mrborgen

That's an interesting angle, charge the creators instead of the consumers. I'm writing from time to time on Medium myself, and could have paid for that as well.

I've also sometimes paid for images for my articles. If Medium made is super easy (and cheap) to find and buy images for an article, I'd use it.

Have no idea if these revenue streams could scale to the degree Medium needs, though.

Do you mean the screencast itself or the Scrimba tool (was posted to HN last week)?

Not 100% decided exactly which. But expect the most popular ones. More info will come :)

Support for Python and various other server-side languages is on our roadmap yes.

We'll create a blog soon, which will be linked to at Scrimba.com.

Yes!

As for now, you can't change the code after it has been recorded audio over it.

Are you pressing the play icon in the lower left corner? That is for resuming back to the timeline the of the creator of the cast.

To run the code, press the play icon in the top right corner. When you hover over it, it says 'Run code'.

We clearly have some UX challenges here :)

Fair points, the reason is simply because I think we'll be able to build a bigger company if we join YC. Specifically, the pie will grow more than the 7% YC takes from it.

But I might be wrong of course.

Thanks, but to be fair it's my co-founder Sindre who's built this. I've done some coding on the site, but not the editor :)

We'll open up for that soon!

Thanks a lot for all the feedback, everyone! We're overwhelmed by all the positive comments. If you have any feature requests, please submit them as issues here: https://github.com/scrimba/community

Also, a few people have asked us how to create content, so we're obviously not making it clear enough. To do that, simply create an account (with GitHub) and start screencasting in our browser editor.

If you want to get in touch with us, send me an email at per@scrimba.com.

Finally, I want to mention that we're applying for YC this spring. If any of you have any tips or connections you think we should speak with, please let me know :)

Interns aren't something we're currently looking for, but send me an email at per@scrimba.com :)

Yes! Just signup and start creating :)

Would love to speak to you as well, my email is per@scrimba.com

Just login and you'll see a plus icon in the top right corner:)

Support for that will come, but it might be a pro feature. Any specific use case you were thinking?

Yeah, it seems so!

I'm glad you like Scrimba, thanks!

We plan to add monetization options yes. Basically sell courses through Scrimba. But it will also be possible to simply share casts for free.

We do support that. Hit the 'Edit' button in the lower right corner :)

Yes, that's on our bucket list!

Hey, I'm the author of this article. Happy to answer any questions people might have.

Nope. But you should make sure you actually enjoy coding. I did the switch like you (from running a small startup to doing a bootcamp and becoming a developer).

Several of the people in my cohort didn't become a developers though, as they didn't seem to have the proper motivation to put in the necessary work (at least not to manage it in a 3-5 month period).

You can read about my experience going from non-technical to technical here: https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/from-non-technical-to-...

I did a one week ml stunt last year: https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/machine-learning-in-a-...

I'd recommend starting with the Kaggle Bag of Words tutorial.

The company I work for, Xeneta (startup in sea freight industry), is hiring developers in Norway: https://www.xeneta.com/careers

Otherwise, apply for jobs in Norwegian startups through this site:

https://startupmatcher.com/

Which ones were right?

Here's a quote from Michael Moore's Trump victory prediction: http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/

'And because this election is going to come down to just one thing — who drags the most people out of the house and gets them to the polls — Trump right now is in the catbird seat.'

I'm wondering if most polls fail to take the above factor into account.

Here's how I got started:

https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/machine-learning-in-a-...

That neural network is just an experiment I did the other day, and it doesn't work properly. I'm going to fix it when I have time. Regarding the results: I don't know how they'll be, that's why I'm experimenting with it ;)

Udacity's Intro to Machine Learning

I have a bachelors degree in economics, so some university math with calculus and linear algebra. The reason I found it hard was because I had to learn Octave while also understanding the algorithms and general ml concepts.

That being said, I think it's a great course, and would highly recommend it to anyone who thinks they're up for it. But there are other courses that provides an easier gateway into ML.

Hmm.. hard to say, but in 2016 I've probably spent around 5 hours per week on average.

Most of the times I've struggled with ML has been related to the fact that I've been trying courses/tasks that have been above my level. Once I find content which is tailored to my level, ML isn't that hard after all.

I definitely want to do more ML in the future, one way or the other.