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Overnight Success: It Takes Years(codinghorror.com)
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The evolution of computer languages (extremetech.com)
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Interviewing Ruby Programmers(oreillynet.com)
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by sayemm 15y ago
"Without great solitude no serious work is possible." – Pablo Picasso
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by sayemm 15y ago
Damon Horowitz is an extremely talented and smart guy who's proven himself in the startup world, but I don't think he's giving the best advice here. He mentions Steve Jobs at the end as a technologist who's clear evidence of the importance
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"Epigrams in Programming" by Alan J. Perlis(cs.yale.edu)
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My econ professor in undergrad did some interesting research on utility and happiness: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mkimball/pdf/uhap.pdf I think the sooner you figure out exactly what your utility curve is (e.g. what really drives you
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by sayemm 15y ago
The first book looks really interesting, thanks for sharing. I'm also a huge fan of "Caro's Book of Poker Tells" - http://www.amazon.com/Caros-Book-Poker-Tells-Mike/dp/1580420... Poker, I find, is a great way to train yourself to read peo
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Adding to that is MIT's OCW ( http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm ), an amazing step in the right direction for learning.
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I agree, this list doesn't sound all that insightful. But it did make me want to look him up on Wikipedia, and I found his history to be interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Parsons He started out as a self-taught programmer in h
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A Conversation with Jimmy Fallon and Sean Parker (fora.tv)
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by sayemm 15y ago
This is very web-based, which is good and I think it should be done by current CS students - it shows passion/motivation and actually getting real-world exp. On the other hand, for a more CS-based list of tips, this is what Joel Spolsky has
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by sayemm 15y ago
Awesome reading articles like this. A constant reminder that the quickest way to freedom for young people these days is programming and the internet.
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by sayemm 15y ago
Mozilla also does a great job at marketing your extensions too. I've built two Firefox extensions and they're both steadily growing in usage everyday because of the traffic that's sourced on the Mozilla site and also because it's frequently
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Touche, though I still wouldn't knock pg's insights, even if they're just general inferences. His track record at identifiying winners speaks for itself.
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"A good deal of willfulness must be inborn, because it's common to see families where one sibling has much more of it than another. Circumstances can alter it, but at the high end of the scale, nature seems to be more important than nurture
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by sayemm 15y ago
I'm not surprised at all. Here's my comment on a previous HN thread a few months ago related to Color: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2367621 If you're building any kind of social app you'd be a fool not to think about the possibilit
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The Difference Between A Developer, A Programmer And A Computer Scientist(skorks.com)
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Nice, I've got all of those except for the CSS, Head First, and Rspec book... so I'm glad I've been headed in the right direction. Will look into those other books, I hear the RSpec book is real handy. Thanks you so much for the tips and th
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Awesome, count me in too. I started on it a while ago and I'm just towards the end of the 1st chapter. But I took a break and I seriously need to get back to it. I'm also putting up all my solutions to Github. Would be great to work togethe
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by sayemm 15y ago
Great tips, I learned Python a while ago and have been focused on Ruby recently. I wonder what the equivalent of this post would be for becoming a proficient Ruby programmer... any advice, guys? Here are two good Stack Overflow threads: ht
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Thanks for posting this. One of my favorite clips of Andrew Mason is this one w/ him before Groupon (when it was ThePoint): http://thedreaminaction.com/2010/07/17/my-interview-with-and... My favorite line from him is around 3:20: "I wasn'
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That's why I play bridge: http://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2000/06/12/story6...
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Here's a big one: decision-making There are a lot of skills required in business (sales, marketing, leadership, etc), but if you had to boil all of it down to one skillset, IMO it would be good judgment and sound decision-making. Because o
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Are you future-focused or present-focused? (sivers.org)
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Thanks, that's exactly the post I was thinking of.
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Gates was an extremely talented programmer. There's a great chapter on him in "Programmers at Work" - http://www.amazon.com/Programmers-Work-Interviews-Computer-I... Joel Spolsky also mentions his talents in some of his old posts as well.
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Show HN: Web Startup Toolbar(chrome.google.com)
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Interesting... this was posted a year ago and was also discussed on HN before too. Anyhow, this combined with his post on the startup career path ( http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/11/are-you-in-a-sta... ) are two of the very best p
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The Art of Learning(amazon.com)
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