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Hey my name is Austen and I’m the cofounder of Lambda School (https://lambdaschool.com https://lambdaschool.com), a YC company that trains software engineers in

Hey my name is Austen and I’m the cofounder of Lambda School (https://lambdaschool.com https://lambdaschool.com), a YC company that trains software engineers in live online classes for no cost until they’re hired making $50k+. We actually have a nonprofit fund dedicated to helping homeless software engineers land jobs. If you’ll email me austen@lambdaschool.com I would love to put you up in an Airbnb and connect you with our career services department. We have a full-time program called “Lambda Next” that steps you through what it takes to get a job step by step with full support, code reviews, interview practice, salary negotiation, etc. Normally it’s reserved for our students (since we don’t get paid until students are hired), but we can have you participate at no cost. Let’s see how fast we can get you hired! Happy to take care of housing and help you focus. PS. if anyone at airbnb has a way to let us buy gift certificates bigger than $500 it would save me a ton of time

pdxHomelessDev 8y ago
Emailing now.
pdxHomelessDev 8y ago
Sent from my personal email.
- austenallred 8y ago
  Got it. Will get you in housing by the end of the night. I know what it’s like to be homeless, keep your head up.
  - anyssh 8y ago
    If this actually happened, this is the most awesome interaction on HN I’ve seen so far. Kudos to you kind sir
    - austenallred 8y ago
      It did indeed happen https://imgur.com/a/KZ5AeGo https://imgur.com/a/KZ5AeGo
    - pdxHomelessDev 8y ago
      It did and I am so grateful. I am currently in an Air BnB near the university campus. Austen, thanks again so much and I look forward to speaking to you more about Lambda School.
aguynamedtim 8y ago
Austen, you are a fucking awesome human! I love what you & the Lambda School are doing. You give me hope for America. Good luck, pdxHomelessDev. While not a programmer/dev, I work in IT as a system admin and have been homeless myself. It is a hard thing to pick yourself up out of.

pdxHomelessDev 8y ago

Emailing now.

pdxHomelessDev 8y ago

Sent from my personal email.

austenallred 8y ago
Got it. Will get you in housing by the end of the night. I know what it’s like to be homeless, keep your head up.
- anyssh 8y ago
  If this actually happened, this is the most awesome interaction on HN I’ve seen so far. Kudos to you kind sir
  - austenallred 8y ago
    It did indeed happen https://imgur.com/a/KZ5AeGo https://imgur.com/a/KZ5AeGo
  - pdxHomelessDev 8y ago
    It did and I am so grateful. I am currently in an Air BnB near the university campus. Austen, thanks again so much and I look forward to speaking to you more about Lambda School.

aguynamedtim 8y ago

Austen, you are a fucking awesome human! I love what you & the Lambda School are doing. You give me hope for America. Good luck, pdxHomelessDev. While not a programmer/dev, I work in IT as a system admin and have been homeless myself. It is a hard thing to pick yourself up out of.