michelleclsun

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by michelleclsun 9y ago
I went to Hackbright in 2012 and in 2013 started a kids coding education company First Code Academy (firstcodeacademy.com) in Asia, covering Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan today. We have taught over 4000 students since 2013 and growing str
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by michelleclsun 13y ago
"With the right person, the right curriculum, and the right instructors, it's possible to train a person in ten weeks to be competitive with a college graduate with a computer science degree, even for a position at a tier-1 engineering orga
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by michelleclsun 13y ago
Hi seferphier :) Are you based in Hong Kong too?
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by michelleclsun 13y ago
What I found from using this product in the past few weeks is that it helped me re-engage with the people I missed their tweets, either by replying or clicking through the links. Twitter also has the dailiy / weekly digest functions, but it
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by michelleclsun 14y ago
It looks great! My nexus 4 is arriving today, will definitely be one of the first apps I download. Good job!
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The science of how temperature and lighting impacts our productivity(blog.bufferapp.com)
14 points by michelleclsun 14y ago|5 comments
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Takeaways from Design Thinking Panel at Startup Product Summit(sunmichelle.com)
2 points by michelleclsun 14y ago|0 comments
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Common Pitfalls in Building Products and How to Avoid them(sunmichelle.com)
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by michelleclsun 14y ago
He made a good point here in eliminating unnecessary risks (for him, dropping out of college) by retaining as much optionality for as long as he can, and at the same time working hard at his startup. As an entrepreneur there are lots of ri
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by michelleclsun 14y ago
Hi bcambel, big congrats to your courage and honesty - one of the biggest learning for me of being an entrepreneur is the humility. Just a thought, you might want to think of yourself as "an entrepreneur that failed once " rather than "a f
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by michelleclsun 14y ago
Definitely. Meta-learning is something that's tough. Recently I enrolled into CodeSchool.com and there are lots of interesting sounding tutorials. I code in Python and want to be more proficient in web development, the problem I face is,
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by michelleclsun 14y ago
Likewise. Flow is achieved with overlap of skills and a clear step by step path to a goal. As a new full time coder, I experience coder's block perhaps few times a week at the job. I think tomasien's suggestion to write things down is ver
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by michelleclsun 14y ago
Thanks for the link Ryan. I resonate with the post a lot. Recently moved to the bay area, after spending undergraduate years in chicago, working in nyc, hong kong, beijing, I feel that where we live determines a lot of how we live our live
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by michelleclsun 14y ago
Yeah, it's a visible improvement. And it's now my daily routine to go to Hacker News and getPrismatic.com every morning! :) One thing I missed was to navigate to topics from my home feed. Before I used to be able to on the right menu I t
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by michelleclsun 14y ago
Awesome, very useful product, definitely one of the most relevant news aggregation services currently. The recent web redesign also enhanced desktop use as well. Congratulations team!
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by michelleclsun 14y ago
Thanks @tordf!
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by michelleclsun 14y ago
Thanks @poof131 - I'd like to go deeper into algorithms / data manipulation / social network analysis (for my job), and also web programming using python (weekend reading). I'm currently reading Python for Data Analysis but feel like I can
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Ask HN: What are good books for advanced topics in Python?
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by michelleclsun 14y ago
Great! Big fan of Prismatic :) One thing I don't understand is that sometimes there's a dollar sign next to an article (eg one from Forbes.com). What does that mean?
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Ask HN: What are the challenges / general tips to relief or prevent back pain?
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by michelleclsun 14y ago
Books
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Ask HN: What would you recommend for holiday reading this Thxgiving/Xmas break?
1 points by michelleclsun 14y ago|2 comments
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by michelleclsun 14y ago
The best part of these toilets is not the washing function, which in Asia frankly not a lot of people use (I lived in Hong Kong, Beijing and traveled extensively across main cities in Asia) but the heated seats . Once in a ski lodge in Ni
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by michelleclsun 14y ago
Thanks for sharing! I'm curious about your experience running your own early stage startup and raising kids at the same time. (I was also inspired after meeting with Joel to start blogging!) When did you start YouSites, was it before or aft
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by michelleclsun 14y ago
I have the same experience as a student at Hackbright, a 10 week programming course. Prior to hackbright I took a lot of codecademy courses, but it never got me from newbie to 'yes I can do this' programmer. Yes, I can follow the exercise
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by michelleclsun 14y ago
I am relatively new to actively posting / discussing on HN (have been a passive reader for over a year now). This blog post is my attempt to share with the community what I thought of my experience learning to program this past summer. Th
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A Journey of Thousand Miles Begin With One Step (Or Summer)(michellelsun.tumblr.com)
1 points by michelleclsun 14y ago|1 comments
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by michelleclsun 14y ago
Thanks for the post, I am starting a role as a data analyst soon and am curious to hear more about two aspects of your role: 1. How are the dynamics between engineering team, product managers and data scientists. Understand that LinkedIn's
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by michelleclsun 14y ago
who is your target customer and why are they paying you? Does this save them time? Money? Make them money? Got any scenarios or customer sketches? In addition to these questions, I'd also think about how to reach a point where customer fe
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by michelleclsun 14y ago
It is great to see such creative initiative of linking these nuisances in technology to a good cause. Would it be possible to link to the location of the browser for the missing children (or adults) in that area?

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