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   Estimated U.S. Energy Use in 2011(upload.wikimedia.org)

   1 points by ruggeri 14y ago|0 comments
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   by ruggeri 14y ago

   Very nice! Fun!
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   Seeing Things? Hearing Things? Many of Us Do(nytimes.com)

   4 points by ruggeri 14y ago|1 comments
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   by ruggeri 14y ago

   Upvoted, but I cry at the thought of all that extra typing.
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   by ruggeri 14y ago

   Thanks; very nicely done. :-)
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   by ruggeri 14y ago

   Sleepycat has both the best name and logo ever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepycat_Software So good...
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   by ruggeri 14y ago

   Wow. Every comment except one trashed you. Certainly it would be safer if pedestrians (like me!) didn't listen to music while walking, but I'm not willing to concede the principle that traffic laws be obeyed. Just because I didn't do every
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   by ruggeri 14y ago

   I help run App Academy (appacademy.io), a similar program also based in SF. For what it's worth, we graduated our first class about 3 weeks ago, and our students have already received offers from companies such as Twilio and Thoughtbot. Con
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   by ruggeri 14y ago

   > You may want to take this advice for yourself, your comment is dismissive, insulting, contemptuous and contemptible. It was none of those things. You two merely disagree.
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    Many people who take our program have done some study on their own but now want a more immersive environment. Some already have projects that are pretty cool.
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    We think the incentives align better with this model. We want our students to take the best job for them, regardless of whether the company is paying recruiting fees. As far as recruiting fees go, when employers make a decision on salaries,
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    We're not trying to replicate or replace a traditional four-year CS program. Over 500+ hours, working full-time, in pairs, and with constant access to instructors, students have rapidly built skill and experience with programming. Ultimatel
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    Hey! Thanks for the interest! To my mind, we're not underpricing Dev Bootcamp. Our focus in pricing is to change the risk equation for students. We want to lower the barrier to entry for the tech jobs market. We also want students to know t
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    Thanks for the bug report; looking into it... Hmm; maybe an old DNS update? Seems to be working with everyone I checked with.
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    App Academy is an intensive web development course in San Francisco(appacademy.io)

    131 points by ruggeri 14y ago|69 comments
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    Ugh. Title is wildly inaccurate. Love the nonsensical barbecue photo.
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    Upvoted both of you for civility :-)
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    So, so good. You earned your $50.
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    I recommend: * Stanford's videos and homeworks * Ray Wenderlich's site * Big Nerd Ranch's iOS and Obj-C books If you want to learn Cocos2D for game development, also check out Learning Cocos2D. To shamelessly plug, we also
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    This. This. This.
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    I met one the Thiel fellows. His employ? He gives talks about skipping college. It was inane; I don't think I've ever met a more transparent circular argument. I've also met people who dropped out or never went to school, and did amazing st
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    This is not exactly true. The JVM startup time is not what makes Clojure slow to load; it's the startup of Clojure itself. ~$ time clj test.clj Hello world! real 0m1.337s user 0m1.309s sys 0m0.172s
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    Random question that pops into my head: who created the throwaway to post this?
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    As someone who owns both an iPhone 4S and a Galaxy Nexus, I can't possibly bring myself to believe that Apple is going to continue making outsized profits in the cell phone market. The Galaxy Nexus is just too good a competitor; Android ha
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    Where was the content here? What was the point of this article? It's a bunch of cobbled together nonsense with no logical flow. Pardon someone grumpy to be up early on a Saturday, but please don't post things that make no damn sense.
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    I think there's a big difference when Wall Street pays you to take on variance, and you pay Vegas for variance.
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    We're looking for people with all ranges of experience! For students new to programming, we'll cover much of the basics before the class, so you hopefully won't be bored when the class proper begins.
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    We definitely want a mix of people to get the class balance right. Without entrepreneurial folks the group would lack spark.
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    Hmm; good point. We put it in there pro forma. Age isn't very important to us; feel free to put 0 in. We'll take the field off when we get a chance :-)
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    by ruggeri 14y ago

    Hey! Great questions all! 1) We haven’t picked a place yet; but we’re talking to places in East Bay. The likeliest location we’ve seen is in downtown Berkeley off BART. 2) We’re trying to do both. If we place the student at a company we’ve