songzme

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Our first fundraiser(medium.com)
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would tsunami be a concern for Californians when a big earthquake happens in California?
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Sf
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Yes! Please send me an email (in my profile)
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by songzme 9y ago
Just in case someone likes the vision and wants to donate, here's a donation link: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/garage-script
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Its important to know that you don't need millions of dollars to help people and do good. My salary was 145k with it I started a non profit that pays low-income earners minimum wage while they learn how to code. These people could real
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by songzme 9y ago
First, I don't know what attracts you to the BIG 4 tech companies and it would be nice for you to share more context and perhaps share a bigger overall picture. For example, are you excited about their backend and scalability or the am
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You are right, we actually don't put much effort teaching these things, its pretty much lazy learning when it comes to devops. However, I make it a point to host and handle everything in-house so students see the whole picture of how t
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Here are a few off the top of my head. 1. Servers. I've always 'pushed to heroku' without really knowing how servers worked. 2. Git. I've always just used gitlab or other git hosting services without knowing how to build
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givelively.org is amazing. Signed up and would love to be put in touch. song garagescript org
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Love to give you some feedback/pointers, shot you an email. We plan to open source our curriculum and make adjustments as we go :)
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Cross origin cookie stuff can get pretty narly. Using iframes makes things easier
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Thank you, reached out.
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Yeah! Thats the plan for next year. It takes time to set up a donation platform as an NPO and we are working on it. In the meantime, I put an email signup (per baron816's suggestion) and will send out an email when donation tools are r
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This is a great idea! Adding this now.
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Will do! I'll respond back to this thread when things are all set up.
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Responded, I think donating time is the best form of donation. Students want mentorship from industry veterans but its hard to find people willing to commit the time to mentor. Thank you for offering!
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Thank you, I'm on the same page. And you are correct that NPO takes longer and is a more complicated process, but we are diligently working to make it happen.
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1. I was genuinely sharing what I did this year, was not hoping for any positive financial outcomes. 2. Integration with non-profits donations is not trivial. After registering as a non-profit, it takes some time for the list of registered
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by songzme 9y ago
Thank you! Non-profit is registered under 'garage script', here is the info on GuideStar: https://www.guidestar.org/profile/82-3129102 All of the points you mentioned is in our top priority list for early 201
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Thanks for the support! Would love to share donation link but it has not been set up yet :)
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I quit my job as a software engineer at Google early this year to teach people how to code. I started paying people $15/hr to learn so they can make ends meet while learning instead of working at Walmart. I thought about all the missin
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Hi! I'm teaching a coding bootcamp and one of my students built http://jsstation.com If you could share with us what you could like to see, we can make it happen!
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This is not quite related, but I learned something yesterday. My wife tells me that she wants to be smarter so while we were walking I was trying to teach her mental chess so we can play chess while we walk. And she didn't want to beca
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by songzme 9y ago
I try to get people from government assistance (people who really need it). Recently CalWorks agreed to pay each student I take from them $13/hour for up to 6 months, so that really helps lighten the load on my wallet. All of them come
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yeah. My deal with them is to train them to become great engineers. No paperwork needed to enforce anything. They work with me 100% by choice and they know they could be getting a much higher salary somewhere else (and free to leave anytime
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If you compare someone with quite a few of the ai bots out there (image recognition, chat bots), you will realize how intelligent they actually are. Every human person is like a super AI machine.
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however useless of a code someone writes, they might have had alot of fun writing it. Coding can be alot of fun, and everyone can learn it.
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Since you asked, I'll try to share what I've learned. You can become incredibly effective if you invest in the skills to become a better teacher. Usually if someone is not learning, its the teacher not doing a good job. 1. Test -
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Yes. If a person is able to do things sequentially (get up, brush teeth, etc etc), be able to decide, (if I do this, then I do that), they can code

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