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Agreed entirely. I only meant that when you choose do work harder than you have to, the necessary trade off is that you're sacrificing time with other people you love. A typical de…

Sorry guys, I know the typography needs works. The orange-on-grey is tough on my color-blind eyes. We've been stretched thin getting ready for this conf (CodeMash) and launching Hu…

Thanks Allan, I hope people get excited about this. I really believe there's going to be a kid out there with some junky computer, a dial-up net connection, who participates in wha…

Go the non-developer route.

Awesome!

Send more details questions to hungryacademy at livingsocial dot com.

Maybe a library with a webcam-equipped computer? Friend with a camera phone? Volunteer somewhere for a few hours in exchange for using their equipment?

Yep, that's my understanding -- it's basically "we spent $xx,xxx training you, then you left. We think you owe us $yy,yyy." That being said, it's a company of humans. What good is …

Apply, then if you're accepted I'll call your parents.

I think the calendar/rush is a bigger problem than the will/funding. I will do my best, for future iterations, to invite the world.

It won't be required, but I'll strongly encourage people to join me in volunteering with CodeNow, a program teaching dev skills to high school kids. Check out http://codenow.org/ a…

I'm sorry, I was mixed up about this. It's still possible for future iterations of the program, but for this one they've decided "no."

One big motivation for the video is that it's much harder to fake. It's easy to have my friend write some BS essay for me and submit it for a job, it's a lot harder to do it on cam…

I don't think they're common, at least not in the dev world. One of my training clients runs a six month "get familiar with the company" program where new hires do different jobs -…

I expect there will be many "technology switcher" applicants and am working to have diverse skill sets represented -- including those of us who've been developing for awhile.

I would say do the Gist essay, and at the close of the essay say "And I'm getting started with programming, here's a Github repo". That way you'd get past the person who's checking…

The LivingSocial in house team knocked it out in a couple hours -- they're crazy good. I couldn't believe we used "found light" in a hallway and had respectable results.

You should probably talk straight to the HR people who have all the expertise/knowledge about these things. Email them at hungryacademy at livingsocial dot com.

This detail is still under discussion, but I anticipate people will fan out to some of the other LivingSocial offices like Seattle, Boulder, or other up-and-coming spots. It's unli…

The program is onsite-only and the content is directed by what you need for the LivingSocial engineering team, which means Ruby, Rails, and many other related technologies. Sorry!

I wish I could say more about the salary. Let's say that I taught middle school and high school for five years, and both the training period and job afterwards pay WAY more than I …

As a mortgage man and father of two, I totally agree. If you have ideas on how we can make this work for people in your position, please let me know. I thought about it being simil…

I wouldn't say internship, because to me that means "some learning, some stapling / paper folding." Our dream is that this program is "better than college." There are people out th…

To be honest, if it were up to me I'd take only people who didn't have a programming background. If you look at our community, so many great people don't have the traditional backg…