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by nbashaw 14y ago
I think people want to see what the generated HYML looks like
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by nbashaw 14y ago
Very true, also probably less stressful. When I was a student I couldn't really afford it though. The nice thing about doing freelance is you make money! haha
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by nbashaw 14y ago
Awesome! I'm glad you got something out of it. If you ever want to chat about strategies email me! nbashaw [at] gmail
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by nbashaw 14y ago
> "...nothing will turn you off faster to learning than a client who yells or berates you for your lack of experience" I never got berated, because I made it clear up front that I was a beginner and that I was charging a very small fee.
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by nbashaw 14y ago
> "The minute someone offers some sort of compensation for work, the dynamic of the relationship changes" That's the point. If you're doing something for free as a helper then there's no consequence for saying "hey sorry i haven't gotte
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by nbashaw 14y ago
That's a cool idea! I had a lot of luck with student organizations since I was a college student. I also built a site for a book my professor was writing, a board game that a friend was launching, and a professional parent psychologist. The
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by nbashaw 14y ago
Great point! I totally agree
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by nbashaw 14y ago
I agree - I'm just saying it's the best starting point, not that it encapsulates all "coding".
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by nbashaw 14y ago
I kind of feel bad that the switch from "learn to code" to "why schools work" was so jarring. I definitely need to do a better job making it a bit more skim-able. But I definitely don't feel bad about advising people to start learning to co
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How To Learn To Code In 2013(blog.enoughtobedanger.us)
27 points by nbashaw 14y ago|25 comments
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Web Caching For Beginners(blog.enoughtobedanger.us)
11 points by nbashaw 14y ago|3 comments
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by nbashaw 14y ago
Totally! It also taught me what it feels like to actually work hard. Before that I had only worked at a pretty leisurely pace, but in debate if you want to win the amount of research and practice required are crazy.
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by nbashaw 14y ago
That old Airbnb hacker house link is broken, but holy crap the background of their 404 page is awesome!
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by nbashaw 14y ago
In college, before I became obsessed with startups, I was a policy debater at Michigan State. Any other ex-debaters hanging around on HN?
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by nbashaw 14y ago
Sorry for submitting to HN with it not quite ready! Just stumbled across it today and thought it was really fascinating. I'm working on a "learn to code" product myself. Just watched your talk at Oredev in Sweden yesterday. Thank you so muc
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Zed Shaw's Template for "Learn X The Hard Way" Books(gitorious.org)
123 points by nbashaw 14y ago|48 comments
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by nbashaw 14y ago
Is this a joke? I seriously can't tell
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by nbashaw 14y ago
Actually more than 100 million. That's just the amount they raised from a16z
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by nbashaw 14y ago
We used firebase to power Scratchpad.io's back end (launched yesterday) and it was an awesome experience! The security features were super easy to use
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by nbashaw 14y ago
Thanks so much, Scott! That is indeed an ace default, but I can try and figure out how to override it. Syntax completion is always tricky.
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by nbashaw 14y ago
It's definitely a possibility! Actually, more like a probability. Just didn't want to build too much into V1
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by nbashaw 14y ago
I could definitely make a drag-to-resize thing, but I opted against it in V1 for simplicity's sake. We do have a fullscreen mode though
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by nbashaw 14y ago
Whoa! Thanks for sending this in! Crazy bug.
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by nbashaw 14y ago
Haha thanks so much!! That is awesome
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by nbashaw 14y ago
I just realized that after HNing it :( Terrible oversight. However, the tooltip when you hover over the arrow button is OS-appropriate https://gist.github.com/4321208#file-scratchpad-js-L344
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by nbashaw 14y ago
I wanted to reduce this: 1. Create a file 2. Open it in your text editor 3. Edit code 4. Switch to browser 5. Open up the file 6. Switch back to editor 7. Edit code 8. Hit save 9. Switch back to browser 10. Hit refresh 11. GOTO 6 to this: 1
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by nbashaw 14y ago
Thanks!! I really appreciate that. I also like the unique URL feature :)
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by nbashaw 14y ago
Haha this is very true. I like to think of it as an easter egg.
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by nbashaw 14y ago
Crazy! I thought I encountered this once in development but couldn't repro it again. Thought I was going crazy. Thank you so much!!
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by nbashaw 14y ago
Thanks! I'll have to read up on OT. Our backend is totally hosted by Firebase, other than a simple Sinatra app that generates the unique IDs. When you say synchronizing cursors, do you mean having multiple cursors (google docs style) or hav

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