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I wanted to leverage the parallax scrolling background with Reveal and make it fun.

And as soon as I plugged in the projector the entire classroom erupted with shouts of "Mario!!!!"

I should write up my notes from talking to them. I explained that programming was like speaking a language computers understood and used Spanish and English as examples.

I defined code as the words computers understand.

I defined a program as a story made up of code that a computer knows how to read.

A couple of the great questions I got were "Do you like your job?" and "Do you like typing all day?"

My brother learned Cantonese fluently as a LDS Missionary. He then enlisted in the army after 9/11 and was given a battery of aptitude tests. I'm assuming this was one of them because he ended up at DLI learning Arabic and speaking that fluently as well.

DLI and being a Mormon missionary are about the two best places you can learn to speak a 2nd language fluently in a short amount of time.

Does this work with international numbers?

This is the kind of stuff they teach you in college with a CS degree.

Hey Randall! I've heard of Vidpresso! Congrats on the hustle. Team Wediges is super excited for you.

So glad Twitter is continuing the tradition of useless interview questions.

There is a distinction between the Startup Battlefield (companies that are launching) and the Hackathon (apps and hacks made in a constrained time period). His criticism seems to be leveled at the Battlefield judging.

"Avoid risks that might kill your startup." I think partnerships are one of the big, overlooked killers of startups.

Back Up

It just barely dawned on me today that I might be pissing a lot of people off. I've never considered the HOV lane to be a passing lane.

I love this story from two friends at Zappos. This is the good kind of fear. What motivates you?

I'm not even sure if Will.I.Am knows what a hackathon is, but this is awesome.

Oh man, a book on Mason! That takes me back to some good old Perl days.

On a long enough timeline, anomalies can happen anywhere.

I heard about this via the Circa iOS app and then found this Youtube video while CNN was still just showing a map of the area the explosion happened in. The future of news isn't TV.

Calvanism

Adria, and most women, are tired of asking people one by one not to offend. This is her asking everyone to think about what they say in public.

I recently helped host a hackathon in Vegas and we had several high school kids, including girls, attend. They were nervous and felt out of place at first among all the older developers. But they went in to win a significant prize at the event and are now very active in the VegasTech community.

Thank god they didn't have to deal with anything like this.

I'd be interested in knowing what the tweaks to the billing process were. It's a great and terrifying story.

How did you feel two years ago? Two years from now you could be in a very different place.

6th graders and their poorly worded surveys.

Unscientific poll being conducted for a 6th grader's very scienctific science project.

Really looking forward to this!

It's amazing to me how your mind changes when you stop thinking about life as a job and instead as goals you want to accomplish. Thanks for setting this up!

You are 33% more likely to finish something if you share your goal with others. This is great! Founder Dating is also a great network for finding people to work with on these goals. My goal is to organize more Hakcathons in Las Vegas. Let me know if you want to come!

The section on "Personal Priorities and Risks" is very important. Deciding when to go full time and how much each cofounder is willing to put on the line is something everyone needs to think about going into a partnership.

compliments of http://twitter.com/dn0t

You are really good at your own game! Love the demo video!

People get bored of looking at the same thing for too long.

The combination of HTTP, Browsers, HTML, etc provides a broad canvas for artists, designers and makers to paint on. Facebook and Twitter are trying hard to take all of these amazing experiences, content and sites and package them up into a wall post or tweet. This is going to get boring for the majority of users and another solution for finding great content will catch our collective interest.