jeffreymcmanus

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by jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
Because most consumers value a curated experience more and the cost of clicking from one site to the next is zero.
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by jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
I love the implication that there are only 13 kinds of consumer startups, as if nothing else could possibly exist. My reaction is to run screaming from anything on that list.
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by jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
This reads like a refutation of Mark Taylor's "Crisis in Higher Education," a new book that holds tenure and the organization of academic departments largely responsible for the declining quality of American universities. The Fox News angle
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by jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
We've been using http://getcashboard.com for more than two years. It's terrific. It does invoicing and a bunch of other stuff in addition to time tracking.
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by jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
Item 1 is public relations? Yeah, probably not.
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by jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
Which is actually not vital for doing a successful startup.
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by jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
The Height and nearby neighborhoods like Cole valley and inner sunset are fun, central and have plenty to do. That said there is no shortage of geek socialization opportunities (meetups, etc.) seemingly every night of the week.
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by jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
Yep. One of the causes of the global depression of the late 1920s is that governments did not intervene sufficiently forcefully when money supply seized up, and by the time they figured out what was going on it was too late. The Bush/Obama
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by jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
We have a Ruby course listed on the site already: http://codelesson.com/courses/view/the-ruby-programming-lang...
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by jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
The book is not the course.
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by jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
You assume every experience professional knows everything. :) There's no shame in taking an introductory course, even if you're a super genius in some other area. One thing that surprised us about our first CodeLesson course is that it was
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by jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
Sorry, I responded to your question in the wrong point in the thread. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1724883
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by jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
Some of our courses include pre-recorded screencast videos. I am teaching the CodeLesson PHP course right now and I use a few videos in my course. I don't know if Zed is planning on using any in his course but I don't think so. If we ever o
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by jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
You can propose a course here: http://codelesson.com/courses/suggest What topics would you like to see covered in a software engineering course? What kind of person would you like to see teach it?
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by jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
Now fixed for real :)
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There is a FAQ, actually: http://codelesson.com/faq
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by jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
I think I fixed the bad link; thanks for letting us know.
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by jeffreymcmanus 16y ago
I'm guessing that your written communication ability may be hurting you, career-wise and (thus) salary-wise. This stuff matters, even for geeks: communication is one of the big differences between being a cypher and a superstar.