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iamelgringo
Personal blog · iamelgringo.blogspot.comprogrammingstartupsproductivity
iamelgringo is a personal blog at iamelgringo.blogspot.com about programming, startups and productivity. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Teach yourself you to Hack in 6-9 months”. The last post was in 2009, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog's posts on learning to program and building web apps as a beginner, and one cites a post about using Mechanical Turk for data collection tasks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Teach yourself you to Hack in 6-9 months3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2008-05-15
- Iamelgringo's first big project using Mechanical Turk3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2008-09-09
What Hacker News says?
I wrote this post a while back: http://iamelgringo.blogspot.com/2008/12/hacking-your-food-su... I think that's one of the posts you were referring to. We haven't done once a month cooking for a while, though. We've actually outsourced a lot of our meal prep to Dream Dinners now. Link: http://www.dreamdinners.com/main.php?static=index You can either go there and prep the meals in a two hour period, or for an extra $2…
Comment linking /2008/12/hacking-your-food-supply-perennial.html
on “Ask HN: got any food hacks?”Submitted Iamelgringo's first big project using Mechanical Turk as a story · 102 points
HN discussionI'm a big fan of Mechanical Turk after my last project: http://iamelgringo.blogspot.com/2008/09/mechanical-turk-now-...
Comment linking /2008/09/mechanical-turk-now-with-25-percent.html
on “Ask HN: What is the best way to promote your new fancy web application?”Submitted Tables vs CSS: CSS Trolls begone as a story · 100 points
HN discussionWas it weeks/months/years until you felt comfortable writing an entire Web app with basic functionality? Comfortable? I don't know. Capable? a few months. Starting to flesh out your ideas? Within 1 month of starting an EARNEST effort to learn what it takes to write web apps. I was in your shoes about 15 months ago (roughly). I had ideas and wanted to be at least "sort of" able to flesh them out on my own. I had more…
Comment linking /2008/05/teach-yourself-you-to-hack-in-6-9.html
on “Ask HN: Zero programming experience and badly want to learn. Where to start? ”Submitted Hacking your food supply as a story · 55 points
HN discussionhttp://iamelgringo.blogspot.com/2008/05/teach-yourself-you-t...
Comment linking /2008/05/teach-yourself-you-to-hack-in-6-9.html
on “Ask YC: Learning to hack...”Submitted Teach yourself you to Hack in 6-9 months as a story · 45 points
HN discussionI just finished my first big project using Mechanical Turk. Instead of filling out a page here, I turned it into a blog post: http://iamelgringo.blogspot.com/2008/09/mechanical-turk-now-...
Comment linking /2008/09/mechanical-turk-now-with-25-percent.html
on “Analysis of Amazon Mechanical Turk's data quality”Submitted VC confidence plummets, does anyone care? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSomeone at startup school said that my responses tended to be more like full on blog posts, so here it is: http://iamelgringo.blogspot.com/2008/04/if-startup-doesnt-ne...
Comment linking /2008/04/if-startup-doesnt-need-vc-and-vc.html
on “VC confidence plummets - fewer liquidity events, but startups are "much leaner and scrappier"”Pick a small project you want to work on, then start trying to make it real. Ask for help from people around you. People like helping other people, especially if 1. you make it easy for them, 2. you seem to be putting in a genuine effort. Tons of "Ask HN" posts on this topic have already been posted. The first step to showing people you're serious is to actually do your own research first. The post that got me start…
Comment linking /2008/05/teach-yourself-you-to-hack-in-6-9.html
on “Ask HN: How should a beginner learn to code?”I wrote this a while back in response to that question. http://iamelgringo.blogspot.com/2008/05/teach-yourself-you-t...
Comment linking /2008/05/teach-yourself-you-to-hack-in-6-9.html
on “Ask HN: Teaching a non-programmer web development?”I don't think it's listed in one place - I would get a list of school from Wikipedia or the Dept. of Education (they must have a list somewhere), and put it out as a MT task. If you do this, do a search for how to properly use the service, as there seems to be a certain etiquette and way to interact with the Turkers to get best results. One example of the kind of post I mean is http://iamelgringo.blogspot.com/2008/0…
Comment linking /2008/09/mechanical-turk-now-with-25-percent.html
on “Ask HN: What's the best way to retrieve educational data?”
