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On Sparta by Plutarch is an amazing book about the Spartan civilization

That documentary is awesome. Probably the best player ever and an unique character

Time is the most important thing that exists, it's sad to see people promoting this lifestyle. The most problematic it's that some Chinese millionaires are buying/investing in companies across Europe, and probably sooner than later they'll try to force that culture in European companies

It's nice to see so many electronic music fans in HN

I already worked in Marketing in the banking industry and a lot of times I felt that we were trying to sell products that weren't always of the best interest or useful for clients at that moment of their lifecycle.

But I imagine that the feeling was even worse for the sales team, that it needed to deal directly with clients and hit monthly and quarterly targets

Probably nowadays Instagram is the medium that shows more "ads", considering the number of users that publish "promoted" content. It reminds me those fashion magazines that show like 130 pages of ads in 150 pages.

It's kinda sad to see people promoting stuff in exchange for some free samples, just so they can call themselves "influencers". I'm wondering if people are not getting tired of all of this fakeness.

"Then there are the work schedules. The Silicon Valley natives were introduced to the Chinese start-up concept of 996: Work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. Once they got over their shock, they had to ask: Does that punishing schedule make sense? “I’m not worried so much about my portfolio companies not working as hard as the Chinese companies,” said Mr. Chan, now a partner at Felicis Ventures. “I’ll worry when they’re less creative and less efficient.”"

This is scary

Underground Resistance was an amazing collective

I think that so far a weak professional league it's one of the main factors. Yes they're being able to hire some good players and coaches, but they go there because of the money and don't are at the top of their game. For example, Andre Villas Boas left the chinese club he was coaching in order to participate in Dakar rally. That would never happen if he was coaching a european club.

Investing in youth academies will be the best path to achieve a comparative level to some european leagues.

It would be interesting if they are already doing this and for how long, because we don't see any significant results yet.

I'm wondering how the ICO craze impacted Telegram MAU. Most of the ICOs focus their community management efforts on Telegram, and a lot of them have a huge number of members, more than 50k in some situations

I think a lot of people invested just because FOMO

I'm asking the same thing, never heard of him until know

Nice tip. I've started this course a couple of days ago: https://www.kadenze.com/courses/introduction-to-programming-...

I think I'm going to do that one next

Hey José, I also sent an email a couple of weeks ago and didn't received any reply

Thanks, that's a great suggestion

When it comes to checking cryptocurrencies prices, I usually rely on CoinMarketCap. The main problem is that the page is bloated with ads (ICOs that I don’t care, etc), so I decided to create a quick & simple lo-fi solution, focused on to be easier to scan content on the go and save data consumption on mobile.

There are a lot of people who often checks CoinMarketCap so I decided to share Crypto Lite, maybe it can be useful to some :)

Any feedback is welcomed

The workers that discriminate older people forget that one day they're also going to have 50 or 60?

I’ve been following what’s happening in the cryptocurrency world since 2013 and as ecosystem is grows each passing day, especially after the Ethereum release, with amazing new projects like Decentraland, Golem, district0x and others, I’m seeing more and more interesting job opportunities in this area. So I’ve decided to create this simple job board focused on the cryptocurrency industry.

As the board grows in terms of offers I plan to add more features: filters, search, etc

I hope it will be useful to some members of HN. And I would love to have some feedback.

Thanks :)

Hi everyone, I just created this Twitter Bot that shares some wacky conversations in an imaginary world where two Emojicons met in a bar.

Any feedback is welcomed. Thanks (ง ͡ʘ ͜ʖ ͡ʘ)ง

So this is kind of a tablet, but with voice as main UI

I received it too

What about a side project that isn't heavily related with tech? Which are your passions or hobbies outside work? Maybe one of them can lead you to a niche market. You can also share your professional knowledge. Do you like teaching or writing?

Interesting to see a VR company working fully remote

Hi everyone,

I’ve made a small compilation with some of the most interesting pdf’s I’ve found on Hacker News and around the web.

I would love to receive some suggestions and more pdf’s to add to the collection.

Thanks.

I agree, in the "heat" of the moment nobody remembers if the video end up being shared with somebody else without consent.

I think that probably the Champions League, World Cup and Euro Cup final have much more viewers than the Super Bowl.

I agree, in most part of Europe is possible to live better with less, compared with USA.

I think it's a bit insane that a lot of companies in USA doesn't allow parental leave, pressure employers to don't take any vacations, etc etc

I agree, the chat aspect is probably the less valuable of a chatbot. It's much more efficient using quick replies and buttons

This is an amazing concept, so raw. I love it

Hi Dhruv, thanks for being available to answer some questions. Do you think that someone from a design background with some JS experience is able to do this course?