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FWIW, when I interview technical candidates, I ask technical questions until I get to the point where the candidate says "I'm not sure" or "I don't know". That helps me understand …

Sure. Plenty. Google for Virginia Tech incubator and you should find many. There is a whole small start up business center right off campus.

This is being said without knowing exactly which web sites you're talking about. You'd have to give examples to get a more precise answer. Don't equate using something that works w…

Yes, I think that really depends on the kid. Mainly I wanted to point out that there are plenty of learning vehicles that teach the programming concepts without necessarily being 1…

Oh and I'm not totally humorless. http://xkcd.com/386/

For an 11 year old, a more visual pseudo programming language (see Scratch or Alice) is more appropriate than jumping into something like PHP or C. Even Codea is a jump... but Lua …

You'd recommend to an 11 year old to read a book "learning to code the hard way"? Really? I think you're making a lot of assumptions with a comment like "stop trying to live vicari…

Here are some ideas (and we've used pretty much all of them) Alice, from Randy Pausch ( http://www.thelastlecture.com/ ) team http://alice.org/ Scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/ Code…

Just be honest and say "I'm sorry but I signed separation papers that mean that I"m not allowed to say anything negative about the company." :-)

If you're thinking that you need to be paid for overtime, then I don't think a start-up is a good fit. The whole idea of start-up if deferred payment. Consulting is the only way th…