To get this far in two years is amazing - great work. Your marketing page is fab as well
Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
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Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
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You're 25... You could still go to college. If you're in Europe I would recommend it (if you wanted to).
Thanks. I’m in Berlin. Why do you recommend? If you have experience going to college as an adult I would love to hear it also.
I think the only difference I had from going to university later was I hung out with people around my same age.
Would have been better to start earlier but that wasn’t an option. Extra-meta: would have been better to go to a trade school or similar and skip college altogether but that’s not what they were selling back then.
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#163Hi Marcus! This looks extremely interesting, would have loved to try it out, but trying to sign up / create an account always shows a "Something went wrong" message...
Could you open the Devtools and check the exact error?
I tried to signup with test@test.test with threw an error but test@test.net worked!
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#164Hi, RTK Query author here - from taking a skim at the code, you really went deep into our documentation. Looks good! :) Many people here tell you "study", others tell you "don't". Both is okay. In Germany, you probably don't need it when going into IT, and in my last job we had many people coming from both perspectives and it was a great mix. What counts in most companies more than a degree is experience - and you pr…
Awesome! could you add me on linkedIn?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-hof/
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#165I had more time to play with it and kinda like it. Do you have plans for image pasting in task description and maybe comments too?
Pasting images into the description is something I plan on doing!
A problem there would be stoage costs. (a solution would be a google drive integration)
what do you mean by pasting comments into the task description?
Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
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If you want to work for a couple of years, do it! College doesn't go away, it can wait.
The "college experience", however, won't be available anymore when you're no longer of a similar age as your peers there. I wouldn't have wanted to miss out on that.
Lots of people start college 2-3 years after finishing high school. That age difference is no big deal. I think many people actually benefit from taking a year or two away from school before jumping in for another 3-5 years.
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#167I've seen a lot of discussion about my choice of looking for a job directly after Highschool. Reasons against college - I recently visited a College Conference and wans't really impressed by any of them, mainly because their presented curriculum where basic js, css, html, react, easy leetcode algorithms which I already know - I don't really happy with my current position in School, where I sit and listen to the teach…
Just to be sure, do you mean Waterloo University? If so, this is in Ontario, Canada, not the US. You could always go to Waterloo or another reputable school for a master's degree, if you'd like to specialize in something you find yourself liking while in post-secondary.
I was just listing Waterloo University as an example as that is the one Joma Tech went to: https://www.youtube.com/c/jomaoppa
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#168I've seen a lot of discussion about my choice of looking for a job directly after Highschool. Reasons against college - I recently visited a College Conference and wans't really impressed by any of them, mainly because their presented curriculum where basic js, css, html, react, easy leetcode algorithms which I already know - I don't really happy with my current position in School, where I sit and listen to the teach…
Back in the day my theory of college education was: figure out what you’re good at so you don’t have to work very hard and spend the maximum amount of time partying on the government’s dime.
If what you’re good at is a marketable skill (mine wasn’t) then all the better.
Also, probably not the best advice.
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Meh, I'll go against the grain and say I'm happy I started programming in my teens, and got my first job at 19. It's harder to learn university-level curricula by yourself, but not impossible, and it is better to get a headstart in a field where young talent is preferred over senior like tech. If you want to be real good at inverting a binary tree and get a FAANG job ASAP, choose the academic route. If you love progr…
The university experience is whatever people choose to make of it. The people who complain most loudly about how college was a waste for them tend to be people who took no initiative of their own and expected to simply be spit out of some pipeline of courses into a top tier job. OP is clearly not one of those people, and has an internally driven passion for learning, pursued of their volition. That doesn't mean OP is…
I think college is most useful to people who don't know what they want to do. I complain about college _because_ I took initiative beforehand.
I knew exactly the job & company I wanted to work for way before college, so I had learned everything relevant to that goal before I joined. From my perspective, I spent 3 years learning stuff I didn't want, or paying to be taught stuff I'd already learned on my own. Both left a sour taste in my mouth.
I graduated into exactly the job & company I wanted from the start. I give college zero credit for that. Well, maybe a little bit for getting past the "candidate has a degree" hiring checkbox, but I often question the value of that. 3 years of my life. Ugh. I was watching the clock the whole time.
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All knowelage today can be found on the web. And you will never have any use of 95% of the course. If you get emplyed you will find that you already know more then the people with an engendering degree. But I still recommend getting a engineering degree for two reason 1) those with a degree earns 25% more then you because they can get more job offers 2) university/college is good for your social life. So if you alrea…
Bullshit. The web is full of crap. To really learn you need to learn how to learn. Education still matters. Otherwise you’re just a gpt4 prompt monkey. I’ve found many times in my life where the internet doesn’t know anything about what I’m trying to figure out. Your “just google It” recommendation is destructive.
Then buy a book or read a paper. It is staggering how many college courses just go through textbooks. I find people with this perspective are often bad at googling and/or aren't reading books/papers.