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Pretty neat list, bookmarked for a personal project I am working on atm

I second this - but just be aware of the regular license vs. extended license requirement (i.e $20 vs $800 for example). Although if you get the point where you are charging for a product and need an extended license - that may not be a high price to pay for a quality theme you would probably spend 10-100 fold paying someone to create something similar.

What would you even do if you had more money?

I did that as well; I threw all the images afterwards up on a S3 bucket and set up Cloudfront in front and it's relatively easy / cheap to host.

Thanks for sharing. I just got married and did my own site - I forgot how time consuming even a regular HTML / CSS static site could be when you have a million other things going on - I would have loved to have used this.

I have!

I second this. I grew up in the NYC suburbs, have went to school and lived in various boroughs of NYC for the past 10+ years, and my wife was born and raised in NYC. I think most people not from here (and perhaps 'here' can be any big city one may just pass through when visiting in this context I guess) seem to forget it's as you say just a collection of small neighborhoods just like anywhere else. I am sure there is an exception (maybe Midtown Manhattan but) - but for the most part I think most people know their neighbors, help each other out, see the same people around when they got to a bar or get coffee, go to the same parks in their neighborhood - all the same things people think you may miss out on vs living in 'small towns.'

This is exactly how I feel.

I am currently working on a project for a client where they expect to have about 3,000 users each with some basic profile information, and the ability to upload some documents etc - nothing too crazy. I don't think they ever have to worry about scaling to 50,000 users and performing any data-intensive database queries. Why not use something like Mongo in this situation?

I second this. In addition to this, I've never had a problem with them, and their customer service is great.

I, a Junior now at a University in NY, have often have felt the same way as you. I've never liked school too much and probably won't really pursue anything related to my major, but I don't regret my decision to stick with it at all, due to one aspect: People.

Let's face it, college is fun. You'll probably have some amazing times and make some incredible and long-lasting friends along the way. Don't skip out on that because you know eventually you want to start/work for a startup. You will probably always be able to start a company, but can never really go back to school and enjoy it in the same way you can now.

Thanks for the advice everyone. I actually already started Learn Python the Hard Way about a week ago, so this works out great.

And thanks for the advice on the project, I will probably do as you suggested and start with some simpler projects and then expand into what I envisioned, after I get a grasp of MySQL, python etc.

Thanks again, and see you around HN.

One of my professors swears that "curling his toes" before he speaks calms his nerves. He's a little out there, but you never know.