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This quote is fantastic: > In 1992, Roy Hall, a 46-year-old minister, bought a royal blue Hickey-Freeman jacket at Unclaimed Baggage. When he took it home, he noticed the name “Whi…

Even though a direct competitor with DBC I just wanted to say: solid team and leadership; we respect everyone there, especially in pioneering the market in the early years. It was …

Anyplace and bite-sized learning, even before personalizing it to a commute or using other data, seems totally green field. Most corporate training is just videos. Pretty exciting.…

Hi Mohamed – what bootcamp are you joining?

Chris's point seems basically undisputable: tons of engineering talent but not enough vision to gain escape velocity from the massive gravitational pull of Google's wide-ranging ne…

3 months from beginner to job ready ready is, basically, bullshit. There are people who do it, but they're the exception. The jobs they're getting typically rely on their using oth…

Why do you think he chose to come out now?

Hm. On the homepage the price is listed as part of the main description of the course. You're not the first to make this point – there's definitely something to it. We'll have to r…

Swift was designed for beginners and in our experience it delivers. We ( http://www.thinkful.com/ ) recommend Swift for beginners and the students in our Swift classes the last few…

Thinkful based in NYC: We're looking for software engineers interested in helping us build the best online education platform, in AngularJS + Python / Flask. http://www.thinkful.co…

Our mentors & curriculum developers went bananas when they heard about Swift – so we announced the first course teaching Swift: https://www.thinkful.com/a/dlp/learn-blue/base/IOS-0…

Awesome site, and want to support any way we can. Great context around content sources both free and paid are really promising. Let me know if we can be at all of help: darrell [at…

Yeah – it's an easier way to do donations, but the tax implications and fees are the same as always. It even comes out of your paycheck pre-tax... making your tax end simpler as we…

This sounds like a temporary issue in your career, or, put another way, a circumstance of that particular job. In another year or two (or in another opp that values slightly differ…

The Blogger example doesn't seem fair: Any app can overload the user with too many animations or other distractions. At Thinkful ( http://www.thinkful.com/ ) we're building our stu…

We just went through the entire 2013 performance for female and male students here at Thinkful ( http://www.thinkful.com/ ). The results are very revealing for this debate: Once en…