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by tonydiv 9y ago
I'm really excited to see where this goes given I'm in the industry too! That said, I am skeptical of the background of this company and the quality of instruction/curriculum. For anyone interested in K-12 coding education, I
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by tonydiv 9y ago
Anyone have experience with their VoIP? Currently using Tokbox but been having some troubles. We integrate it across web, iOS, and Android for a kid's learn-to-code with live teachers product.
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by tonydiv 9y ago
Why not before high school? As someone teaching kids, they grasp the concepts just fine at young ages and if the material is presented in a fun and personalized way, they tend to enjoy it more than other subjects (depending on how those are
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by tonydiv 9y ago
How old is your child? Has he/she done programming before? We strongly believe any beginner should start with visual programming first. Happy to share all the reasons with you if you're interested. Here's a short clip of a cl
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by tonydiv 9y ago
I would love feedback on my project BlockSchool from anyone who is interested in ed-tech! BlockSchool is an online coding school for kids ages 6 to 13. We hire teachers from top colleges and companies like Stanford and Facebook, and connect
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by tonydiv 9y ago
Had nothing but problems with their product over the years. In 2012, they had a bug in their analytics.js which resulted in me losing about 10k new users. Last year, I was experiencing multi-day delays between an event and it appearing in M
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by tonydiv 9y ago
I live down the street from Leland. First time I've seen it mentioned on HN, cool.
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by tonydiv 9y ago
BlockSchool | Kids Coding Instructors | REMOTE ONLY Description: BlockSchool is the 1st online coding school for kids ages 7+, and we teach students in 3 countries (US, China, and India). We are hiring young teachers from top 100 US college
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by tonydiv 9y ago
Teach kids how to program! I view it very similar to "teaching the (wo)man how to fish." I'm working on the 1st live online school that teaches kids to code. It's nearly impossible for parents to find teachers locally be
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by tonydiv 9y ago
I think I can claim that I wrote the 1st academic paper on Bitcoin in early 2011. Anyone else trying to claim that title? :) Unfortunately I was broke in school so bought and sold only a few coins. Asked my lawyer dad for money, he laughed,
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by tonydiv 9y ago
Great to know, thanks for sharing!
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by tonydiv 9y ago
I recommend checking out http://woofjs.com Steve Krouse, a friend of mine from Penn, has created this to teach kids how to code in NYC. Jumping from Scratch to JS is a big jump, Woof is meant to make that easier. I'm also p
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by tonydiv 9y ago
I agree with you assuming they can type, but I have also seen kids get really frustrated with keyboards and typos. It takes them a lot longer to express their thoughts than dragging blocks. By 4th grade, you're probably right. But 2nd,
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by tonydiv 9y ago
I actually think Scratch is great for adults to learn how to program. I think there isn't a Scratch for artists/professionals to create because the educational aspect is hard to nail, and pairing that with a publishing tool is eve
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by tonydiv 9y ago
What curriculum do you use? I am working on a project in the space, I would love to ask you some questions if you don't mind!
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by tonydiv 9y ago
Awesome, are you an engineer too? A few questions if you don't mind me asking: 1. How serious are you about your child's coding education? 2. Do you teach her/him too? 3. Would you ever hire an instructor in a 1-on-1 or 1-on-
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by tonydiv 9y ago
How old is your child? That's awesome!
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by tonydiv 9y ago
So true! We love Scratch. There is also an open source project called Blockly run by Google. It's the "puzzle piece" portion of Scratch, which is an amazing resource to integrate into other kids learn-to-code projects. I am u
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by tonydiv 9y ago
Sorta. To my understanding WeWork has largely been funded by real estate groups looking for more return. I guess Soylent could find funding from CPG/consumer funds, but I'm amazed software VCs are interested.
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by tonydiv 9y ago
you will begin to consider alternatives when they are available, and at a lower cost
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by tonydiv 9y ago
It amazes me that VCs find this type of business interesting because it's not defensible in many of the ways a software company is. I am also not sure why the company wants to raise this much money -- they need to continue growing like
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by tonydiv 10y ago
Hi Michael, How will computer science ever be taught to the general K-12 population if software engineers make $102k and teachers make $45k in the US on average? This gap seems to only be increasing too. How should we think about developing
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by tonydiv 10y ago
Just ended by Instacart subscription for Amazon Fresh. I hated how Instacart would mess with prices. So far, much happier with Amazon Fresh. Costco access gives Instacart a huge advantage, but they abuse it.
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by tonydiv 10y ago
Why don't more Chinese people apply to YC? They are they ONLY YC startup with Chinese founders? Wow. *I mean Chinese, as in from AND living in China.
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by tonydiv 10y ago
Hmm. 6 years and ~$30 million dollars later, this is what we get?
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by tonydiv 10y ago
Are any popular Bitcoin apps using their APIs? I don't really see how an API marketplace paid via Bitcoin is better than a credit card bill at the end of the month based on API usage.
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by tonydiv 10y ago
I stopped reading at "The weather sucks"
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by tonydiv 10y ago
I worked for a company called Lightsquared that tried to do this. Big problems were faced from lobbyists, maybe SpaceX has more money to protect themselves though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligado_Networks
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by tonydiv 10y ago
Wow, this is one of Uber's biggest acquisitions to date. Otto employees receive 20% of the profits from the division too.
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by tonydiv 10y ago
Average monthly wage is around ~$200-$300 [2014]. http://www.dumblittleman.com/2014/05/what-is-the-average-sal...

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