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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 S4M »

eli_gottlieb wrote: post #315
wtvanhest wrote: post #309

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You took what you wanted out of the OP's comment. Their comment is putting everyone in two buckets, 1 that sits around and watches TV when they get home from work, and 1 that works on personal development in their free time. What they want to use that personal development is up to them. They could use it to start a non-profit, or learn a new hobby or learn a new skill. But... sitting around watching TV until bed cert…

Of course watching TV isn't ambitious! But here's the thing: the "watch TV/self-development" dichotomy exists and keeps existing at every level of actual achievement. There are people who think that lawyers, doctors, and software engineers are underachievers for not becoming CEOs, after all. Lawyers, doctors, and software engineers tend to think people working old-fashioned 9-5 jobs instead of high-level professions…

Totally agree! I think we (human beings) have this mechanism to compare ourselves to others and think we are better than the others. I noticed it several times, for myself as other people.

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

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Post by icecreampain »

selimthegrim wrote: post #280
marincounty wrote: post #246

I'm confused about the word Coder. I have found most website developement is just following directions, and memorizing a lot of man made terms. If you put out a lot of ROR websites, or write Java scripts you can call yourself a "Coder", but I still feel that the term Coder belongs to Programmers. I can put up a website, but programming from scratch, is beyond my attention span, and maybe intellect? I don't know why w…

I certainly have no trouble understanding why you'd never net a women. No, hint of masoginy there at all.

A truly excellent reply, refuting all of the GP's argument with a simple, and effective, ad hominem! I applaud you, non-sarcastically.

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

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Post by nickthemagicman »

lsdafjklsd wrote: post #158
enraged_camel wrote: post #147

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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…

I can just imagine how smug you were writing this, it's making me cringe.

Hahaha best comment.

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

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Post by sergiotapia »

robmcm wrote: post #337
sergiotapia wrote: post #298

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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?

I highly doubt that. When I first started programming it took me upwards of a day to have a simple Windows Form that had two textboxes and displayed a Message Box saying "Hello" + textBox1.Text + " and " + textBox2.Text. Even copy and pasting didn't work.

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

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Post by mathteacher1729 »

evli wrote: post #300
CodeMage wrote: post #260

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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.

Whats with all the generalization in HN today?

All generalizations are false.

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

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Post by jdminhbg »

breckinloggins wrote: post #292
sumzup wrote: post #281

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>I don't spend anywhere CLOSE to $2000/mo on rent, and I live in a pretty nice place in the middle of SF. More details, please? I've been trying to look for places recently and everything seems to be exorbitantly priced.

I explained it elsewhere, but the short version is "watch Craigslist like a hawk until you find what you want". Let's say you find a place that's $900 - $1100 / month. Sounds reasonable, but remember: - Everyone else is looking for that, too, so you need to act fast. - It's not a dealbreaker to live in, say, the Tenderloin in SF, but do some research and make sure you're comfortable. - People in SF will get 10 - 60 r…

> People in SF will get 10 - 60 replies per day on an apartment listing

This always surprises me. If you get dozens of replies the instant you put a listing on CL, isn't that a sign your price is way too low? Why not add a few hundred $ per month and maybe have to wait three days to rent it out?

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

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Post by dllthomas »

dllthomas wrote: post #285
Tichy wrote: post #178

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It's getting difficult to justify coding anything else, though.

No it isn't.

There are a lot of things to do that have value that aren't web. There are a lot of things to do that you can be paid for that aren't web. There is some overlap. If it's hard to justify working on any of these things, the parent is going to have to explain why.

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

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Post by mathattack »

troels wrote: post #255
mathattack wrote: post #139

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Bravo! Very inspiring. It seems like the OP learned a lot about more than just programming: project management, developer psychology, the importance of shipping.... One thing did stand out to me: Having to produce something everyday forced me not to get hung up on understanding all the details of how something worked. This is actually one downside of this method. In the end you don't really learn anything deeply. In…

On the other hand, a lot of developers have a tendency to dwell way too long on minutiae. The ability to just plow through and get something working is a good skill to have. As long as it's not the only tool in the box.

Yes. For most projects, having the "Whatever it takes to get it done" is most important. For long term skill development, and some key hard projects, the deeper understanding is valuable. The 10xers whom I call first with hard problems have both.

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 #355
robmcm wrote: post #337

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

I highly doubt that. When I first started programming it took me upwards of a day to have a simple Windows Form that had two textboxes and displayed a Message Box saying "Hello" + textBox1.Text + " and " + textBox2.Text. Even copy and pasting didn't work.

Perhaps the state of tutorials and online help (stack overflow etc) are much better than in your day. I know they are compared to mine.

Perhaps she coppied the whole project and then just went back through it, changing things and if they didn't work reverted.

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