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Re:Ask HN: Advice for 14-year-old who wants to learn to code? on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @04:09AM (#8818674)
Have you tried Codecombat.com? I think this is a great way to get started, have fun and at the same time learn the basic concepts of computer programming.

Once he understands this, you should encourage to hack into Minecraft hacks.

Later you can ask him about start their own projects and help him when he got stuck.

Programming should be fun and using a language only a tool for their mind, so help him become passionate about build things for himself.

Re:Ask HN: Inmigrate to USA, form LLC and work for myself? on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @04:54AM (#7877021)
Mexican here too. Please send me an email at [email protected], I'd love to connect you with a friend, he did exactly the same steps you're trying to achieve few years ago.
Re:Ask HN: Got invited to work at Google(for 2nd time), what to expect? on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @04:47AM (#7877002)
>> As my Google friends say, it's like already half retired.

This is very interesting. Few employees I know at Google are very busy and working in several things at the same time.

>> I just did not want to do that in my late 20s.

I'm 26 and I think the same too. I have the need to build something where every line of code matters, making people's life easier instead of working in a big company.

Re:Ask HN: Got invited to work at Google(for 2nd time), what to expect? on Friday June 06, 2014 @12:11PM (#7858734)
I think recruiters get paid by the number of positions they can fill, even if they get a "bad performance" for having few candidates.

I think this recruiter just was doing follow up after few months and trying to re-connect. Last year happened to me the same with a Pebble recruiter who later went to Greylock.

Ask HN: Got invited to work at Google(for 2nd time), what to expect?

Posted by nRike on Friday June 06, 2014 @10:07AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi,This is the second time a recruiter invites me to apply for a job at Google. The first time I rejected the offer because it was not part of my area of interest, but now this new recruiter told me I could apply either Developer Relations, Technical Solutions or also Software Engineering roles. EDIT: 2nd recruiter told me he was doing following up from the first one.The questions I have for...

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Re:Ask HN: What is the most difficult tech/dev challenge you ever solved? on Sunday April 27, 2014 @05:25AM (#7654485)
Without real experience in Javascript nor the framework, I created a Google Hangout face tracking app in five days. You can still try it here: http://cocacola-hangout.appspot.com/
Re:BattleHack is coming to San Francisco from April 5-6 on Monday March 17, 2014 @10:21PM (#7419616)
Why Mexico City does not have BattleHack? I was lucky to organize AngelHack last year and our winners also won the finals in San Francisco. Overall, we have plenty of talented hackers down the Bravo river, so I think it would be a great choice.
Re:Austin Police Department Warns SXSW Attendees Not To Use Uber on Sunday March 09, 2014 @12:57AM (#7367636)
I'm at SXSW and realized they're only serving trips when you're in downtown, so yes, Uber already works here now.

SXSW pals, try our new app for booking to all party events in just a click

Posted by nRike on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @07:45AM
from the self-post dept.

We are part of StartupBus competition, and have just published our first alpha version of BThere http://bthere.io As many of you we got tired of searching for cool events on lots of pages and ticketing systems, and are now creating a hub where you will find all relevant events an book them with a single click.Hope you enjoy and find it useful, any feedback is more than welcome!Cheers!

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Re:Ask HN: Does startups need to focus on execute despite having techn... on Friday February 28, 2014 @12:32AM (#7317398)
That makes sense. In a personal note, I think doing monkey-patching code is okay in a discovery mode, but now we have a small revenue stream, we should focus on make the platform more reliable, and probably taking our users as the proxy to understand where the product lacks quality.
Re:Ask HN: Does startups need to focus on execute despite having techn... on Friday February 28, 2014 @12:26AM (#7317389)
I like this approach, data cannot be argued.
Re:Ask HN: Does startups need to focus on execute despite having techn... on Friday February 28, 2014 @12:24AM (#7317380)
I completely agree. I recently started looking for this topic because the feeling I get is that everything is messy and its becoming a nightmare just to think about it. In my case, I'm taking more responsabilities and I think we need to start implementing best practices with our engineering team. Does that makes sense to you?
Re:Ask HN: Does startups need to focus on execute despite having techn... on Friday February 28, 2014 @12:16AM (#7317363)
I agree with that. In the more general sense, do you think is a good approach doing monkey-patching, for a startup whose already made their first sales? Lets say we just raised money from an accelerator and no taking outside investment than that.

My main doubt about that is, do you think is a good approach to keep doing crappy code even if we're already doing money with this? And if not, when would be a good moment to start refactoring?

Ask HN: Does startups need to focus on execute despite having technical debt?

Posted by nRike on Thursday February 27, 2014 @06:57PM
from the ask-hn dept.

To give you little context: 230k users since november 2013, 1.4m monthly pageviews, 50% users MoM growth. So at this point we're having discussions whether if we still need to do hacks and monkey-patching our overall system or start doing massive refactors to our core funcionality code. What do you think? Have you experienced something like this?

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