This is so far beyond couture and glam-show that it's ineffable how lame it is. HN, grow up. Lets see hacking posts, not posts by "hacks."
After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder
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There are two type of people in life. The first type graduates from college and their learning stops for the most part. They say to themselves, "well, I studied for four years and got a job, now it's finally time to sit back and relax." So they put in their regular 9-5 and then come home and waste their lives away by watching TV shows and playing video games and going out and getting drunk on weekends. Essentially, t…
There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.
There are 10 people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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"girl" is used in place of "guy" because "guy" has a masculine connotation. I'd be happy to see "gal" but it's a little anachronistic.
Gal is fine, if a little forced. Person would probably be best here though.
Hey Jennifer,
Well done on your journey, very impressive! It's an inspiration for many of us.
You replied about the use of "girl" (and I agree, "person" would be best here), but why not reply to petea's original comment where he criticizes you? Every time your blog makes it to front page on HN, I notice you're active in the comment thread but you don't reply to the criticism. Why not? It would quickly put an end to these type of comments. I think ignoring the criticism does more harm than the truth about whether or not you received help from others or you started the challenge with some basic knowledge.
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HN does seem to like promoting blog posts by 42Floors on the front page and whenever I've read them I think "meh". Maybe this is all part of the soft marketing for YCombinator backed companies so they get technology "mind-share".
There's no conspiracy, 42Floors just shares the HN blog post links internally and gets people to upvote them. You only need a few quick upvotes to hit the front page, and having a few 42Floors employees vote up 42Floors content is more than enough. The 42Floors blogposts are generally good quality too, so nobody has any reason to flag them, and they're generally on topic and somewhat interesting, like this one.
Wouldn't this count as a voting ring?
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#265If a man did this, would it generate the same publicity? I am genuinely wondering, I'm not trying to troll.
http://devbootcamp.com/
They are doing well and supposedly 95% graduates get job immediately after graduating. Their classes are booked until apr 2014. They basically make students go through what she did, but in an office.
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People who judge others are the worst kind of people.
(judge == evaluate) != (judge == condemn) I wish there were a better way to disambiguate "judge".
How can you have evaluation without the possibility of condemnation? If your evaluation is always positive, it's not very useful.
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There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.
There are 10 people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who understand ternary, those who don't, and those who mistaken it for the binary system.
Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder
#269She coded an iOS app called ruHot in 2009. Lot's of dedication getting 180 sites done in 180 days. Not a whole lot of dedication to honesty though.
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>saving 6 months worth of expenses on a tech salary when you have no dependants is trivial I have no dependants, I am 25 and I would love to be earning the kind of money in my tech job that made saving 6 months worth of expenses "trivial". Where are these jobs and how can I get one?
You basically need to be saving 33% of your take home salary. As a rule of thumb you shouldn't be spending more than a third of take-home on your housing. That leaves you with 33% for your cost of living. To see how that breaks down in "real-money", the take-home of an average CS graduate working at a typical large company in a developer role in London would be around 20k. So that would be around £550/month (£6600/ye…
Except that after tax and council tax, and energy bills and phone bill (internet and mobile), there is no way you would have that £6.6k in London. It'd be possible in another part of the UK maybe, but not trivial by any means.