: "What is your best personal financial advice for people who make under $100,000 per year?", thisisbillgates: "Invest in your education.". Trying to digest this bit when dropping-off to do startups is in fashion.

I would really like to know other folks opinions on this point mentioned by the author: "The web will persist and the web will win."

I'm also curious about this. Ideally I'd like to find an engine which allows to develop a game in browser and then port it into a mobile app. I found this link through Google which lists available JS/HTML5 engines: [https://github.com/bebraw/jswiki/wiki/Game-Engines]. It'd be great if anybody can make recommendations out of their experience.

I would still stick with jQuery because it lets me achieve more by writing less. Out of many things, just see triggering custom events. It'd be horrible if I'll have to write that piece of code again and again and make sure it's bug-free. And if I contain that long logic into a function for re-use, and use this approach for everything listed on the page, I'll end up writing my own library that I'll be including in each of my projects. Wait, why don't I use jQuery instead which is battle proven and better tested than my library ever will be?

Just found one more reason to be your fan, Zed!

I work long hours and I know it adds 0$/hour into my account. My motivation is to build a product that I can proudly add in my portfolio and it may help me tap bigger opportunities in future. I consider it as investment, and I am fully aware that, like other investments, it may turn out to be zero. But then every effort worth-doing in life is a gamble and nothing comes with assurities.

I couldn't get the second rule narrator suggests at the end of the video: "Don't have income rise faster than productivity because you'll eventually become uncompetitive."

Can someone explain it please?

When I went to uni, I had high expectations that I'll learn intellectual bases of different fields of knowledge, and will be taught how they relate to and improve human life. But my expectations were shattered very first day in the first calculus class when professor started explaining how to solve questions in first chapter of course book. Wait madam, what is calculus, how does it relate to me, what need was felt to invent it, what problems does it solve? My questions remained unanswered and I lost my faith in uni education.

I am usually finicky with content editors, but this one is very cool.

I am a full stack developer and currently live in Santa Clara. I would like to get in touch. My email is umar[dot]mughal2[at]gmail[dot]com

Yes, I just saw "Exploit Blackhat SEO (type 1720)" by AVG and the browser refused to show anything.

I like Pakistan map (https://github.com/djaiss/mapsicon/blob/master/asia/pk/1024....), thanks for adding my country :)

I just noticed that Gmail has reverted that cog icon and replaced it with good old envelope image. Power of an HN thread may be?

The suggested "Unread Message Icon" is even uglier than the cog. Reverting back!

Grooveshark has been my favorite online music player for last 3 years, but recently I have observed a lot of bugs on their site, which hinders smoooth experience and forces me to consider alternatives.

Looks like Android is the biggest beneficiary, in terms of market share, of the change triggered by iPhone. Of course it is an obvious fact, but this graph makes it visually clear.

"If you double the number of experiments you do per year, you're going to double your inventiveness."

gender: "male", name: { title: "mrs", first: "james", last: "ramirez" },

Never knew "mrs" can be used as a male title.

Exactly my point. In my experience, exceptions have helped me significantly reduce my code, increase readability and quicken bug tracking.

Why would you report him?