WilhelmJ

I just want to clarify something here, I am not an idea guy or a business guy. I am a hacker but my specialties are systems programming in C/C++ and I am learning web dev on the side when I get time, but haven't gone that much far. The reason for this post was partially to motivate me as well, since its great motivator once you get something going.

Didn't understand how the sentiment analysis works, since results look quite not what I expected. I did a test search on 2012 presidential candidates:

Obama: 44% positive ("barack obama" is 62% though)

Mitt Romney: 67% positive

Michele Bachmann: 50% positive

Herman Cain: 71% positive (?)

Ron Paul: 71% positive

Rick Perry: 81% positive (??)

I am not sure the sentiment calculation is just based on Positive/Negative dictionary comparison or something else. Is there a logical explanation of above percentages? Do results vary for other people?

I want to add something from my own experience.

One particular company I was interested in had few puzzles on their website. I once worked the whole weekend to solve them as good as I can. Spent lot of time writing a custom cover letter, resume and attached the C++ solutions to the puzzles.

Its been several months and I am still waiting for the damn reply!

The site looks great and very user friendly, but as others have pointed out, the paid-tier-only seems too restrictive. Specially given the motto of treehouse is "Millions of people can't afford a quality technical education, or if they can, it's out of date immediately when they graduate. We aim to change that."

How can this compare to MIT (and other) Open Course Work and hundreds if not thousands of good free tutorials on the internet Vs $25/$49 a month?

FWIW, I learned basics of web development/design totally free, just took a bit of searching to find good resources, and once I was confortable with basics, the further education came through just googling-on-demand, videos only helped in the beginning.

The article says that over the next 5 years, about 7 Million laptops will be purchased. The price of windows mentioned in the article is about $110 at current rates, which means $770 million order for MS. That definitely is a big order for MS, considering the full laptop is only expected to cost ~$300.

On a slightly different note, I don't remember top 5 posts on HN all about deaths! I wonder why so many people upvote so many stories related to same subject (i.e. Steve Jobs' death)?

Hi there,

You've done some nice work on the project. Since I follow most showHN posts, I think I am seeing this submission 4-5th time in last 1 and a half month with different titles. I tried to search for previous submissions but seems like they were taken down later.

Please don't get me wrong, I wish best of luck to this startup, but would you really still call it a 'weekend project'? I think not.