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What I noticed in these 847 days I've been here is that HN's comments spoiled me. I now seek the same level of discussion on other sites and most of the time find myself disappointed.
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I just started LPTHW as well and would like to get in on the discussion too
Would you guys be interested in setting up a "study group", sort of a Procrastinators Anonymous for wanna-be developers? I can't begin to count the books I've skimmed over and not completed a single exercise. LPTHW was really nice in the way it gave you nothing else to do but exercises. Perhaps something as simple as a small, tight-knit forum (plenty of free forum providers) & IRC channel (something like freenode #py…
It is interesting how synonymous "hacking" and "programming" has become with "web programming" all of a sudden over the last few years...
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No, he's got a point. New members tend to just be going through stuff that older members figured out long ago. This causes reposts or beginner material to be posted and talked about more often, leaving the more experienced members unsatisfied. Eventually, the experienced members leave for greener pastures and bring a lot of knowledge with them. Worse, this accelerates the spiral and degrades the quality of the site f…
So people who want to learn from HN should not? From what you two are saying a person like myself, who is just starting out and therefore not writing much in the way of code or blogposts, should not be reading HN because I can't join the discussion with anything but questions? What about likeminded people discussing a topic that interests them? Is there no room for that?
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I just started LPTHW as well and would like to get in on the discussion too
Would you guys be interested in setting up a "study group", sort of a Procrastinators Anonymous for wanna-be developers? I can't begin to count the books I've skimmed over and not completed a single exercise. LPTHW was really nice in the way it gave you nothing else to do but exercises. Perhaps something as simple as a small, tight-knit forum (plenty of free forum providers) & IRC channel (something like freenode #py…
Ping me if you have any questions (email in my profile). It's all free, open, etc.
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I just started LPTHW as well and would like to get in on the discussion too
Would you guys be interested in setting up a "study group", sort of a Procrastinators Anonymous for wanna-be developers? I can't begin to count the books I've skimmed over and not completed a single exercise. LPTHW was really nice in the way it gave you nothing else to do but exercises. Perhaps something as simple as a small, tight-knit forum (plenty of free forum providers) & IRC channel (something like freenode #py…
I have been the victim of sponge learning for many years now, HN being part of it for about a year. I can talk about a wide range of techy subjects but I've never really made or done anything to show for it. I learn bits from here and there without never going very deep. I've read through (and done most of the exercises from) K&R and Dive Into Python to name a couple, yet I haven't written a project over 500 LOC. I'v…
I just had to register to comment on this one. Wow, that struck a chord. Pretty much every sentence rings true, especially the peer encouragement one. For me it's the availability of easier entertainment - why write that python bookmark creation date histogram plotter, when I'm tired and can just waste the evening reading Reddit? Oh, and there's the procrastination habit I've been nursing for over a decade. On the ot…
Would you mind dropping me an email about the study group? We could start working on one, make that its first project.
The most upvoted comment on the post (Martin Doms): Everyone on hacker news is motivated by money. It gets old. There's a huge vibe of "I don't care about this technical mumbo jumbo any more than I have to to make a quick buck". It's VERY trendy/hipster culture there. They jump on all of the silly buzzword bandwagons and distrust tried and true technologies. I'm not saying I don't read the site - some of the articles…
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Sent you an e-mail.
If you guys figure something out for a study group or IRC chat, email me! I would love to have some people going through LPTHW with me to keep each other at it. Like a lot of people, I always find myself starting the learning process with enthusiasm, but then dropping the hat when other projects come up. Really need the support to help make programming a priority.
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Would you guys be interested in setting up a "study group", sort of a Procrastinators Anonymous for wanna-be developers? I can't begin to count the books I've skimmed over and not completed a single exercise. LPTHW was really nice in the way it gave you nothing else to do but exercises. Perhaps something as simple as a small, tight-knit forum (plenty of free forum providers) & IRC channel (something like freenode #py…
If you're interested, I started a website to help organize group studying just like you're suggesting. It's called Curious Reef, and here is an example class for the MIT OCW 6.00 class: http://curiousreef.com/class/mit-opencourseware-600-introduc... Ping me if you have any questions (email in my profile). It's all free, open, etc.