tmanderson

beware of data rackets

lol this is why so many game UIs are awful (how much they lack in terms of OS accessibility, keyboard controls/shortcuts, etc)

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With the holidays around the corner, we're using it ourselves and figured others might find it useful. Would love feedback from the HN community!

Really love the idea of this website.

There hasn't been an update to the content here in a little over a year. The owners of the website accept contributions and I'm pretty sure most articles were voluntarily created and edited afterward. [email protected] seems to be accepting contributions to the content that has yet to be added.

It seems that chrome doesn't work at all for me? Any ideas? Everything else seems to be working fine...but not chrome.

The application just doesn't seem to register (the icon remains that of the last app recognized). No amount of focusing Ghostnote, then Chrome, then Ghostnote, changing tabs, or restarting Chrome seem to do any good either.

This is why "the fold" should never be a hard number. You can still design for a larger portion of the initial viewport with percentage based "folds" (along with content).

No problem, man. It's a shame that HN doesn't have two-way binding on these comment forms. I have a hard time visualizing what my comment will look like. Hope it looks good!

The usefulness of two-way binding is utterly boundless. Simply an amazing pattern that any and every one should implement at least once in their programming career.

Those companies are investing in that framework. It's currently in the form of a bunch of drafts on W3C. Web components and the shadow DOM are a few that embody what you're talking about.

I completely agree that with the right candidate this could be great -- however, that can be applied to almost any area of knowledge.

I've been fed up lately with all the wrong people learning to program for the sake of learning to program. While I do agree with the fact that it's a very important skill, I also think that physics, mathematics, and so many other ones are too. If I came across a program like this for "serious mathematics" or "astrophysics" that was promising job placement after 12 weeks, I'd call the same.

You should learn something if you genuinely want to learn it, not because you think you'll make money, or if it's really means to an end. I feel that these "learn to program in a matter of weeks" type programs just encourage this behavior in too many people (and also attract them).

12 weeks is hardly enough for foundational programming knowledge -- and cramming more hours into a day may have more negative effects than positive. Above everything else, everyone learns differently and turning education into a sub-par web programmer farm will certainly impede on others' quality of learning.

If this instead went the route of hiring a one-on-one tutor (with an indefinite period of service) I think I'd have higher hopes. I have no doubts that you'll have some bright guys come through your program, but I can guarantee there's going to be a whole lot more of 'em with the wrong mentality -- which will be to their detriment, and possibly yours.

As for your friend JP, no, I do not think this will make his future worse.

I shed tears for the companies that hire the "graduates" of this "start to finish plan."

I don't care how good of an instructor you are, you cannot make a programmer remotely efficient in HTML5 (primarily the countless APIs involved), CSS3, AND JavaScript in only 12 weeks.

I don't know how that job placement is going to work -- but unless these learners start as interns, I don't know how beneficial this would be for them.

There's "jumping into the deep end" and then there's "jumping into the Atlantic." I get a sense of the latter with this program.