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The people who break copyright laws are heros, not criminals. The whole reason the industry is moving forward is because of people like him, the pirate bay, and nabster. If it were…

The name is intentional. It gets them free publicly by being quirky.

That's because graduate students at universities are shitty coders. CS degrees teach you how to do math, not how to be a software engineer.

That's not what the statistics say. The top coding bootcamps like Hack Reactor have 99% placement rates for their graduates within 6 months with average salary of 100k. And if you …

I've received about a dozen job offers in the last 3 years. TBH, I don't even consider myself better than an average programmer. I've just practiced interview questions a lot.

I live in a bubble in San Francisco and post on HN, so when talking to people I usually assume (perhaps incorrectly), that they are all software engineers between the ages of 18-25…

You are being pedantic. The author obviously meant "algorithms that you might be asked to do on a whiteboard during a tech interview at Google, FB, ect"

Any response on the weird comments such as "DICE.COM EMPLOYEE SPAMMING LIVECODING.TV" that were put on the profile?

If one believes in a Malthusian apocalypse then one must explain why THIS time things are different. People have been talking about a supposed Population Bomb for literally hundred…

It is factually correct, but perhaps a little misleading. Hack Reactor indeed has these statistics, but their application process is probably the most difficult/selective of any of…

My definition of a "software engineer" is someone who gets paid 6 figures for writing code, any code. And it just so happens there there are quite of lot of 6 figure jobs that sole…

It depends on the school. The very best ones like Hack Reactor have a 99% rate for people getting jobs within 6 months, averaging at 100k. The "average" ones are closer to 75k aver…

Who gives a shit? The tech industry currently doesn't need any more people to work on the Actually Hard Problems. The tech industry currently pays people 6 figure salaries to build…

If what you say is true, then how come the dev bootcamp hiring statistics say otherwise? Look at any of the statistics. These bootcamps graduate people making 80k-100k. That is a g…

And yet the Developer Boot Camps work. Just look at the job statistics for anyone of the top ones, like Hack Reactor, Flatiron School, ect. They graduate people who get 80-100k sal…

And the fraud thing doesn't even look to be true. The NYT writer responded and said that was false.

There wasn't any fraud. There was a response to this accusation, by the NYT, and they claim that this is false.

My other sources have to remain private unfortunately. (official responses haven't been crafted yet) But I can say that even if it ends up that they technically had the authority t…

Here is one of the directors, he has lots of post on reddit about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/3ln4cz/two_hacke... From the link: "For the record: MLH kicked him…

Yes. Here is a link to the response of one of the Hack the North Directors: https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/3ln4cz/two_hacke... From the link: "For the record: MLH kick…

MLH had no authority to kick out the students. The hackathon is run by a separate group of Waterloo students, whereas MLH is a for-profit hackathon organization that just helps col…

It is not their event. MLH stands for major league hacking, and they are just a separate group that helps out colleges with hackathons. The problem is that they kicked someone out …