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He is rich, and makes people rich. All the kids starting their tech company want to suck up to the man with the golden touch.

Apply on LinkedIn, get a job. Make sure you have a photo. We don't do the whole 'no photo on cv' thing here.

If you want a boost, check out the Finland IT program. They pretty much want a bunch of developers and IT people to move there, and it's an official govt. program. If you want, you can get citizenship in a couple years and become an EU citizen

I consider vim and Emacs to be the same thing with different shortcuts. I have no desire to learn either.

Have a creative outlet that is not digital. I paint. You can paint too, a lot of things in fact. Oil on canvas, watercolours, acrylics on miniatures (historical, fantasy, sci-fi, busts). It's a wonderful thing. I don't feel like sitting in front of a computer ever, so I bring this desire to motivate me in building SaaS products that might one day give me a passive income. Build a dozen, if each make 200 a month that's already a good amount. Right?

'Vim for everything' mentality requires a high degree of autistic behaviour in my opinion. I'm just not there on the spectrum.

Windows Explorer is terrible. I used Norton Commander>windows commander>total commander>double commander my whole life. It's as fast as your keyboard gets. I cringe when I see people navigating files I'm Explorer.

Ask the developers of Insync, UKUU and Aseprite.

They sell licences via their sites, with activation codes or Google authentication.

But if you want to make a living, I suggest making a Linux phone oriented application store first and foremost, and figuring out the DRM that way. Developers will come if an ecosystem is built for easy deployments and selling software.

I know someone who freezes on trips in other countries when she enters an underground station and the map stops responding. She just doesn't understand why the magic stopped working. She is so dependant on Google maps that she doesn't trust herself anymore. I tried to explain GPS and satellites, but she is dense.