What makes you feel that the next 15 years of talented young are going to be more dispersed, have you seen any indications of it? Is the idea just that the bubble will burst, scattering everyone throughout the currently underserved market?
I'd also love to hear why you think there will be fewer superhubs (and why that's good). A lot of my reading lately has suggested the opposite - growing superhubs, and why that is a good thing.
Funny, this is more or less my trajectory over the last ~4 years after changing majors from CS 2 years in and graduating with an Econ degree.
Got an entry level job at a bank in ATM support in Pittsburgh and spent the time in-between calls writing excel macros and command line programs to make the job even simpler while also working on my own rails projects at night. This led to a junior dev job at a php shop after a year and a half, which after another year and a half and launching a startup of my own, I finally made it to New York City as the second engineering hire at a startup.
I just finished Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City the other day, and after reading this article, I'm really excited to see how his theory about education level being a major factory in whether a city succeeds or not is affected.
I doubt we'll see any short term changes, but in places that don't have good access to education (or in places with an education system like Feynman experienced in Brazil) I can't help but wonder what kind of changes the world is going to experience as average global education level skyrockets due to MOOCs.
I made it about 3 days at my first job out of college as a recruiter, and I can confirm this at least at the small company I worked for. It was actually part of the training to pitch to applicant's references because they were much warmer leads.
Buying a book like Starting Strength by Rippetoe and starting with low weights goes a long way to getting your form good enough that you won't seriously injure yourself.
Yeah I actually had to learn this the hard way. Clients complaining about things not looking right in IE7/8 when I tested using IE9 in IE8/7 mode. You need the actual browser to be sure you've tested everything.
Coder trying to be a designer here. I've spent a lot of time reading books and experimenting, but what I am really missing are beginner tutorials on how to make the popular elements I see on websites in photoshop (or even principles of creating the different elements).
Maybe I am not looking in the right places, but I would love to be able to find an exploration of gradients (for example) in Photoshop and/or css and how different configurations create different visuals. When I open up Photoshop and try it myself, I feel overwhelmed by the seemingly infinite color and position choices I have in front of me - and every attempt comes out looking horrible.
Thank you! I had seen the Design Patterns in Ruby book when I looked around on Amazon, but wasn't sure if it would be a good choice. Ordered now, though.
Looking forward to hearing the features the "database plan at or near this price point" will have. We would love to be able to connect to our database with other apps besides the main one - even if it ended up somewhere between the $200/month plan and the $15/month - it would be incredibly useful.
I wonder if this will come with some smaller production plans between dev and Ronin. We're also in the situation of getting enough performance out of the shared db offering and not needing the power of Ronin yet.
Also, I'd hope they will give a few months warning before flipping the switch completely, similar to how the hoptoad/airbrake switch went.
I actually had Boyer for Geography of Wine - another popular class of his (never won the lottery to get into World Regions when I was there). He was definitely one of the few professors I had that through his personality and unique style was able to make learning something dry like memorizing different regions, styles, and attributes of wine an absolute blast. It is great to see him start to get a lot of recognition, I just wish I could be there in World Regions now.
Yeah, I'm actually doing the stronglifts 5x5 program. The Starting Strength book is still really useful for learning the lifts and getting all of the detail. With stronglifts you're going to get high in weight quick - so knowing form well is kind of important.
Yeah, it is refreshing to see people posting results from these predominantly weight lifting programs. Helps keep me motivated on what I'm doing.
If anyone is interested in starting, but lacks the money for a personal trainer, I've found Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe (http://www.amazon.com/By-Mark-Rippetoe-Lon-Kilgore/dp/B005PI...) to be a huge help in learning all the lifts. The first chapter is almost 60 pages just on squats going over everything from foot position to hand position, along with an explanation of why.
This looks amazing, it would be a perfect tool for learning programming in the first place, but can easily work great for experts as well. Incredible. When can we get a download link to try this out?
While programming I love scribbling down notes and ideas on a notepad. There is something about the change in mindset or context from screen and keyboard to pen and paper that helps me see the whole picture of what I am working on, or even just get a thought out of my head temporarily to be able to stay on the current task. Does anyone else do this, and have you found any piece of technology to replace that?
I have The Little Schemer, but have had trouble figuring out the best way to use the book. Do you just read it from cover to cover? Or do you cover up the right hand of the page and try to come up with an answer (maybe even typing it into the repl) before looking?
Movies are absolutely on the road map. We are currently bootstrapping, so we had to limit ourselves to what would be the most popular to launch with at first.
This is awesome. Are you planning on adding more diverse data sets beyond government and economic? Something like professional sports stats, college sports stats, etc?