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by jfarmer 14y ago
Caveat: I'm a co-founder of Dev Bootcamp ( http://devbootcamp.com ), so I have strong opinions. :D "The problem is this: somehow we mutated universities into a place where everyone goes in order to get a job." No, I don't think that's fair.
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Lots of larger firms participate in seed rounds with six-figure checks, as a kind of option on investing in the Series A. As the size of seed rounds comes back to Earth this will be less likely to happen.
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Notice how many people on this page expressed the exact same thing, though. Even if you change it to 3, people still won't know how to change it or even that it can be changed . Now "3" just seems like an arbitrary decision. Why 3? Why
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by jfarmer 14y ago
That's fair! I didn't understand the design considerations. The author should clarify those considerations, then. That would help me, the user, know what to expect and therefore avoid an unpleasant first-time experience. It would also he
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by jfarmer 14y ago
I think most people who type quickly anticipate the words they're going to type in the middle of a prior word -- I know I do. The "unit" of typing is something larger than a word. I think most typing tutors give you the words coming up to
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by jfarmer 14y ago
I totally agree. Dev Bootcamp gives out our own custom prep material about a month before a cohort starts. You're interacting with other students and staff online starting then. Our prep material covers everything from the basics of progr
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by jfarmer 14y ago
The school is located in SF, but only 50% of our students come from the SF Bay Area. 45% come from other parts of the US, and another 5% from other countries. We want to make DBC more affordable, but there are some very important things we
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Open and free access to high-quality curriculum is amazing, but I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that "in the future" education will be online-only, and certainly not in the short-to-medium term. There are so many things that go int
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by jfarmer 14y ago
In financial context, million is often abbreviated MM. It comes from the French word for thousand, mille . A million is a thousand thousand, or MM.
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by jfarmer 14y ago
San Francisco: teacher-engineers Dev Bootcamp ( http://devbootcamp.com ) When Obama and Romney talk about "retooling America," that's us. We're a 10-week intense training program for junior software developers. We want to build the best le
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Steve has been a mentor and speaker at Dev Bootcamp ( http://devbootcamp.com ) for our last two cohorts and he's fantastic. Our students love him and he's a kind, patient teacher. Many of our students tell us Steve's udacity course was the
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by jfarmer 14y ago
At both Everlane ( http://everlane.com ) and Dev Bootcamp ( http://devbootcamp.com ) we made a conscious decision early on not to call our customers "users." It's a surprisingly hard habit to break, but it's important. Being specific clari
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Hey Shawn, Jesse, here. For those just tuning in, Shawn & I know each other and I help run Dev Bootcamp. Tony Phillips, one of Shawn's co-founders, was a teacher-in-training at Dev Bootcamp for 5 months and before that a student in ou
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by jfarmer 14y ago
I linked to it at the end of my comment, where I also mentioned who wrote it. Here it is, again: http://www.amazon.com/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerful... Lego Mindstorms are named after it.
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Read Mindstorms before you do. :)
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a teacher at Dev Bootcamp ( http://devbootcamp.com ). Everything I say comes from love -- if I didn't care about this deeply I wouldn't bother to remark in the first place. :) Very nice! We can always use more absolute-beg
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Read Tristan Walker's letter to the founders of Foursquare: http://justtristan.com/post/7696394458/two-years-ago-today
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Funny. I just started using these. The assumption that the "toggle" is 50% of the width is hard coded into the library. I went to change it and, holy cow, the code is a mess. I got it to work, but had to disable the click-and-slide behavi
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by jfarmer 14y ago
The web UI was slow and I didn't realize it was web-only until I bought it. Can I get a refund?
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by jfarmer 14y ago
I can't imagine that business has great margins. Logistics and supply chain management benefit hugely from economies of scale. "Worldwide shipping" involves multiple industries and core competences, so verticalizing would be a challenge.
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by jfarmer 14y ago
For those reading, I haven't been involved day-to-day with Everlane since early this year. I now help run Dev Bootcamp ( http://devbootcamp.com ). That's just to say I'm speaking for myself only, not for Everlane. Funny story: Everlane st
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by jfarmer 14y ago
They write it that way to conform to their style guidelines, the NYTimes Manual of Style and Usage. Most style guidelines (Chicago, AMA, AP, etc.) have similar styles.
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by jfarmer 14y ago
This was almost our exact line of thinking when Michael and I started Everlane ( http://everlane.com ) in early 2010. You must be able to answer the "Amazon question" if you're starting an online commerce company. If your product category m
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by jfarmer 14y ago
I paid $60 to try it out. Not worth it right now. It might, might be worth it when the desktop app is out. I wish I didn't fork over the money.
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And giving away a big chunk of equity like that is a signal to future investors, employees, and partners that you think 3% of your current company will be worth something similar.
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by jfarmer 14y ago
First Round Capital did something similar a few years ago with their portfolio companies: http://redeye.firstround.com/2010/01/sharing-and-exchanging.... Speaking personally, I want to own as much equity as possible in a company I start.
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by jfarmer 14y ago
1. Because a big part -- perhaps the biggest part -- of "learning to program" is understanding how to move between the picture in your head and the text that makes it real. From both directions: "What does this code do?" and "What code do
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by jfarmer 14y ago
It's hosted on GitHub Pages and generated with Jekyll. We also use CloudFlare for our CDN and other asset optimization. * http://pages.github.com/ * https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll * https://www.cloudflare.com
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Teacher from DBC, here. Dev Bootcamp is 100% accessible to individuals with no prior experience whatsoever. We think anyone can learn to code, although we don't think anyone can learn what we cover in 9-10 weeks. We select for people with
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Hi there! I'm a teacher at Dev Bootcamp. I'll quote my answer to this question on Quora ( http://b.qr.ae/QkkZtu ), "Are there any programming bootcamps like Dev Bootcamp or Bloc.io that are Python/Django focused?" The tl;dr is "No, not re

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