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Love the "have a beer while the students use Coursera" approach. As a student this would be amazing.

Yep same for @sas.upenn.edu

I'd like to hear the responses to this since I am in a similar position. I was accepted to a startup accelerator at UPenn and have been working full-time the past 8 weeks both learning to code and building the application. Before that, I was working part-time for about 2 months while holding a job.

Lately, I've been in a massive rut and have serious doubts seeing if I have what it takes to make my startup succeed. It is mostly due to the technical side since I'm just graduating a bootcamp but I feel my energy and drive waining.

I love reading stories like this.

A fellow Starter League alumni did this and I am super impressed. Here is the main site too. http://codemarks.com/codemarks

I can agree somewhat that episode 2 did not have that special something.

An alternative idea I have is that many of use forget what it is like to watch one episode every week instead of getting the whole season at one time. It is painful actually and you really dissect each episode more.

Yeah this is a strange fascination and yeah I can see why they want to add diversity to a show that would naturally not have much.

I must admit Richard is rather frustrating at times. I know I should root for him but man as a leader I hope he really grows. Although I suppose you could see that a little as the episode ended.

The idea of having Big Head on the inside also seems an interesting plot line to me.

HN,

So who do you guys use more? Import.io or Kimono? I have heard good things about both.

Friend of mine was working on this. Don't know if they are still active or if/when they launch. http://pennapps2014s.challengepost.com/submissions/20858-div...

This is so useful. I am an extremely deep sleeper - when I do that is - who never hears his multiple alarms. God bless you.

As a recent graduate of a Rails bootcamp, I am excited to see what you guys cook up regarding Rails.

I also wanted to see, in the future, if you guys would be interested in making a Javascript track (Javascipt, NodeJS, AngualrJS, maybe even MeteorJS too). This is something that many people are also looking to dive into as am I.

WOW. This is a lot to work on. I will get to work on the layouts and yes there are some UX issues I need to fix tonight! Datepitcker looks good too.

Will get stronger but as you can see not strong at the moment :)

Thanks! Changes will be made.

I very much agree with Kevin here. I grew up in a very average neighborhood with low ambitions and never really challenged myself. In college, I got with the wrong people my freshman year and eventually lost my scholarship.

Being out of school and with a chip on my shoulder has led me to learning how to code, starting a startup, and being accepted into a top college accelerator despite not being in school. The people I am around now are KPCB fellows, former interns at top startups, and thoroughly ambitious. Without this environment, things would not be moving nearly as quickly.

Conversely, my brother went to a Math and Science academy and is now at an Ivy league school. The same Ivy League school I am now at as part of the accelerator program.

Like people attract like people. So if over time a person becomes a new person, why should they feel held down to the old people that they were once like? I know for me the friends I am making now are like me and they are pushing me to become better. Ultimately, that is what you really want in a friendship.

This is beyond useful.

What he says is you should get to product/market fit. If you don't get there then whatever business plan you have will fail and so will you. When Aaron dilutes himself massively he does so to buy time to get to product/market fit. Only by dong so can he later turn on the growth engine and know that users will stay and love the product. A top VC knows that he can never trick a founder into making him a large exit. The founder just needs the "right" plan, not "his" plan.

Again startups are pass/fail. So what can he benefit if they fire you and bring some professional CEO who tanks the company? The truly big outcomes come from the founder who stays and does well (Apple, Google, Facebook, etc) That is why they stared Andreesen Horowitz http://www.bhorowitz.com/why_we_prefer_founding_ceos

I agree with the article that since startups are pass/fail, the founders must due whatever they have to do to succeed. Marc Andreesen says to even take that highly diluted fourth round to get to product/market fit and increase your chances of success. http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee204/ProductMarketFit.html

I think I speak for many that we like Aaron but don't know if Box can become that iconic enterprise software company that Aaron or others in the company would like us to believe.

To those who read this cover to cover: Bravo.

Working on an application aimed to make college housing a helluva good time. Stack: Rails Link: https://github.com/mikeadeleke/domimvp New features: https://gist.github.com/mikeadeleke/9406134

I see now. Yeah I am not sure about that one myself.

Mixpanel should handle that. I would also look into using Optimizely if you plan on testing a lot.

Mixpanel and it's free! https://mixpanel.com/

That would be interesting if Apple didn't have essentially the world's largest hedge fund. I hope these were only partnership talks as I believe a free Elon Musk is a net gain for society.

I think most people who read the book know that this is far alarming news and frankly surprised more stories have not come out. A couple weeks ago, the stories came out about holding wages down for engineers with Jobs at the center.

Steve Jobs is incredible and arguably the greatest entrepreneur of all time. But he is an extreme outlier and anomaly to say the least. He got away with so much being the best. Although one could argue with the way he changed the world we live in, we're not terribly unhappy with news like this.

Elon cannot work for someone else. He is freaking Elon!

I think this post now is rather appropriate http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html Imagine a world where he would of given up.

I think that one can take from a question like "should I learn Python or Ruby?" that the person asking is generally often new to programming in general. Because of this, I would highly suggest Ruby over python. While the learning curve may be higher, Ruby is more intuitive and reads often as like plain english.

Unless you are an engineer in school, diving straight into Python may not be the best option. Also, many people just learn Ruby to do Rails as well. This is shown with the infinite number of rails bootcamps popping up all across the country.

TL;DR The majority of people asking this question are probably new in general to programming and looking to do some web programming so learn Ruby in view to Rails.