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Re:Ask HN: How many lives have been negatively affected by WhatsApp go... on Monday October 04, 2021 @09:47PM (#28754638)
In many countries people rely on prepaid minutes and data and these plans usually come with free access to FB, Insta and Whatsapp. If their minutes run out they could normally still use Whatsapp
Re:Ask HN: How many lives have been negatively affected by WhatsApp go... on Monday October 04, 2021 @09:45PM (#28754624)
In some countries, you can run out of mobile minutes or data but be on a plan that provides free access to Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram.
Re:Ask HN: How many lives have been negatively affected by WhatsApp go... on Monday October 04, 2021 @09:43PM (#28754611)
Wow! Snarky much?

Do you have any experience living in a country outside a "first world" country? Do you have any understanding how these "novel" technologies can be the backbone of people's business, livelihoods or even emergency services?

Sounds like you are in a comfortable bubble.

Re:Ask HN: What are your 2014 Predictions? on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @09:14AM (#6995010)
I'm hoping coding will enter the mainstream and more people will learn to create software that helps them in their lives and work.
Re:Life’s Work: Salman Khan on Monday December 30, 2013 @08:31AM (#6984499)
Being an entrepreneurial educator myself, it's so good to read about Khan's ideas and experiences. This article has inspired me to work harder and have a go at video delivery.

Hopefully I can make a positive difference in the world like Khan has.

Re:Ask HN: As a front-end dev should I learn Angular or Rails? on Monday December 30, 2013 @02:18AM (#6983508)
I personally recommend learning Rails first, Angular will then make more sense.

Plus you will have the skills and knowledge of how to plug your front end design into the backend systems.

Both Rails and Angular are MVC frameworks but I suggest that Rails is easier for a beginner coder to learn, especially if you already have a high level of comfort with HTML, CSS and jQuery.

Re:President Obama calls on every American to learn code on Monday December 09, 2013 @07:59PM (#6878276)
I recently spoke at Ignite Sydney and spoke about teaching the world to code :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EYx5eEqVBE

Re:Code poetry exhibition space built by students on Thursday May 23, 2013 @08:45PM (#5760554)
So proud of my students. So many more applications about to be launched over the next week too.

It's great to see that in just 7 weeks, these guys and girl have come from being beginner coders to deploying cool apps.

Re:Ask HN: Writting a book on success in real time on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @10:33AM (#5705086)
They've been around for ages - they're called a blog :)
Re:Ask HN: Any interest in a Sydney (Aus) Hacker News meetup? on Saturday May 11, 2013 @08:39AM (#5690435)
Hi Dilan

I'm happy to have it at Sydney Dev Camp which is on William Street, Darlinghurst. We already hold a couple of meetups here so can easily cater for another one.

Ask HN: Any interest in a Sydney (Aus) Hacker News meetup?

Posted by pedrogrande on Thursday May 09, 2013 @06:53PM
from the ask-hn dept.

It was 3 years ago this question was last asked and although a few people responded, I don't know if anything has happened since then.I am happy to organise one if there is some interest.I'm the instructor for Sydney Dev Camp and the students in my class are keen to meet and share ideas with like-minded people.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some other inspiring CS YouTube videos? on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @09:18PM (#5290098)
Wow - that's amazing! Thanks for sharing that.

I found it very inspiring and has given me so many ideas already.

Ask HN: What are some other inspiring CS YouTube videos?

Posted by pedrogrande on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @07:45PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi there I'm the instructor for Sydney Dev Camp which is aimed at beginner programmers.I love the http://www.code.org video and will definitely be showing it my students on the first day of class.Does anyone know of any other similar type of videos on YouTube or elsewhere? It would be good to have a few of these up my sleeve to show throughout the programme.Thanks

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