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by dlf 15y ago
+1 for Udacity. I'm using it now. It's really well thought out and reinforces learning through exercises after each short 3-4 min section of instruction. They use Python for the building a search engine course (CS101), which is a fine (some
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by dlf 15y ago
The conventional wisdom (i.e. big, fat lie) that you'll hear repeated when you're in high school is that you have to go straight to college out of high school or you'll never do it. It's completely bogus. I rushed college and grad school. I
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Learning by Hacking(overnumerated.com)
5 points by dlf 15y ago|0 comments
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by dlf 15y ago
As a startup, you're resources are extremely constrained. Your most constrained resource is time, esp when you have customers. The hard fact is that you really can only focus on one idea, so make the most of it and pick the one that you're
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by dlf 15y ago
I like the edit. Anyone that would stop working on their startup because they didn't get funded by YC or TechStars probably shouldn't be doing a startup in the first place.
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by dlf 15y ago
+1 ...more importantly, it's probably the only way to beat the chicken/egg problem mentioned above.
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by dlf 15y ago
I like it, but it has my location wrong by about 50 miles. There absolutely needs to be a way to enter the local address.
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by dlf 15y ago
As a programming noob, I feel like I learned as much in a day on Udacity as I learned in a month left to my own devices using Khan Academy, The New Boston, and other online materials. The fact that they show the immediate application of wha
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by dlf 15y ago
Does anyone know how Stripe handles this? They say they store cards, but I wonder if they do store cards themselves or use a vault provided by the payment gateway as well.
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by dlf 15y ago
Ditto on "Code." As a non-programmer learning to program, it was everything I needed to know to wrap my head around how everything actually works.
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by dlf 15y ago
andbang.com is new (i found it on HN) and dead simple. it's what i use most. podio is great if you need something more powerful and customizable.
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by dlf 15y ago
Yeah, it's great. It is already being done, but that doesn't mean there's not room for more competition. You could probably outsource the printing and I still think the coffee house crowd is the right demographic for charitable advertisemen
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by dlf 15y ago
Haha. Yeah I noticed it right after I posted. I did read the entire blog post though before commenting. I didn't realize they did online advertising until after I went to the main website. I guess I was misled by the coffee cup with what lo
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by dlf 15y ago
I like the idea of advertising on coffee cups in general, and I think the coffee house crowd is a good target demographic for charities. I'm curious, however, why you chose to operate as a non-profit catering to a niche charity market rathe
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by dlf 15y ago
You said "Other institutions in the 'diploma business' will surely peek and try to keep up and I do not see or understand the benefit for Harvard, Stanford et al. if we are not talking altruistic purposes." My response was on the point of w
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by dlf 15y ago
I think the prestige of a university is tied more to the quality of their research, their legacy as an institution and the reputation of instructors they attract (which need not have anything to do with actual ability to instruct) than the
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by dlf 15y ago
It's European ;-) But no. As far as I can tell it's Pinterest. Maybe they're hoping to get acquired?
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by dlf 15y ago
I'm in, of course!
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by dlf 15y ago
Thanks for the excellent feedback! I'm in Boston as well. I'd be interested in grabbing a coffee sometime if you're up for it.
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Ask HN: How long does the programmer hiring cycle last at your company?
3 points by dlf 15y ago|2 comments
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by dlf 15y ago
Thanks, Zed! I've been working through Learn Python the Hard Way, but I think getting this stuff under my belt first will help.
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by dlf 15y ago
Yeah, I've seen it. It looks like a nice suite. Are you part of Fog Creek?
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by dlf 15y ago
Absolutely. I just haven't looked at it since about August and didn't think to use it in my local city, but it seems to work pretty well here in Boston. I'm heading down to Buenos Aires for a couple of months in January, so I'll test it out
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by dlf 15y ago
I've taken to telling people about other startup ideas I have that I may or may not ever work on because I know that they would likely approach the problem differently than I would and any idea will likely change drastically if you're doing
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by dlf 15y ago
Hey, I'm a little late to the party but I created a page on my blog of the process I used to learn HTML & CSS. You can check it out here: http://dlfrancisco.posterous.com/pages/learn-code Enjoy!
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by dlf 15y ago
How do you find Asana fits in with the other tools you use in your development process?
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Ask HN: Best project management app geared towards developers
9 points by dlf 15y ago|17 comments
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by dlf 15y ago
Looks better than anything I've seen yet. I'll transfer a domain tomorrow to get a better feel for it. Thanks for the free credit.
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by dlf 15y ago
Wait a minute... that might be problem. I edited the text and deleted the repeat cities, but it still posted "Boston and Boston." That may be worth looking into.
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by dlf 15y ago
Ha. Just found something kind of hilarious. I can make it think that I'm exploring the same city many times over. So, if I actually shared it, it would say "I'm exploring Boston, Boston, and Boston..." Not a major issue, but it could get we

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