<story><title>Instagram Founder’s Girlfriend Learns How To Code For V-Day, Builds Lovestagram</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/09/awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blhack</author><text>Dear Everybody:&lt;p&gt;The most wonderful thing you can ever give somebody is your time.&lt;p&gt;No matter who you are, no matter how much money you make, most people have roughly the same amount of &lt;i&gt;time&lt;/i&gt;.  In this sense we&apos;re all equal.&lt;p&gt;So yes, some of us could off and spend enormous amounts of money on each other for gifts...but if I spend a week building something, and Bill Gates spends a week building something, the gift is the same temporal size.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s like saying &quot;Yes, I could do anything at all with this week of time, but I decided that that week of time would be best spent building something that will make you happy.&quot;&lt;p&gt;There&apos;s something that I find profoundly beautiful about that.&lt;p&gt;This is an absolutely fantastic gift.  She should be really proud of herself for learning that quickly, and I&apos;m sure he&apos;s over the moon about this as a gift.</text></comment>
<story><title>Instagram Founder’s Girlfriend Learns How To Code For V-Day, Builds Lovestagram</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/09/awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>According to the article, she started in December from basically scratch. She used Zed Shaw&apos;s Learn Python the Hard Way and learned enough Python to then figure out Django and deploy to Heroku herself.&lt;p&gt;More importantly, she learned enough to gain this insight:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Learning to program isn’t the hard part. The biggest challenge is figuring out how all the moving parts of a web application fit together. There’s no book for that,” she said.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>