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Re:What is your recommended beginner's hacker training course? by timg on Thursday May 10, 2007 @09:35AM (#21030)
Your acceptance is based entirely on your idea (even though ideas are worth "nothing," heh) and your past projects. So learn some lisp to score brownie points and outsource a resume-filler project of your design to some cheep foreigners. You'll be ready to go.

As for hacking in general. The only way to learn is to create real programs. Books are a very small part of learning. I wouldn't recommend any.

Oh and don't tell the YC guys that you are hardly a hacker. They wont like that.

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Re:What is your recommended beginner's hacker training course? by SwellJoe on Thursday May 10, 2007 @10:39AM (#21051)
As for not telling the YC guys...they'll notice. You won't have to tell them.

Ideas don't matter (except to show that you're thinking hard about solving a real problem for someone). You want to have a working demo to show them.

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Re:What is your recommended beginner's hacker training course? by timg on Friday May 11, 2007 @03:43AM (#21270)
heh. Was joking.

Still, I think that toying around with other's code in order to make it do something new is an excellent and fun way to learn a new language.

SwellJoe: Nice comment at the top of this page, most agreeable one here.

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Re:What is your recommended beginner's hacker training course? by litepost on Thursday May 10, 2007 @01:49PM (#21105)
the bogus elitism in this community is truly astounding, symptoms of a deeply-held inferiority complex
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Re:What is your recommended beginner's hacker training course? by SwellJoe on Thursday May 10, 2007 @07:01PM (#21184)
Could you clarify how that relates to the parent? (The parent was wrong on at least two counts, but not due to bogus elitism that I could detect.)
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Re:What is your recommended beginner's hacker training course? by litepost on Sunday June 17, 2007 @08:23PM (#28758)
"Oh and don't tell the YC guys that you are hardly a hacker. They wont like that."

The definition of "hacker" is somewhat arbitrary but is nonetheless given inflated status by the majority of this community, it seems.

(I could be mistaken, of course.)

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