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by afontaine 10y ago
From what I understand, you can't just "go native" from ReactJS because React Native uses specific components for mobile. While you can't just port over, the way you think about components and your API endpoints can be r
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by afontaine 11y ago
"Miami (my favorite city but not good to live/work in)" How come you consider Miami not a good city to live/work in? I live here and I'm genuinely curious.
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by afontaine 11y ago
Clutch Prep - Techstars & 500startups grad | Miami, FL (Brickell/Wynwood area) | Full-time & on-site | Software Engineer At Clutch, delivering amazing explanations is our core. We're a game-changing edtech startup, providi
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by afontaine 11y ago
If the person has experience and likes doing front-end, we have plenty of front-end work to do :)
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by afontaine 11y ago
Software Engineer (Rails) | Miami, FL | Full-time only | 60-90k, 0-1% equity | https://www.clutchprep.com At Clutch, delivering amazing explanations is our core. We're a game-changing edtech startup, providing quality, on-d
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by afontaine 12y ago
Thanks for sharing this here. I'd love to hear your thoughts on my situation. I started programming in freshman year (2006) of high school and fell in love with it. I've been coding since, but also started getting excited about st
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by afontaine 12y ago
That's the main issue, textbooks are not the ideal form of learning for some subjects. Studies have shown that text is not the ideal format for novices to learn a subject for the first time. I'm a co-founder at https://
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by afontaine 12y ago
I'm definitely with you on this. Last year my team interviewed with YC (with Paul Buchheit in the room) and it was crazy. 10 minutes feels like 7-8 because of the adrenaline/nervousness. You don't usually get to finish your a
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by afontaine 13y ago
This was a huge point for me when using the old tablesorter script. They had a plugin called StaticRow that would allow you to add the "static" class to a tr tag and it didn't change when sorting. Did you guys implement that
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by afontaine 13y ago
I enjoyed reading your post. I also struggle to get up to listen to a professor go over material at a very slow pace. I'm taking a class now and I only show up on the day before the exam and on the exam. There are 2-3 weeks of lectures
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by afontaine 13y ago
I think this is definitely a pivot, judging by the founder's YC experience ( http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/03/05/greplin-founde... ). They're very smart, I'm sure whatever they bui