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PLEASE stop using the advertisement "like AirBnB for x". I swear all of the YC companies are using it now.

If "true learning" means making $9.25 an hour and slaving away 60 hours per week while a prof makes ~200k and takes all of the credit: I'd rather be ignorant.

That's awesome. Now could you figure out why my intro #2 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dosy8zOooUU&list=PLP6PvXLevG...

Gets flagged as copyrighted music even though there is no music?

So many YouTuber's would thank you for a service that did this.

In my experience, self taught engineers are typically better with frameworks and more productive - but less detail oriented and have less grasp of theory.

CS schools naturally teach you to be slow paced, detail oriented and methodical, and it is sometimes good and sometimes bad.

tl;dr In the past, some (entirely) online eCommerce stores have failed. Thus Amazon may fail since it has a similar business model.

Of course, my bad!

Alternatively, my video introduction to Rust should be live soon: https://www.youtube.com/user/DevFactor Always great to have a few viewpoints.

I 'kudos'ed your post though - because I thought it was very nicely written!

Check your typos (http://testtest.daybook.io/). Otherwise, its very pretty and easy to use. I like the pop-up profile editor.

Haha thanks!

I've also been building a cool web app to aggregate educational CS videos and let people navigate through them based on language and topic. Here's an early screen: http://i.imgur.com/3gbgaxe.jpg (just for showing the styling).

The actual DevFactor channel page is here: https://www.youtube.com/devfactor

PatrickJMT was one of my big motivators. Helped me get good at math.

Hey,

So I was a long-time fan of services like TeamTreeHouse, RailsApps & OneMonth.

I really am a big fan of quality education being available for everyone, and because of that I've opted to open source my CS education on YouTube.

I'm starting with Rails, and I will eventually work around to more core CS topics like circuits -> logic gates -> binary -> assembly -> c -> Data Structures -> Algorithms etc.

If you like it subscribe and I'm looking for all the feedback I can get on how to make it better :)

Once upon a time I tried to use Google ads to promote the parent site for my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/devfactor

I spent $100 on ads, which resulted in around 25 new subscribers. The next week, I wrote a really in depth Arduino Morse code tutorial which ended up on some social networks and netted me ~100 subs.

I'd say that Google adds for me where NOT worth the price. Generating more organic content worked better.

Daily.

Before enrolling at the UW, I was coding thanks to C# Primer Plus and PHP & MySQL web development.

Educational books have provided me employment opportunities (first coding job @ 100m+ company @ age 16 from self teaching) && recreational books have really changed the way I think about the world and problems (outliers, smartcuts).

Books inspired me to write, and publish my first coding book and more recently inspired me to start a free educational channel: https://www.youtube.com/devfactor

There is so much you can distill into a book, its difficult to match with other mediums.

Your feedback isn't very constructive, and reflects poorly on your time management skills.

200 bugs is just two bugs per week for two years. At three hours per bug, that's 6 hours per week - 312/yr and 614 total. Significantly less than a college degree.

Alternatively, spend some time learning to code: https://www.youtube.com/devfactor - build some cool projects and present them to your employer.

Hey,

After spending some time with (paid) projects like TreeHouse, RailsApps, BaseRails - I opted to start producing similar content but at a different cost (free!).

I'm hoping my series can help some of you become more familiar with Rails - and feel free to sub to me if you like it :)

The current model includes an "awards feed", where you can verify the completion of "goals" set previously. Verification is done by a voting system and requires video or images.

Currently, funds are distributed based on the popularity (votes) a completed goal receives from the community.

Details are still being flushed out.

During the development of http://rivalz.io/ we have been using Flurry analytics, and its been an excellent alternative to the bloat that is GAnalytics.

I'm very happy to see that Yahoo is pushing Flurry support and integrating it into so many of their products.

It's important to also note, that retro designs where quite frankly a lot more simple than modern designs. One of our inspirations for http://rivalz.io/ was the Mac OS 1 (1984) because it easily organized all of the features you wanted, without any extras or bloat.

Today's design is so superficial, that a large chunk of applications/games/ui is just fluff and sometimes distracts from the main experience.

Cloudflare. I used to work at F5 and everyone pretended they didn't exist. Than all of the sudden they have like half of the market in their pocket. Taking an old product, making it seemless and offering it for freemium.

How it works: Retweet a RoboMotivator post on Twitter.

RoboMotivator records all retweets as positive feedback, and analyzes the quote based off of proximity of nouns in a quote. By regularly retweeting RoboMotivator, he better learns his target audience and will be more likely to tweet topics relevant to the interests of his followers.

I can help if you see any bugs: @andhofmt | www.andrewdhoffman.com

eggbrain,

I really like Kanban and I am sad to see it isn't up to rails 4.2 yet. Are you looking for more contributors?

If so, how could I contact you to resolve a few questions so I can get the current repo up and running to work on?

Linux Mint (Cinnamon). Was on Ubuntu, but found that I was much more productive on Mint - as Ubuntu has become too feature rich and I don't use most of what they offer.

Mint has been a great platform for rails development, easily integrating with all the test and dev tools I needed.

Crazy thing is, Ruby is already so much more powerful than Javascript. Javascript is fast, easy to implement and relatively easy to learn - but it is so limited.

As a programming language, Ruby really pushes the limits of what we are used to.

The idea is sound - don't start something you aren't qualified to finish. But the article is a bit sketchy. Little detail is given. If the author could flush it out a bit more with explanation rather than "Ill start a start-up in the future once I learn more about leadership", I think it would be a better article. I'd like to hear why he needs to learn more leadership, what he has learned and what he needs to learn.

My issue with AngularJS: Debugging is an absolute nightmare, error messages are far and in-between. And when working on a 50k+ line production code-base, one single comma a in a file where it is not supposed to be will shut down the whole GUI. And occasionally, it won't even show where in the console.

I am a BizSpark member, and my blog: http://www.devfactor.net is hosted there. I CAN say that when I got ~500k page-views in the last week of December Azure held up fine.

In terms of performance, it is pretty good for the price (free).

My only issue has been the down-time, Its actually been down more than my previous Linux host. I hope MS can figure out how to keep it online a bit more often :)

Its a pretty cool shortcut that requires only counting and no real math. One of my professors at the University of Washington showed me yesterday, so I figured I would share it :)

Not sure if this counts, but in 2013 I made ~17k off of freelancing & consulting in my free-time.

I also operate some "for fun sites", which are all small projects for example a video-game discount aggregator (just scapes sites for discounts) all together ~$200/mo.

I wish!

$100/mo cap would save a lot of these accounts from being hacked. My mistake was not unique, and if you browse around on Google you will find other authors who have had the same issues.

Amazon support told me (at least the ones spun up on my account), where indeed bit-coin miners.

For applications I've opted to use Heroku due to its simplicity when compared to EC2. I'm still working out the static storage though. I was impressed by Amazon customer support, so I may stay around. Simply renting a VPS somewhere is another option.