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bengrunfeld
13y ago
Seriously? Validation has no meaning for me at all. If I can program something, then that is all the validation I need. Why don't you pay me the $40k a year for private education, and I'll buy you an account on Lynda for $25/month and tell
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bengrunfeld
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It's easy if you have 4 years of school to soak up knowledge. But if your family can't afford to pay your school fees, you end up working somewhere full-time. So you have to study nights. Except you fall in love and get married to a wonderf
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13y ago
You have to do it respectfully, but why hire someone who can't prove their worth. And it would have been funnier if you'd written "SaaSy" ;)
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Since I am in marketing and web development, I go through all of their online assets and their front-end code/design. So far, this technique has gotten me 3 good paying jobs, because I'm not trying to please them in the interview, I'm tryin
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I was married when I started my computer science degree. My wife let me get through my first year and then told me I had to get a job. So I did all of my studies on Lynda, focussing only on practical subjects like PHP and AJAX. Even though
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My method is to do a full analysis of their company, and then make a very nicely formatted doc listing everything that I thought was bad, and a full explanation of how I would improve it if I were hired there. Essentially, by using this tec
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13y ago
And that's why you go with Wordpress...
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If you think being an old engineer is tough, try being a new one.
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Because people great and small are afraid of programming. It is the big hidden terror inside of a circus box that grown-ups use to terrify children and village idiots. Serious applications seem so complex with their millions of lines of cod
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These are great tools, but I feel like they're lacking a big piece. Lynda.com is the industry accepted place to learn code and tech. Reaching from Git to Javascript to practically EVERY Adobe product, they organize excellent courses and pre
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Sounds pretty cool. I'm interested to see how buggy it is, cause some of their other features really are.
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As the saying goes, "Where there's profit, there's a way". If you feel that being in breach of Twitter's terms of service will get you shut down, you need to devote everything you've got to finding a solution where they don't can you, but y