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25 tools every new developer needs(blog.courseforward.com)
10 points by michaelq 12y ago|14 comments
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by michaelq 12y ago
Chinese is an international language, and an official language of several East and Southeast Asian countries, most of which use Mandarin syntax in their written form.
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by michaelq 12y ago
Probably because he outsourced it. He mentioned this as one of his takeaways - have developers in the same room with you.
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by michaelq 12y ago
My humble advice for this slide deck is: get to the demo. In this case, it's phonetically encoded coordinates. It's a cool idea, but requires adoption of a "majors system" like system for converting numbers into sounds.
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by michaelq 12y ago
The visual documentation is a nice touch ( http://www.mealdays.com/howto/ ) and couldn't have taken too long to create. Just in case my mother-in-law doesn't know what drag and drop means.
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by michaelq 12y ago
According to my wife, she woke me up and kept shouting "earthquake!" I was rolling around on the bed. I just grabbed her pillow, covered my head and muttered, "OK. Let's go back to sleep".
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by michaelq 12y ago
How did you build the product that your first business sold without a technical person onboard? You coded it yourself. Thus, you have technical skills. 9 years later, when you were looking for a cofounder, you decided to go with a technical
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by michaelq 12y ago
Rather than dismissing my cofounder as terrible, I encourage you to consider the possibility that advice like yours, which we followed in cofounding the company, set him up for failure. Having specialization early on was a mistake. It was a
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by michaelq 12y ago
> As an aside, the best co-founder relationships are formed on complimentary skill sets. You can do what they can't (or struggle with), and vice versa. As such, I would encourage you to find a sales person/designer/hustler
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by michaelq 12y ago
This is awesome. Less than a minute to create this: https://www.gifyoutube.com/gif/kWm
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by michaelq 12y ago
It's one thing to hyperlink words to affiliate links in their text, but it's completely different to force all their readers to read over "Buy it now" while they're trying to read the article. Talk about interruptin
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by michaelq 12y ago
I imagine the costs of trials, and who paid them, are well documented. In the event of a dispute about which company discovered which drug, could a company not point to its investment in research or funding of a specific trial as evidence o
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Game of Thrones: why hasn’t Westeros had an industrial revolution?(theconversation.com)
1 points by michaelq 12y ago|0 comments
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by michaelq 12y ago
The simplest solution would be to significantly shorten the patent duration for pharmaceuticals, and start it the day a drug gets FDA approval. This would uncouple two things that should have never been coupled in the first place: developme
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by michaelq 12y ago
Based on the criteria you mention (infrastructure, capital markets, regulation and market size), there most certainly isn't one. The other large countries have more onerous regulations and worse infrastructure than the US does. But it&
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by michaelq 12y ago
I heard this guy talk at this year's Launch.co conference. It's great that people are actively trying to solve California's famous issues, but it's hard not to see the Six California plan as socio-economic gerrymandering
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by michaelq 12y ago
Thanks for the in-depth answer. Was there a hardware access issue here, or did you just write this for the challenge/practice?
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by michaelq 12y ago
This is hilarious. I couldn't get the extension to install, though. Also, you might want to repost it as "Show HN".
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by michaelq 12y ago
This is really cool. Is there a practical reason why you would write a game in assembly (speed? portability?)
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by michaelq 12y ago
Why did you decide to go back and get a second degree in physics (a BS?). Was it to delay your entry into the full-time labor market, or because you are passionate about physics? Also, are you still living in the same city you lived in duri
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The ugly truth about how faculty members see non-academic jobs(chroniclevitae.com)
2 points by michaelq 12y ago|0 comments
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by michaelq 12y ago
Would it make sense to mimic attributes present in LinkedIn's JSON structure? Most people already have a LinkedIn profile, and it would be easy to make a tool that exports LinkedIn profiles into you new open standard.
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by michaelq 12y ago
This is an excellent introduction to first and second-order Markov chains. Please re-post once you've got (Python?) code snippets. Gifs are really helpful at illustrating these principles. There's a typo: You have the word "l
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by michaelq 12y ago
Thanks for catching this. We are constantly scraping like 30 course providers on a weekly basis. A lot of Udemy courses start out free to attract attention, then start charging. I'll get this fixed!
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by michaelq 12y ago
Thanks for your feedback! I just pushed a few changes to address some of these UX shortcomings. I plan to persist things at every step of the account creation wizard. Hopefully that will reduce astonishment. The job salaries are US-wide med
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Show HN: A career-aware course recommendation engine(courseforward.com)
25 points by michaelq 12y ago|10 comments
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by michaelq 12y ago
Surprised this didn't get more buzz. This is a really cool plug in, apparently made by a 16-year old. Definitely well intended and well executed.
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by michaelq 12y ago
Starbucks is using ASU's famously developed online course infrastructure and its own massive headcount to educate all of its employees in a way that will add little marginal cost for either entity. Thought the normal ASU cost per credi
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An analysis of who's using MOOCs(chronicle.com)
2 points by michaelq 12y ago|0 comments
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by michaelq 12y ago
Not working in SF.

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