I'd like to say that everything about coding is not startup. There is a life for code outside startups.
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#42MS Access - Learn it first! Why? The first few reasons that come to mind: 1) To quote a friend of mine, “If a 50 year old boilermaker can work it out, then anyone can.” 2) MS Access will more than likely be installed on your computer at work. 3) Almost all "startup" type programs will need databasing of some sort. 4) It has macros and modules (VBA - Visual Basic for Applications) 5) As you start to learn Visual Basic…
If the other comment isn't enough, I say -1 to Access too. Please head straight to real technologies that will allow you to make things, e.g. HTML/CSS/JS, and whatever back-end you like (PHP, Java, Node...).
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#43MS Access - Learn it first! Why? The first few reasons that come to mind: 1) To quote a friend of mine, “If a 50 year old boilermaker can work it out, then anyone can.” 2) MS Access will more than likely be installed on your computer at work. 3) Almost all "startup" type programs will need databasing of some sort. 4) It has macros and modules (VBA - Visual Basic for Applications) 5) As you start to learn Visual Basic…
... Don't do this.
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#44Hey Mohamed.
I am interested in how someone who is not an engineer/investor/etc even came to hear about Hacker News?
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#45"My name is Mohamed, and I am a jail guard!" G'day, Mohamed don't make the mistake of defining yourself by your job. You are much, much more than that. You work (and survive) in a Jail? That now makes you 10x better than most nerds on HN in understanding and handling people. Scan HN and the general press and you can see how badly Startups and their users are hurt by this and you'll realise this is a desirable skill.…
~"Don't make the mistake of defining yourself by your job, just know that your job makes you better than these other people with a different job"
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#46"My name is Mohamed, and I am a jail guard!" G'day, Mohamed don't make the mistake of defining yourself by your job. You are much, much more than that. You work (and survive) in a Jail? That now makes you 10x better than most nerds on HN in understanding and handling people. Scan HN and the general press and you can see how badly Startups and their users are hurt by this and you'll realise this is a desirable skill.…
>G'day, Mohamed don't make the mistake of defining yourself by your job.
Why not? A jail guard sounds very, very badass.
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#47"My name is Mohamed, and I am a jail guard!" G'day, Mohamed don't make the mistake of defining yourself by your job. You are much, much more than that. You work (and survive) in a Jail? That now makes you 10x better than most nerds on HN in understanding and handling people. Scan HN and the general press and you can see how badly Startups and their users are hurt by this and you'll realise this is a desirable skill.…
~"Don't make the mistake of defining yourself by your job, just know that your job makes you better than these other people with a different job"
Don't define yourself by your job, but recognize the unique skills it gave you and use them to your advantage.
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#48"My name is Mohamed, and I am a jail guard!" G'day, Mohamed don't make the mistake of defining yourself by your job. You are much, much more than that. You work (and survive) in a Jail? That now makes you 10x better than most nerds on HN in understanding and handling people. Scan HN and the general press and you can see how badly Startups and their users are hurt by this and you'll realise this is a desirable skill.…
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#49"My name is Mohamed, and I am a jail guard!" G'day, Mohamed don't make the mistake of defining yourself by your job. You are much, much more than that. You work (and survive) in a Jail? That now makes you 10x better than most nerds on HN in understanding and handling people. Scan HN and the general press and you can see how badly Startups and their users are hurt by this and you'll realise this is a desirable skill.…
~"Don't make the mistake of defining yourself by your job, just know that your job makes you better than these other people with a different job"
> ~"Don't make the mistake of defining yourself by your job, just know that your job makes you better
>> in understanding and handling people
> than these other people with a different job"
you can't ignore the middle, as that is the defining part of his sentence. every sentence is hypocrisy if you remove important parts
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#50Hey Mohamed. I am interested in how someone who is not an engineer/investor/etc even came to hear about Hacker News?
If I were to guess - reading news lead to getting interested about startups, and reading about those led him to YC and HN.
But there's an alternative way people from various fields may end up here - HN discussions are sometimes top results when googling for some niche, not necessarily tech-related topics.