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Some previous meta-discussion about a reddit post that made some very critical claims about 42: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189670 https://news.ycomb
by cnasc 8y ago
Some previous meta-discussion about a reddit post that made some very critical claims about 42: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189670
- travmatt 8y agoI’m a current student at 42, myself and my fellow students all had a pretty good laugh at much of their comments. We didn’t really see an accurate representation of our school, and much of it came across as a bitter student who wasn’t accepted. For example, there is a cat at the Paris campus and the students are asked to ignore it and not pet it. That guidance turned into the ‘rule’ that if ‘the cat touches you, you fail’. I promise the school doesn’t have a secret failure cat. I’m referring to the reddit link, not the HN comments.
- mygo 8y agowhy not pet a cat? what did the cat do to them? is 42 anti cat? just kidding. see how easily conspiracy theories form?
- solarkraft 8y agodamn cat haters.
- mygo 8y agoI once wrote a purely academic article about election map data visualization and after it got picked up by Fast Company it was amazing how some people in the comments were convinced that it was written to further some sort of political agenda. Just sitting there reading that made me go wow, I wonder what I’ve been lead to believe from the outside looking in that is just flat out unfounded
- avip 8y agoPet-based discrimination.
- magoghm 8y agoMy son is a student at 42 (in Paris) and he's very happy to be there. It seems that the system they have is a better match for his learning style than what you would find in a more traditional school.