mgirdley

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by mgirdley 5y ago
You might have a trademark problem coming your way... http://dura.software
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by mgirdley 8y ago
If you’ve ever used software built in a similar “death march” fashion, you’d be scared to buy this batch, too.
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by mgirdley 9y ago
I eventually settled on Apple Time Machine. It backs up to a home NAS and a handful of drives at each office. The NAS can be configured to back up to S3 automatically.
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by mgirdley 9y ago
Few code schools accept GI Bill because it requires them to have been in business for 2 years prior to applying to accept it. There's little stopping schools from getting approved, but the problem is most haven't enough track reco
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by mgirdley 9y ago
How have they or do they plan to overcome the limitations and inefficiencies that happen near and past the speed of sound?
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by mgirdley 10y ago
Did these guys pay a fee to YC? They seem to pop up weekly on the front page.
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by mgirdley 10y ago
He isn't buying a stock here or there either. He's mostly doing deals in bulk that the average investor can't. For example, his investment in Goldman Sachs during 2008.
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by mgirdley 10y ago
With most of the eurogames, I wonder why a computer isn't doing all the busy work they seem to require.
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by mgirdley 10y ago
Irony abounds here. Steve's band gets paid six figures a year each and flies coach to each gig. Steve flies in on a private jet and takes home multiple millions each year.
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by mgirdley 10y ago
If you dig in with employers to understand those job listings, there's a big difference between what they ask for and what they settle for in terms of qualifications. Another significant percentage of those job listings are designed to
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by mgirdley 11y ago
It's totally ethical. The contract is very clear when it says, "Buyer and/or assigns." In most states, that is written at the very beginning of the contract as well.
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by mgirdley 11y ago
The fatal flaw in all of these startups was they just aggregated content. None of them solved the real problem of distilling the overwhelming amount of content online into the few thing(s) I should read.
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by mgirdley 11y ago
I see this done all the time: Build websites for a couple dozen clients. Charge hosting fees and maintenance each month to keep sites live. Marking up AWS hosting to $50 / mth and charging some hourly here and there at $100 / hr a
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by mgirdley 11y ago
I loathe these type articles. They're complex arguments to justify the attitude that "only we chosen few (men) with serious tech degrees are gifted enough to do important work in code." Tech is a big, prosperous industry and
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by mgirdley 11y ago
I used to be in the "eff college do bootcamp" side of things. I think that's wrong now. Young people need some of what college gives you and also what bootcamps provide -- if they want a coding career.
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by mgirdley 11y ago
Yup, excellent correction. Thanks.
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by mgirdley 11y ago
Codeup in Texas. A tiny percentage of our grads are placed by recruiters -- and that's OK. We don't really see that. The grads who can build a real portfolio of work and are likable get hired the quickest.
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by mgirdley 11y ago
I think there's a wide spectrum of bootcamps. Some are elite and some aren't. It's important to recognize bootcamp grads for what they are: people who've been coding for 3-4 months max. Many folks expect them to be seaso
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by mgirdley 11y ago
Bootcamp founder here. There's a big difference between learning enough to tinker with code and enough to work professionally at it. The vast majority of people don't have the network, self-motivation or ability to get to a level
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by mgirdley 11y ago
TWC is already scared and improving their service. It's great. Thank you, google.
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by mgirdley 11y ago
Imagine the mafia started a country and then a hundred years later tried to clean up their image a little. That's how I think of business and government there.
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Show HN: Outsource initial technical interviews(techscreen.io)
4 points by mgirdley 12y ago|1 comments
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by mgirdley 12y ago
Accreditation is double-edged sword. Many awful providers of educational value are accredited and the requirements of accreditation often inhibit innovation in educational models.
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by mgirdley 12y ago
I don't think that's the message. We are focused on making people professional, employable programmers. While I agree that everyone can play with scratch or build a basic webpage, that's different than the programming skills
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by mgirdley 12y ago
We presumed and used a normal distribution for each class. The numbers were arbitrary. Just what felt easier to understand for the staff.
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by mgirdley 12y ago
Codeup CEO here: For our purposes we want to only take students we know we can help and will eventually succeed. If we bring in people who fail during and after class, it's bad for business. It may be controversial but running this pla
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by mgirdley 12y ago
These instructors are spending all day, every day with the students as teachers lecturing and helping them through exercises. They're not interviewing them.
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by mgirdley 12y ago
Agreed that an objective measurement would be ideal and this is second best. However, we've had a hard time creating or locating an objective measurement of general programming skill. As demonstrated by the industry's non-use of s
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by mgirdley 12y ago
Codeup CEO here. We actually did some brief testing with classical IQ tests and saw two problems: 1) IQ tests are really long and expensive, so difficult to implement 2) They didn't correlate with performance as well as algebra.
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by mgirdley 12y ago
Codeup CEO here: it's the instructors evaluating the students based on their interactions with then and answering the question: how capable is this person of building quality web applications?

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