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Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by maxschumacher91 » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 12:31 PM UTC

happyscrappy wrote: post #68

maxschumacher91 wrote: post #39

Dear Mohamed, do you think you'll be able to use your specific insight into the prison system as a basis for your idea? I bet there are many problems waiting to be solved. Prisons are big money, especially in the US. Greetings and all the best for your journey to YC

He is already profiting from the US prison system. Also I would not recommend tangling with prison guard unions for his first project, tackle something unrelated and revisit it when more experienced.

Profiting from the system by being employed there? That's not what I had in mind.

There are many opportunities outside of prison guard unions for innovation regarding the overall institution/process of incarceration in America.

Domain expertise will only be built by tackling a problem in that domain. How could one possibly decide against pursuing a topic without trying it at all?

Tough, seemingly entrenched markets often prove to be the most interesting: SpaceX, Uber etc

Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by naveensky » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 12:35 PM UTC

Hi Mohamed, Good luck for your journey. It would be really exciting to know more about your journey, I hope you will have time to maintain blog or post more here :)

Again, if you need any tech help, feel free to ping me at @naveensky (twitter) or email in my profile :)

ATB

Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by Snesker » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 12:41 PM UTC

Please think of your dignity and the quality of the board when you post asinine garbage like this, 'Mohamed'.

Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by EdiX » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 12:46 PM UTC

galfarragem wrote: post #70

akerl_ wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

~"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"

This is related with English language itself (and most languages as far as I know). For example if you say that in Italian doesn't make sense: Io sono architetto. // I am an architect You must say: Io faccio l'architetto. // I make the architect (job) Disclaimer: I'm not a linguist neither an Italian native. More accurate comments are welcome.

You are wrong. Both "sono architetto" and "sono un architetto" are valid italian and actually very common. Also the verb closest to fare is to do not to make. Source: I'm italian.

Y'all are philosophising too much about the copula (a rather common philosopher's pasttime).

Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by radcam » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 12:47 PM UTC

From Mohamed to Mohamed, i own my iOS app and i can help you with anything iOS. i teach iOS and Swift to non-programmers and CS graduates. I'm not in the U.S. but if you ever need anything hit me up on Twitter @moubarak

Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by geektips » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 1:21 PM UTC

Hi Mohamed , all of the people here given you great advice on the language to learn and tools to use. I think this will be helpful for you https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev

Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by daSn0wie » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 1:59 PM UTC

Intelligence doesn't matter as much as you think:

http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

Comparing yourself to others is always a losing game. Compare yourself to where you were when you started this journey, and you'll see that you've come pretty far.

Get ready for the rollercoaster (emotionally) ride, and good luck!

Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by cekanoni » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 2:06 PM UTC

Fingers crossed for you man, have a fun learning this is nice motivation.

Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by downandout » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 2:06 PM UTC

Before you do this, consider the following question: would you rather spend your time learning to build the Uber app, or learning the skills to build Uber (the company)? Those are two truly different skill sets, and the latter is far more rare and valuable. The ability to raise money, build teams for a variety of functions, budget, and execute on an audacious vision is far outside the realm of most software engineers.

Unless coding is truly your passion, hire someone or find a technical co-founder. Spend your time learning how to plan and build stable, scalable businesses and teams. Your goal should be to build an organization that can employ all of the software engineers necessary to carry out the vision for your business - not to be able to write all of the code yourself.

Re: Tell HN: Hello

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Post by andy_ppp » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 2:12 PM UTC

richardboegli wrote: post #36

MS 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…

This is terrible advice! Please learn JavaScript, HTML and CSS first! I know that in some places front end is considered not as important as backend - it can be simpler but learning the basics here will allow you to create prototypes for your ideas. Best of luck - let us know how you are doing in 6 months :-)