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I wanted to leverage the parallax scrolling background with Reveal and make it fun.

And as soon as I plugged in the projector the entire classroom erupted with shouts of "Mario!!!!"

I should write up my notes from talking to them. I explained that programming was like speaking a language computers understood and used Spanish and English as examples.

I defined code as the words computers understand.

I defined a program as a story made up of code that a computer knows how to read.

A couple of the great questions I got were "Do you like your job?" and "Do you like typing all day?"

My brother learned Cantonese fluently as a LDS Missionary. He then enlisted in the army after 9/11 and was given a battery of aptitude tests. I'm assuming this was one of them because he ended up at DLI learning Arabic and speaking that fluently as well.

DLI and being a Mormon missionary are about the two best places you can learn to speak a 2nd language fluently in a short amount of time.

Does this work with international numbers?

This is the kind of stuff they teach you in college with a CS degree.

Hey Randall! I've heard of Vidpresso! Congrats on the hustle. Team Wediges is super excited for you.

So glad Twitter is continuing the tradition of useless interview questions.

There is a distinction between the Startup Battlefield (companies that are launching) and the Hackathon (apps and hacks made in a constrained time period). His criticism seems to be leveled at the Battlefield judging.

"Avoid risks that might kill your startup." I think partnerships are one of the big, overlooked killers of startups.

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It just barely dawned on me today that I might be pissing a lot of people off. I've never considered the HOV lane to be a passing lane.

I love this story from two friends at Zappos. This is the good kind of fear. What motivates you?

I'm not even sure if Will.I.Am knows what a hackathon is, but this is awesome.

Oh man, a book on Mason! That takes me back to some good old Perl days.

On a long enough timeline, anomalies can happen anywhere.

I heard about this via the Circa iOS app and then found this Youtube video while CNN was still just showing a map of the area the explosion happened in. The future of news isn't TV.