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by jfarmer 14y ago
It's just unorthodox, is all. It also sets up a strange dynamic if a student can't or won't pay. It would be even lower risk for the student if the hiring company paid, which is a standard practice -- referral fees as a percentage of the r
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Yeah, what does "partner recruiting companies" mean? Has anyone from App Academy received offers from any of them?
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by jfarmer 14y ago
I can't speak for Marco, but I suspect he feels a bit like I do. I used TextMate for a long time. I switched to TextMate 2 as soon as the beta hit. Over the last year, more and more of my peers have switched from TM/TM2 to Sublime Text in
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Hi! Teacher from http://devbootcamp.com , here. :) A startup can have a huge impact in this area, speaking from experience.
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by jfarmer 14y ago
I think "marketing engineer" is a fine and accurate term -- I've even called myself that at times -- but for whatever reason "growth hacker" is what's caught on. You may as well argue over aluminum vs. aluminium.
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Rather than pooh-poohing this new word or dismissing it by claiming that people use it so they can avoid calling themselves marketers, ask yourself: "Why do people find this distinction useful?" That would make for a much better article, IM
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Then prove it by starting a successful company.
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by jfarmer 14y ago
It's not about how talented you are, per se. It's about how talented you appear to other people (VCs, in this case). The best way to demonstrate that talent is to start your own company and make it wildly successful. Until then, the risk
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Are you in the SF Bay Area? If so, stop by our office some day. My email is jesse@devbootcamp.com MCSE-style certification is the opposite of our mission.
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by jfarmer 14y ago
I'm a teacher at DBC and that's not our attitude at all, for what it's worth. :) As we get better-and-better at optimizing those ten weeks, we'll add more advanced topics. I'd love to have a set of challenges like that later in the 10 week
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by jfarmer 14y ago
The first bubble was characterized by massive speculation in public tech stocks completely detached from fundamentals. Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga getting kicked in the nuts on the public market is the opposite of that.
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Hi lrs! Do we know each other? It sucks that Chicago was such a negative and destructive experience for you. I knew plenty of people who hated, hated, hated their time there. It has strong ideas about what an education should be that I ha
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by jfarmer 14y ago
I attended the University of Chicago, paid for it myself, and took on 100% of the debt. I'm still paying it off, but it was worth it! My life is without question 100x better for it. Your point is fair, though: with few exceptions student's
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Imagine a world where you can retrain yourself on the order of months, not years, and take on little or no debt to do it. How would that impact unemployment or underemployment? When Obama stands in front of a bankrupt auto factory in Detro
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Being crawlable might not be sufficient, but it sure is necessary! :D
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Sorry, I meant: THE ARTICLE ITSELF is the lesson, not necessarily the points within. For example, "Rule 8. Is Secret" is (possibly) illustrating #6, #4, and the humor of it #3. It's making points, meta-points, and doing it with a sense of h
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by jfarmer 14y ago
It's both. The form of the writing rather than the content per se is what's meant to illustrate his points.
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Whenever I pronounce it, I just say, "Code Cademy, without the 'a'."
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by jfarmer 14y ago
"Very clearly." Well, ok. I don't think that: I've known growth hackers who have done incredibly shady, unethical, and borderline illegal things. The Reddit and AirBnB examples are probably a ~4 on a 1-10 scale of stunts growth hackers pu
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by jfarmer 14y ago
I didn't claim they're superior. I asked: "Why is it so crazy to think that [growth hackers] are perhaps best adapted to this new environment?" Are fish superior to dogs because they can stay underwater their whole lives? I also never sai
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by jfarmer 14y ago
It's not entirely new, no, but it's new like the iPhone was new. None of the component ideas in the iPhone were 100% new, but it wasn't possible to build one at a consumer price-point until certain preconditions, both technological and eco
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Just Google: "reddit fake accounts"
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by jfarmer 14y ago
My thinking about the metaphor ended here: "Hey everyone, we set up this cool village for you all to come live in!" Like those creepy ghost cities in China. Google has the hooks to get everyone to take a tour, hoping that X% decide to sta
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by jfarmer 14y ago
No, growth hacking is something new. Or rather: "growth hacking" is a term people are using to describe a genuinely new phenomenon. You can trace this phenomenon back maybe 10-12 years, but there is something interesting happening -- inte
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Yes, sorry, I was talking about two things at once (as was the author). There are social networks that are valuable but evaporate (see, e.g., Digg). There are "inorganic" social networks that appear valuable because they have lots of passe
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by jfarmer 14y ago
A slightly better article on the same topic from a few years ago: http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-... It's funny we couch it in such intellectual language. There's an everyday word for this: Potemkin village.
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Nothing it stopping you from writing a great article, building great software, contributing something amazing to an open source project, etc. Your time would be better spent focusing on doing good work and sharing it. Assuming you do do go
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by jfarmer 14y ago
And that's relevant how?
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Look at Quora, Path, and Asana, the three most successful consumer startups started by former Facebookers. None use PHP.
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by jfarmer 14y ago
My comment wasn't an attempt to tell carsongross the crowd was against him. It was an attempt to tell carsongross that the way he's phrasing his arguments will make people think he's a crank. I'm telling him what he can do to convince peo

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