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Re: The Hacker School Experience

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https://github.com/jamii https://github.com/darius

Not framework coders, but still far from hackers. For example: https://github.com/darius/parson/blob/master/parson.py

Indeed, his skill for naming repos may be laughable (ex 'optilamb'), but other 1337 hackers (like some dude named Peter Norvig) are under the impression he qualifies modestly as a hacker.

https://twitter.com/i/#!/RomyOnRuby/media/slideshow?url=pic....

Re: The Hacker School Experience

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I didn't mean to come across as condescending or discouraging. In regards to my tone: that is how I am in general. I've had an extremely difficult life and sometimes the warts of that shows. I simply accept that things are tough and at the end of the day you have to fight through it. When I read your post, you sounded like someone who was discouraged and at least I offered a little bit of advice that may help you, so…

The SAAS course was more recent, so it's possible that Land of Lisp would be a lot easier for me than it was before. The "mathy" kinds of puzzles weren't a problem as I was a math major back in the day -- it was some kind of configuration issue. I remember having spent a lot of time googling and on message boards before turning my attention elsewhere. For the half of the book or so that I got through, it was really i…

It might be helpful to install VM with some Linux if you haven't done so. I'm not sure what the config issue was because I don't know much about Common Lisp, but I wouldn't doubt the issue was something irt to Windows if that is the environment you are using. You'll also discover that many items you want to use in your projects may not be available on Windows at all, and with Linux, you just do an install command and it just works.

I want to clarify that the reason things aren't available on Windows isn't because of some belief system from the Open Source community: it is because deploying for Windows is really tough.

As far as I know, it doesn't matter what distro you use. I went ahead and installed Arch Linux and I love it.

Re: The Hacker School Experience

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Don't say ridiculously sexist and superficial crap and put an emoticon next to it like that makes it ok. It's not ok.

I was saying that to due to the fact that it's true for each and every photo, even the guys I find attractive are in the front rows. I felt that the photos were slightly weird because of that. Additionally, I think many things about the logo are sexist, the needle and stitch thing is more sexist then any comment I made.

The Hacker School logo is a computer [1].

The logo you're seeing with a needle is one from Etsy [2], who by the way, were the driving force behind (and are the primary benefactors of) Hacker School's grants for women.

[1] https://www.hackerschool.com/assets/logo_140.png

[2] http://kongscreenprinting.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Ets...

Re: The Hacker School Experience

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Not framework coders, but still far from hackers. For example: https://github.com/darius/parson/blob/master/parson.py

As the author, I'd welcome tips to make it better. (Though efficient implementation is not a priority since the API hasn't settled.) Both Jamie's and my work have been high-ranked on HN's front page, for what it's worth; and I'd call the Hacker School facilitators hackers by any reasonable standard.

I'm sorry for all this. I'm an ass.
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