natasham25

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by natasham25 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco, remote I'm a full-stack Ruby on Rails developer, with experience in Backbone.js and Test Driven Development. I'm looking for a 10-15 hour / week project. Available right away, charging cheaper rates as I'm star
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by natasham25 14y ago
I studied on my own for a year before attending the Summer session of Dev Bootcamp. I found that the available resources for learning Rails are not really that great for beginner. They are more geared toward people who already know how to m
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by natasham25 14y ago
Negative reinforcement might get the students to finish the course, but they will not enjoy what they're learning if they're doing it just so they avoid paying money for it. The best learning happens when you want to learn because you're cu
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by natasham25 14y ago
I've been to the railsbridge woman's workshop, and while I was able to follow the instructions and build a blog in a day, I didn't understand Ruby on Rails and had no idea how I would do the same thing without following the instructions. Kn
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by natasham25 15y ago
I've asked my guy friends whether they would get this procedure, and none of them will. Guys expect women to mess with their bodies, but are not willing to make the sacrifice themselves when it comes down to it, even though this is more saf
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by natasham25 15y ago
Ok, so I went to the site expecting to get some "buttons" as part of onboarding new users, but instead I started out with 0 buttons and no idea how to get these buttons to actually get a dress. After digging around the FAQ section, it says
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Stanford partners with Coursera to offer more online courses(stanforddaily.com)
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The Startup Powering Kony 2012 Gets 15X Their Usual Traffic This Month(startupstats.com)
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This Guy Wants To Make Startup Investing More Like Moneyball(businessinsider.com)
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Funny websites from the 90s(blog.crazyegg.com)
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by natasham25 15y ago
We had the same exact experience with out app. It was Facebook login only, and we got a 50% drop in conversion, bad app store reviews, and some of the people who tried to login couldn't because Facebook login either didn't work or was reall
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Startup Founders Rush To Put Their _____ In A Box(startupstats.com)
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by natasham25 15y ago
We made our iPhone app FB Connect only, and only 50% of users who downloaded the app actually signed in. To make things worse, we got a ton of one start reviews in the app store from people who were really angry about the FB Sign-in. Anoth
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by natasham25 15y ago
I highly recommend you check out all the exercise for the Stanford course: http://see.stanford.edu/see/materials/icspmcs106a/assignment... (the ones at the bottom, not the top). The reason the class was so much fun was because we got to m
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by natasham25 15y ago
Wow, this is the most useful startup I've seen in a while. Bookmarking it. The only issue I encountered was that your domain search is not real-time, so some of domains under the 'social' search have already been taken!
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by natasham25 15y ago
I was a complete beginner at coding a few months ago. I really really wanted to learn, so I've tried going to local meetups designed to teach newbies to code and I've tried Codecademy. The problem I found was this tendency to start with the
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The Startup Name Game(nickoneill.com)
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by natasham25 15y ago
This is truly incredible. I have been trying to learn how to code, but am having a hard time, mostly because I'm used to the university lecture style. The Stanford Courses are amazing - the provide lectures, handouts, homework assignments,
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The Only Way To Win(blog.holler.com)
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by natasham25 15y ago
After graduating college, I got a very competitive job with nice pay that had a lot of potential. I ended up absolutely hating it, to the point where I would drive into work every day with tears in my eyes. The problem was, I was young and
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by natasham25 15y ago
Yep, that is why my family moved to the US from Russia. My mom wanted to be a doctor, but wasn't accepted to medical school even though she got straight As and was completely qualified. They just said they can't accept her because she's Jew
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by natasham25 15y ago
A managers job is to bring the "clever" out of all the people he or she manages.
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by natasham25 15y ago
This is an opportunity for the Google leadership to be leaders not only in their company but outside of it by contributing their knowledge and lessons learned to the public. Unfortunately, they are not taking this leadership opportunity, si
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by natasham25 15y ago
Wow! Thanks so much for sharing this. It is unbelievable how much medicine and nutrition is separated in this country. Nutrition ABSOLUTELY affects you in so many ways. Eating healthy is soooo important, but unfortunately most people prefer
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by natasham25 15y ago
Anyone up for hang gliding? http://holler.to/qGrTYU
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Why We Released Buggy Software(blog.holler.com)
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Believing Your Own Bullshit(nickoneill.com)
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Mnmlist: the creativity of constraints(mnmlist.com)
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Say Something Nice(improveverywhere.com)
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by natasham25 15y ago
I recommend you read "How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas" for inspiration. It is filled with some incredible stories of people who were able to have an incredible impact with only a little help.

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