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kurrent

69 karma · joined April 18, 2011

Web Developer in Vancouver, BC

email => kurrent at gmail.com

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kurrent··on How Long Will You Need to Save to Buy a Home In Your City?
Vancouver, BC here.

Medical science will have to make strides in prolonging life if the average person wishes to ever to buy their own home here.

Average Weekly wage = $860.57 Median Price = ~$700/sqft

kurrent··on Javascript Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners
funny to see a js tutorial using notepad and IE for the dev.

you'd be hard pressed to find ANYONE developing like this unless it was a video from microsoft.

kurrent··on I didn't learn programming when I was 12
I programmed for many years, but didn't really "get it" - It wasn't until I was 30 that I actually felt like a programmer.
kurrent··on 17-year old makes $20k/mo via Internet marketing, $370k so far
The guy also admits to knowing barely anything about SEO.

"I have no idea about SEO, but if I can recall it was something about Web 2.0 blog links, high PR domains, etc."

I'm calling bullshit on this whole IAmA

kurrent··on 17-year old makes $20k/mo via Internet marketing, $370k so far
sorry, but this is just another story about a teenage kid who did "SEO" to reap money from naive people and then brag about it.
kurrent··on The Scam Wall Street Learned from the Mafia
the source

http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f261600/261602.htm

kurrent··on Piccsy Pitchdeck
a startup pitch and proudly display that they use php/mysql

kudos to them!

kurrent··on Show HN: Advanced analytics for fantasy baseball players
looks great, job well done.

would love to see a blog post from you explaining your development process on the project

kurrent··on Poll: How long have you been programming?
a couple years.

i've been saying this for the last 10 years.

kurrent··on Books every self-taught computer scientist should read
looks like he jumps at any opportunity to get his amazon affiliate link out there. even posting it with a pretty much useless comment on this g+ post:

https://plus.google.com/112493031290529814667/posts/LvhVwngP...

(this link is from a story that just recently made the frontpage on hacker news)

Eric, how's the affiliate marketing going?

kurrent··on Books every self-taught computer scientist should read
I would suggest the following book as a precursor to all of these books: Code by Charles Petzold.

It is genuinely one of the best books I have ever read.

kurrent··on "I haven’t been drunk in 3 years... and I’ve been partying way more than you."
"If you’re drunk, you’re not fully there. You don’t remember everything. "

that's part of the whole reason to get drunk for me

kurrent··on My U.S. Border Nightmare
by that logic (and thank god it isn't true) who in their right mind would ever risk entering through that border?

you're absolutely wrong on that i'm afraid

kurrent··on Code Racer - compete in live code challenges
would have loved to try this, but fb only login?

seriously guys?!

kurrent··on Vim ported to iOS
I'll check this out app out. I've tried using the touch screen keyboard on an ipad thru ssh and using vim. it was unbearable, to say the least.

i ended up getting an asus transformer prime that has a keyboard dock and the keys can be rebound to your like (esc, ctrl, etc) and it's the closest to the "real thing" experience i have found on a tablet

kurrent··on The + operator has been replaced.
I read this title in hoping it was a change in javascript
kurrent··on [dead]
I think you'd have better luck posting on something like http://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco
kurrent··on Why I read Hacker News even though I understand very little of it
whew, i thought it was just me
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