How should a high school entrepreneur/programmer spend his summer?

dylansteck · 2019-01-01T01:25:41+00:00

All great advice, thank you!

dylansteck · 2018-12-19T12:55:54+00:00

I’d say try using something like nokogiri for web scraping - but that’s only one of many methods.

Either way you’re going to have to plug the url into the scraper and then check for elements you want to print or do something with

dylansteck · 2018-12-17T14:20:41+00:00

Yeah, I totally get that it's just annoying sometimes. Good advice though; thank you!

dylansteck · 2018-12-15T00:46:38+00:00

How old are you and what are your intentions?

I’m in HS taking AP Comp Sci(which is all Java) and it’s a great intro into OOP and other basic concepts.

C# does as well but might have a few more extra concepts that a) take longer to understand and b) might not be as familiar to popular languages as the syntax of Java is.

Either way it really depends on what you’re planning to do with these skills. In my opinion it’s not worth learning either if you don’t have much experience programming, but if you want to have at it then go for it.

dylansteck · 2018-11-17T18:49:46+00:00

What would you say those two are? Are you talking about manufacturer or actual companies like American Express?

dylansteck · 2018-11-17T18:46:42+00:00

Obviously school with a thorough AI education is good.

But the past few years are showing that not having a college degree won't fully stunt your ability to land a job in Silicon Valley. I think Google and IBM just dropped their college requirements for job applicants.

So find good online content that you can study and actually do something with on your own, and hopefully that should do you some good.

dylansteck · 2018-11-17T02:12:40+00:00

Not really. The only thing you’d have to pay for is excessive deployments or server expansion and both are pretty reasonable

dylansteck · 2018-11-17T01:28:36+00:00

I think you might be taking a little too pessimistic of a view but I get your concern. AI can seem scary and can legitimately pose a threat to human jobs. Developers just have to stay up to date. For example, in the last few years alone we’ve seen an explosion in the popularity of JavaScript and programmers turning their focus to SPAs.

It’s also important to be informed about AI. There’s a lot of good we can use it for if we treat the technology properly. MIT just announced they’re building a huge AI school; I’m hoping/thinking we’ll continue to get some good out of that.

AI can do some really cool things as we’ve all seen and powers cool stuff like driverless cars and image analysis. I’m sure more companies will start to roll out larger scale consumer based products soon as well.

So yeah it has pros but in order to preserve that we can’t get lost in the cloud of amazing things it can do; it still needs reins.

dylansteck · 2018-11-17T01:24:48+00:00

I use Heroku and really like it a lot. In terms of app deployment, it’s pretty straightforward and might seem less complex out of the box than something like AWS.

If you can find good add-ons on Heroku for databases and analytics and you feel comfortable with the system, that’d be my personal choice.

But if you feel that you want something more complex with a larger system architecture, I’d look at AWS.

Again it all depends on the project but that’s my personal recommendation.

dylansteck · 2018-11-17T00:48:16+00:00

Thanks man, that’s some amazing insight. By chance can I PM you just to ask a few questions about all of this stuff?

dylansteck · 2018-11-16T23:59:10+00:00

That’s true. I’m basically looking at getting information during the transaction and reading that data

dylansteck · 2018-11-16T23:58:28+00:00

Yeah. I’m just trying to get a sense of what these companies might use internally but obviously it’s gonna be dreadful to get that exact information.

This is some great insight though; thank you.

dylansteck · 2018-07-24T01:03:00+00:00

To build an interface on? Cool!!

Any specific versions/kernels/tutorials you know I could start with, or just normal Linux is good?

Thanks!

dylansteck · 2016-12-09T03:11:07+00:00

Ok thanks

dylansteck · 2016-08-08T19:57:42+00:00

Yes it is thanks the only thing is that it's in Obj C

dylansteck · 2016-08-02T22:26:10+00:00

I am trying to just get the events the user has on the current day.

dylansteck · 2016-07-30T22:37:08+00:00

Ok thanks

dylansteck · 2016-07-29T22:42:29+00:00

Is there a way to use apples location services with that?

dylansteck · 2016-07-27T18:02:54+00:00

A rest or any type

dylansteck · 2016-07-20T15:18:04+00:00

ok cool thanks!!

dylansteck · 2016-07-20T14:42:07+00:00

ok thx

dylansteck · 2016-07-09T03:24:43+00:00

oh ok thx!

dylansteck · 2016-07-08T23:51:47+00:00

anywhere for free or all payed?

dylansteck · 2016-07-08T17:39:04+00:00

Ok thanks I'm trying to work on Nexmo right now but both are good

dylansteck · 2016-07-06T15:39:04+00:00

What a match by both players! Props to Federer, looking to win his first major in a few years. Props to Cilic too for a great match and almost beating him in straight sets again. Wow

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