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by calebhicks 8y ago
The payback period begins when you get paid at a qualifying job, and pauses if your work does. (ie. Lose your job, or decide to move and takes a month or two to land new gig, etc) The five year payment window clock starts on graduation. So
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by calebhicks 10y ago
The LDS Church builds temples in an area _after_ there is a large enough group of members in the surrounding area to ensure the temple will get used. There are very specific numbers used to determine where temples should be built. It is onl
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by calebhicks 10y ago
This venture has nothing to do with the Mormon (LDS) Church other than the fact this guy is a member. The leadership of the Church will not acknowledge or encourage the project in any official capacity, and will definitely not 'dispatc
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by calebhicks 11y ago
This post is directly addressed to the tech industry in Utah, but the ideas are universal. It makes the argument for investing in junior tech talent. Thought it'd make for great discussion here on HN. What is the right balance between
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Fixing the Talent Gap in Tech(beehivestartups.com)
1 points by calebhicks 11y ago|1 comments
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by calebhicks 12y ago
I love working in an industry where it's about what you can make or build on your own, not necessarily what your degree says. As a past junior high teacher, I'm really excited about the new ideas around practical education.
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by calebhicks 12y ago
Great question. I've been in public education for 4 years, and am transitioning to working at an iOS/Javascript bootcamp. My experience from both has given me a firm belief that the best learning happens when the learner and teach
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Show HN: Getting Our Hardware MVP to Real Users(blog.wearewired.in)
7 points by calebhicks 12y ago|0 comments
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by calebhicks 12y ago
I don't disagree. In fact, I agree completely with the author of the linked post. The symptoms he writes about are very real, and very damaging. I just think it's hard to expect every teacher (even fresh ones, 4-6 years out of hig
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by calebhicks 12y ago
Remembering that it was awful isn't the same as remembering, or appropriately identifying, why.
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by calebhicks 12y ago
I'm in my 4th year of teaching, yet I graduated from high school 10 years ago. How well do you remember your daily schedule from 10 years ago? Do you remember what made you restless? What made you tired? What made you stop paying atten
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by calebhicks 12y ago
The Big Nerd Ranch books are fantastic. Definitely check them out. I know they'll get something out for Swift sometime soon, but the iOS programming one would be a great foundation even with Objective-C as the sample code. Some of the
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by calebhicks 12y ago
Great question. I really love what I do at the junior high. I teach business and teen entrepreneurship. I love going into work in the morning. But I loved my experience this summer. I love the thrill of writing, building, and seeing my code
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by calebhicks 12y ago
I love what Ben Thompson at Stratechery wrote on this. Pleco: Building a Business, Not an App http://stratechery.com/2014/pleco-building-business-just-app...
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by calebhicks 12y ago
Hey hey Tanner. Long time no talk. I've seen some of the stuff you've been putting out lately, great stuff. Apple has definitely made great tools in helping newbies learn. There's still room to improve, and iOS 8 tools are a
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by calebhicks 12y ago
I read all of those same posts. Definitely concerning news for indie developers. But the reality is that even junior developers are making very good money working contract or full-time. $4500 is less than a semester of required classes at U
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by calebhicks 12y ago
Of course. No one's going to learn a thing by just showing up and listening to an instructor. Whether that's an iOS Dev Bootcamp or Physiology. I put in hundreds of hours beyond regular class time. And yes, definitely working thro
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by calebhicks 12y ago
I think I addressed this in the post itself. >So to say I’m entirely non-technical may be unfair. It just depends on the context. Neighborhood barbecue? Technical. Startup Weekend? Non-technical. Where does the HN crowd fit on that spect
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by calebhicks 12y ago
Thanks Austen. I'm excited to be working on it.
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From Non-Technical Junior High Teacher to iOS Developer(calebhicks.com)
48 points by calebhicks 12y ago|34 comments
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Status: Ready for Sale – The Story Behind Building My First App(calebhicks.com)
6 points by calebhicks 12y ago|1 comments
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by calebhicks 12y ago
Great review of Trevor's second year in the App Store. >Last year I wrote a post about the first year but here's a quick summary since you're busy: I made a Spanish Bible app for $500. It did $1,500 in revenue the first mo
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by calebhicks 13y ago
Congrats Randall. Very cool. Here's to a great 2014.
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by calebhicks 13y ago
Great questions. Commenting is made possible with Disqus, the third-party comment system. Search can be done using Google custom search. We're looking into better ways to do this. Sites are updated using Markdown or LaTex. We're l
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by calebhicks 13y ago
A group of us got together and put this together. We decided that Wordpress sucked for us. Then we stepped into static blogging with Pelican. Then we realized that static blogging kinda sucks too. Setting it up and the dearth of themes are
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Show HN: Beautiful and Ridiculously Fast Websites With Static Blogging(store.statiq.io)
28 points by calebhicks 13y ago|29 comments
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by calebhicks 13y ago
I know some of the designers involved in this project, and they are really good. I run my own Pelican site, and these guys are revving for Jekyll right now. Once they get Pelican up and rolling, I'll start moving clients over too.
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by calebhicks 13y ago
That's a fair point. I remember buying 'up' on a road bike for the color I preferred. So you're right there. Maybe I think it lasts a shorter time because I was almost entirely apathetic towards which color I got this ti
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by calebhicks 13y ago
>Apple didn’t release something out of style to which mindless sheep are flocking because it’s new. Apple released something in-style to which millions are flocking because it’s attractive. I'm sure there are plenty in each camp. Th
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Ask HN: Best language and database for specific project
4 points by calebhicks 15y ago|1 comments

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