JoshMilo

After spending eight years in the military (where everyone's salary is public, even Generals) I was kind of shocked when I got out and everyone was so secretive about how much money they made. When I got my first office job a few friends had to coach me to not talk about salary. To me it seems the only one really benefiting from not talking about money is the company paying you.

Sure thing.

Breathing exercises: http://freedivingexplained.blogspot.com/2008/03/freediving-t... The "go to" forum for me: https://www.deeperblue.com/

It was the training for freediving, although I grew up next to the ocean and have been swimming the majority of my life so I'm sure that plays a part.

What the article doesn't mention is most people can increase their lung capacity using several techniques like over-unders (pool drills where you swim across a pool alternating between underwater and regular),Oxygen tables, breathing patterns (think meditation), and working out while holding your breath (be careful with that one, I'd suggest just walking holding your breath first).

I was an avid free diver before I joined the Army (to be a diver no less) and during a medical examination they did x-rays of my chest. The doctor came back surprised and told me my lungs were 25% larger than normal. Even now I take one breath for every two my wife takes. I always thought it was kind of cool.

For me free diving is a spiritual thing. Nowhere else am I more calm, more sure of myself, I can be a visitor to an entirely different world.

It's legal here in WA and we haven't had a problem with it being "unsafe". These articles kind of remind me about articles on coffee/wine. One day they're bad for the heart, the next day they boost heart health. I think these types of articles are why we have those anti-vaccine people.

ah! Awesome, thanks

Honest question, would studying immediate mode rendering systems improve my understanding of React's system of doing things? If so, do you have a resource I could use?

I know CodeFellows just opened up some in person courses in Portland: https://www.codefellows.org/calendar

There's also Thinkful which is online but assigns you a mentor to help you through the material. They also offer interview prep and portfolio reviews before you graduate: http://www.thinkful.com/

(disclaimer, I went through the Thinkful course and I'm also a Thinkful Ambassador).

I also wondered that when I went through, later I got clarification that it was for those reasons, and to remove the individual, so that we can follow commands faster and with less hesitation.

You must have forgotten that Niels Bohr was an olympic athlete as well as a nobel prize winner in physics.

I wish I had that kind of class growing up. Even a basic life skills class would be helpful. It would be much better than all those "teachers aide" classes I took in high school.

I love that book. I read it all the time, especially on those weeks when I feel burnt out. It pairs well with one of his other books called The Warrior Ethos.

This. While I have won (and placed) in hackathons, I never took them as this super competitive challenge, I didn't expect to win. The teams I've been on always went home and got some rest. To me hackathons are a fun way to explore new things and meet interesting people.

This is good news; I'm still waiting for the DartVM to get integrated into Chrome.

this might help, it provides benchmarks for most of the popular frameworks: http://www.techempower.com/blog/2014/05/01/framework-benchma...

If you're going to hire someone to do it, asking them what their preference is might be better than saying, "We're going to use x."

It's a bit strange to me too. I use this as a reference and it helps. http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/cssgrids/cssgrids-units-examp...

It's based on SMACSS, that's why they did it like that. It is a bit verbose though. I forked it so that I could make it a little cleaner. http://smacss.com/

Here's some that I have found useful:

Hack Your Education by Dale Stephens - http://goo.gl/O27Z8

Lean Startup - http://goo.gl/YVGuU

Startup Communities by Brad Feld - http://goo.gl/CaGTA

Rework by Jason Fried and DHH - http://goo.gl/IzGeB

The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman - http://goo.gl/Ucf3u

While there are plenty of online resources for self learning, what will give you an edge is to find a mentor that can provide feedback for your questions, steer you away from bad practices, and give you a roadmap/advice. You can start with HTML and CSS yourself because they're the easiest. I would recommend going to a coding bootcamp or taking a course at your local community college. They cost money but provide structure that can speed up your learning.

Online self-learning resources: http://www.codecademy.com (Free) http://www.codeschool.com ($25/monthly) http://www.lynda.com ($25/monthly) http://www.learnable.com ($29/montly) http://www.teamtreehouse.com ($25-$49/monthly)

Coding Bootcamps: http://www.thinkful.com (Online) http://devbootcamp.com/ (San Fran) http://codefellows.com/ (Seattle) http://www.starterleague.com/ (Chicago) https://www.hackerschool.com/ (New York)

There are several more, google is your friend :)

I was one of the beta users and it's great to see this keep improving. I'm glad Nate upgraded the prices for editing. That's the feature that attracts me the most.

Stay thirsty my friend.

I don't know how much longer we can romanticize this notion of more hours= better. While a certain amount of sacrifice is required, if you're working 70, 80, 100 hours a week you might just be inefficient. Sometimes longer hours will be required but I think for a lot of new entrepreneurs they just assume this is how long they have to work, almost as if it's just a matter of accumulating hours.

I found this interesting because I'm doing the opposite. I'm an artist on journey towards programming. I think best with shapes and colors instead of numbers; I've never thought about art from a programmers perspective.

I wouldn't use Mega because of their reputation. I'm being biased and probably a little unfair but I would feel more comfortable telling my users to allow Dropbox/Google Drive for my app as opposed to Kim Dotcom's Mega. Reputation isn't everything, but it's still important.

Agreed. It's always amusing to see those photos where there "trying hard" not to look like they're trying hard to look good.