davidbalbert

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   by davidbalbert 15y ago

   You don't necessarily have to have been coding for a long time. You just have to be smart, love programming, and be willing to learn. If you're not sure, apply anyway :)
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   by davidbalbert 15y ago

   Today is actually the first time I heard of both the bootcamp and Ars Digita University ( http://adiuni.org ). I'm going to spend a bunch of time looking at both of them. Thanks!
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   by davidbalbert 15y ago

   It's not necessarily vocation. It's just building things. Craft is the word I use in my head. I enjoy CS a lot, but I primarily want to be a better craftsman. CS is a useful tool for me to get better at my craft, but my primary interest is
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   by davidbalbert 15y ago

   Thanks. This is a big part of it. We'd love it if the end result was that we had put a few more good hackers out into the market.
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   by davidbalbert 15y ago

   Thanks for the kind words! Glad you like it.
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   by davidbalbert 15y ago

   Totally agree, but don't tell them. We want to do it first ;)
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   by davidbalbert 15y ago

   We have made an effort to make sure that Hacker School is not about startups and products. This is mostly from experience in prior batches: students who worked on producty or startupy ideas didn't get nearly as much out of the batch as stud
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   by davidbalbert 15y ago

   Thanks!
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   by davidbalbert 15y ago

   In our experience, computer science and programming are two different things. Being good at one, doesn't necessarily make you good at the other, but they are certainly complementary (computer scientists will tell you that programming is a t
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    by davidbalbert 15y ago

    So far, we have not generated any materials. If we do in the future, we'd absolutely love to put them online. I'd like to start video taping our guest speakers who we have from time to time and put those online. Just have to get our hands o
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    by davidbalbert 15y ago

    We don't sponsor visas or have any type of accreditation, but if you can figure out how to be in NYC for 3 months, you're more than welcome to apply.
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    by davidbalbert 15y ago

    This is exactly how we see it, in a lot of ways. We hope that we're creating value that wasn't there before (I think we are), and we would be very happy destroying stupid hiring rituals. It's also the reason that we're not charing for it ri
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    by davidbalbert 15y ago

    Thanks for the kind words. It means a lot.
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    by davidbalbert 15y ago

    Just a bit. The basics of control flow, algorithmic thinking, etc. You should be comfortable writing and running code. Honestly, the most important thing is how fast you learn and how much you love programming. In previous batches we've ac
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    by davidbalbert 15y ago

    Thanks for the kind words Richard!
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    by davidbalbert 15y ago

    We'd be happy to have him.
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    by davidbalbert 15y ago

    It's where we live :). Maybe in the future we'll do it in SF/SV too, but building Hacker School takes time so it would be quite some time before that happened if at all.
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    Hackruiter (YC S10) Launches Hacker School(techcrunch.com)

    174 points by davidbalbert 15y ago|81 comments
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    Running Erlang Webmachine on Heroku(zianet.dk)

    48 points by davidbalbert 15y ago|5 comments
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    by davidbalbert 15y ago

    I just watched the author's tutorial video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKJC6cqdGdE ). It's clear that he's a musician. It's fascinating when people with a deep expertise in another subject can also write code. Makes me wish I had a de
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    by davidbalbert 15y ago

    The Ksplice blog is one of my all time favorite programming blogs. I am very happy it's back. If you haven't seen it before, it's well worth looking at the archive. In question 2 I got tripped up because I assumed sizeof(int) == 8 on a 64 b
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    by davidbalbert 15y ago

    Honestly, it's a little of both.
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    by davidbalbert 15y ago

    I am so excited about this! Watching other people use vim has been the most valuable part of my vim education. I think this is going to be a great venue for it. Edit: I'm also clueless when it comes to vimscript. It would be nice to see som
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    by davidbalbert 15y ago

    You got it. That's what I was going for.
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    by davidbalbert 15y ago

    This was exactly what I was getting at. I found that I didn't learn a lot in the classes that I wasn't interested in.
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    by davidbalbert 15y ago

    I'm not trying to say that CS degrees aren't valuable. Just that being a programmer and Computer Scientist are different things. Just because many great hackers are also Computer Scientists doesn't imply that they were great hackers because
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    by davidbalbert 15y ago

    I know many great hackers who studied CS too, but almost none of them are great programmers _because_ they studied CS. They had to become great programmers on their own.
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    A hacker's guide to college(dave.is)

    153 points by davidbalbert 15y ago|109 comments
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    by davidbalbert 15y ago

    Pythonbrew installs multiple versions of python and manages your path so you can switch which ones are active. I have only played around with it a bit, but the combination of Pythonbrew and Virtualenv should be approximately the same as rvm
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    by davidbalbert 15y ago

    Looks like their blog is down too ( http://blog.ksplice.com ). This was by far one of my favorite blogs. Good, long, articles about kernel hacking. I hope it comes back up soon and isn't gone for good.