yjhoney

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   by yjhoney 8y ago

   Thank you! Aside from the name calling in the comment, it does have some merits so I took out the paragraph about donation and my contributions. Love your positivity, thank you for your encouragement.
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   by yjhoney 8y ago

   If teachers makes 100k / year and good ones make 200k / year, there would be alot of people going into teaching. Personally, I don't think that teachers should be making less than an entry level software engineer. I'm al
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   by yjhoney 8y ago

   Thanks for reminding people be aware. Fundraising wasn't the point of my original comment, so I took out the donation link. My focus primarily has been to teach students, so I haven't had time to update any of the social media or
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   by yjhoney 8y ago

   Thanks for the healthy dose of skepticism. We moved away from Github (their closed source policy always seemed fishy to me) and started hosting our own gitlab instance instead. Some products our students are building: llip.io and c0d3.com.
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   by yjhoney 8y ago

   If there were fewer people interesting in taking up non-tech jobs, then supply/demand would drive up wages for non-tech jobs. So before we get to "barren wasteland of office buildings with no services", there would be a happy
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   by yjhoney 8y ago

   I don't think a donation model is scalable if it came from corporations. In my group of friends of high income earners (> 200k), most of them donate less than 5% of their income. Our students are grouped into teams to launch real pr
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   by yjhoney 8y ago

   None of the paid students dropped out. If you were paid the same amount to improve yourself and learn vs packaging boxes at an amazon warehouse, I think the decision is easy. We didn't have an interview process (in terms of selection).
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   by yjhoney 8y ago

   Tried to, but got rejected every time. I don't think we have the numbers. 20 doesn't seem like a number that scales very well. I might try again next year.
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   by yjhoney 8y ago

   Thank you for sharing your story. I don't know the severity of your brother's disabilities but I believe that there is a potential place for him as a teacher to teach introductory courses (like JS basics, html, etc). The daily int
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    by yjhoney 8y ago

    I'm currently just focused on helping students with their learning. I don't plan to do a Show HN until the remaining students get a job because I think the attention might be distracting. I plan to do a writeup after the remaining
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    by yjhoney 8y ago

    I started a nonprofit 2 years ago (garagescript.org) that hires low income people in San Jose and their full time job is to learn how to code and teach new students. Our nonprofit started off with 20 students, most were making about 25k&#x2
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    by yjhoney 8y ago

    I work with my local library to hold coding office hours (Should be very easy to set up, they really want to become more technically savvy but the only volunteers they could find is instructors trying to teach microsoft word) I have my own
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    by yjhoney 8y ago

    Having taught people coding for awhile, I don't think the step-by-step teaching models work with coding. It creates an environment where students just think about the next step without internalizing what they learned. I've met stu
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    by yjhoney 8y ago

    Unfortunately I feel the same way and it is hard to find any sort of happiness with this mindset. How do you handle?
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    by yjhoney 8y ago

    thanks for sharing your QA. Just wanted to let you know that your profile looks amazing and wish you good luck on your job search.
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    by yjhoney 8y ago

    Hi my name is Alberto Lopez and I'm looking for a Junior engineering role. I'm willing to learn and work hard to help your team achieve your vision. Location: San Jose, CA Remote: no Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: React, R