cglee

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by cglee 3mo ago
Yes, it feels like the future every time I put it on. For work, the ultra wide has been wonderful when I'm not at my desk. I also get to have the NBA playoffs to the side on a 10ft screen while I work. For videos, it's a complete
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by cglee 2y ago
15 years on Heroku, absolutely no regrets and would do it again and again and again. It's one of those "no one goes there because it's too busy" type of situations. Don't fall for the noise, just use Heroku and move
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by cglee 2y ago
I'm B2C and selling ed to students is an eye-opening experience. It's actually very easy to get people to pay, so the problem isn't conversions. The problem for me is that if you keep following the money, it's natural to
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by cglee 2y ago
Great observations. I've been in the edu (coding school) space for over a decade and it tracks with my experience (though it seems you've tackled a lot more market segments than I have). I'm very bullish on AI + Education. If
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by cglee 2y ago
We have a saying at Launch School: habits over enthusiasm. I've noticed that wanting it isn't enough. Desire is fine but what the real key is a commitment to studying. I think we're saying the same thing with different phrase
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by cglee 2y ago
How far along are you? I like what Recurse Center is doing, for example.
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by cglee 2y ago
I think you have to be careful about looking at the diverse student body as "giving them an opportunity". For example, predatory for-profit universities specifically target low-income minority populations not to serve them but bec
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by cglee 2y ago
I'm the founder of Launch School and I have been thinking about ISAs, coding bootcamps, and software ed for over a decade. I've tried to insert my thoughts here and there, for example: - https://news.ycombinator.c
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by cglee 3y ago
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this topic and I've come to the conclusion that the best generic advice for folks in your situation is to be under-employed, ie a job where you're not maxed out mentally/emotionall
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by cglee 3y ago
I'm embarrassed to say that even after spending nearly a decade operating a mastery-based software engineering school, I've only just heard about this paper now. And having read it just now, I'm feeling better than ever about
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by cglee 3y ago
Interesting observation and aligns with my experience of really enjoying small focused tools and apps. This website is a good example. Further, it feels like there's a corollary here to companies, where financially constrained companie
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by cglee 4y ago
For me it's not shocking that any one person can be this cruel. What's difficult to process is how entire social structures and institutions can be this cruel.
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by cglee 4y ago
Since they're on the market looking for jobs, our graduates are pretty easy to find so any company can just contact them directly without partnering with us. There's no real way to prevent that. And, I don't want to prevent c
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by cglee 4y ago
Hey Adam! This is the weekly check-ins during your job hunt we did. I guess your job hunt duration was too short, so maybe you didn't do too much of this :)
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by cglee 4y ago
It's rarely 8 hours a day "applying to jobs". This is similar to an employer saying "you should work 40 hours/week". In that 40 hours are lots of varied activity, including breaks and lunch and any other activi
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by cglee 4y ago
This is a smart comment because this is exactly what we run into (I operate a coding school that uses ISAs). Employers love our graduates, but if we charged employers, we'd have to play a cat and mouse game of "please don't c
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by cglee 4y ago
For the past 6 years, I've operated a software engineering school[1] that uses ISAs and I have some thoughts about them. There are two main stated benefits to using ISAs (there are others, but those seem overblown): a) commission b
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by cglee 5y ago
This is something that mastery-based learning solves pretty cleanly. Or more accurately, in a MBL pedagogy, there's no need for faster/gifted or slower/remedial paths. All the debate for/against gifted programs fall into
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by cglee 5y ago
If I were to guess, the money is actually in writing about the experience and parlaying it to an entry into Angel or VC.
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by cglee 6y ago
Long-time MicroConf attendee (and one time sponsor). Still, YC has an outsized influence on young people and I'd like to see the bootstrap model expressed as a more obtainable path to one's first million.
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by cglee 6y ago
IMO, there needs to be a bootstrapping track. Perhaps the bootstrapping track should even be the primary one. Of course YC won't do this, but IMHO, bootstrapping leads to the best chance for young people to quickly become millionaires.
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by cglee 7y ago
This is a disgusting comment. I have family members at the protest site. They are non-violent Americans protesting what they believe in.
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by cglee 7y ago
If we're thinking of the same poll, it was conducted in 2015 and the polling was backed by Caltech, who has a vested interest in TMT and neither the instrument or the raw data were available for other researchers to analyze.
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by cglee 7y ago
I urge you to do some research into why they're protesting and not jump to wild conclusions. Try to think of the protestors as sane, rational humans who have values that's derived from a unique history and culture. I'm not sa
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by cglee 7y ago
Some context for the protests: https://medium.com/@akkagawa/maunakea-redirecting-the-lens-o...
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Another Path for High School Students(medium.com)
11 points by cglee 7y ago|0 comments
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Another Path for High School Students(medium.com)
1 points by cglee 7y ago|0 comments
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by cglee 8y ago
Ask your manager to send you to this: http://coleadership.com
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by cglee 8y ago
http://launchschool.com/books/sql
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by cglee 8y ago
This might help: https://medium.com/launch-school/solving-coding-problems-wit...

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