intellegacy

Why do you not have a contact me button on your blog. Seriously dude...

How do I contact you? I have a concept for this actually and am interested in discussing it.

I admire your enthusiasm. However, I'm not sure what your idea does that facebook doesn't do. Most people understand how to use facebook already; it's not complicated even for grandmas.

edit: if you want to discuss more shoot me an email (in my profile). I'd love to chat with you and bounce ideas off each other.

Anyone interested in building an alternative to cupidwithfriends?

Email me.

Yea, if you venture outside the HN/500startups tech ecosystem, you notice that there are many, many companies working on the same problems that YC companies are attempting to solve. They just don't get any recognition on HN, which is a little dangerous for HNers.

It takes a special kind of person, or a fanatical belief in yourself or the product/company, to handle rejection after rejection after rejection. Supreme confidence in the company and the ability to channel that confidence to investors can be as valuable as a great engineer.

Just because you work more hours doesn't mean you are contributing more value to the company. That said, if you really do contribute 70% of the value into the company in it's early stages I might discuss with the cofounder a 70/30 split in equity.

I'll check it out, thanks.

At first glance I'm wondering why I can't filter by locale. It reads more like a travelogue website than one that can help me immediately.

The Travel Site I want is a mixture of wikitravel and tripadvisor, only updated more often and not so narrow. By narrow I mean that users on a site only go to restaurants that are mentioned on the site, potentially missing some hidden gems.

The biggest problem whilst traveling for me is not flight info. That's not a problem I have, really. I buy a flight once and forget about it. But I spend a lot of time worrying about not getting ripped off, or walking around finding a safe place to sleep, choosing decent restaurants, selecting authentic places to see and things to do. Wikitravel did an OK job but again it was 'narrow' and also infrequently updated.

In summation, the perfect travel site for me would be basically a map telling me local places to sleep/eat/activity and the price and quality and rating.

"The Lord of the Rings trilogy had a budget of $281 million and in many ways was a big of a gamble as any Venture Backed Company."

Not really. Lord of the Rings was an established brand before the movies with a fervent fan base.

If you could redesign Quora, what would you come up with?

To be fair, this is simply a contrast in different pedagogical approaches to the first Intro CS Class. You learn the hows and whys in later MIT courses when you cover binary and C.

"Most Creative Parenting" award.

So.. how does one install this?

Yes, the knowledge acquired is assumed :)

but really, I've realized there's no difference between MOOC and self-studying a textbook if the MOOCs don't provide credit.

Hmm. This is excellent info. thank you. I wish you could have advised me many years ago :)

You still need to join a University for the credit to be worth something. So maybe students will be able to transfer in many credits, kind of like APs.

FWIW, my state school requires 45 credits to be taken at the Uni for a bachelor's in CS so the announcement is not too too helpful for me.

If you stick to the programming world, what you said is true. Once you venture outside that world, employers value the degree.

I've just finished Udacity CS101 and am about to finish edX 6.00x (both are intro to cs courses).

I've done a lot of thought and research into MOOCs and normal CS bachelor's programs. Initially I was really excited about getting a CS BS for free, online. The savings would be about $40000 compared with going to my local state school.

But the luster soon dulled once I realized that it will be some time before Universities accept MOOC certificates as credit (or never). So my self-study CS degree is really nothing more than cracking open textbooks and watching youtube videos as far as an employer is concerned.

We're at a strange impasse where MOOCs are free but are limited by the weakness of being no-credit, and Universities are outrageously expensive but provide the value of being for-credit.

Up until a week ago I had signed up for 7 or 8 courses, excited to further my CS education. I've since decided to cancel them all. Coursera's Data Structures course doesn't even give you a certificate! Even if you ace the course you get nada. zip. zilch.

Sorry but that's just too much of a downside for me. If you're going to spend 10 hours a week for 3 months (what's that.. 100-120 hours) you might as well get credit for it. Sad but that's how this world works. Either University prices need to be cut in half or MOOC certificates need to count for something. Something has to give. Until then I will be wary about putting my time into MOOCs.

The good thing is that with the flood of students to MOOC education, employers will soon be forced to take note of the courses these MOOC students have taken. This change in attitude will take some time to effect - 10 years before significant attitude shift and then 20-30 years before a complete attitude shift.

I'd rather not wait that long, but I may not have a choice, like many other people. The strange thing is that it's rational to eschew university and study MOOCs, but it's also rational to bite the high university tuition costs and get the degree. It's a very, very interesting time for education.

This is the first time I have heard any complaints about the acronym. Not that I particularly like it myself, but I don't think it's a big deal. The world does not revolve around NYC.

You need to take a computer science course , which will teach you how to think.

The Python exercises on codeacademy are there to strengthen your grasp of python syntax and practice for loops.

I recommend Udacity CS101 and/or edx 6.00x. Both are Intro to CS courses which use Python.

Is there a market for to-do lists? How large is it?

Who is currently paying for to-do list apps?

What is this obsession with to-do list apps?

i don't understand the concept behind this company. Can't anyone register their own .co domain name? with godaddy, namecheap, etc.

There are front-end only jobs (HTML, CSS, Javascript). I imagine these positions would require programming with Javascript as well as some basic familiarity with Jquery and other front-end frameworks.

Some jobs require you to know the full stack - everything from front-end to back-end SQL.

And some jobs are for back-end development only - with back-end languages python, java, ruby, or PHP. If you use python or ruby you should learn the associated web frameworks as well (Python+Django and Ruby on Rails being the most notable).

It depends on what you want to do. Do you want to code your own websites or work at a dev agency? -- You need to learn the full web stack. Do you want to work for a hip startup? -- you should probably learn a back-end language and a web framework and build a project website with it. I'd recommend either ruby on rails or python + django.

I actually don't think you should ask him to leave yet.

Because what it sounds like is that you haven't communicated very well with him (understandable - you've been busy).

He may not even know that you guys are having issues with his performance. I'd sit down and talk to him first before deciding anything.

Silicon valley, Boston, and NYC are paying $100k for senior level developers.

Of course Malaysia and S.E.Asia and the rest of the world has a lower level of salary (except perhaps Singapore).

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It wasn't my intention to come across as an ass, sorry. Your anecdote implies a deeper insight though: if the "genius" is just another standard tech support employee then Apple's use of the moniker is misplaced.

That's nonsensical. Apple is marketing these staff as "geniuses". They're supposed to operate on a higher standard than the stereotypical brain-dead tech support; thus we should hold them to that standard.

If Apple's standards are as low as those of other companies then they really don't deserve to earn the price premium they charge.

You might want to relax. I mean, these MOOC courses only became ubiquitous this year. Give at least 5-10 years to see what the effects will be.