jayrobin

Great choice. I was getting quite sick of listening to the same albums over and over until I found this and 'The Trip' Soma.fm channel.

Interesting concept. Being an English guy with an American wife I've discovered a large number of common words that are very different between the two languages (beyond the obvious like sneakers/trainers, jumper/sweater) - it would be great if the dictionary were expanded to support this.

EDIT: though it does occur that you won't want to switch words with several meanings without context, which could be tricky.

Many thanks for the input, mate - I very much appreciate it. It's extremely helpful getting a more objective viewpoint on bootcamps, since the majority of information out there is from alumni and will always be positive.

My degree was faiyly comprehensive, it's just that since I graduated I have become pretty rusty on the fundamentals, but I guess that's something that should come back to me with a bit of revision.

I guess my main worry was the difficulty of finding a job in a new country with no prior connections and no real professional experience, but I guess I've got around a year to make myself marketable and attempt to build up a few connections from across the pond (maybe I can find a few Rails OS projects willing to take on an eager learner).

Thanks again!

That was fast!

I can't access it on my mobile at the moment as I'm at work and for some reason right in a 3G blind spot, but on my PC it's looking very nice.

Honestly not sure what you could change/add now as it's pretty much perfect for what it's aiming to be! Only possible thing is aligning the 'I want to go to bed at this time' textbox time format with the other times displayed, i.e. the textbox uses 'HH:mm:ss' while everything else uses 'hh:mm am/pm'.

EDIT: just checked it on my iPhone. Looks and works great. 'I want to go to bed now' drop down functions really well.

I plan to use your app, so of course you're welcome to use my button :)

I like this and could see myself using it, but think seconds are not really necessary - it makes it a little harder to read and I'm not exactly going to set my alarm for 06:21:57.

Also, perhaps when pressing 'I know my bed time' the text above should fade/slide out and be replaced by the other section? Something maybe like this: http://i.imgur.com/OZ8t6NI.png

Finally, not sure if it's intentional but good call on going for white on black: sleepti.me does the last thing I want to see when I go to sleep it a glowing white background!

You sound like you have a fair amount of knowledge on the subject so I'd be massively appreciative if you could give me any advice...

I'm planning to move from the UK to the States next year (American wife, so hopefully shouldn't be too much hassle) and combine it with a career change from project manager (please don't hate me!) to developer. I have a CS degree and similar Masters, but coding has been primarily a hobby since I graduated (i.e. I can make pretty much what I can think of given enough time, but I'm shaky on the core concepts: big-oh, data structures, design patterns and algorithms).

My plan was basically to (re)learn as much as I can between now and early-mid next year (focusing on RoR) and build up my GH portfolio, then jump into Dev Bootcamp to fill in the gaps and get some introductions hopefully leading into a job. However, after reading your comment it makes me wonder if it'd be $12k wasted?

Any advice or input would be worth at least a pint!

A QR code can store 2,953 bytes. If you were just encoding compressed vertex data it might be enough (depending on the complexity of the model - I haven't seen it myself).

Andrew Ng's course on Machine Learning (https://www.coursera.org/course/ml) has rave reviews whenever I see it mentioned. It just started again a few weeks ago and I had hoped to join this time, but other commitments made that impossible.

As for the other part of your question...You may as well be asking if it's too late to research 'science'. Machine Learning may have been studied for a fair few years now, but it is still very much in its infancy. The possible developments in this area we can't yet imagine dwarfs the possible developments we can, which in turn dwarfs the 'major contributions' so far.

I joined reddit about 4-5 years ago and soon got sick of the same old posts, memes, jokes and comments over and over. Switching off the default subreddits and joining some smaller ones relevant to my interest turned it into an entirely different experience. It's only a shame that in light of recent events (r/findthebostonbombers, r/creepshots, etc) people see the site as a single-minded community rather than a diverse collection of very different ones.

EDIT: some of my subs include gamedev, getdisciplined, depthhub, truereddit, dailyprogrammer, entrepeneur

My personal favourite is http://wallbase.cc, but since that's already been mentioned, http://www.desktopography.net is also worth checking out.

while I was quite shocked by the witch-hunt and amount of 'suspicious until proven innocent' I saw in that subreddit, in fairness to reddit as a whole that is one small subreddit among thousands.

Also, some of the highest upvoted threads and comments appear to be warning others of the potential negative consequences of their publicly pointing out everyone with a backpack or different coloured skin.

Your product looks quite good, though I can't say I'm too keen on the name! If you're not already, I'd suggest aggressively reaching out to any educational establishment that might have an interest to solicit feedback and sell your product.

Speak directly to lecturers and provide them with unique discount codes to offer their students. Maybe setup an affiliate system? Give people a reason to sell your product for you.

At any rate, good luck - I can see a lot of effort went into building this.

This is why he mentions that Karate Kid didn't work well, because one of the factors of a successful play-through was that your opponents health is decreasing, which is something that this AI doesn't look for.

I don't believe that was the case. From the video he mentioned it using the power kicks up all on the first enemy because they produced the most favorable outcome for that game, at the expense of later games when more powerful moves are needed (since the AI can't plan that far ahead).

So I've only been playing around for a few minutes and have decided I actually quite like it for its simplicity.

However, I have a bit of feedback:

* I don't really like the tasks jumping to the bottom once I set them as complete * A strikethrough on complete tasks would be nicer than just dark grey font

* The backlog doesn't function as I'd expect. The number seems to refer to the total number of incomplete tasks across the whole project, but clicking it takes me to the index. I'd expect the backlog to be any tasks which haven't been assigned to a goal (sort of like the index is now), then a separate function to show all incomplete tasks across the index and goals

* After adding a milestone and selecting it, I have no idea how to get back to the normal project view with the goals and tasks I have already added, except going back to the workspace view then back into the project

* Oh, looks like I click Backlog to get back from a milestone. The backlog feature now makes a little more sense. Maybe it would be better to have the Backlog link close to or on the milestone bar?

I agree. The real problem is when you find yourself interrupting other, more important tasks, just to check your emails. Clearing my inbox first thing then at set times throughout the day (e.g. in between Pomodoros, if you're into that) has been working well for me.

  I started coding 18 months ago, and now I'm a lead developer at a funded startup and a two-time contributor to Rails

As someone in an unrelated career looking to transition to development, I'd be very interested to hear more about your journey and how you achieved this in such an impressively short timeframe.

I took and just completed the edx CS50x course. I have a bit of a CS background but am quite rusty, and I was able to stay well ahead of the suggested schedule with only 2 hours a week. 1 hour a day/5-10 hours a week should give you more than enough time to watch all the lectures, sections, shorts and walkthroughs, and do the psets and background reading within 2-3 months I'd guess.

This should give you a fairly good foundation in the basic concepts of programming, while creating some pretty cool stuff in the psets and for the final project.

Apologies if this doesn't directly answer your question, but it sounds like the immediate problem is financial - are you able to quickly get a contract in an area relevant to your experience (project management, perhaps?) to tide you over while you work on your CS skillset on the side?

Being in the UK as well, cwjobs.co.uk has been my best source for contract jobs, though I do get some good offers through LinkedIn every now and then.