michaelq

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Design Machines: How to survive the digital apocalypse(louderthanten.com)
10 points by michaelq 11y ago|1 comments
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by michaelq 11y ago
Look what I found: Slack's free tier pricing page explicitly states "There's no limit on how many people you can add to your team on Slack." https://twitter.com/FreeCodeCamp/status/6127580622149
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by michaelq 11y ago
I authored this blog post. There is a lot of merit to your criticisms of my decision making. I want to point out that communities are increasingly using Slack, and many of them are also in the thousands of users. Slack does nothing to disc
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10 steps to plan better so you can write less code(blog.freecodecamp.com)
2 points by michaelq 11y ago|1 comments
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Acknowledging the Tower of Babel(blog.freecodecamp.com)
1 points by michaelq 11y ago|0 comments
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25 profound comics about coding(medium.com)
7 points by michaelq 11y ago|1 comments
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We now have an official theme song(blog.freecodecamp.com)
9 points by michaelq 11y ago|0 comments
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by michaelq 12y ago
This looks like a great value. We were considering using Campaign.js, but actually getting it up and running on a server to fire out campaigns seemed like a pain (as does using sendy). Combining the affordability of SES with some symbolance
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My Quantified 2014: Life Behind the Command Line(blog.freecodecamp.com)
8 points by michaelq 12y ago|0 comments
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Hello world Now what?(blog.freecodecamp.com)
2 points by michaelq 12y ago|0 comments
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Free Code Camp's new curriculum: short, interactive, browser-based(blog.freecodecamp.com)
3 points by michaelq 12y ago|0 comments
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Free Code Camp doesn't make money and that's OK(blog.freecodecamp.com)
1 points by michaelq 12y ago|0 comments
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Who should learn to code? Everyone.(craigconnects.org)
3 points by michaelq 12y ago|1 comments
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The real reason to learn the MEAN stack(blog.freecodecamp.com)
2 points by michaelq 12y ago|0 comments
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by michaelq 12y ago
Hackathons are awesome. I try to do like 6 or 7 a year. And I'm married and in my mid 30s. To take the OP's points one-by-one: - Hackathons are worth the commitment. They're a fast, efficient way to try out 1) new frameworks
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I'm a grandma, and my coding career is just getting started(blog.freecodecamp.com)
23 points by michaelq 12y ago|4 comments
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A Cautionary Tale of Learning to Code(blog.freecodecamp.com)
240 points by michaelq 12y ago|129 comments
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by michaelq 12y ago
The college experience for most Millenials can fit into 14 lines of JavaScript: https://twitter.com/freecodecamp/status/531824655573602304
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by michaelq 12y ago
I'm excited to hear about it. http://fourbeansoup.com/ has some cool-looking apps!
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by michaelq 12y ago
Down in San Francisco. http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com
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by michaelq 12y ago
This is an interesting approach. So the idea is basically amassing a bunch of people's subjective opinions about causality? Most of the ideas here are really high-level. Also, I tried to submit a "situation" without creating
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by michaelq 12y ago
This article is PR at its most effective. An established founder snaps up a fancy domain name and his PR team convinces a reporter that Quora has somehow failed. I've found no such consensus of Quora having failed as a business ( http:
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by michaelq 12y ago
First of all, congratulations on the job! We have a project-oriented full-stack JS curriculum at FreeCodeCamp, but if you're looking for a Rails curriculum, check out OdinProject. Erik's curated the best rails resources. And I agr
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by michaelq 12y ago
I couldn't agree more. All we need is Craigslist style verticals (categories of work) and horizontals (cities) + identity verification + a reputation system. The overhead for that could be really low. The $35k/year/worker sup
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by michaelq 12y ago
O'Reilly is a specialized technical book publisher. Hatchette, on the other hand, is an undifferentiated conglomerate (one of the big 5 publishing companies). The types of people who would start their book search at O'Reilly are f
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by michaelq 12y ago
I completely agree. I commute by running, and it's unsafe to look at a screen. So I frequently issue commands into my headphone mic like "read my texts" and "text <name> I'll be there in five" or "sh
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by michaelq 12y ago
Vision was one of the last senses to evolve in animals. And yet it's the most useful sense, significantly reducing our reliance on other senses. As a result, if I were to lose my vision, I might well be at a much larger disadvantage th
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by michaelq 12y ago
Other than Vim or Emacs (which I do mention in my post), which tools do you use? And which tools would you recommend for beginners?
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by michaelq 12y ago
Thanks for your feedback. I have no quantitative evidence to back up this statement so I will amend it. There are many reasons most developers (certainly in the Bay Area) prefer OSX to Windows or desktop Linux. How would you feel about: &q
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by michaelq 12y ago
Do you do embedded/native development? Which tools do you use for that that aren't mentioned in the blog post?

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