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After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by salemh »

devcpp wrote: post #223
hnriot wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The world isn't full of binary people. There are lots of types of people in the world, and pigeon-holing any of them doesn't help them or you.

Obviously, it's an approximation. I'm sure you could very easily fit everyone you know in either of these buckets if you had to. And it's pretty accurate.

Citation needed, otherwise all sweeping generalizations are valid based on opinion alone.

People are pretty dynamic, even if common traits exist (and "knowledge / seeking knowledge" is not citable), its a dumb claim.

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by salemh »

Non-tech BA/PM dude. This is the more inspirational (or actionable / get my ass off and just get some projects loping around in my head done) that is bookmarked vs all of the brain-dump 100x links of "how to" build _x.

The semantic argument of "coder" | "programmer" | :developer" | "computer scientist"| versus "built some cool stuff in ~1/2 a year, and now am continuing the journey", is hilarious in juxtaposition of "everyone should code" as a meme or call to arms.

So, should only specific persons of an aptitude to sophistry be admitted as "positive" related to "learning to code"?

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by coffeemug »

RyanZAG wrote: post #326
telephonetemp wrote: post #264

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Wouldn't this count as a voting ring?

I guess it would, but I don't know how you'd get around it. If I were to post something on HN that was of interest to friend A, then sending him a link to the HN comments seems like the natural thing to do. Friend A would then probably upvote that article. So I've just created a mini-voting ring. I'm pretty sure any company featured on HN (eg RethinkDB or any other) would send a link to the comments on HN if their pr…

slava @ rethink here. Our team is really small. Even if everyone upvoted our stories (they don't -- many people don't even have HN accounts), it would only account for 5-10% of the upvotes; less for some of the more popular stories. The same is probably true for 42 floors. I find that their blog posts are quite good.

I suspect the "friendly upvote effect" has a lot to do with getting to the front page (which admittedly is important), but that doesn't make up for low quality content.

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by jotm »

enraged_camel wrote: post #147
GuiA wrote: post #7

This is fantastic. Especially inspiring to me, more than the fact that she learned how to code, is the fact that she dove into something that she had no background in, and after 180 days she came out with a solid understanding of the basics of programming; enough to do stuff on her own (and, combined with her graphic design/illustration skills, probably enough to do freelance webdev or get a junior level position in…

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…

We should combine our skills. I can accurately predict where everyone will end up in 150-200 years :-)

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by ankitpanda »

mooreds wrote: post #63
GuiA wrote: post #7

This is fantastic. Especially inspiring to me, more than the fact that she learned how to code, is the fact that she dove into something that she had no background in, and after 180 days she came out with a solid understanding of the basics of programming; enough to do stuff on her own (and, combined with her graphic design/illustration skills, probably enough to do freelance webdev or get a junior level position in…

I have a friend who talks about the flywheel model of learning. If, every day, you spend even 15 minutes towards your goal of what have you (aka, add even a little momentum to your flywheel), at the end of a year, you will have a lot of knowledge.

I'm deeply skeptical of this. Any sources backing this up (preferably something looking at the cognitive value of this kind of learning)?

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by robmcm »

sergiotapia wrote: post #298
bkanber wrote: post #251

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Why do you say that?

Because it's completely unrealistic that a person who has no programming experience, even worse even no basic HTML experience will have familiarity with a Gemfile, how to hide access keys from a repository, etc. If you think that that information is something you can understand, internalize and actually make work in less than 5 days you're delusional.

It doesn't say she understands it, could just be a copy paste from a tutorial right?

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by dbaupp »

jotm wrote: post #334
enraged_camel wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

We should combine our skills. I can accurately predict where everyone will end up in 150-200 years :-)

There is no way you've had any evidence that your predictions are accurate.

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by spongle »

wbl wrote: post #324
Aldo_MX wrote: post #302

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> "often finding formal education diabolical" TBH, as a self-educated developer, I perceive formal education as a premature optimization. It's a fact that one needs to develop certain skills and gain insight from the knowledge that reflects the experience of expert people, but it's also a fact that one won't need everything the first moment after graduation. I prefer to research and learn about something the moment I…

The point of an education is not to make money. The point of an education is to cultivate yourself and make yourself a better person. Idiot is the wrong word, but philistine is appropriate.

Well having been through plenty of formal education, I can assure you the point of education is to make uniformly cut cogs and make teachers and universities money.

If you don't turn the same way as everyone else or risk your university's funding by having an opinion or a better idea than the status quo, you're no longer entitled to an education.

University for me was an exercise in cock sucking rather than education and that was a UK red brick.

Re: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

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Post by spongle »

Aldo_MX wrote: post #302
joshmn wrote: post #179

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Just wanted to add a brief, loose third: The third type recognizes their passion and self-educates themselves, often finding formal education diabolical. From the late Jim Rohn, "Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."[1] [1] http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/jimrohn121282.htm...

> "often finding formal education diabolical" TBH, as a self-educated developer, I perceive formal education as a premature optimization. It's a fact that one needs to develop certain skills and gain insight from the knowledge that reflects the experience of expert people, but it's also a fact that one won't need everything the first moment after graduation. I prefer to research and learn about something the moment I…

You're definitely not an idiot. I applaud your approach and wish you all the best in the future.
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