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by akanet 4y ago
Sometimes I'm curious, sometimes I just want to glue two things together to finish my project. Do you meet many people who mix their own glues?
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by akanet 4y ago
In the US, at least, the government has been slow to acknowledge the root of the housing crisis. While simpler designs do build faster, the main impediment is municipal-level zoning controls that prevent the construction of denser housing.
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by akanet 4y ago
General Assembly is also dramatically overstating its student outcomes. They claim 99.7% placement, a total farce. https://twitter.com/fulligin/status/1452658647994015748
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by akanet 4y ago
The lawyers contemplating the suit have decided not to sue, but you can sue companies that plan to shut down.
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Stablegains (YC W22) customers were defrauded out of $40M(twitter.com)
65 points by akanet 4y ago|17 comments
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by akanet 5y ago
in my first story[1] on lambda school, my point about misrepresented financial incentives was about, fundamentally, lambda selling off its ISAs to a hedge fund. in this case, the school managed to recoup income on a students irrespective of
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by akanet 5y ago
btw, this story is notable in that, unlike the other cases brought by the NSLDN, this student opted out of the arbitration clause in her ISA and can therefore sue in civil court. This confers numerous advantages, including being able to com
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Single mom sues coding boot camp over job placement rates(finance.yahoo.com)
97 points by akanet 5y ago|113 comments
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Mureq, a vendorable drop-in replacement for Python-requests(github.com)
3 points by akanet 5y ago|1 comments
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by akanet 5y ago
It's okay to be average or below average. Most of us are. We just have to make peace with what we can reasonably do in this short life. History remembers almost no individuals, and to be one so lucky as to be remembered by history is b
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by akanet 5y ago
This is happening rapidly in the bootcamp space right now (2U, Trilogy, etc). It's unclear whether this will work well in the long term, as the bootcamp sort of begins competing with its host body (marketing, curriculum, lead generatio
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by akanet 5y ago
The notion that increasing housing supply is similar to "trickle down" economics is common in discourses of housing policy in America, but it is misguided. Reagan's notion that increasing the margins of the wealthy would indu
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by akanet 5y ago
I saw a really silly tweet one of their former execs made and then just started gathering information about them for fun. I tried to get a friend who was a writer to do the story, but she eventually told me to fuck off and do it myself. It
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by akanet 5y ago
I have a guess at which bootcamp you mean, but I'd love to talk to you more - me@vincentwoo.com
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by akanet 5y ago
I would suggest checking out cirr.org, as well as interviewing former students.
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by akanet 5y ago
Can you email me about this? me@vincentwoo.com
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by akanet 5y ago
I think Lambda is an unusually bad bootcamp owing to their financialization strategy and also lack of prior educational experience in their leadership. I think there are good bootcamps, but the well is being poisoned a bit here.
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by akanet 5y ago
I agree but would suggest you apply further rigor. There are bootcamps that are performing well. Bootcamps should be compared to other bootcamps.
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by akanet 5y ago
We didn't have to trick anyone for this piece - all dialogue with the school was conducted through a fact checker hired by the publication. I didn't talk to Austen at all. That said, I definitely did trick him a little bit last ye
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by akanet 5y ago
I agree that colleges suffer from the same perverse incentives. That is why transparency in outcomes reporting is so important, and why fraudulent reporting is so dangerous. edit: oh, you're geoff greer. I emailed you a couple times ab
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by akanet 5y ago
Thanks for the story. The most brutal thing for me about reporting this story was each individual human horror-show. It's such a serious thing to be responsible for attempting to transform the lives of people who need it so desperately
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by akanet 5y ago
I think Hackbright is doing well, enough so that I recommended that a friend attend recently (and she did). I would look closely at the reporting from each, and interview former students. I think prospective students go along too easily wit
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by akanet 5y ago
Hi I wrote this piece and am perhaps still better known here as the founder of CoderPad, etc. I'm happy to answer any questions throughout the day, so long as they are on-topic and civil.
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by akanet 5y ago
It depends on what you conceive of the school as - is it an educational institution that has an incentive to improve the lives of each one of its students, incurring variable cost for each? Or is it a fishing expedition to land as many stud
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Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years(businessinsider.com)
426 points by akanet 5y ago|396 comments
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by akanet 5y ago
I worked at Google on a somewhat core system (Billing) and was completely shocked by how bad pretty much every unit within it was. The overarching service would go down a fair amount, despite the whole thing amounting to a big MySQL queue.
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by akanet 5y ago
I recently visited the Berkeley Nanolab. As I recall, the main waste products are either acids that are neutralized before being returned to the city sewer system, or exotic gases that are vented in dilute enough quantities to be safe.
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by akanet 5y ago
Sorbet clearly aims to be interoperable with the rest of the ruby ecosystem, whereas crystal is a relatively small garden - Ruby code does not defacto work in crystal.
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by akanet 5y ago
I once gave a lunch talk at Docker, inc, which included several slides of suggestions of features to add to Docker. Prominently featured was the request for a native command to clean old images. An engineer in attendance remarked incredulou
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by akanet 5y ago
The compromise to remove ketamine from the bill was struck after this MAPS press release was written.

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