joelhooks

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by joelhooks 10y ago
Reading your post personally made me chuckle, as you could be "arguing" against institutional school with only a few words changed and it would hold the same weight.
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by joelhooks 10y ago
The "socialization" argument is tired. There are ample opportunities for social activities outside of school, and the end game social environment for kids is not to be sectioned off into groups of 30 by age in forced proximity.
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by joelhooks 10y ago
They convert like crazy. People will always say they hate them, but they exist because they are super effective.
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by joelhooks 10y ago
We give away most of our[0] content free but charge for membership to access PRO content. We also don't DRM or even try that hard to prevent theft. There are some "bad actors", but we keep growing MRR at a rate that is workin
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by joelhooks 10y ago
We've just started adding lessons on this topic on egghead.io [0] [0] https://egghead.io/lessons/node-js-break-up-language-strings...
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by joelhooks 10y ago
Here are some screencasts on this topic if that sort of thing interests you: https://egghead.io/courses/how-to-contribute-to-an-open-sour...
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by joelhooks 10y ago
I've been building UIs for 20 years, and the tools we have now are the best I've ever had the pleasure to work with. It's more fun now than ever. More please.
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by joelhooks 10y ago
It's kind of a shame that this article devolves into political discussion, as that is the least interesting aspect of the thing. Public speaking is hard af, and being even decent at it pays dividends.
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by joelhooks 10y ago
I've given about 30 copies of Kathy Sierra's Badass: Making Users Awesome. It's wonderful. edit: whoops meant to reply to OP
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by joelhooks 10y ago
Could this basically be said for anything? Why go to school? Why read a book? Why even get out of bed? Everybody learns in different ways. You're obviously super smart and don't need courses like this. Congrats! Must be nice.
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by joelhooks 10y ago
I've published two books through publishers and the actual writing experience was very similar to the book that I self-published. For the self-published book I followed he basic path set forth in Nathan Barry's Authority[0]. Finan
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by joelhooks 10y ago
The war was well under way prior to the Declaration being drafted and signed. 1775.
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by joelhooks 10y ago
I carry 2-3 lighters in my backpack at any given time and fly regularly. Have never had to remove them or had them confiscated in the last 4 years.
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by joelhooks 10y ago
It's really nice to go through the "premium screening" line. Generally it means that you probably fly too much, but it is still nice.
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by joelhooks 11y ago
We have a Yeti that we got for family road trips. It keeps stuff well refrigerated for long periods of time. I dunno how much wasted lunch meat we will need to save to make up for the ridiculous price ;)
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by joelhooks 11y ago
95% of all my github activity is in private repositories.
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by joelhooks 11y ago
I've spent a lot of time with Angular 2 (alpha)[0] and React (redux flavored). All in all it is fairly similar, and feels pretty good. You have to remember more syntax, because of the configuration, but it isn't as conceptually di
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by joelhooks 11y ago
I wonder if Golang might be an option for you? It's seen huge surge in use, and is more "modern" so might be more likely to be used by company that understands benefits of remote.
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by joelhooks 11y ago
Code is definitely not Atom. You should give it a try. It's free.
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by joelhooks 11y ago
The Angular team is full of amazing low-ego developers that are a pleasure to interact and work with.
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by joelhooks 11y ago
Derek Sivers's article[0] on SRS for learning a programming language is a good read. [0] https://sivers.org/srs
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by joelhooks 11y ago
We use stripe for egghead.io and process lots of payments. Chargebacks happen, but it isn't terribly significant for us. Our subscription fee is higher, so perhaps that helps.
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by joelhooks 11y ago
We had the pleasure of spending a week with Josh at his annual workshop in Aspen learning Hype/Processing. It's a lot of fun.
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by joelhooks 11y ago
I did this "the long way" over the last 8 years taking it as a marathon more than a sprint. In my mid-30s I learned to program, studied business and economics, and switched careers from being a 3d animator to a software consultant
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by joelhooks 11y ago
You've made fantastic steps towards making money from your project. It's use in production shows that it has business value. http://nathanbarry.com/authority/ I think Nathan's book describes an excellent
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by joelhooks 12y ago
A team 10x4 has all sorts of problems beyond pair programming.
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by joelhooks 12y ago
I've also used these quite a bit. They are sufficient for about 50% of clients. The other want to use their boilerplate.
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by joelhooks 12y ago
No doubt. I've experienced the spectrum.
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by joelhooks 12y ago
I'm going to call bullshit on this, as I currently rest well above a single order of magnitude beyond minimum wage. Life is awesome. I own a business. We have health coverage. We eat high quality nutrient rich food. We take our 4 kids
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by joelhooks 12y ago
It wasn't terrible. I was stuck in that job with no escape for 5 years. That kind of sucked, but on the scale of global suffering, mine has been minimal.

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