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by commondream 13y ago
I'm the other co-founder of Treehouse. It's something that Ryan enacted back in the Carsonified days, but it's worked amazingly well and is just something we've always done. Company folklore has it that Gill, Ryan'
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by commondream 14y ago
Totally agree. I don't know that time or even refinement is what makes a great story. Yeah, the certainly don't hurt, but if you tell me the most amazing story ever and it's a little sloppy, I'm still probably going to think it's the most a
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How I Wrote a Book in 3 Days(blog.teamtreehouse.com)
53 points by commondream 14y ago|46 comments
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Paul Irish talks about his motivation, projects, and front-end dev complexity(teamtreehouse.com)
2 points by commondream 14y ago|0 comments
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by commondream 14y ago
That's a great idea! I'll talk to our team about us possibly taking that on next.
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by commondream 14y ago
I work between 32 and 35 hours each week. I think about Treehouse a ton more (if I'm not asleep I've probably thought about Treehouse in the past couple of minutes), and answer email from time to time, but I don't know anyone who doesn't do
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by commondream 14y ago
When it comes to keeping the service running, there's always one person on call. We're really flexible on our team about hours, so if you need to do something on Saturday night you can cut out a little early a different day - honestly if yo
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by commondream 14y ago
At Treehouse at various times we've had quite a few developers use their Friday for personal projects, but they just develop their own open source and personal projects on their own time on Friday (or whenever they choose to work on them du
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by commondream 14y ago
I'm a member of the product team at Treehouse, and was employee #3. We don't go around talking about the 4 day work week because it's something that we think is a great gimmick that we were fortunate enough to be able to pull off because we
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by commondream 14y ago
That's correct - product for us includes development, design, and support.
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by commondream 14y ago
As someone with access to the Treehouse's real hiring board I can say that those aren't real names :)
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Coda's Logo, from v1 to v2(twitter.com)
1 points by commondream 14y ago|0 comments
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by commondream 14y ago
I'm on the product team at Treehouse and wanted to comment on a few of the things you mention here. Not everyone at Treehouse takes a lunch hour, but most of us do. I usually spend 30-45 minutes on lunch every day. A lot of our team at the
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by commondream 14y ago
I'm late to the party, but I figured I'd share how I work as a member of our product team to give a quick example of the flex in our schedule. I work 6-6:45AM (usually answering email, including personal email and catching up with what happ
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Tconsole: Testing Console for Rails(github.com)
2 points by commondream 15y ago|0 comments
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Creating the Next Generation of US Employees. My Investment in Treehouse(bothsidesofthetable.com)
2 points by commondream 15y ago|1 comments
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by commondream 15y ago
I'm mainly curious why Google isn't going after some sort of bytecode for browsers, and then building a language on top of that. That would let developers use the language that works best for them, and would really open things up for new la
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Prototyping with the Browser Stack(speakerdeck.com)
2 points by commondream 15y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Proper JSON Property Naming(commondream.net)
3 points by commondream 15y ago|2 comments
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Avoiding data detectors in HTML Email with iOS's Mail.app(commondream.net)
1 points by commondream 15y ago|0 comments
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Think Vitamin Membership's CSS3 course is now free(membership.thinkvitamin.com)
7 points by commondream 15y ago|0 comments
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Art and the Web: Line(thinkvitamin.com)
26 points by commondream 15y ago|5 comments
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Hopefully Sunny(hopefullysunny.com)
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by commondream 15y ago
He took it at a college as part of a program where kids got to take a few college courses while still in high school. We didn't have any computer science while I was in high school, and my family didn't own a computer until halfway through
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by commondream 15y ago
The way pleasure factors into great software development is super interesting to me. I don't think you can be a great programmer (and I have to say I have no clue where I'll fit on the scales of developer skills) without loving what you do,
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What Makes A Great Programmer?(thinkvitamin.com)
107 points by commondream 15y ago|37 comments
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by commondream 15y ago
I was thinking of the cycle that startups typically go through in trying to discover what makes their business tick as I wrote the article, but you're completely right that it's also applicable to pretty much any company on the web. I think
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Advanced Google Analytics for Startups(thinkvitamin.com)
155 points by commondream 15y ago|19 comments
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by commondream 15y ago
Dude, you're rewinding all the work I've done on trying to tell others how amazing and friendly the web community in Greenville is. How about some substantial examples about Carsonified's bad advice instead of just trashing us?
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by commondream 16y ago
We just rolled out a fix. Sorry about that.

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