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Yes, and that's a service. There is no product.

We’re all focused on the symptom. Software valuations are falling, and the discourse is about why software valuations are falling. The deeper thing is this: the traditional economi…

awesome!

I think you are right, and that makes me sad.

We already support teaching most of these - if you know anyone that would like to create courseware around any of these topics please let us know. Our courseware marketplace is sti…

We're building our way up to this. For now, we are focussing on helping more people teach how to think in a particular language. We'll get to the rest fairly quickly, though that w…

It is. It's what Matz tweeted after we launched RubyMonk at RubyConf in New Orleans last year. Here's the original tweet he made: https://twitter.com/yukihiro_matz/status/126447696…

Wow. Thank you! That's quite a complement, and I'm grateful. I should point out that much of what I say - or write about - are from conversations with my colleagues. I just happen …

It'll be a while yet, but there's a reason we've bought that domain :)

No worries, jfaucett. As a bootstrapped startup with no investors and no connections, we need all the PR we can get :) So thank you for posting this!

It's a known issue with the js code editor we're using and is something that we need to fix. Thanks for the heads up!

I'm not sure (and I'm not complaining about the publicity :)) - but this is the third time we've made it to HN. Yes, RubyMonk was launched in August 2011, so we've been around for …

Noted. Makes sense, and thanks for the feedback.

Thanks for the feedback (I work at C42 Engineering, the programmers collective behind RubyMonk). I'd never heard of Perl Monks before you mentioned it - it's something we'll keep i…

Try http://RubyMonk.com and let us know what you think. In it's current setup, the content is not intended for non-programmers, but we'd love the feedback.

I didn't realise HN expires links, allowing them to be reposted after enough time has passed (we'd posted RubyMonk to HN several months ago). Any idea what that time-period is?

I'm not sure coconuts actually age. Do they?

The problem is that the underlying message implies that the Mayor of NYC can be gainfully employed as a programmer after a year of solving code snippets. Which is BS and very misle…

A fundamental grouse I have with the "Learn programming" meme is that it encourages the myth that you can be gainfully employed as a programmer after solving code snippets for a ye…

Also, http://rubymonk.com (disclaimer: by my firm). Currently has free courses with new, paid content coming shortly. $5 per month, all you can eat for access to the paid courses (…