Viewing profile — stiggz

He racky disriprine

Engineers and designers come from totally different stock. You're going to need a hell of a lot of practice to get that under-worked side of your brain humming. I'd start by examin…

cash for trash, junk 2 cash, turn around crap, cleanup shop, garbage cash, fill it up, empty my trash... i dunno, anything that makes it seem like you're taking peoples unwanted st…

Forget about everything you know. Javascript, CSS, and HTML are all best learned on a clean slate. Grab a handbook about each, so you know the rules, then go immediately to http://…

I joined a startup as a non-founder about a year and a half ago, stayed for six months, and left before they sold. I had a great time there, (set the bar way too high for my follow…

I'm going to have a freeware app to pull sports scores down from one location, with alerts for finished games, betting tracking, etc, should be damn spiffy when it's done: linux, m…

Yes, most definitely. There's a huge gap between the actual efficiency of government organisations and the possible efficiency with proper programs and apps in place. I'd go furthe…

Programming can take awhile sometimes, especially when you're working without a spec and have to figure out all the details as you go along. Don't expect to be able to crank out ne…

Some very good suggestions! I like that Liar's Poker was included in the startup section, thought I was the only one to have read that. Rock on.

I enjoy living in Canada too much- and after Canada, will enjoy living in many other countries in the world. I don't like the HN rule that you need to live in the US to qualify for…

get into opengl (learn the library), then move on to directx, if you're a designer, get into maya or 3dsmax and start making characters. the tricky part: learning to program physic…

Invent the internet.

Canada is pretty good for wages: -Start for students & new grads is about $18k-$26k -1 to 2 years experience is about $33k-$44k -3 to 5 years experience is about $50k-$70k -5 years…

Sure, learn CodeIgniter- it's a PHP framework, and there is excellent documentation. You'll learn a little PHP & mySQL along the way, but the framework handles all the heavy liftin…

Best advice regarding this topic: Write drunk, revise sober. -Pragmatic Guide to Thinking and Learning I can write code drunk, but I never would for work. When you need to get it r…

Anything by Vonnegut, Palaniuk, Douglas Coupland, or Neil Gaiman.

For my first year introduction course in my three year Software Engineering college course, we worked in C. Now, it's a great language, but scared the living hell out of everyone i…

lol, don't forget that whatever time you put in will pay dividends. You'll be a real programmer! And although this project won't be making you money, you'll have the expertise to t…

Here are the Programmer Personality Types as I see them. If you can think of any more, post them below, I can't think of any more though. Ace Also known as a ninja, rockstar, hero,…

You answered your own question- hire people from 'real' software companies where they ship to customers that can't afford several iterations and need their software to 'work' the f…

Hey all: I'm moving from southern Ontario to either the east or west coast in a few months, just haven't decided which yet. My g/f is in tourism & travel so we'll need to be near a…

Micheal E. Gerber's books (the E-Myth, E-Myth Revisited, E-Myth Mastery, and especially Awakening the Entrepreneur Within (2008) ISBN 978-0061568145) are amazing to read just as yo…

Scribble it down, whiteboard it out as a process or set of processes, photographing the whiteboards along the way, save images in a directory dedicated to that idea, add text docs …

Start a website selling gift baskets by mail, or build a simple program to make business cards and sell the perforated paper along with the program. If you're a good business-perso…