jackcouch

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   by jackcouch 11y ago

   I'd like to use this to provide a development environment for a friend in Africa trying to learn to program. He has random access to random computers so any client side install is a problem. I would be happy to pay for the product or
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   by jackcouch 12y ago

   Thanks a lot. I'll definitely check these out. Really appreciate the info.
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   by jackcouch 12y ago

   Thanks Gyonka. Does my 3 year timeline (comment above) change your recommendation?
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   by jackcouch 12y ago

   To provide a little more context my goal is to be as effective as possible building difficult web apps in 3 years. I'm sure Arc is the wrong choice if I want to be as effective as possible in 6 months. If Arc is only the best choice if
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   by jackcouch 12y ago

   I think it's pretty limited. There is this tutorial: http://old.ycombinator.com/arc/tut.txt I can invest two or three years before I need to be as good or better at building something for the market than I would i
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   by jackcouch 12y ago

   I guess that is it primarily the essays by Paul Graham and secondarily (very minor) that I really like the simplicity of the way that it looks.
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   Anyone interested in teaching arc?

   11 points by jackcouch 12y ago|17 comments
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   by jackcouch 13y ago

   I just realized you're saying I should give them a price even if I plan to give it away for free. That's smart. Thx.
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   by jackcouch 13y ago

   I would think that even if it's boring time spent coding is going to be more beneficial than time spent parking cars. Is there a way to make it less stressful? Could you offer to take a pay cut to work from home and have more freedom?
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    by jackcouch 13y ago

    Do you think it would be a useful tool even for a more high tech (non dev) audience? Could you imagine a need for a quick and easy splash page in the next 12 months or would you just write the html and use your own web server?
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    by jackcouch 13y ago

    That's a good idea. I actually just bounced it off one of my users and they thought it would be great, but I often get flattering responses when I ask my users if they would like X because they already like us for solving a real pain.
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    Ask HN: Probably a dumb idea to lose focus, but..

    2 points by jackcouch 13y ago|7 comments
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    by jackcouch 13y ago

    I think this is another example of why we must start with apriori approach to economics (and all learning for that matter) and only resort to posteriori methods as a secondary methodology. In this case we can prove logically that inflation