crashmoriarty
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I submitted a request for an invite, but I have a couple questions. Do you guys have a "light" mobile-version of your interface? What do you offer over Twitter and other would-be Twitter-killers?
Almost voted up out of sheer perplexed curiousity.
I don't see the point. It seems as worthwhile as selling Mary Kay products, only with more maintenance.
Maybe someone who fails this test won't pass a class their first time through, but I find it hard to believe that any test can determine that someone, given time and practice, cannot be a programmer.
I just don't understand the 37Signals hate. Lots of entities on the internet share their experiences and opinions in a definitive voice, but 37Signals is the one that gets the flak for that approach.
As an employee in a state tech position, I find 37Signals' philosophy refreshing. I can't speak to its appeal as a business leader, but as someone who wants to just do the work that gets the results without the fluff and exhaustion, it sounds great.
To answer your questions: PHP is my first (and only other) language. My scope of mini-projects is fairly small.
Thanks for your advice. :)
Good point. I suppose to elaborate, I want to become a skilled hacker and I want to push myself in a project that I care about with people who are passionate about what they do. :)
Posted by
crashmoriarty on Saturday May 31, 2008 @12:12AM
from the ask-hn dept.
My career ambition at this point is pretty straightforward: I want to join an ambitious startup as a programmer. And I want to get to that point ASAP. My current job doesn't allow much time for programming, so I'm teaching myself Ruby at home.My question is, what skills do startups most look for, and when will I know I'm ready to start applying?
Posted by
crashmoriarty on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @09:04PM
from the self-post dept.
I'm currently working as a mainframe operator, but my career aspirations lie in programming. I'm being granted an opportunity to learn more JCL, which is the language used to control jobs on z/OS mainframes.I'm currently studying "z/OS JCL" by Gary DeWard Brown, and one of the first exercises has me programming a really simple job. However, none of the examples use straight JCL. Instead, they...
To be fair, Y Combinator is about startups and startups are, typically, Web 2.0 :)
I started learning programming at 12 years old. An ideal year in my opinion. Experiment with everything you have the time to learn about. You may be surprised at what you can do with an otherwise bland tool or function.