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Thanks, this looks pretty similar to codecademy, have you done the courses? Any reason in particular to choose this over codecademy? I guess he can try the free ones and see if he finds additional value.

Thanks, some nice additional resources, the advanced shayhowe lessons look good for explaining the concepts around bootstrap which will be useful for a novice rather than just diving straight into it.

Thanks for the smashing magazine link, should be worth exploring. While the MDN resources are great I was looking for more interactive tutorials. I'm hoping the gameification format used by codecademy will pull him in. Experince tells me his enthusiasm is inversely proportional to my own, so I'm hoping he can catch the bug without me having to walk through it with him.

Thanks, this looks good, and it is close enough to free, I was just trying to avoid 12 week immersion code schools for $1000s. That may be an option later but just testing the waters first.

I disagree, if you're wanting something to "go viral" or whatever 100 upvotes at a busy time, when there are 30 other submissions with over 100 in a similar timeframe is not nearly as useful as 100 upvotes on say Saturday morning when there are less submissions and less voting activity.

This is why others have done analysis on the "best time to post" they're not trying to gather upvotes they're trying to be on the front page for as long as possible... actually maybe that's a bad assumption on my part, I figured this was about an eyeball funnel, perhaps people are karma gathering? if it is the latter then absolutely upvotes is the correct metric.

Personally, I think the focus should be on creating something great and let that be what drives the upvotes, if its about getting internet points, umm I've already spent too much time discussing something I don't care about.

TLDR oversimplifying article is overly simple and gets things wrong and doesn't consider others.

The rules are simple: a user submits a link and title, the community upvote and downvote this submission.

Yes the rules are simple (they're actually not but they can be simplified), but yet the article seems to have gotten them wrong, submissions don't have downvotes.

I starting skimming after that, it appears the metric he's using is number of upvotes, this is NOT the relevant metric, posters are looking for exposure - what they want is a position on the front page. While those things are linked they're not the same. Would also probably want to take into account pageviews on weekends vs. weekdays as this affects exposure. Maybe it correlates to votes/no. of submissions, but maybe more people passively consume on weekends or weekdays.

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I guess that would depend on your definitions of "product", "successful" and "heavy". Realistically if they are in a position to leverage any bundling - why wouldn't they?

But here goes, in no particular order...

Google Public DNS - Dec 2009

Chromecast - July 2013

Chromebook - June 2011

Chrome Browser - Sept 2008

ChromeOS - May 2012

Nexus 4,5,7,10 - various starting Jan 2010

Golang - 2009

Dart - 2011

AngularJS - 2009

app engine - April 2008

You're either very confused, or you have a much deeper understanding of physics than me. I love that it could be either. Does the conservation of momentum apply to things with no intrinsic mass?

I'd argue that there has always been this divide, or similar divides through the course of US history. There's a rural/urban divide which has slowly but inevitably moved in the direction of the urban side throughout the last 100 years. There's a rich/poor divide which I already referenced as haves and nots. There's an educated/uneducated divide which closely mirrors the wealth divide. None of this is anything new.

You seem to have some beliefs about US history which I don't share. I don't believe in the myth of upward mobility in the US, while there are certainly examples of this, the story is oversold. I don't believe the society is as meritocratic as it is made out to be. The biggest predictor of a person's success is their parent's wealth.

I'd also argue the fact that you apparently crossed this major divide in American culture without even realizing it suggests that maybe you didn't cross a major divide of anything at all.

This is without even going into the immigrant/religious/racial divides that exist. We aren't going to have a homogenous group of 300m people - this isn't a bad thing, and it isn't a new thing.

The description you suggest is "completely accurate" applies to scores between 11 and 80, on an entire scoring spectrum of 0-99.

I'm not overly impressed.

I scored 27 but I'm a Brit living in the states and a lot of the blue-collar culture stuff doesn't translate (NASCAR).

I'm perfectly fine not being involved with the more pop culture stuff. I've only watched House of the shows they listed.

Is this a worrying new trend though? I'm pretty sure the world has always had its haves and have-nots.