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Of course, when someone tells you his mother died and you smile like an idiot, it surely will not create a positive effect.

The way I understood OP, it seemed as if - in a normal setting - smiling would be frowned upon when talking to people in general in some places... which I find hard to believe.

I'd like to know the culture where smiling is seen differently. It is the global symbol of happiness and tells everybody on earth "i'm a friend" or at least "i'm friendly".

TIL I basically work for free. But then again, I hardly do any work, so it seems to even out in the end.

Since you have obviously figured this whole life-marketing thing out, what am I marketing when I am taking a shit or picking my nose?

Describing some project with phrases such as "built with love" or "from the ground up" really make me cringe.

Maybe you could also use the bootstrap labels for TODO states. That would look much nicer.

Not OP, but maybe because he's not using any of the vi stuff? He nowhere said he's using evil or anything. Just emacs.

What did you miss in org-mode that your tool is going to have? I can't think of anything, so I don't really know what benefits your tool provides compared to org-mode.

... like HN in a nutshell.

Using firefox? It's impossible to use, or even just scroll. Works in Chrome though. I suppose it is the star animations at the top of the page that bring firefox to its knees.

Actually, he doesn't even write that much about it. Apparently his decision to go to Berlin was made after asking 'his well-traveled friends' what they would suggest.

The rest his him praising himself...

Yeah, the author seems to be really full of himself. More than the half of the article is about him and how awesome he is.

All in all, I also even find the article to be very condecending.

Can you elaborate on why knockout is old and dated? It's HTML and JS, just like the others.

And compared to the bloat that is angular and especially ember, I find knockout strikes with simplicity and 'keeping-it-simple'.