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franlon Ask HN: How did you go from self taught coder to professional developer?

Agreed. I learned this the hard/frustrating way when I tried to go this route with very little technical experience.

franlon Ask HN: Want to build Ruby irb for iOS in RubyMotion with me?

If I understand the question correctly, a shell for regular ruby, that's within a RubyMotion app.

franlon Ask HN: Why aren't you working on a startup?

I used to have the same sort of plan (there's something inherently attractive about it, prob something related to human psychology, not sure). Looking back though, I wish I had done more exploration while I had steady money coming in. Are you opposed to starting part-time on an idea right now?