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You're right, it renders terribly on mobile. I'll see if I can find time to fix that today.

I need to update the site - at the time I didn't build any automation from the repo to publishing on solvingsol.com

In the Github repo there are a number of unsolved entries, and you can also make a new solution for a "solved" one – since there's no correct answer for any entry.

To see all of LeWitt's work, MassMOCA has an excellent online collection here: https://massmoca.org/sol-lewitt/

MassMOCA (in western Massachusetts) also has a wing devoted to LeWitt's work with wall-sized installations of dozens of them–highly recommend a visit!

Hey wow! Site author here, tons more solutions on Github than I've posted on the site: https://github.com/wholepixel/solving-sol

Sol LeWitt, and his cohort of generative conceptual artists, are really interesting to evaluate from a software engineering perspective, and I hope you'll take a look at what they're all about!

"In the Blink of an Eye" by Walter Murch (sound and editing on Apocalypse Now, Godfather, the Conversation, and so many more). The book is about film editing but actually about how humans absorb information.

I love this! I made a project for executing Sol LeWitt's instructional art in JavaScript (but any language is great): https://github.com/wholepixel/solving-sol

This guide has helped me unbend my mind about shaders: http://pixelshaders.com/

True, I'll improve the wording. The site's a week old; we're now working on properly setting expectations and funneling people toward the right class.

For the 4-week bootcamp, we're aiming for engineers who know how to program and want to move to Rails. They will probably already have a CS degree and work in tech, but they don't know Rails. We'll migrate their skills to Rails and connect them with area startups (we're also aiming at professional designers who know HTML/CSS and want to move up the stack).

Our instructors feel 4-weeks is enough time for training these experienced engineers. If it isn't, we'll extend the course. If someone is changing their life and paying money to take this bootcamp, we're going to do our best to care of them.

For absolute beginners, we'll offer a different track. It's remarkable what you guys accomplish in a six-month program.

We'll have 20 students in the first bootcamp.

It's a selective program; the students will have some programming experience. We'll run a different track for absolute beginners.

There's http://www.bostonstartupschool.com/ and several if you can make it down to NYC.

Thanks--abeh, shop local with bitmaker!

Good question; I'll look into it and get back to you.

Agreed!

We're in Seattle, where the average Rails salary is more like $80-100k [1]. Our guarantee is at least a $60k job offer.

[1] http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-ruby+on+rails/l...

This a way for designers to learn to code. Our next bootcamp is in Javascript and we're aiming it at designers who are tired of handing over their comps for someone else to build. I'm a designer who learned to code, and want to help others do the same.

I hate it when sites don't say where the product is, too.

South Lake Union is one of the startup hubs of Seattle--Amazon has most of its buildings here, TechStars Seattle is here, and a bunch of great small and medium startups.

We're not accredited--you can't get student loans for the program. You need to bring a laptop to the bootcamp (we should mention that on the site...shoot).

Hi guys, I'm Brad and I run Code Fellows. I'm here to answer questions. Ask here or write me at...my first name at codefellows.org.

The elephant in the room here is the Auteur Theory [1]. Film is a uniquely collaborative art--a director needs to communicate his or her vision to a very large team with specialized technical skills. While tempting to do it all yourself, that doesn't scale. There's a direct corollary here with running a company.

The craft, skill, and genius of great auteurs and entrepreneurs is inspiring a team with his or her vision to build great things together, not in doing it all him or her self.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auteur_theory

The AIM Group estimated $115M revenue for craigslist in 2011, after $141M in 2010. I don't know anything about the AIM group, but the report is referenced in the NYT (presumably they vetted the source, but...). http://aimgroup.com/2011/10/06/craigslist-revenue-falls-off-...

Great write-up. I went this year's as well as the one in 2010. The quality of the speakers at each is amazing; in 2010, the speakers seemed more focused on telling a unique story rather than the straightforward where-we-were and where-we-are-now stories from this year.

In particular, Kevin Hale's talk about WuFoo's customer support and James Lindenbaum's machete approach to product design. The year since may have burnished their memory and left me with overly high expectations for this one.

With Skype itself being acquired by Microsoft, it's hard to imagine GroupMe remaining a standalone product--or even as elegantly simple as it is now.