kevin_rubyhouse

That seems like a really bad scenario, but there are computer science classes and AP/AB CS classes that need to follow a certain curriculum for the Computer Science AP Test by the College Board. I graduated from high school only a year and a half ago in Washington, so I would agree that my perception of schools is skewed towards wealthier districts.

You don't agree that any student should be allowed to program on computers in the library? It seems like a security issue, whereas in a classroom students would be supervised by a computer science instructor. I'm not saying students need to be hand held, but schools really just don't know enough about programming to open it up. Web development, Flash, and Photoshop could be installed on library computers - they were on a few where I went. Otherwise I totally understand why school district IT would not allow it or fight against it.

What sort of credit card penetration do other parts of the world such as Western Europe/Eastern Europe/Middle East/SE Asian Countries/Australia... other places.

Where do you get the information that you wrote about? I'd be very interested to read into it further. Anybody know any relevant works off the top of your head that you could share?

These schools would offer the course if enough of the students are interested. There is no lack of information around us (internet, libraries, sit down at a book store) to learn programming. The issue is the perception of programming in high school - the stigma around it. This might be perpetuated by some of the more eccentric programmers, and these programmers are very good and tend to grow into strong programmers! But they can also repel people that might have been interested, but it conflicts with social status that is so important in high school to the majority of people.

Coding IS taught is in high school, but is not mandatory. You know this of course, but it's important to note that there is no shortage of opportunities for students to take computer science courses. Some districts will even send students to a nearby school if enough students want to do it but the school doesn't offer it. High school computer science classes were useful, but still at such a slow pace for people that were interested enough to learn at all outside of class. Anybody that was obsessed with programming outside of class probably wouldn't take the class or just snooze through it.

Hey I sent you a message through your site. My email is on my profile as a back-up.

I would probably use it if it worked for sure with Newegg as well.

I can take care of these conversions for you. My email is kevin.stubbs at therubyhouse.com. I can send you our portfolio afterwards.

My thoughts exactly. The US probably has a just as big or more sophisticated organization of hackers and cyber warriors. It's fantastic and also overlooked when talking about Chinese cyber espionage. Much talk seems so one sided, but it's hard to objectively talk about without knowing what the American cyber warriors have been up to. I'll take it as a sign that they're doing a good job and not getting caught. Furthermore, I take comfort in the fact that there are slim chances that the US and China would actually go to physical war with each other. I want to end up working with China in the future, not necessarily against them.

It sounds like they have a some ideas of what they'd like to do, and some important people have bought into the concept. But it doesn't seem like they have made much progress at all. There is "promise" of having a facility to seriously research this approach to delivering vaccinations, but as it stands, they haven't done anything but planning and networking. They're young and ambitious, which is great for them, but I'm more interested in what they have accomplished so far with this project.

I agree. And companies are trying to digitize the faxes, like NTT, "the giant domestic telephone company... It is offering services that allow older Japanese to use their fax machines to send messages to their children’s and grandchildren’s smartphones, where they appear as attachments to e-mails."

That's found in the last paragraph of the article.

I see comments like this all the time - where people with a strong background find faults in scientific articles and such written online. Why do these articles get things wrong so often? In this case I think you're saying the paper itself should not have been using isotropic coordinates. Is this because of different schools of thought in this higher realm of physics? Or... what?

All car manufacturers have this sort of logging enabled. It's used especially for testing and on-board equipment.

This isn't what I had in mind, but serves to demonstrate the capabilities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics#Data_logge...

Startups are intuitive for most founders because of the scope of our resources. It would usually be counter intuitive for a big business or wealthy individual(s) to create a business as a startup (unless there's a lot of risk involved, perhaps) because they have what would be necessary to go at it full force. Imagine having 1mm in funding the day the MVP starts getting built because you, as a founder, have that liquid cash ready to invest. This isn't a scrappy startup, it's a well funded one.

Most people don't have that. Most people HAVE to start small, or burn the midnight oil working on their MVP, trying to get traction. It's not because we necessarily want to, it's because we're hungry to win and we just don't have the firepower that our established competitors have.

It seems like there are a few different frames people have to think about startups. Some think of it like gambling (as you've said), some think startups are x-wings trying to take down the death star (with enough skill and a LOT of luck, a startup will hit it big), some want to reign startups back into being a business (start with an idea that makes money!), and then there are the founders in the trenches fighting on the daily. We're the guys that have been persistently working on our businesses, our projects, our hare-brained business models that just might work. We're grounded by reality - that this is very hard - but we just keep fighting down here. I'm going to stay on these front lines until I lead the guys here who believe in me to a decisive victory.

This is very interesting. What book did you read about this in?

Hey how's it going?

Sounds like you're in a great spot to pursue a goal, as soon as you've settled on what you'd like to do.

How did the programming go over the past 276 days? (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3964837) How did your prototype come out?

I somewhat agree with cjbenedikt about investing. The issue though is that without actually experiencing startup or being in the trenches with technology it is harder to filter/process ideas that people talk to you about.

You're cut out to be a founder if you are consistently applying effort to improving yourself as an entrepreneur/in business. Persistence is key, because that way you can eventually navigate all the obstacles to building a successful company, something I've managed only to a minor degree.

I won't presume to give you any advice besides that. What I can help you out with though is getting a solid start to learning how to program. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions, especially related to programming (front-end, back-end, software, architecture, mobile, games... anything) at kevin.stubbs at therubyhouse dot com.

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With apparently all the time in the world, don't worry about learning too much programming. Just work your ass off at it and you'll be a fair enough programmer for your needs soon enough. (I prefer overkill courses too.)

Probably different reasons for many people. Timing is hard for some people (family, job, school...) The uncertainty is hard to cope with for others. Money issues make it hard too. It's easy to doubt yourself when things don't go right the first, third, and 8th time you've tried it.

The question that entrepreneurs need to settle before starting is,

"1/10th of all businesses fail. Would you go through 9 failures just to get that one big success?" Maybe your 10th business is a hit and the first 9 were just a test for you.

In another view - from my generation's superhero: "Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death."

School is blamed way too much. I went to highschool on both coasts of the USA (Massachussets and Washington,) in relatively rich areas of the state/country, so we're not talking about inner-city here. Free-thinkers at these schools were not beaten down or broken, at a minimum they were treated the same as everyone else, at a maximum they were handed opportunities from connections, local companies, clubs, etc. Even IF schools mercilessly beat down free-thinking, these are not the people that would become entrepreneurs. You have to be able to think away from the norm to get into this scene in the first place. These kinds of people probably aren't affected that much by school's instruction in this sense.

I'm curious to know which new names you have been hearing?

Well, what is motivating you to get into Ruby on Rails in the first place? If it's money or a better job, is there anything else driving it?

They need to be intrinsically motivated or else they will be B or C players. I'm only interested in cultivating A players. It's something I can't do, and it's something that would be extremely valuable to any organization (like any company I run for instance.)

I've tried to teach my friends and acquaintances that are interested in programming, but my curriculums never work out. It seems that the bigger problem for the guys I'm talking about (high school and college age) is self-motivation and drive that they are unfamiliar with from their academic careers. Anybody motivated enough could learn programming because all of the necessary resources and training is freely available. The OP's curriculum looks like a fantastic way to get into JavaScript for somebody motivated. The bigger question then is, how do you motivate somebody that likes the idea of programming to also happily accept the hard work involved?

Could Elon Musk actually help Boeing solve this? From a past article, it seemed that he had Tesla use a completely different strategy than Boeing. Tesla's was to use many small cells, and Boeing uses a few huge cells. Is there really anything Tesla's engineers could say to Boeing besides "re-manufacture all of your cells to use this new architecture?"

I don't know anything about the gold mining industry. If you have found good/dense information about it, could you point me to where you found it? I'm sort of interested now. :)

More likely a notice would be issued and they would be taken to court if they refuse to comply.

It seems like it would be hard to find additional content after the easier targets are taken up. Once people have put up lists of what they find useful, new lists or useful additions to the list wouldn't appear every day. It might be a good curated reference, but I have a hard time seeing an active community based around it. Maybe you need to expand the scope of the site idea?

The article agrees with you, "it was fought against a powerful Indian rajah, an Indian equivalent to a king or warlord."

It's a funny paradox that China, the "regime that feels threatened by the open exchange of information," can only continue surviving by actively gathering more information than any other government. It seems like they get caught more often than any other spy agency, but I feel safer over-estimating them and contributing this frequency to the volume of hacking campaigns they run. They get caught more because they do more. The gov. has probably the best candidates working for them from their enormous population.

Why was it easier to field large armies in Alexander's time than in the medieval period? Does it have anything to do with the feudal system? Or was it that weapons, armor, and equipment was more expensive in the medieval times. Last guess: training was more valuable in the medieval times than it was earlier, so it was more effective to field smaller armies of better trained and equipped men than a horde of untrained peasants with archaic weapons (because that's all they could afford.) ?

Nobody told Alexander the Great about the Indian monsoon season? Surely he could have gained some information about the country he invaded before committing.

What does this actually mean? To me, the obvious part is that people in coffee shops could be targeted. Is the most dangerous part about it to do with ISPs? They already could know what pages you visit TPB anyway, couldn't they? In Fiddler today all I seemed to see were handshakes to a secure site I host, but I couldn't see what pages or assets were requested. Do ISPs have the same problem?

Would it be beneficial to legalize online gambling in the United States?