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You should use the DB you need. Sometimes SQL is best, sometimes nosql. For me, the prime reason to use mongo is if I have data that I cannot structure before hand.

You can also follow those people on for example http://www.nou.nl/hn/user/cperciva

Because they are used to that by now. Maybe offer a basic version for free and premium addons for a fee? And in the future I suggest first asking some potential customers before making your product. Will save you some time. But did you ask ALL the people that might be a customer? And the are also other organizations besides schools and universities that need to make ID cards. Maybe they are interested. Or change you software a little and you might be able to apply it to another problem?

Nice. Two years ago made something similar to follow HN users on http://www.nou.nl/hn/

Yep. I saw them during a NY tech meetup event and liked the concept and happened to have stuff I needed storing. The site is great and service is great. I wanted to schedule a drop off for the boxes but they were booked that week. Problem was I was flying back to Europe that week and so really needed them to bring the boxes. They were very flexible and got someone to drop the boxes off before they made the usual rounds. Same for picking up the boxes a few days later. Definitely can recommend them!

What do you mean, when you say "I am depressed"? You mean the clinical/medical term described on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_(mood) ? If so, go to a psychiatrist immediately!

But if you just mean you are unhappy with your current situation, I would say (like the advice you already got) talk to your boss. Did you do that? If you are a procrastinator, why not start a side project you feel passionate about. Apparently you can work fast, so I would suggest doing more (like side projects or learn new programming stuff). Seems silly advice maybe, but I think it might help you. But, if you really don't like your job, don't stay just because you like the company or the colleagues. You can see the colleagues after work and in weekends.

In NYC there is a sort of similar startup: Makespace. You ask them for storage boxes and they bring those for free. You fill them and make an appointent to fetch them from your house. They then bring it to their storage facility. Fee per box. http://makespace.com/invite/4dA/

We do sometimes. We use Google Alerts with the names of our competitors as the keywords. And (seo)Moz for backlink tracking.

You can actually use the search API and you get the comment + article text and parent URL as the result.

I made a small web app 2 years ago to follow HN users: http://www.nou.nl/hn/

Example HN user page (where you can also find comment + parent): http://www.nou.nl/hn/user/pg

Not me, but I hope to still be hacking away when I am 60 or older. Maybe it is actually good for the brain to keep at it, I don't know.

Aha, ok. Let me rephrase then: if I want to make a site geared towards people who code, what is the best word to use in the domain name (coder, developer, etc)?

Besides maker projects I see that the R-Pi is many times used as a media center with XBMC.

Low. See all the same questions here on HN and in the texts on YC.

Well, Y Combinator of course :-) Depends on where in the USA you want to go. There are many programs. Though I think for some you might be to late to apply if you want to go in the summer.

Besides PHP, I would go for Python. Many startups ask for Python coders, so that would be handy. As for PHP: many big websites still use it (FB) and PHP is still being developed. And some say that PHP is made fun again because of the framework Laravel.

I just want to know what the dish is called, what's in it and what does it cost. A picture would be nice, but not really needed.

It depends on what you actually want to do with Bootstrap. Do you need it to quickly assemble a website just for prototyping and you are satisfied with the layout Bootstrap comes with? In that case: just read the Bootstrap manual and you will mostly be fine. But, if you want to make changes to the layout and have some more control, you better start of learning html and css (like all have said here).

I don't listen to anything. I like that more than listening to music.

Keep learning new stuff and make things just for the fun of it.

'Laravel: Code Happy' by Dayle Rees

Why just not pick one idea and make an MVP during your free time? Get some experience in making an MVP, marketing it, etc. Even if it does not amount to anything, you will have learned something about the proces which you can use for your next MVP.

Offshore will also be slower. Try pinging servers of them and compare them to yours. I think that is also important.

And yes, the IP location matters: http://youtu.be/keIzr3eWK8I

Except having some fun, please email his email address to the dozens of email address list CL scam websites so his email comes up when someone Googles him. This way you can prevent someone else from being scammed.

http://www.scriptlance.com/ http://www.freelancer.com/

What a great idea! I am very interested to see if I can really learn a language this way. Can I also enter text to be translated?

I think there is some base (like the founders) but the rest is a combination of factors. I don't think there is some recipe for success.

Oh by the way, I just visited AddThis and did you even check their site? https://www.addthis.com/get/sharing

They offer 3 vertical styles!

There are many Wordpress plugins that do this (eg http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sharebar/ or http://www.designchemical.com/lab/demo-wordpress-slick-socia... or many others ). Just copy the code and paste in your website.

What I don't know, is if you can choose the permissions. So maybe this is standard with Twitter oAuth. I know with the Facebook one you can choose which permissions you want to ask the user.

I was going to sign up but the Twitter oauth asked me things to approve that I am wondering if you are really using or need. Like authorizing your web app to change my profile and read my DM. Is your web app changing profiles or reading DM? If not, skip that in the approval process.