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Show HN: SQL Teaching – Codecademy for SQL(sqlteaching.com)
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You could get a "Business co-founder" while you focus on the technical side.
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I would like to point out that under the BCC program you mentioned, the donor was paying in-state tuition for students, so most of the funding still came from taxes. http://www.brunswickcc.edu/new-page-453/ While in-st
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Paid trials also work (for example, I was a contract-to-hire at my current job). But many people don't want to leave the security of their current job for a temporary contract, so you would need to spend more time vetting those candida
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According to the paper, that could be explained by the Python students having lower GPAs. "In addition, multiple regression analysis showed that students' past performance (overall GPA) in the University predicted final grades, fi
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Here's some data: http://scholars.opb.msu.edu/pubDetail.asp?t=pm&id=7795212016... When Michigan State University switched their first course from C++ to Python, the Python students did just as well on the 2nd C++ b
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I should point out that $1.60 revenue/user/month is really high, unless you are addressing a marketable niche like engaged women. Facebook has half that revenue per user, and that's with powerful targeting options and a userb
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Are there any coding bootcamps that are only a few weeks? 9 weeks seem to be the minimum, and the shorter classes demand more than 40/hours a week. The curriculum is created by Hack Reactor, which is a 13 week, 66 hour/week curri
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It looks like they would like volunteers to help build the curriculum. Is this curriculum open source?
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Cool! What license is the code under?
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To add, you get more time off for disability if you're a birth mother in California. http://www.edd.ca.gov/disability/FAQ_DI_Pregnancy.htm So from 4 weeks before birth to 6 weeks after, you can also get 55% of sal
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My suggestion for Product Hunt is to be able to filter by the best of last week, last month, or all time. The top submissions of the past few days are pretty cool, but being able to see the most highly upvoted submissions of all time would
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The parent comment didn't say over 180k base, he/she said over 180k. Google and Facebook (and some other companies) have upped the ante in compensation by offering lots of (liquid) stock.
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Developer bootcamp has its entire curriculum online for free(learnhowtoprogram.com)
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From what I have heard, "not too frequently" means once every 18 months, so some people have complained about sticking on a team they don't like for a year and a half.
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Reddit started out proprietary, and then became open source. Of course, their community is necessary for a site of that type to succeed.
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All Redfin listings to feature 3-D virtual tours(inman.com)
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Petalpete - the comment above refers to pre-ipo sales of employee stock. A bunch of private companies that hit billion dollar valuations let employees sell some of their shares. That person is claiming that those sales allow employees to s
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CircleCI allows their software developers to work remotely, so that's kind of the best of both worlds.
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Redfin is the site that has tried harder to disrupt the space, although it hasn't been as successful. They still use the traditional model, but with lower commission. https://www.redfin.com/sell-a-home/how-you-save
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Dropbox - San Francisco, CA & New York, NY We're working on a lot of interesting stuff. Here is the Glassdoor page for Dropbox: http://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Dropbox-EI_IE41... https:/&#x
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You're just looking at base salaries- Senior Software Engineers earn over 200k after bonus and stock: http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Software-Engin... Staff Software Engineers earn over 300k after b
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Dropbox - San Francisco, CA & New York, NY We're working on a lot of interesting stuff. Here is the Glassdoor page for Dropbox: http://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Dropbox-EI_IE41... https:/&#x2
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Dropbox - San Francisco, CA & New York, NY We're working on a lot of interesting stuff. Personally, I think Project Harmony is really cool: https://www.dropboxatwork.com/2014/04/get-closer-look-projec...
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You don't have to be one of the 10 first employees at Facebook to get paid: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2072204/Facebook-IPO... As a general rule of thumb, if a company is willing to do the extrem
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ulfw, I believe you did an ACH transfer instead of an American wire transfer. Wire transfers do not take multiple days in America, but they cost a lot of money ($10-30). So there are ACH transfers, which are much slower, and there are wire
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That would be in conflict with a freemium model. People would make a client that ties together dozens of free accounts.
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by rhc2104 13y ago
It is still $125/user/year if you pay annually. It is $15/user/month if you pay monthly.
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In addition to everyone else's comments on pricing, it's $125/user/year if you pay annually (additional users after the first 5 users, which are $795/year).
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Dropbox - San Francisco, CA & New York, NY Dropbox is building some really cool features right now. I wish I could talk about them, but some of them will come out fairly soon. Working at Dropbox has been a really great experience. But

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