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by mrborgen 11y ago
Not very strict demands. If it's still growing and does exciting stuff, I'm interested in hearing about it. (Though that probably is an insane amount of companies)
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Ask HN: Which successful startups were rejected by YC?
159 points by mrborgen 11y ago|60 comments
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4 Technical Skills You Can Learn If You Skip House of Cards S4(medium.com)
1 points by mrborgen 11y ago|0 comments
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by mrborgen 11y ago
Interesting idea regarding scheduling. That would require a bit strickter rules for our experts though. As for now, one of the benefitd the experts like is that it's 100 percent flexible. You answer chats only when your'e interest
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by mrborgen 11y ago
That remains to be seen! Depends on the growth, definitely.
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by mrborgen 11y ago
Thanks for your input! The are a ton of challenges ahead, and scaling experts is one of them. But as for now, getting demand is harder than supply. Although the demand is surely affected by the quality of the experts.
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by mrborgen 11y ago
Great input! However, it's quite hard to get that kind of product off the ground. Easier to start with a niche and work our way out to broader subjects. We actually started with ReactHelp.com, then went wider to HTML,CSS and JS. And no
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by mrborgen 11y ago
Hey, author of the article here. Let me know if you have any comments.
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Lessons Learned Launching a Side Product in 48 Hours(medium.com)
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by mrborgen 11y ago
Thanks, it's now fixed!
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by mrborgen 11y ago
Hey, we have four.
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by mrborgen 11y ago
Yeah, the ReactHelp.com was our first MVP, but we wanted something a bit broader, so we got this one up yesterday. Glad you like it.
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by mrborgen 11y ago
Oh, thanks for the tip! We'll definitely look into that. :)
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by mrborgen 11y ago
Hey, thanks, glad you liked the help you got.
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Get live React.js help via chat for free(reacthelp.com)
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by mrborgen 11y ago
But there certainly is a difference on how easy people pick up coding. This has a lot to do with attitude, but also how talented they are. As with all other skills, you're given a set of cards to play with. But then again, practice bea
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An Alternative CS Education in 31 Steps(medium.com)
8 points by mrborgen 11y ago|1 comments
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31 Steps to Become a Developer – An Alternative CS Education(medium.com)
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Building Your Second React.js App(medium.com)
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by mrborgen 11y ago
I wrote the original article this one is based upon. I very much enjoyed reading this one. Though I always find it more beginner friendly to start off with a framework rather than going vanilla. That goes for almost all subjects in tech. Th
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Building Your First React.js App(medium.com)
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by mrborgen 11y ago
Haven taken this course (though I will), but check out Andrew Ng's Coursera's ML course. He gives a crash course in linear algebra. It helped me a lot in my endeavours in ML & neural nets. I also like to learn as I go along, a
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by mrborgen 11y ago
Great points. This is very much aligned with my experience.
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by mrborgen 11y ago
"My biggest concern with coding bootcamps as an industry is that the people making the decision about which bootcamp to attend are dramatically under-qualified to make the decision and therefore relatively more prone to both scams and
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by mrborgen 11y ago
Something I've been wondering for a while: are you considering opening up physical bootcamps as well?
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by mrborgen 11y ago
Prior: knew some jQuery & JS, a little bit of Python. Did not know how to use Ajax, setup a server. Generally bad algorithm skills. Knew nothing about Node & React. What I learned at FAC is well documented in this article: https:&
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by mrborgen 11y ago
I would simply not have been able to do the work I'm doing. Awesome day: I get to start building a whole new feature on our product, features that'll make a difference for our customers. No days are actually dreadful, but it'
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by mrborgen 11y ago
I did not; I feel I'm only judged by the work I do, not my background. Though the transition was a bit hard, as our product & codebase is much bigger than what I was used to. Plus there's so much setup and various tools being
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by mrborgen 11y ago
I do agree that one persons success with something (getting a job, losing weight etc) isn't a very good prediction on most people's result using the same technique. And yes, I don't think all aspiring developers should do a b
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by mrborgen 11y ago
Regarding salary compared to doctors? It seems better than it is. In Norway, starting salary for doctors is about the same as anyone with a masters degree.

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