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On topic, I still don't have a good sense of what Hacker School/Recurse Center is. I understand that they place people looking for jobs - but is that the only p
by nprescott 10y ago
On topic, I still don't have a good sense of what Hacker School/Recurse Center is. I understand that they place people looking for jobs - but is that the only people who attend (enroll?) or is it more like a private club? Some of the in-group signaling sounds off to me and I can only assume it's because I'm not the target audience ("canine facilitator", tattooing an RC logo on yourself, etc.). I'm not sure if everything is intentionally vague, but I suppose my (unasked for) suggestion would be to improve the messaging around what the center is and isn't.
Tangential, but does anyone else find this (literal) page odd? It fails to load unless you load in two scripts from cloudfront, where upon it pulls down JQuery, D3, and the following 150+ modules (bundled, of course. I think most of this is for React?):
AutoFocusUtils, BeforeInputEventPlugin, CSSProperty, CSSPropertyOperations, CallbackQueue, ChangeEventPlugin, DOMChildrenOperations, DOMLazyTree, DOMNamespaces, DOMProperty, DOMPropertyOperations, Danger, DefaultEventPluginOrder, EnterLeaveEventPlugin, EventConstants, EventPluginHub, EventPluginRegistry, EventPluginUtils, EventPropagators, FallbackCompositionState, HTMLDOMPropertyConfig, LinkedStateMixin, LinkedValueUtils, PooledClass, React, ReactBrowserEventEmitter, ReactCSSTransitionGroup, ReactCSSTransitionGroupChild, ReactChildReconciler, ReactChildren, ReactClass, ReactComponent, ReactComponentBrowserEnvironment, ReactComponentEnvironment, ReactComponentWithPureRenderMixin, ReactCompositeComponent, ReactCurrentOwner, ReactDOM, ReactDOMButton, ReactDOMComponent, ReactDOMComponentFlags, ReactDOMComponentTree, ReactDOMContainerInfo, ReactDOMDebugTool, ReactDOMEmptyComponent, ReactDOMFactories, ReactDOMFeatureFlags, ReactDOMIDOperations, ReactDOMInput, ReactDOMInstrumentation, ReactDOMOption, ReactDOMSelect, ReactDOMSelection, ReactDOMServer, ReactDOMTextComponent, ReactDOMTextarea, ReactDOMTreeTraversal, ReactDOMUnknownPropertyDevtool, ReactDebugTool, ReactDefaultBatchingStrategy, ReactDefaultInjection, ReactDefaultPerf, ReactDefaultPerfAnalysis, ReactElement, ReactElementValidator, ReactEmptyComponent, ReactErrorUtils, ReactEventEmitterMixin, ReactEventListener, ReactFeatureFlags, ReactFragment, ReactInjection, ReactInputSelection, ReactInstanceMap, ReactInstrumentation, ReactInvalidSetStateWarningDevTool, ReactLink, ReactMarkupChecksum, ReactMount, ReactMultiChild, ReactMultiChildUpdateTypes, ReactNativeComponent, ReactNodeTypes, ReactNoopUpdateQueue, ReactOwner, ReactPerf, ReactPropTypeLocationNames, ReactPropTypeLocations, ReactPropTypes, ReactReconcileTransaction, ReactReconciler, ReactRef, ReactServerBatchingStrategy, ReactServerRendering, ReactServerRenderingTransaction, ReactStateSetters, ReactTestUtils, ReactTransitionChildMapping, ReactTransitionEvents, ReactTransitionGroup, ReactUpdateQueue, ReactUpdates, ReactVersion, ReactWithAddons, ReactWithAddonsUMDEntry, SVGDOMPropertyConfig, SelectEventPlugin, SimpleEventPlugin, SyntheticAnimationEvent, SyntheticClipboardEvent, SyntheticCompositionEvent, SyntheticDragEvent, SyntheticEvent, SyntheticFocusEvent, SyntheticInputEvent, SyntheticKeyboardEvent, SyntheticMouseEvent, SyntheticTouchEvent, SyntheticTransitionEvent, SyntheticUIEvent, SyntheticWheelEvent, Transaction, ViewportMetrics, accumulateInto, adler32, canDefineProperty, createMicrosoftUnsafeLocalFunction, dangerousStyleValue, escapeTextContentForBrowser, findDOMNode, flattenChildren, forEachAccumulated, getEventCharCode, getEventKey, getEventModifierState, getEventTarget, getIteratorFn, getNativeComponentFromComposite, getNodeForCharacterOffset, getTextContentAccessor, getVendorPrefixedEventName, instantiateReactComponent, isEventSupported, isTextInputElement, onlyChild, quoteAttributeValueForBrowser, renderSubtreeIntoContainer, setInnerHTML, setTextContent, shallowCompare, shouldUpdateReactComponent, traverseAllChildren, update, validateDOMNesting, shallowCompare, shallowEqual, invariant
- otoburb 10y ago>>On topic, I still don't have a good sense of what Hacker School/Recurse Center is. Their about page[1] should help to clear up any confusion. It wasn't easily linked from the 5-yr announcement page, and I had similar questions in the past that were answered there. I think it takes time wrap one's head around the fact that the experience is free for the participant (other than living costs) which probably raises TANSTAAFL flags in your head, but they then go on to explain their business model in their FAQ[2]. [1] https://www.recurse.com/about https://www.recurse.com/about [2] https://www.recurse.com/faq https://www.recurse.com/faq
- scandox 10y agoI know it feels a tad hipsterish etc...but Mary Rose Cook works there and I think she seems smart, practical and not at all vague: https://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/a-practical-introduction-to-functional-programming https://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/a-practical-introduction-...
- adregan 10y agoWhile I was attending, I told everyone (family, friends, strangers at the bar) that I was at a computer camp for adults. I've also heard "writers' retreat for programmers."