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PLEASE stop using the advertisement "like AirBnB for x". I swear all of the YC companies are using it now.

If "true learning" means making $9.25 an hour and slaving away 60 hours per week while a prof makes ~200k and takes all of the credit: I'd rather be ignorant.

That's awesome. Now could you figure out why my intro #2 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dosy8zOooUU&list=PLP6PvXLevG...

Gets flagged as copyrighted music even though there is no music?

So many YouTuber's would thank you for a service that did this.

In my experience, self taught engineers are typically better with frameworks and more productive - but less detail oriented and have less grasp of theory.

CS schools naturally teach you to be slow paced, detail oriented and methodical, and it is sometimes good and sometimes bad.

tl;dr In the past, some (entirely) online eCommerce stores have failed. Thus Amazon may fail since it has a similar business model.

Of course, my bad!

Alternatively, my video introduction to Rust should be live soon: https://www.youtube.com/user/DevFactor Always great to have a few viewpoints.

I 'kudos'ed your post though - because I thought it was very nicely written!

Check your typos (http://testtest.daybook.io/). Otherwise, its very pretty and easy to use. I like the pop-up profile editor.

Haha thanks!

I've also been building a cool web app to aggregate educational CS videos and let people navigate through them based on language and topic. Here's an early screen: http://i.imgur.com/3gbgaxe.jpg (just for showing the styling).

The actual DevFactor channel page is here: https://www.youtube.com/devfactor

PatrickJMT was one of my big motivators. Helped me get good at math.

Hey,

So I was a long-time fan of services like TeamTreeHouse, RailsApps & OneMonth.

I really am a big fan of quality education being available for everyone, and because of that I've opted to open source my CS education on YouTube.

I'm starting with Rails, and I will eventually work around to more core CS topics like circuits -> logic gates -> binary -> assembly -> c -> Data Structures -> Algorithms etc.

If you like it subscribe and I'm looking for all the feedback I can get on how to make it better :)

Once upon a time I tried to use Google ads to promote the parent site for my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/devfactor

I spent $100 on ads, which resulted in around 25 new subscribers. The next week, I wrote a really in depth Arduino Morse code tutorial which ended up on some social networks and netted me ~100 subs.

I'd say that Google adds for me where NOT worth the price. Generating more organic content worked better.

Daily.

Before enrolling at the UW, I was coding thanks to C# Primer Plus and PHP & MySQL web development.

Educational books have provided me employment opportunities (first coding job @ 100m+ company @ age 16 from self teaching) && recreational books have really changed the way I think about the world and problems (outliers, smartcuts).

Books inspired me to write, and publish my first coding book and more recently inspired me to start a free educational channel: https://www.youtube.com/devfactor

There is so much you can distill into a book, its difficult to match with other mediums.

Your feedback isn't very constructive, and reflects poorly on your time management skills.

200 bugs is just two bugs per week for two years. At three hours per bug, that's 6 hours per week - 312/yr and 614 total. Significantly less than a college degree.

Alternatively, spend some time learning to code: https://www.youtube.com/devfactor - build some cool projects and present them to your employer.

Hey,

After spending some time with (paid) projects like TreeHouse, RailsApps, BaseRails - I opted to start producing similar content but at a different cost (free!).

I'm hoping my series can help some of you become more familiar with Rails - and feel free to sub to me if you like it :)

The current model includes an "awards feed", where you can verify the completion of "goals" set previously. Verification is done by a voting system and requires video or images.

Currently, funds are distributed based on the popularity (votes) a completed goal receives from the community.

Details are still being flushed out.

During the development of http://rivalz.io/ we have been using Flurry analytics, and its been an excellent alternative to the bloat that is GAnalytics.

I'm very happy to see that Yahoo is pushing Flurry support and integrating it into so many of their products.

It's important to also note, that retro designs where quite frankly a lot more simple than modern designs. One of our inspirations for http://rivalz.io/ was the Mac OS 1 (1984) because it easily organized all of the features you wanted, without any extras or bloat.

Today's design is so superficial, that a large chunk of applications/games/ui is just fluff and sometimes distracts from the main experience.

Cloudflare. I used to work at F5 and everyone pretended they didn't exist. Than all of the sudden they have like half of the market in their pocket. Taking an old product, making it seemless and offering it for freemium.