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Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old

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Post by RadiozRadioz »

notpushkin wrote: post #119
rubidium wrote: post #111

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Bullshit. The web is full of crap. To really learn you need to learn how to learn. Education still matters. Otherwise you’re just a gpt4 prompt monkey. I’ve found many times in my life where the internet doesn’t know anything about what I’m trying to figure out. Your “just google It” recommendation is destructive.

You are a GPT-4 prompt monkey. Your experience is your prompt data. The more diverse it is, the better off you are. Now, college / uni plays an important role here. It helps you learn how to learn stuff . If you're already good at learning things (and I mean really, really good), you can skip it. Otherwise, you should at least give it a try. Of course, try to get into a good one.

College teaches you how to memorize stuff and regurgitate it in exams. For practical / understanding-based coursework, it may teach you how to learn stuff, but for the smart students it instead teaches them how to craft an answer to fit a mark scheme. Are those useful skills? Probably. Do you need to spend tens of thousands for to learn them? Probably not.

Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old

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Post by imagine99 »

marconlp wrote: post #163
imagine99 wrote: post #151

Hi Marcus! This looks extremely interesting, would have loved to try it out, but trying to sign up / create an account always shows a "Something went wrong" message...

Could you open the Devtools and check the exact error? I tried to signup with test@test.test with threw an error but test@test.net worked!

Yes, that was it. I had a non-common TLD in the email domain. com/net/org are no problem but it seems that many country TLDs and generic TLDs are not working. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction but can I suggest that you tweak the email validation algo, so that it allows basically anything as TLD. Otherwise you'll always end up missing some new or more exotic TLDs.

While you're at it, please also make sure you support "plus addressing", and let people change their email in the profile settings without having to email you...

Email address validation is not easy, you'd be surprised what weird things can be in valid email addresses ;-)

I'm now going to check it out in more detail.

Thanks for sharing this - and happy birthday from me as well.

Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old

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Post by iamben »

lazyasciiart wrote: post #106
iamben wrote: post #97

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Just my experience, but I'm not sure how much a degree matters in UK after you have a few years experience. The exception probably being 'big companies' and (obviously) graduate schemes. I guess getting your food in a door somewhere (if you have no other way, and no experience) - a degree will probably help. All that said, I really grew up at university. I loved it. It was great fun, great to expand your social circl…

A lot, if you're trying to get a visa.

I guess to clarify my point (and again based on my own experience and that of my social/work circles): assuming you're a UK resident, looking to work in the UK.

Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old

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Post by Vinnl »

geysersam wrote: post #166
Vinnl wrote: post #141

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The "college experience", however, won't be available anymore when you're no longer of a similar age as your peers there. I wouldn't have wanted to miss out on that.

Lots of people start college 2-3 years after finishing high school. That age difference is no big deal. I think many people actually benefit from taking a year or two away from school before jumping in for another 3-5 years.

Yeah I'm explicitly not saying time off in general is a bad idea, but it'd be a shame to wait too long/never do it.

Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old

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Post by politician »

csomar wrote: post #109
geysersam wrote: post #66

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If you want to work for a couple of years, do it! College doesn't go away, it can wait.

Given the market and his skills, college will never come. He’ll just get into and immersed in the industry and forget about College. The idea of college will only hit later. Realistically, however, college is only important if you are planning to leave your own country; or get involved in a very bureaucratic/hierarchical company. Since he is from Germany (which has a quite powerful passport), college will only be imp…

Another way that a degree becomes useful later on is once you need to write a bio for your photo on your startup's About Us page. The vast majority of bios, even for old wealthy folks, list the degree and university in the first sentence.

Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old

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Post by maille »

marconlp wrote: post #165
maille wrote: post #160

I had more time to play with it and kinda like it. Do you have plans for image pasting in task description and maybe comments too?

Pasting images into the description is something I plan on doing! A problem there would be stoage costs. (a solution would be a google drive integration) what do you mean by pasting comments into the task description?

Sorry I meant pasting images in description and in comments. Glad this is on your list!

Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old

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Post by marconlp »

imagine99 wrote: post #172
marconlp wrote: post #163

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Could you open the Devtools and check the exact error? I tried to signup with test@test.test with threw an error but test@test.net worked!

Yes, that was it. I had a non-common TLD in the email domain. com/net/org are no problem but it seems that many country TLDs and generic TLDs are not working. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction but can I suggest that you tweak the email validation algo, so that it allows basically anything as TLD. Otherwise you'll always end up missing some new or more exotic TLDs. While you're at it, please also make sure…

Thank you!

I didn't notice email validation was such a huge problem. I created an issue: https://github.com/Tablane/tablane/issues/17

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