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I agree. Really well laid out, easy to understand for lay person without using too much technical jargon. I enjoyed the long code pastes; rather than a github repo link.

I just kept staring at that GIF ...

Yes I understand that. I was just asking in terms of the features that it currently offers compared to XBMC?

woah, this is really cool. How does this compare to XBMC on the raspmc distro? I am really tempted to try this out on my rpi because a lot of the software stack used could be hacked on easily.

Do you have any advice for someone who would want to pursue that industry now that is in their early 20's? I agree you should strive to do what you love, but if the pay you could potentially get is also good for it then there is no harm trying? Would you not say that the hard work you put in your early years allowed your wife and kids to lead a comfortable life now?

Good advice and I think it rings true with what people have adviced me in the past. Could you elaborate on the generalize at 20 part if you can? I do most of the things you suggestions - maybe not open source so much yet.. but something is coming up for that. Though the problem with trying to generalize is that its quite difficult, I always tend to read up on Web Dev articles, general programming etc. Ive started to look more into embedded but the passion is not at the level of web dev for me. So even though I try to read up on new things eventually it does come down to some sort of web stack :) Maybe I read HN too much and its too web oriented. Not sure what you meant by the "higher level stuff"?

Guess I just need to find some contacts in Seattle then! Sorted :)

> If you're talking about being a fresh graduate, the answer is that "Google or other SV company" will typically require zilch in the way of experience. Google, et al will have separate job postings for "recent graduates". The requirements are pretty bare.

The requirements never seem to reflect what you are tested on in an actual interview in one of those companies, as evidence of that blog post. However, yea in terms of experience they do not require that much - just a year in industry which is something most engineering/compsci uni courses's allow you to do. Thanks for the link, I will have a good read.

> Here's the problem that you have: smaller companies / start-ups in SF - they're probably not going to be able to sponsor you for a visa. So you're somewhat limited in terms of places you can apply to in the first place. What are Google, Facebook, and the like looking for in graduates? Experience, sure, but incredible technical savvy. You're competing against US graduates from great schools: it can be very difficult.

Yep your are right and thats what worries me the most. That technical savvy'ness is what someone non-technical person may think of me, but to a SV employer maybe not? I find it hard to rank myself of where I stand at the moment.

> Remember that many companies (Google, Facebook, Twitter, and the like) have engineering offices in London. If you're wanting to move to the US you may find it much easier to look for an opportunity in the UK that could in the future allow you to move laterally.

Yep agreed. Its not that I have this long standing dreaming of living in SF or working in SV, I just feel that it would be a great opportunity, and a shame to not try. I feel that if I aim high and do not get it, alternatives cant be that bad. I will most def look for an opportunity in the UK before, but I am not keen on working in London because of having to commute everyday.

Yes before taxes. The 16k I reported was before. So I got roughly ~12k.

Holy crap. I am student in the UK, recently did a internship at a fairly well known company. Got paid £16k for that year. If I were to get a full time job, it would be around ~30k a year. These figures are insane, people have told me in person this is what the figures are really like in SF but wow.

I think applying for a couple of jobs in SF etc just for kicks will be one of goals when I finish uni.

I know the term Web Developer has become a pretty broad term nowadays and maybe I am kidding myself when I think about a job at google or other SV or SF company, but what do they expect in terms of experience from a graduate?

It would be great to talk to someone who has first hand experience with this, as mostly my knowledge is from reading blogs posts and such.

wow the octocats are amazing. I was to see a colour version!

After I sign up to be a mentor, you said "spread the word".I think this is one of the few times where I have looked for social icons, so I can +1 it on google+. Other than that looks good. That form for applying to be a mentor could be a lot more specific and cleaned up!

Good idea, but after browsing through the pages on preview on amazon, I am not sure my sister who is high school will understand most of this. There is a lot acronyms all of the place, and while there are illustrations, I have yet to see illustrations of the concepts. For example there is a page on YAML and comparing it to XML, pages like this and others seem to be just have short explanations of what they are but not sure a child would be able to take away anything from it. Maybe I am being too critical but as someone who has tried to encourage programming to a younger sister - Not sure this particular book would make an impact.

I ran all those services at once to try out the performance, and I have to say turning on SABnzbd took the biggest hit. SSH'in for example was just dam slow. I am not sure how you manage to run all those with XBMC on as well. I was using raspmc distro, not sure that makes a huge difference.

I just put XBMC on it, and use it to watch TV Shows and Movies occasionally using put.io service - Amazes every non technical person I know. No interesting projects yet.

Thanks - purchased through amazon.com for £28 with shipping. amazon.co.uk would have been £38 and apparently taken longer to deliver.

I am keen to try out freelancing. I am still a student, so I can only do part-time but I already have a year of industry experience (django), and projects I have done that are live now (that people actually use!). I just need someone to give me that first chance to really prove myself and start building up my portfolio of real clients, rather than just projects I did for fun. I have been keen to try it out, but I was never sure when was the right time to dip my foot in the water. I did freelancing with someone for a short time (PHP MVC, Wordpress) but I always kinda felt I was getting the short end of the stick in regards to the pay and work. I guess I always thought it was always a bit risky and afraid of being takin advantage of so I never really went for it.

Anyone have any advice? I would appreciate it.

Really interesting. Could someone explain how these features relate in a language like python or C? Do they have the same features, but are more complicated to implement or is the architecture not even there to support such?

Great work. I am sure this would be useful if there was a filter on official documentation sites like jquery or php.net etc.

In the spirit of HN, how does it work and what powers it? :)

This is impressive.

Really nice project, quick learning tool! This is the future of web tutorials :)

I found this on his twitter, you can submit your tutorials here:

http://thecodeplayer.com/play/add

I am using OSX 10.8.3, and when I open the lighttable app, i see the lighttable logo/text and then it closes/crashes. Anyone had any similar issue? any know fix?

EDIT: Fix - sudo rm -Rf ~/.lighttable/

Thanks for releasing the source code. Could you give some background info on what the important files do? Such as the ones in the lib folder. Some methods can be guessed from code, but it would be nice to hear an overview from you.

I think you are on the right track. If you are using python+django already the I would suggest you stick with it. The problem with python+django is that its a bit more complicated to deploy etc. So you probably do not want to mess around with things like vps, wsgi, nginx etc unless your unix skills are decent? I would suggest if you want to basically deploy your app without having to worry about the deployment details - then read the reviews on here: http://djangofriendly.com/hosts/ especially about cloud providers where all you need to maintain is a git repo etc. For templates and gettings a design up and running there are a number of options - most popular being twitter bootstrap and zurb foundation. If your design is simple then I guess designer is not needed. If you need any help let me know.

I dont understand why you are posting this on here? Is it to point at him and laugh? Its seems pretty childish to point out someone's hardship on here.

After I started using chrome for my main development and debugging, I have never needed any extensions.

I would be very interested in hearing why you chose that framework. Look forward to the blog post.

Just sent my request! Hope I get an invite for using this, looking forward to trying it out on stvplus.com

Personally I found "learning to draw" process quite slow. Like most people, I thought it would be like learning a new language and probably bought some sort of tablet and started reading up on some tutorials. However I found the process almost unrepeatable when doing it on my own intuition. Ive been told I was much better at drawing when I was younger so I thought I would try and revive that "talent", and it was no easy process. I still have my wacom tablet, and still look in awe at the amazing illustation and digital artwork that people have done with these tools on DeviantArt.

If anyone has any suggestions/links to things that helped them the most in the process I would like to hear.