danoc's comments

On: Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft

[danoc]

Love the Wunderlist sound! Check out this sound design study about it:

https://medium.com/@lexkon/sound-design-studies-wunderlist-3...

On: Painting with Code: Introducing our new open source library React Sketch.app

[danoc]

Would recommend joining the Design Systems Slack [1] and attending the Clarity conference [2] to meet like-minded folks!

[1] https://twitter.com/jina/status/713173129263067136 [2] https://www.clarityconf.com/

On: Payments company WePay (YC S09) raises $40M to go global

[danoc]

Congrats, Bill and Rich! Seeing the API's success makes me incredibly happy.

On: Apple Introduces iOS 8

[danoc]

It removes the first space and adds a period instead.

On: CSS Diner

[danoc]

Really well done. I'd love to see one of these teaching the CSS animations they use.

[Springtime → danoc]

The upbeat animations were the highlight for me. Without them I think it would have felt more an exercise than game-like. Kept the positive vibe throughout.

On: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

[danoc]

I didn't create it, but Pinboard (https://pinboard.in/) is a great example of a successful one person business.

Founder Maciej Cegłowski wrote about it here: https://static.pinboard.in/xoxo_talk_thoreau.htm

On: How I found a Remote Code Execution bug affecting Facebook's servers

[danoc]

Here's a permanent link:

https://www.facebook.com/BugBounty/posts/778897822124446?str...

On: Ask HN: How would you teach web development to college students?

[danoc]

Thanks! I'm aware of Harvey but is there anyway to configure a domain name? Feel free to reach out at daniel@danoc.me.

On: Ask HN: How would you teach web development to college students?

[danoc]

Good point.

I replied to kendalk and mentioned that forming teams and having competitions might be overwhelming in the beginning, but maybe it makes sense to two individual semester semester-long prizes for a CS major and non-CS major that build the coolest product.

[kendalk → danoc]

In addition to having a prize for a CS major and a non-CS major, you could have one that is specifically for a new beginner to programming. Some students have been hacking since they were in junior high but have a different major. I started with a Commodore VIC-20 and BASIC but I wasn't a CS major in college.

On: Ask HN: How would you teach web development to college students?

[danoc]

Thanks Kendal!

I think we'll probably have them start on Ruby since we have a few students that can teach it and have experience in RoR.

> Perhaps you could set up teams that could compete with each other through a series of programming challenges?

I like the idea but I think students might find this to be too much in the beginning. Especially when CS majors are competing with non-CS majors.

Maybe a better option is to promote the Binghamton hackathon from early on and offer prizes/competition for the groups that entered without experience.

> You could find a local business who would sponsor a prize, or a restaurant that would offer a dinner for the winning team.

I definitely want to keep it as local as possible and even have a few community members signed up.

> Be sure to post updates on your group's website.

I'd recommend following the progress on Twitter and GitHub:

- https://twitter.com/HackBinghamton

- https://github.com/HackBinghamton

Thanks for all the advice and feel free to reach out by email (it's on my profile).

[kendalk → danoc]

> I definitely want to keep it as local as possible and even have a few community members signed up.

You might gain some local sponsors by offering to put their company logo on your website. See the bottom of the page of http://clojure-conj.org for the Clojure Conj conference. There are "Platinum," "Gold," and "Supporting" sponsors listed.

Put a Sponsors page on your website and make it easy for businesses to sign up. You could even have a donate button.