Happy New Year from Y Combinator

http://blog.ycombinator.com/happy-new-year-from-y-combinator

by sethbannon • 13 years ago

163 12 13 years ago

blog.ycombinator.com

thrush• 13 years ago

Summary

Advice from YC companies to...

Land a new job

  HackerRank
  * Hire Art
  * The Muse

> Learn to code

  CodeAcademy
  CodeCombat
  HackerSchool

> Take a trip

  Vayable
  * Airbnb
  * Hipmunk

> Be smarter with money

  ReadyForZero
  FutureAdvisor

> Make a positive impact in the world

  Watsi
  Microryza

photorized• 13 years ago

Good collection of links.

elwell2• 13 years ago

HackerRank looks interesting. I see there are some Functional Programming challenges [0].

[0] https://www.hackerrank.com/categories/fp/intro

overload119• 13 years ago

Wow, HackerRank is amazing! Can't believe I've just heard of this -- I literally was going to build the same idea (with the same name) at a hackathon. I just wish they had more challenges in Javascript/Ruby.

In general I think the list is really great.

rvivek• 13 years ago

Founder here - we are constantly working on adding more. Thanks for the comment :)

elwell2• 13 years ago

Would like to see Cmd/Ctrl + Enter to compile/run tests when focused on editor. (or am I missing a similar keyboard combination.

Another problem was that I could not easily click a "Next" button to go the next challenge in a group. I would like to move onto the next functional programming question but I have to go back to the categories screen.

mcdowall• 13 years ago

I hadn't heard of Vayable before but will definitely consider some of the tours I've discovered for the month in Brazil at the World Cup now.

MyNameIsMK• 13 years ago

Don't forget to self-promote and always toot your own horn. wink wink

jjoe• 13 years ago

I'm sure many are cringing at how this well-intentioned message was delivered. But we're all willing to turn a blind eye in favor of scouring any positive tidbit from it.

donretag• 13 years ago

Great, the last thing I want to see as I sit here burnt out at work are pointers to getting a new job. :)

frenchman_in_ny• 13 years ago

Interesting - I didn't know about FutureAdvisor, which seems like a great tool.

I have one nit with it -- I just had it analyze my portfolio; I find it odd that FA recommends no changes to an employer sponsored retirement plan due to "significant amount of unrecognized holdings", while it knows what options are available within the plan (ie, it doesn't suggest rebalancing the plan)

jonxu• 13 years ago

Co-founder here, thanks for trying out FutureAdvisor. We may not have all the plan option info available within the plan. If you have the email you signed up with, we can take a look the specific plan. Feel free to ping us directly at help@futureadvisor.com and we'll make sure to investigate immediately.

Happy New Year from Y Combinator

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