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by songzme 7y ago
When my wife and I first met, we tried to build a language learning app (don't sign up, we stopped working on it) - https://llip.io/landing/ To get users, we started a meetup group to teach people Korean. https:&
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by songzme 7y ago
Wow thanks! Set this up smoothly and asked the questions I posted above. Will reach out to friends and start a community. Thank you for the find!
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by songzme 7y ago
I am so interested in this, but there are so many things I don't understand. I wonder.... is there a service (Maybe a chrome extension) that lets you ask questions on the page you are in? For example, I want to highlight: `btrfs-progs`
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by songzme 7y ago
1. Lasting mindset. Recently I've looked around me and realized, everything around me is new. There are no memories around me, I have chased marketed products until my whole apartment is lined up with useful products. Some of the peopl
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by songzme 7y ago
I created a site to test it out, it seems the site is immediately updated after a file change: https://songz.keybase.pub/ Cool! Accessing the folder, creating a file, and even simple unix commands like `ls` feels significan
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by songzme 7y ago
I speak from personal experience and this may help or it may not. The one book that boosted my self confidence and changed my life is 12 steps and 12 traditions: https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Steps-Traditions-Alcoholics&#x2F
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by songzme 7y ago
People who care enough about their career to cram falls into 2 groups pretty evenly: 1. People who care about building good products, leading to good careers. 2. People who care about their career for the sake of their careers. This group t
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by songzme 7y ago
I'm sorry you feel this way. The best advice I can come up with is, either find a product space you care deeply about and see how far you can take it or swim with the wave and start preparing for coding interviews.
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by songzme 7y ago
"The most damaging thing you learned in school wasn't something you learned in any specific class. It was learning to get good grades." http://www.paulgraham.com/lesson.html You shouldn't be studying to
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It pains me to see another Coding Interview preparation tool. It's such a sad situation in the current industry. Students learn to game the system to get a high paying job. Students who care about what they are working on will painstak
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by songzme 7y ago
Game log is beautifully done, its an improvement from the real game itself. Good job!
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by songzme 7y ago
OP here. A few self learners needed work experience on their resume so I mentored them to build an open source app that I think some developers may find helpful: https://garagescript.github.io/myProxy/ They finished an
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Show HN: Free domains for deploying your apps(freedomains.dev)
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Programming reminds me of my stand up comedy days (2018)(medium.com)
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by songzme 7y ago
OP here. When I'm not at work I mentor self learners who are trying to become a software engineers. I thought it would be helpful for their learning to build and launch a tool that developers may find helpful.
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Show HN: MyProxy, app to help you deploy to your own server and domain name(garagescript.github.io)
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by songzme 7y ago
OP here. When I'm not at work I mentor self learners who are trying to become a software engineers. I thought it would be helpful for their learning to build and launch a tool that developers may find helpful.
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by songzme 7y ago
> I would explain that what makes a startup promising, not just in the eyes of investors but in fact, is growth. Growth is like cancer. Eventually a company will get big enough to bully others for the sake of growth. Last night I had din
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by songzme 7y ago
Been using a self hosted version of Mattermost for our students as a main form of communication and the markdown support is something I absolutely love. Thanks.
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by songzme 7y ago
2 years ago I bought this vertex core 40% keyboard: https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_det... Unfortunately, I type in dvorak layout and the keyboard I purchased did not work out. I have to press
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by songzme 7y ago
I'm trying to document everything we teach here: c0d3.com/book
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by songzme 7y ago
I teach underprivileged adults how to code. Most of them use old computers so I had them ssh into my server when they code so they don't have to install anything. When they learn about web development, whatever they built would be imme
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by songzme 7y ago
The struggles of first world problems...
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by songzme 7y ago
Every weekend my wife and I host a Meetup group where we teach people Korean. Yesterday a high school girl came and started crying everytime she was paired into a group exercise, constantly apologizing for how bad at Korean she was (which w
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by songzme 8y ago
Unfortunately I don't have much to share because my setup is so simple. Literally just vim (you can find really awesome vimrc on GitHub, mines pretty messy), and tmux (simple apt install). When I visit my friends place I usually just u
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by songzme 8y ago
With our existing trend of moving everything to the cloud, I wonder why development environments aren't going in the same direction as well. It has so many benefits. I code on my digital ocean server (vim and tmux) and it gives allot o
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Free Open Source Tools for Designers(uxplanet.org)
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by songzme 8y ago
I have my own home server on a standard consumer Comcast internet (cheap plan at 60mbps) running c0d3.com, and the students that are learning how to code on it never had any issues with stability (except that one time where I had a power ou
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by songzme 8y ago
I just went through the 19-part interactive neural network and this is the best tutorial for beginners I've encountered. Each video is < 10 minutes and contains a practical example that motivated me to try implementing / protot
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by songzme 8y ago
Yeah workout + water is a great combination

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