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by jmtame 14y ago
If you're on Windows, setting up Ruby on Rails and using it can be pretty difficult because you need a proper terminal, and Windows' Command Prompt sucks. We've used Vagrant virtual boxes with Ubuntu with our Windows users at Bloc. There ar
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by jmtame 14y ago
I already wrote about this[1] but the time period where I learned the fastest and the most programming knowledge was the winter of 2008 when my cofounder and I worked out of the computer science building, and various other buildings on camp
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When we announce our demo day, where our students show off their products, you can be the judge :) We also plan on gettin them intros to various companies--I will be reaching out to YC alum personally.
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LNCH for trybloc.com
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Thanks, I want to help you with this. Can you e-mail me at jared@trybloc.com so we can chat?
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by jmtame 14y ago
Dev Bootcamp requires 8 hours per day over 10 weeks, although I've met their students and they're an intense group--they usually stay longer and they go in over weekends too. It's probably the most immersive experience you can get out there
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I don't want to discount the existing resources out there either. One of the first things we have students do is start out with some reading material, and Beginning Ruby is one of them. We'll also be recommending Michael Hartl and Zed Shaw'
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This is how you actually teach people to program(jmtame.posterous.com)
105 points by jmtame 14y ago|43 comments
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I'll probably take a karma hit for this, but I find it neither intellectually stimulating nor effective to talk about whether we're in a bubble, especially if it's fear mongering. If you want to convince smart people they're living in a bub
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by jmtame 15y ago
No, the project was called The Farmer's Market. While it operated on Tor, they accepted payments over PayPal which completely breaks the anonymity chain. Silk Road is still operational and uses other security mechanisms (in addition to a de
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I edited my comment to be more neutral towards Methamphetamine; I wasn't aware of the significant dosing differences and that's important. The real problem is the way the studies were conducted. They didn't test hair samples to verify wheth
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Nobody knows what happens to long term chronic users of MDMA. But we do know that the propaganda that was spread by US government funded studies has been debunked. Scare tactics should be treated with strong skepticism. Before club users go
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There are two major misconceptions around MDMA, both funded by flawed government studies. The first misconception is that MDMA causes "holes in your brain" but this study was debunked. The original claim was based on the notion that MDMA "d
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The world is full of real people(jumpstartlab.com)
3 points by jmtame 15y ago|0 comments
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It'd be interesting if you could find a loophole. Maybe the tacos are technically free and it could be argued that flying them somewhere could be done as a hobby, and you're required to give a donation to a separate entity for the order to
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by jmtame 15y ago
Early on, I asked most YC founders I met whether they did testing in the early days, and almost all of them said "no". I've also not written tests in the past simply because it's a time investment--why test if you could be working on someth
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We've been focused on our launch (demo prep, design) but expect to see many more lessons in the coming weeks.
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'But the most lucrative and amusing part was the blue box. Wozniak showed its virtues to his friends. Wozniak made some calls to his sister who was working on a kibbutz in Israel. On Jobs's urging the pair turned a pastime into a small bus
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“I don’t understand,” Jobs said at the product review meeting. “You’re going to ship a million [printers] and not make money on these? This is nuts.”
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I like that they focused on "this is a service problem." This is something Alexis Ohanian mentioned when he started talking about SOPA and PIPA on TV, and I recall that point being dismissed pretty quickly (although unfairly). This article
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What a telling story. Thanks for sharing this Lane. Dave and Josh sound like awesome investors to be working with.
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It was only a few centuries ago that we paid this exclusive, elite upper class in society called scribes to write and transcribe things for us, because we weren't literate enough to do it ourselves. The parallels are pretty surprising today
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Bloc is protesting SOPA(trybloc.com)
8 points by jmtame 15y ago|0 comments
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check out www.trybloc.com
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the article is about how philanthropic bill gates has been (along with others), i think the US aid was just a tactic used to help put the amount in reference to something more easily understood than just a number. it seems poor taste to cri
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From what I understand, DHT has a big trade-off vs BitTorrent: DHTs are crawlable[1] and copyright holders can more easily track who holds copies of what yet it's easier to duplicate search engines like TPB within hours for the same reason.
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i really loved talking to the founders and working on this project, but hearing comments like this really makes me glad i did it. thanks for your support!
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if this type of thing interests you, i also wrote in detail how i did mine here: http://www.startupsopensourced.com/2011/05/01/startups-open-...
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"Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works." - SJ Jobs had a major role in how the products at Apple have worked from the start. I also recall Jobs making
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Can you beat 99% of programmers? Try the FizzBuzz challenge(trybloc.com)
19 points by jmtame 15y ago|50 comments

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