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Making text games in the terminal can get weird: https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/74-a-string-of-unexpected-lengths

A string of unexpected lengths - Blog - Hacker School A string of unexpected lengths When you start learning to program, or working in a new language, it’s often suggested that you build a simple program like Battleship or Tic-tac-toe. The games' rules are well-defined and easy to grasp, and you only need to read and print text to get started. This fre…

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https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/35-were-hiring-an-operations-person

We're hiring an operations person - Blog - Hacker School We're hiring an operations person We want to hire an operations person. Up until now, everyone we've hired has been a programmer and a Hacker School alum. We've done many hundreds of programming interviews, but we haven't interviewed for non-technical roles before, so this is uncharted territory for...

We wrote a blog post about some of the mistakes we've made, and what we do differently now.

https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/34-mistakes-weve-made

Mistakes we've made - Blog - Hacker School Mistakes we've made We've made a lot of mistakes over the past three years of Hacker School. Sometimes our bad decisions are immediately obvious, but sometimes they're more subtle and it's only with time, feedback, and reflection that we realize we've screwed up. These mistakes are like poor archite...