mgirdley

You might have a trademark problem coming your way...

http://dura.software

If you’ve ever used software built in a similar “death march” fashion, you’d be scared to buy this batch, too.

I eventually settled on Apple Time Machine. It backs up to a home NAS and a handful of drives at each office. The NAS can be configured to back up to S3 automatically.

Few code schools accept GI Bill because it requires them to have been in business for 2 years prior to applying to accept it. There's little stopping schools from getting approved, but the problem is most haven't enough track record or get denied when the VA investigates them.

How have they or do they plan to overcome the limitations and inefficiencies that happen near and past the speed of sound?

Did these guys pay a fee to YC? They seem to pop up weekly on the front page.

He isn't buying a stock here or there either. He's mostly doing deals in bulk that the average investor can't. For example, his investment in Goldman Sachs during 2008.

With most of the eurogames, I wonder why a computer isn't doing all the busy work they seem to require.

Irony abounds here.

Steve's band gets paid six figures a year each and flies coach to each gig. Steve flies in on a private jet and takes home multiple millions each year.

If you dig in with employers to understand those job listings, there's a big difference between what they ask for and what they settle for in terms of qualifications.

Another significant percentage of those job listings are designed to game the H1B system as well. So, are basically fictitious.

It's totally ethical.

The contract is very clear when it says, "Buyer and/or assigns." In most states, that is written at the very beginning of the contract as well.

The fatal flaw in all of these startups was they just aggregated content. None of them solved the real problem of distilling the overwhelming amount of content online into the few thing(s) I should read.

I see this done all the time:

Build websites for a couple dozen clients. Charge hosting fees and maintenance each month to keep sites live.

Marking up AWS hosting to $50 / mth and charging some hourly here and there at $100 / hr adds up quickly.

I loathe these type articles.

They're complex arguments to justify the attitude that "only we chosen few (men) with serious tech degrees are gifted enough to do important work in code."

Tech is a big, prosperous industry and will be bigger if we act welcoming rather than creating complex arguments to protect our turf.

Disclaimer: Am a white male with a CS degree who runs a coding bootcamp.

I used to be in the "eff college do bootcamp" side of things. I think that's wrong now. Young people need some of what college gives you and also what bootcamps provide -- if they want a coding career.

Yup, excellent correction. Thanks.

Codeup in Texas. A tiny percentage of our grads are placed by recruiters -- and that's OK.

We don't really see that. The grads who can build a real portfolio of work and are likable get hired the quickest.

I think there's a wide spectrum of bootcamps. Some are elite and some aren't.

It's important to recognize bootcamp grads for what they are: people who've been coding for 3-4 months max. Many folks expect them to be seasoned devs with 5 yrs experience but they truly are entry-level.

Most people, as I said, are missing motivation, structure, connections and auto-didactic skills to even get to the point of doing Hello World.

[Oh, and if you interviewed someone who'd been to a 4-week (?) bootcamp, that explains why they couldn't do much. Nothing great in life is accomplished by working for 4-weeks.]

Bootcamp founder here.

There's a big difference between learning enough to tinker with code and enough to work professionally at it.

The vast majority of people don't have the network, self-motivation or ability to get to a level where they can work professionally as a dev.

TWC is already scared and improving their service. It's great. Thank you, google.

Imagine the mafia started a country and then a hundred years later tried to clean up their image a little.

That's how I think of business and government there.

Accreditation is double-edged sword. Many awful providers of educational value are accredited and the requirements of accreditation often inhibit innovation in educational models.

I don't think that's the message.

We are focused on making people professional, employable programmers. While I agree that everyone can play with scratch or build a basic webpage, that's different than the programming skills required to be employed in most dev jobs today.

(Codeup CEO here.)

We presumed and used a normal distribution for each class.

The numbers were arbitrary. Just what felt easier to understand for the staff.

Codeup CEO here: For our purposes we want to only take students we know we can help and will eventually succeed. If we bring in people who fail during and after class, it's bad for business.

It may be controversial but running this place has shown me that not everyone can program competently or is cut out to be a professional programmer. Anyone who says "everyone can code" is mistaken.

These instructors are spending all day, every day with the students as teachers lecturing and helping them through exercises. They're not interviewing them.

Agreed that an objective measurement would be ideal and this is second best.

However, we've had a hard time creating or locating an objective measurement of general programming skill. As demonstrated by the industry's non-use of standardized tests for programming, I don't think anyone else has either.

If you have a lead on something, would love to see it.

Codeup CEO here. We actually did some brief testing with classical IQ tests and saw two problems:

1) IQ tests are really long and expensive, so difficult to implement

2) They didn't correlate with performance as well as algebra.

Codeup CEO here: it's the instructors evaluating the students based on their interactions with then and answering the question: how capable is this person of building quality web applications?

As a San Antonio VC (GeekdomFund.com), I hope you come back.