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Re: Ask YC: What would you tell your younger self?

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Post by mightybyte » Wed, Nov 26, 2008, 3:06 PM UTC

Learn Haskell well before you graduate from college. It will change your view of programming.

If you ever at any point have an "obscenely high" return on one of your investments (other than a startup you own), always liquidate it if possible to realize your returns.

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Re: Ask YC: What would you tell your younger self?

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Post by llimllib » Wed, Nov 26, 2008, 6:33 PM UTC

nostrademons wrote: post #6

Cheer up. The people who say that your teenage years are the best in your life are the same folks that are beating you up, and life goes downhill fast for them after graduation.

My constant reminder that I should have told myself this more was the horribly depressing Marley quote I chose for my senior yearbook:

"Think you're in heaven but you're living in hell"

Re: Ask YC: What would you tell your younger self?

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Post by known » Thu, Nov 27, 2008, 5:12 AM UTC

nailer wrote: post #50

known wrote: post #24

Celebrate your failures. Insulate but donot isolate yourselves Ignorance is sin. Innocence is bliss.

Monospace your writing.

I will. Thank you.

Re: Ask YC: What would you tell your younger self?

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Post by woodsier » Fri, Nov 28, 2008, 2:21 AM UTC

samson wrote: post #8

I would say rather to your current self to live and work in such a way that the person you were a year ago would be proud to shake the hand of the person you are today. And every year both in the effort that you put and the integrity that you keep, your year ago self would would still shake your hand. A personal note a little over a year ago I didn't know MySQL,Javascript, or PHP. I taught all three to myself and hav…

I'm in a similar situation regarding wanting to know MySQL, PHP and Javascript (or even just jQuery) within a year. Give that I currently study full time in a Business Degree, along with two part-time jobs (one static, one freelance and malleable, but both related to web development) do you think you could give me a few tips on what resources to read, and more importantly (given the abundance of resources) what to avoid to keep it as simple as possible?

I am happy to pay money for good resources or subscriptions.

I do know basic PHP and MySQL, along with complete HTML and CSS (CSS being my forte), however the next step is advancing that knowledge into the dynamic sphere.

Re: Ask YC: What would you tell your younger self?

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Post by batmanbury » Fri, Nov 28, 2008, 5:56 PM UTC

thomasmallen wrote: post #97

batmanbury wrote: post #77

Smoke weed, you pansy!

Smoking weed has nothing to do with courage...maybe you mean to say "resist silly laws"?

You sound as if you think you know me.

Re: Ask YC: What would you tell your younger self?

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Post by bookbabe » Mon, Dec 22, 2008, 7:49 AM UTC

I have thought about this question a lot. You see, I am a transgender woman who was, as you can imagine, a very confused and scared young man. One thing I would tell him is that I am here for him; I will never leave him. And I understand why he is rejecting me, and I love him.

When I started to live as a woman, I was able, for the first time in my life, to say that I love who I am, and ther person I was.