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by darrellsilver 13y ago
This is great! I love tools that help you understand tough concepts in a simple, no setup way. We'll definitely include this in our curricula at http://www.thinkful.com/ Would love to talk about other ways to work toge
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In Defense of Coders(blog.ledwards.com)
10 points by darrellsilver 13y ago|0 comments
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
I disagree – customer support doesn't start with the person on the phone with the customer, it ends there. When a company designs a process where the person on the phone isn't empowered to effect change that person is guaranteed t
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
The same thing happened to us as http://www.thinkful.com/ , only it took 18 hours to come back! Customer support was hilariously useless as well: "Yes, happens to everyone." "No, there's nothing we can do
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
The best part of this post is definitely "candi_awesome1988@yahoo.co.uk" from "BUT MY COUSIN’S NEIGHBOUR SAID…"
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
Oh, that's really awesome.
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
Awesome book. I think we used this book in my CS days, but would have to check my notes. Well timed post as well: We're adding more on programming fundamentals to our course at http://www.thinkful.com/
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
This is a great list! To teach front-end web development at http://www.thinkful.com/ we also sometimes use http://prework.flatironschool.com/
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The world is stupider thanks to Decoded's promise of learning in a single day.(siliconrepublic.com)
2 points by darrellsilver 13y ago|0 comments
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
Love the "RSS activity feeds" feature the OP mentions toward the bottom of this post.
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
The best book on hiring, no doubt, is Who: http://www.amazon.com/Who-The-A-Method-Hiring/dp/0345504194 We used it to build our hiring process for http://www.thinkful.com/ and it consistently prove
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
I disagree. I found the tutorial for beginners really well done and when followed by the conceptual model it was solid. We're thinking of integrating them into our course at http://www.thinkful.com/ – though we provide
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
Mostly because it's not productive. Ideas, especially early ones, are malleable and changing. Saying it "Sucks" is like building a brick wall. Instead you want to ask something that illuminates the way so the idea improves. T
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The Bitcoin Believers(ft.com)
10 points by darrellsilver 13y ago|0 comments
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The Bitcoin Believers(ft.com)
1 points by darrellsilver 13y ago|0 comments
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
I guess we're in this together: At the least, there's gotta be a way to up the "getSearchRecords" API quota limit from a measly 250. We asked if we could _buy_ more and were told flat out "No." I can understand
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
That's an elegant response, I gotta say. But here's a post on your forums about the back button not working from _5 years_ ago: https://forums.zoho.com/topic/back-button I chose Zoho for our team, and as we g
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
Neat article, but deeply undermined by zoho's mediocre execution in their crm product. The data model and search are solid, but the ui is wildly buggy (the back button doesn't work!) and the API is slow, missing features and poorl
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
Yeah – This was too quickly worded. What I'm saying is that these middle-size companies are too large to be seen as sexy startups that can make you millions, yet still too small to provide the mentorship needed for jr talent. One or two jr
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
Sorry – should be more clear: What I mean to say is that there isn't a fixed definition of becoming "an engineer." One's level of expertise and proficiency is defined by the hirer... It's not for me to judge, especially in the abstract, wha
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
The irony of James' point – that engineers are in such high demand because of how cheap it is to start a startup – is that engineering salaries are actually being prevented from going up as a result. There's too little supply of qualified e
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The Future of Developer Education with Avi Flombaum, Dean of The Flatiron School(blog.thinkful.com)
6 points by darrellsilver 13y ago|1 comments
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
Exactly. Specifically because deep understanding of what works, what doesn't and connections are the drivers of strategy. Aptitude is crucial for execution, but that's not the VC's job.
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
Now working on http://www.thinkful.com/ this one stands out as spot on and often ignored: 10. Growth solves (nearly) all problems. I'm amazed at the number of people who don't understand the difference between improving conversion of peo
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
After 10 years in the workforce it seems to me the most important thing to focus on is getting a job that'll give them exposure to new things. Our students at http://www.thinkful.com often find themselves a couple years out of school, lan
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
Agreed. Just after college is the time in your life when you're freest to take the biggest risks. However, way too many people are saddled with crazy college debt that the only logical option is to "play it safe." An unfortunate dynamic. At
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
That's not fair. Unlike many areas of software engineering, web development uses a long list of technologies interchangeably. This set (HTML, CSS, js, rails, some db, lamp, aws, etc) is a mix of languages and platforms. A "full stack develo
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
Ah – gotcha. It's interesting: We do get asked about the qualifications of the mentors by students before they start the class. But degrees and accreditation rarely matter. What we've learned is that people want to be taught by those with e
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
Are you talking about credentialing for the student or for the mentors?
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
Wow - that's great to hear. I'm too embarrassed to put our company's URL in this comment because it'd be too obviously advertising. But man, are we doing exactly what you're asking for!

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