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by tweiss 13y ago
Great to see that there is (almost) always a great open source alternative to expensive proprietary IP products! Splunk can become very expensive very quickly if you have a lot of data, so this is great news. Wish they would have shorter re
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by tweiss 13y ago
Great overview, but do you think it's possible to compare package managers between different programming languages? I mean they all work quite differently when it comes to dependencies, build process etc. I'm a Python coder &
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by tweiss 14y ago
Another business guy turned programmer here. It's good to see that there are more of us out there and that I'm not the only crazy one. Some advice I would give to anybody who wants to learn to code from scratch: - Focus. Don't do it on the
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by tweiss 14y ago
It's amazing to see how little has changed over the last five years - the blog post is from 2008. I mean you would obviously pick Python or Ruby now, and use websites like Codecademy or Udacity. But the core message still applies: it's hard
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by tweiss 14y ago
While I really applaud his tenacity, I don't think that this is what Paul had in mind when he said "relentlessly resourceful". I borders on stalking. It's one thing to have a product and try to get YC's attention, it's a completely differen
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by tweiss 14y ago
Thanks! I think it's a great resource and have actually included some of it in the course.
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by tweiss 14y ago
no offense taken ;) it's a free course that I created to help others with their applications and to showcase the prototype of crowdcademy. There will be paid courses eventually, but on much more complicated and lengthy topics such as learni
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by tweiss 14y ago
If anybody knows of great resources that I've overlooked, please leave a coment and I will add them asap. Thanks a lot!
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Curated course on how to get into YC(crowdcademy.com)
23 points by tweiss 14y ago|10 comments
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by tweiss 14y ago
This. I can't even imagine how founders with families and kids deal with the stress that goes hand in hand with being broke. Being scrapy and hungry is a good thing. But not knowing how to pay rent or having to freelance a couple of days a
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How to hack your brain to become more stress-resilient(crowdcademy.com)
11 points by tweiss 14y ago|0 comments
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by tweiss 14y ago
That sounds pretty sweet. Does the network of advisors only cover the traditional education space, or also e-learning/self-teaching? Because for the latter it's a whole different ball game when it comes to marketing and customer acquisition
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by tweiss 14y ago
His LinkedIn states that he graduated last year and worked for a startup for a grand total of 3 months... nothing against the author, but he seems to be too young and inexperienced to fully understand the big picture of something as complex
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The world's first meme-based pitch (Airport Startupweekend Berlin)(prezi.com)
3 points by tweiss 14y ago|1 comments
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by tweiss 14y ago
The latter. I know a lot of great coders, and most of them set the bar for "decent" very high. By decent I mean that you could actually write code to solve most problems you come across. Is the code going to be less than optimal? Of course.
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by tweiss 14y ago
That's so true! I used to love to learn... I mean I had to learn Spanish in 6 months when I moved to Costa Rica for an internship. Plus I've read at least two books per month for the last 3 years (business and psychology stuff). But learnin
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by tweiss 14y ago
Not necessarily if you want to be a brogrammer... watch the video, it from the first twilio conference. it's hilarious! :)
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by tweiss 14y ago
Sorry guys if you get a server error page, seems like my heroku dev postgres can't handle ANY traffic. I haven't implemented connection pooling yet and I run out of db connections way to quickly ... will try to fix it or set up my own db!
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The Ugly Side of Learning to Code(crowdcademy.com)
73 points by tweiss 14y ago|58 comments
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by tweiss 14y ago
tl;dr but I guess his point is that if you're a kickass German scientist, you don't have to use CSS and make your posts more readable. <3 the attitude!
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by tweiss 14y ago
Having been a difficult employee myself (don't know about the talented part), I've wondered if the way my old boss dealt with this problem was the right one. After some initial conflicts he decided to ignore my antics as long as my output w
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by tweiss 14y ago
From my experience (German, studied and worked in the states, traveler) the list is pretty spot on. BUT I think it applies mostly to Joe Sixpack. Most of my friends and people I met are not really like that. Maybe just enough so that you ca
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by tweiss 14y ago
I'm following that thread hoping that some day they will listen to their customers. I'm pretty close to switching to another CDN because of that. Do you happen to have any recommendations?
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by tweiss 14y ago
I have the same problem and haven't found a solution that works and is easy to set up and manage. This looks promising, too bad I'm using Django and not RoR. The combination heroku + S3 is awesome, but throw in fonts and firefox and it turn
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by tweiss 14y ago
guys, please fix your registration process. Way too much stuff that you ask for in one view and errors don't get properly displayed. I gave up after 3 tries... But I like the idea, it's hard to find other django hackers in Berlin. Everybody
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by tweiss 14y ago
This should be a mandatory read for every business guy who wants to run his or her own start-up. I wish I could have read this post three years ago. I still look back in horror on how I interacted with coders or with my technical co-founder
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by tweiss 14y ago
That sounds horrible - what kind person sends victory emails to former employees/friends they fired? Maybe that's one of the downsides of having very young & immature entrepreneurs running companies.
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by tweiss 14y ago
Good idea, but I see one big problem: market of lemons, i.e. the really good teams will concentrate on getting into YC or Techstars and only the mediocre teams and ideas will participate in NCombinator. But since there are plenty of good te
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by tweiss 14y ago
You could use the same gamification app that Pinax uses: Django Brabeion https://github.com/eldarion/brabeion I just started using it, so I can't tell you much about it. But it was the only gamification app with a decent amount of people
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by tweiss 14y ago
Really? I thought they only had one office in Germany, and that's in Hamburg. Did they open a second one in Berlin without throwing an opening party?

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