kevTheDev

this is true - but I took the title directly from the article without much thought about that...

I think that a 'Real Social Life' should consist of more than hanging out with like minded individuals.

It's important to get different perspectives on life non?

I'm flying over from the UK, might be staying at the Green Tortoise in SF.

Anyone more knowledgeable think that's a bit far away from startup school?

I find that you really just need to find a problem that I myself am interested in solving.

As part of the process of completing the project all kinds of problems will come up simply due to the fact that you don't know the language; and you know what? You just solve them and carry on and before you know it, suddenly you're just writing in the language without thinking.

The idea of solving standard problems to me does not appeal, but only because they sound like textbook exercises, but really whatever does it for you.

How about Brighton, UK?

It's pretty small (around 250k people).

It's by the sea.

It's pretty hilly (For England)

It's an hour from London.

It's very hacker friendly - we have:

2 Universities:

http://www.brighton.ac.uk

http://www.sussex.ac.uk

A thriving geek/entrepreneur community:

http://www.brightongirlgeekdinners.co.uk/

http://www.brightoncodingdojo.co.uk/

http://fivepoundapp.com/meetup/10/

http://www.opencoffeesussex.com/ (Sometimes open beer and open juice meetups too)

http://brighton-ruby.org/

http://www.brightonfarm.com/ (Freelancers meetup)

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/419779/ (Geek Wine Thing)

http://www.businessbricks.co.uk/

Great places to work either in startups or as freelancers:

http://www.sinc.co.uk/ (Sussex Innovation Centre)

http://www.werkshop.org.uk/

http://www.brightonnewmedia.com/

Great events:

http://www.barcampbrighton.org/

http://2008.dconstruct.org/

http://widgetygoodness.com/

Some big companies too:

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/401666/ (Linden Labs)

Plus a couple of games companies - Climax, NCSoft http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/digitalcontent/2007/11/club_peng...

Plus it's a really relaxed and friendly place to be, more pubs/bars than days in the year (really) and the famous North and South Laines shopping areas for people who don't really enjoy the mall. Oh and some people call it BrightonCisco (http://presencelabs.com/2007/03/07/brightoncisco/).

There are many other reasons to be here and I'm sorry to any one if i've missed something really important out.

Kev

hmm, might just do that. I heard that the visa thing would be bad, but it sounds like it's not completely impossible either.

exactly what I was thinking. Doesn't really encourage the "take the plunge" and then figure it out attitude that I think a lot of entrepreneurs have.

that's not good enough.

You know, that soon enough people will demand to be tasered, and then they'll write about deliberately getting their pwd wrong three times just for the thrill.

"The only thing more pathetic than still playing Rock, Paper, Scissors in real life is playing it online with one-dimensional Web hands."

Sorry, but this is just not fair. Rock, paper, scissors used properly in real life can be an effective decision making tool. Also, got to say, why does this guy even care. If they're so worthless they'll die soon enough right?

really not so sure about this test. If I don't get 80% of the answers then I don't know enough about entrepreneurship and should by the book? No thanks.

Especially now i "know all the answers"

please, keep ideas like that to urself ;)

Hey,

Books are not always the easiest thing to learn from. I found screencasts to be an excellent way to pick up all sorts of stuff for Rails.

Check out peepcode.com, railscasts.com and showmedo.com for starters.

Some content is free (railscasts), others not so free.