Alex Payne, Peter Seibel, Jessica McKellar, more are Hacker School Residents

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Post by nicholasjbs » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 9:31 PM UTC

Alex Payne, Peter Seibel, Jessica McKellar, more are Hacker School Residents
hackerschool.com

Re: Alex Payne, Peter Seibel, Jessica McKellar, more are Hacker School Residents

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Post by vitno » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 9:48 PM UTC

I really can't emphasize enough how awesome Hacker School is. I was in the last batch.

If spending three months working on open source projects, developing & stretching your coding skills, meeting awesome people, & living in NYC sound awesome, then you should apply.

Re: Alex Payne, Peter Seibel, Jessica McKellar, more are Hacker School Residents

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Post by nicholasjbs » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 10:19 PM UTC

I'm cofounder of Hacker School. I'm happy to answer questions about the residency program or Hacker School in general.

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Post by sharkweek » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 10:24 PM UTC

Was this site's design inspired by Y Combinator? -Yes. We copied most everything except the 90s markup.

thought that was hilarious

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Post by tgebru » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 10:40 PM UTC

I took a break from my startup and PhD in EE at Stanford as well as 6 years of work at Apple to do hacker school. It has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life and I would do it again if I could. There were people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences during my batch--from programmers who learned how to code before they could speak :) to a baker who had only started programming a month before the beginning of the batch. The only requirement is that you enjoy it so I encourage anyone who wants to grow as a programmer to apply.

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Post by julsonl » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 11:29 PM UTC

This sounds awesome! I've just started learning about Clojure and Clojurescript and have encountered a lot of David Nolen's work. It'll be amazing to be able to hack with and learn from him for those 3 months.

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Post by jmohsenin » Fri, Sep 14, 2012, 12:02 AM UTC

nicholasjbs wrote: post #3

I'm cofounder of Hacker School. I'm happy to answer questions about the residency program or Hacker School in general.

What's the acceptance rate? I'm design-focused (currently at CCA) but I'd really love to do this to cement my programming skills.

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Post by michael_fine » Fri, Sep 14, 2012, 12:16 AM UTC

nicholasjbs wrote: post #3

I'm cofounder of Hacker School. I'm happy to answer questions about the residency program or Hacker School in general.

What's the youngest age of any student you've ever had? I'm a high school student but I'd love to do this over the summer?

Re: Alex Payne, Peter Seibel, Jessica McKellar, more are Hacker School Residents

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Post by ibdknox » Fri, Sep 14, 2012, 12:27 AM UTC

I know both David Nolen and Alex Payne - they are fantastic engineers and awesome people to be around. If nothing else, I highly recommend people apply just to have a chance to interact with them :)

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Post by ibdknox » Fri, Sep 14, 2012, 12:28 AM UTC

julsonl wrote: post #6

This sounds awesome! I've just started learning about Clojure and Clojurescript and have encountered a lot of David Nolen's work. It'll be amazing to be able to hack with and learn from him for those 3 months.

He's a great and very smart guy - definitely take advantage of his time while you have it. His work on the core.logic and ClojureScript has been a serious boon to the community.