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by davidbalbert 13y ago
My JavaScript isn't great, so I'm ignoring prevent-default?, but you can probably do something like this: (defn events [object type] (let [out (chan)] (.addEventListener object type (fn [e] (put! out e))) out))
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by davidbalbert 13y ago
Fixed. Thanks for pointing it out.
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Hacker School User's Manual(hackerschool.com)
149 points by davidbalbert 13y ago|39 comments
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by davidbalbert 13y ago
I don't know enough to say if this will change the demographics of Hacker School. We'll presumably get a higher percent of applicants who know who Peter Norvig is than we've gotten before, but I don't think that's going to be the dominant f
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by davidbalbert 13y ago
Not at the moment. Most of the interesting stuff that happens at Hacker School would probably not translate well to video.
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by davidbalbert 13y ago
We're looking for people of all experience levels. Our goal is to make Hacker School the best place to improve as a programmer no matter what level you're at. We've had a number of Ph.D.s and postdocs in various subjects including CS go thr
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by davidbalbert 13y ago
The short answer is because we were living in New York when we started Hacker School. As to why we were living in New York, I can only answer for myself, but here you go: I grew up here (city and suburbs), most of my family still lives in t
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by davidbalbert 13y ago
Unfortunately admissions decisions are final for this batch. I'm sorry this felt like rubbing salt in the wound :(. On the bright side, as long as you continue to improve as a programmer, you can apply for the next batch, hopefully with dif
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by davidbalbert 13y ago
We're working through applications as quickly as we can, generally in the order that we got them. You're guaranteed an admissions decision by May 17th, so you should hear back about your application well before then.
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by davidbalbert 13y ago
One thing to add to this: It very well might be worth applying to this batch. Even if you don't get in, We'll get to see how much you grew as a programmer on your own between batches. If we have this information during admissions, we put a
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by davidbalbert 13y ago
Hi, I'm one of the founders of Hacker School. I'm happy to answer questions that anyone might have.
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New residents and sponsors(hackerschool.com)
5 points by davidbalbert 14y ago|0 comments
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by davidbalbert 14y ago
It looks like OP it's just a founder profile. The company's home page[1] is much closer to what you would expect. I was initially thrown off too, though. [1] http://wevorce.com/
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List Comprehensions in Eight Lines of Clojure(hackerschool.com)
109 points by davidbalbert 14y ago|41 comments
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by davidbalbert 14y ago
Thanks. I was first exposed to this in Zed's Learn C the Hard Way: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ . I think it's quite handy.
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Understanding C by learning assembly(hackerschool.com)
188 points by davidbalbert 14y ago|66 comments
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by davidbalbert 14y ago
I think you're largely correct, but you're probably underestimating how much societal pressure goes into making things this way. Parents taking away the rocket ship is just the tip of the iceberg. Not only are young girls pushed away from s
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Show HN: A Ruby script to generate (cheap) quines in other programming languages(github.com)
2 points by davidbalbert 14y ago|0 comments
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by davidbalbert 14y ago
I do it a lot also. I try to catch myself, but I only succeed part of the time. One of the best things I've done was giving it a name thanks to Miguel's blog post. With a name, others can call me out for doing it ("did you just well-actuall
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by davidbalbert 14y ago
I think programmers generally care too much about correctness at the expense of feelings, community, and personal relationships. Very often correcting someone is really about showing how smart you are. While I wasn't at the event in the art
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by davidbalbert 14y ago
This is a touchy subject. I think this kind of behavior is very counterproductive and we (programmers) seem to do it a lot. It's something that needs to be talked about and fixed. Miguel de Icaza wrote a great blog post about "well-actually
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by davidbalbert 15y ago
Unfortunately, there's no real answer to this. If you're good, you won't have trouble finding a job, but that's a question only you can answer. I plan on writing a longer post about this later, but the best way to answer this for yourself i
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by davidbalbert 15y ago
We mean hacker in the pg ( http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html ) esr ( http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html ) sense of the word, namely an awesome programmer who loves learning, groks hacker culture, and self identifies as a hacke
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by davidbalbert 15y ago
We haven't done this primarily because we think you'll improve the most when becoming a better hacker is the top idea on your mind ( http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html ). Doesn't mean it wouldn't work though. Just maybe not as well. I'd lov
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by davidbalbert 15y ago
Thanks! It means a lot to hear such kind words. We'd love to have you apply :).
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by davidbalbert 15y ago
Agreed, but you have to start somewhere. I think one of the things that turns lots of people off from CS education, and programming in general, is how long it takes to get from just starting out to making something cool.
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by davidbalbert 15y ago
I don't think it's too early to apply for YC. We hadn't built anything when we applied (although we had spent a few weeks brainstorming ideas). We built our prototype between when we were accepted for interviews and when we actually intervi
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by davidbalbert 15y ago
Thanks for the kind words Zack! A quick correction: Hacker School application page is actually http://www.hackerschool.com/apply . If you just want to talk or are looking for a job, Zack's link is the way to go.
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What we’ve learned from Hacker School(dave.is)
75 points by davidbalbert 15y ago|18 comments
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by davidbalbert 15y ago
30 people, 10am to 8pm, Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, Feb 13 through May 3. Thanks!

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