yShrike

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Comment your damn code(tech.collectedit.com)
34 points by yShrike 14y ago|65 comments
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Going native iOS and how you can too / Part 2 Web API style services(tech.collectedit.com)
6 points by yShrike 14y ago|0 comments
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IPhone Cloud Based Architecture Part 1 (Intro)(tech.collectedit.com)
11 points by yShrike 14y ago|0 comments
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Technology does not matter in a tech start up(tech.collectedit.com)
7 points by yShrike 14y ago|0 comments
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by yShrike 14y ago
FWIW, when I interview technical candidates, I ask technical questions until I get to the point where the candidate says "I'm not sure" or "I don't know". That helps me understand where the are in their career. If a candidate knows everythi
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by yShrike 14y ago
Sure. Plenty. Google for Virginia Tech incubator and you should find many. There is a whole small start up business center right off campus.
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by yShrike 14y ago
This is being said without knowing exactly which web sites you're talking about. You'd have to give examples to get a more precise answer. Don't equate using something that works with following herd mentality. The reason something like Boot
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by yShrike 15y ago
Yes, I think that really depends on the kid. Mainly I wanted to point out that there are plenty of learning vehicles that teach the programming concepts without necessarily being 100% text-based coding. For some kids that will excite them m
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by yShrike 15y ago
Oh and I'm not totally humorless. http://xkcd.com/386/
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by yShrike 15y ago
For an 11 year old, a more visual pseudo programming language (see Scratch or Alice) is more appropriate than jumping into something like PHP or C. Even Codea is a jump... but Lua is pretty friendly for someone seeing code for the first tim
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by yShrike 15y ago
You'd recommend to an 11 year old to read a book "learning to code the hard way"? Really? I think you're making a lot of assumptions with a comment like "stop trying to live vicariously through him". Would you have had the same reaction if
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by yShrike 15y ago
Here are some ideas (and we've used pretty much all of them) Alice, from Randy Pausch ( http://www.thelastlecture.com/ ) team http://alice.org/ Scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/ Codea--programming on the iPad. I highly recommend getting a
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by yShrike 15y ago
Just be honest and say "I'm sorry but I signed separation papers that mean that I"m not allowed to say anything negative about the company." :-)
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by yShrike 15y ago
If you're thinking that you need to be paid for overtime, then I don't think a start-up is a good fit. The whole idea of start-up if deferred payment. Consulting is the only way that I'm aware of where the convention is you are paid hourly.