Well, deserved highlights. Each one of these people have helped me in some way.
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By Carl Pierre / @Carlpierre
These guys have done incredible things for the DC startup community but are not the kind to hog the spotlight. Like a good Milford man, they are neither seen nor heard. Yes, I had to throw in an ArrestedDevelopment reference.
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I am going on a making diet, here I share a little bit about why.
About two years ago I was introduced to the world of programming and Ruby. At the time I was helping friends at a startup with customer support for a product that they were building. Out of curiosity I started reading up on what they were doing. I was fascinated. I don’t have a formal education in technology. Most of everything I know today has come from community and (mostly free) online resources.
Today I listened to an interview by Steve Blank of Jessica Mah about Jessica’s and inDinero’s story. I enjoyed this interview because of its emphasis on learning and moving forward. Jessica was really honest and humble about her experiences.
I have been working on becoming more proficient in Vim. One of the processes that I have noticed that can take up a lot of time is switching between files. The two examples I have seen are NERD-Tree and Command-T. NERD-Tree looks great, however, I am primarily interested in opening files as quickly as possible. With this criteria, Command-T seems to be the best solution.
A few weeks ago, I went to Washington DC with a number of other venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to meet with various members of Congress and in President Obama’s administration to discuss important legislation (here and here) that was being pushed through the process.
It’s an awful…
This is amazing. I might do this.
On September 19th, I said goodbye to my trusty MacBook Pro and started developing exclusively on an iPad + Linode 512. This is the surprising story of a month spent working in the cloud.
It all started when I bought my first MacBook a couple of years ago. Frustrated by the inconsistent…
