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Re:PDF Resume Builder on Friday September 04, 2015 @01:03AM (#10168886)
Editing skills is a little buggy.

Tried adding 1, OK. Added another...both added skills are now "NEW SKILL".

that's actually what I ended up going with : )
Definitely a parody

Ask HN: Best cross platform mobile SDK for simple apps / rapid development?

I know there are many SDKs, and I have boiled my choice down to a select few: phonegap, appcelerator, ionic, and maybe xamarian (but it's pretty pricey).My use case is pretty simple: talk to a middleware server and implement about 4 features with different sets of json data. What's the platform that will allow me to get this out the fastest (ideally a month to 8 weeks)?The app does have to be...

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Re:Ask HN: How did you deal with depression? on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @02:05PM (#9931266)
I had pretty bad depression for my whole 3rd year as an undergrad, and the only thing that has helped me is making changes when things weren't working.

The hard part is that you don't want to make any changes, you just want to be sad (at least I did).

What I did was lighten my course load and try to do some stuff for fun. This meant doing more development for fun, seeing friends more often, having more new experiences, more exercise.

It's not easy, but it's worth it. Give it time, and on the really bad days, just know you're not alone and it gets better.

So make one and then try to migrate existing users over if you want that community.

Ask HN: How did you build your first real side project?

I'm looking for success stories on how you went from 0 to implemented, maintainable project to serve as fodder for my own project building.In the past, I've read books on development (in C++, PHP, etc), but it doesn't seem to help all that much. I've started this time by using a book as a guide but diverging quickly to implement my own features. I'm a bit upset with my pace of development, as...

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