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by jmtame 14y ago
I never thought about it until now, but the best IRC networks I hung out on in the 90s were ones with really good net admins who enforced the rules. Even when I was younger, I didn't belong on certain IRC networks, and I was quickly banned
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by jmtame 14y ago
I don't think engineers are all about making things into money. I think they're more interested in doing things efficiently. Think about a barber shop: would an engineer repeat the same task every day, or would they automate it? I think mos
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by jmtame 14y ago
I would probably ask them to read What You'll Wish You'd Known ( http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html ). I like the analogy of staying upwind because it provides you more options when the time comes that you find out what you want to do.
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by jmtame 14y ago
I was just about to suggest the same thing. The degree seems like a very important piece of information to a creditor making a decision. If I know that 60% of students of a particular degree will default within 4 years, why would I continue
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Raid video of Kim Dotcom mansion(youtube.com)
4 points by jmtame 14y ago|0 comments
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Bloc Demo Day: check out apps our students have built(blog.bloc.io)
8 points by jmtame 14y ago|0 comments
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by jmtame 14y ago
You can compare the hacker schools here: http://blog.bloc.io/comparing-hacker-schools -- if you're interested in learning about the economics, I'd recommend reading Race Against the Machine: http://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-The-Machine
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by jmtame 14y ago
Minor correction: we are not YC funded; I've e-mailed Jolie to let her know. I had mentioned that I started my previous startup in YC, so think that's where the confusion came from.
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Learn to code in 8 weeks with Bloc, an online bootcamp for would-be developers(venturebeat.com)
44 points by jmtame 14y ago|24 comments
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Comparing Hacker Schools(blog.bloc.io)
8 points by jmtame 14y ago|0 comments
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by jmtame 14y ago
Is anyone else having trouble buying tickets? I'm getting a "Sorry, card cannot be processed" error, even after I asked my friends to buy me a ticket where it worked for their card.
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A roundup of blog posts of beginners learning to program(blog.bloc.io)
5 points by jmtame 14y ago|0 comments
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Leaning Into the Hard Things(scottmagdalein.tumblr.com)
4 points by jmtame 14y ago|0 comments
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Achieve Flow(blog.bloc.io)
4 points by jmtame 14y ago|0 comments
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by jmtame 14y ago
This is the same argument everyone else is trying to make, and it's conflating unnecessarily. Eric broke a rule that didn't matter. Nobody was harmed from this.
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by jmtame 14y ago
Agreed. Even YC explicitly says they look for the "naughty" factor in entrepreneurs, and this is exactly the type of quality I saw in Eric from reading this article. "Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to
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by jmtame 14y ago
To make a comparison more directly to AOL's stature, it'd be like saying I had an enormous fleet of cars and I wouldn't even notice one missing. I'm not conflating Eric's situation and encouraging everyone to be a criminal, but I'm not goin
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by jmtame 14y ago
AOL did not suffer from this. They explicitly encourage entrepreneurship, and if they really are so stringent that they don't want a scrappy entrepreneur getting a few free meals, they should have tightened up their security. Eventually the
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by jmtame 14y ago
If Eric goes on to create a billion dollar business, has he not created more value that benefits society by creating jobs and overall economic value? Would you argue all of that value creation isn't worth the meager amount that he got out o
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by jmtame 14y ago
He also has been solo the whole time, which makes it more impressive. He had a cofounder who gave up, but Eric never budged.
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Stop intimidating beginners(blog.bloc.io)
5 points by jmtame 14y ago|1 comments
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by jmtame 14y ago
I've lived in 3 hacker houses (still living in one now), and it's been a nice place to live with like-minded individuals. It's equal parts fun and hard work.
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The point of the first week(blog.bloc.io)
4 points by jmtame 14y ago|0 comments
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Hack Higher Ed: Paying to learn to Program(insidehighered.com)
3 points by jmtame 14y ago|0 comments
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Wireframes, Databases, and Migrations(blog.bloc.io)
3 points by jmtame 14y ago|1 comments
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by jmtame 14y ago
The original version was a bit more harsh and I had to revise it. I was fairly critical of people who went into debt over liberal arts degrees and argued that if you're going into debt, do it in a degree that's going to make a return on you
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Why you need to work with the machine, not against it(venturebeat.com)
36 points by jmtame 14y ago|11 comments
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by jmtame 14y ago
That's why reputation plays such a major role. You can't just create a school and expect people to sign up for it, unless you're doing accreditation which is expensive, and eventually employers will see how poor candidates are from technica
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by jmtame 14y ago
Holy crap. 10 weeks. $80K. This is the holy grail, and these guys are doing it: taking someone who has no programming experience and getting them jobs, completely sidestepping accreditation. Nice work Shereef.
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by jmtame 14y ago
This trend is not going away, it's only going to increase. The ones with technical knowledge will continue to disproportionately receive money over those who don't. I think this person would really enjoy reading Race Against the Machine, wr

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