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Neat project, worth checking out https://750words.com/ for inspiration. It's a great, simple product.

Supply chain issues, for one.

Eg. Not enough cotton swabs: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/coronavirus-testing...

Non-profit, with several $1m+ donations: https://www.khanacademy.org/about/our-supporters

Np! Just went through a rebrand to make that a bit clearer. Btw excited to see Harsh build a great team and lead HR, he was great to work with while at MakerSquare :)

Ya I agree it’s annoying. Will flag this with our marketing team.

We teach the MERN stack with some CS theory (basic data structures & algorithms). There’s also a heavy focus on building so your portfolio pieces will start with wireframes and end with deployment and code reviews.

Realistically, that’s looking like a 2019 goal but yes we’d love to offer that fincancial support. We currently offer partial scholarships to veterans for both products.

re: Thinkful, we have a rigorous, full-time program that matches your definition of "online classroom" as well as a flexible program for those who can only commit part-time. Both offer 1-on-1 mentorship, with stats available on CIRR.org.

OP - you're welcome to ping me (bhaumik@thinkful[dot]com) w/ any specific questions. I run the full-time product.

Thinkful pivoted from a subscription model to being a school focused on job placement a couple years back. Our core products are remote immersive & part-time courses in software development & data science. But tying back to the OP, the immersive program has a no tuition till you're hired financing option, (which a few other schools offer too). It's been pretty exciting hearing the joy from applicants who wouldn't have been able to afford the course w/ traditional financing options.

Diderot's Encyclopédie has been a beaitful binge read.

See entry for 'Philosopher':

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=did;cc=did;...

A bit more haunting for me on the east coast, the Pentagon:

https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/detail-sovi...

Linus Torvald's first email re: Linux belongs here:

> I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.

It's starting to happen, ecstasy was recently designated a "breakthrough therapy" for people with PTSD in early trials.

https://www.axios.com/ecstasy-to-treat-ptsd-fast-trackedl-24...

Usage stats, from article:

- Duplicate: 23.21%

- Reload: 22.74%

- Pin / Unpin tab: 13.12%

- Close tab: 9.68%

- Reopen closed tab: 8.92%

- New tab: 6.63%

- Close tabs to the right: 6.06%

- Mute tab: 5.38%

- Close other tabs: 2.20%

- Unmute tab: 1.41%

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"The NGA is to pictures what the NSA is to voices. Its principal function is to analyze the billions of images and miles of video captured by drones in the Middle East and spy satellites circling the globe. But because it has largely kept its ultra-high-resolution cameras pointed away from the United States, according to a variety of studies, the agency has never been involved in domestic spy scandals like its two far more famous siblings, the CIA and the NSA."

The rest is political fluff.

A friend suggested something similar about Trump & his relationship with Russia. Whatever happens there, he's positioning himself as the strongest candidate in 2020 to deal with the aftermath.

They contain resources from the same source. e.g. all the "green" content comes from http://www.deeplearningbook.org/.

Here's a neat 4 min video demonstrating how the cup works & how to "beat" it with mercury: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISfIT3B4y6E

This kind of sentiment is exactly what's wrong with "disruptive" culture

Thank you - I've bookmarked this comment :)

I was too young to use BBS when it started but the topic fascinates me, especially after having read Hackers and The Innovators.

Not to hijack the topic, but has anyone watched the show Halt and Catch Fire (available on Netflix)? I'm curious how accurately that show captures the culture of that era.

Would love any additional reading recommendations around BBS' emergence as well. Already bookmarked the documentary series: https://archive.org/details/BBS.The.Documentary

> 6a/ Incidentally, as a result of my experiences running reddit, I have a lot more respect for police, governors, and presidents - anyone who has to uphold a fair system in the face of multiple opposing sides, all of whom want the system to favor them because they are convinced they are "right."

This was particularly interesting. Massive communities like Reddit are a great testing ground for policies around free speech.

Besides memes and internet jokes, what are examples of high quality content created (or originating) from the "chan" culture?

Ah, misinterpreted. Ignore my note then.

No thanks. Slack is distracting enough as is. Why would I want the rest of my social circle affecting my productivity?

Here's the first chapter of a book on him: https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoffman-man.html. Interesting insight into his personality (generous, warm, eccentric, curious), obsession with mathematics, reliance on amphethamines, and wide-spread collaboration with peers (Erdös number).

> To communicate with Erdös you had to learn his language. "When we met," said Martin Gardner, the mathematical essayist, "his first question was `When did you arrive?' I looked at my watch, but Graham whispered to me that it was Erdös's way of asking, `When were you born?'" Erdös often asked the same question another way: "When did the misfortune of birth overtake you?" His language had a special vocabulary--not just "the SF"[1] and "epsilon"[2] but also "bosses" (women), "slaves" (men), "captured" (married), "liberated" (divorced), "recaptured" (remarried), "noise" (music), "poison" (alcohol), "preaching" (giving a mathematics lecture), "Sam" (the United States), and "Joe" (the Soviet Union). When he said someone had "died," Erdös meant that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left," the person had died.

[1] "The SF is the Supreme Fascist, the Number-One Guy Up There, God, who was always tormenting Erdös by hiding his glasses, stealing his Hungarian passport, or, worse yet, keeping to Himself the elegant solutions to all sorts of intriguing mathematical problems."

[2] "Epsilon was Erdös's word for a small child; in mathematics that Greek letter is used to represent small quantities"

It's probably just like Alphabet (YC Group) & Google (YC).

Sure, here are some 3rd-party verified metrics: https://www.thinkful.com/bootcamp-jobs-stats/.

Students focus on web development in JavaScript, specifically React & Node. I run our Full Time program where students gain experience in "thinking" like an engineer as they learn a new skill on their own (enough to present it to the group) during "Flex week", work on polishing the features of an unfinished app during "Swap week", collaborate in a larger team in the 3 week "capstone project" where they divide responsibilities and assign clear roles, develop wireframes/specs, and join daily standups led by our instructors to prioritize features/descope when needed.

You can dig more into the curriculum/day-to-day schedule here: https://www.thinkful.com/bootcamp/web-development/full-time/. If you have questions not answered or clarified enough by that page, you can reach me by email (in bio) for anything else. Always welcome to constructive feedback as this specific program is only 7 months old.

+ a $5000 upfront deposit.

We* do the opposite and offer a 100% refund if the student isn't employed as a developer within 6 months of graduation.

As for the original comment, some coding bootcamps are starting to publish stats on graduate rate/outcomes (a few of which are also 3rd-party audited). The industry as a whole still has some bad eggs, but it's getting better.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/25/students-are-demanding-the...

*https://www.thinkful.com

Jack Ma from Alibaba is another great. example of a successful CEO without a technical background. An early exec there wrote a book profiling the company's early growth, great anecdotes on Ma in there: https://www.amazon.com/Alibabas-World-Remarkable-Changing-Bu....

The opposite actually. Steven Levy joined the Medium and started Backchannel. Recently, the publication was acquired by Conde Nast.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/16/11952876/steven-levy-wired...