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Probably someone like me who's old but still keen to learn.
Or someone who's trying for self taught
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Not sure what you mean? Non-traditional students are eligible like anyone else.
Well, I download free books on specific topics, get academic papers, and work out how things work to further my art and science. In some ways, I've furthered my areas of study and documented them for the world, with a similarity to masters candidates would. What I've given up on is the "Education System". Classes are too slow - I'll find interesting avenues during learning something, and deep dive and see interconnec…
Err I don’t think it’s ‘coded language’ I think that’s literally part of the definition.
Practical question: how the heck do people manage subscriptions for personal (not enterprise) use? Do you know all the services you subscribe to, how much you paid(whether the amount reset to a higher number after the introductory offer), whether you’re being auto-billed for something you’ve barely used, etc? Further, have you cancelled subscriptions as a result of such analysis? I wonder how many people would pay a…
The best value I've gotten out of this pack is the DO credit. 10 months on a 5$ plan for free is a great deal, I recommend it to friends in education
Was that a long time ago? I’m pretty sure it expires within 2-3 months now.
Pretty disingenuous to offer free credits to verified students For educational use, but put the stipulation they can't have an existing account. Makes the thinly veiled ploy to lock in "new blood" all that more transparent.
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Or someone who's trying for self taught
For these "student" offerings, only the appearance of credentialism matters. They've never cared about self-taught, at least from all the evidence I've seen.
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Was that a long time ago? I’m pretty sure it expires within 2-3 months now.
Also if you created an account before, even if you never used it, you'll be prevented from redeeming your student developer credits... Pretty disingenuous to offer free credits to verified students For educational use, but put the stipulation they can't have an existing account. Makes the thinly veiled ploy to lock in "new blood" all that more transparent.
The best value I've gotten out of this pack is the DO credit. 10 months on a 5$ plan for free is a great deal, I recommend it to friends in education
Just a heads up: Do NOT use AWS Educate (regardless if you get it from some hackathon or Github). The amount of pain and suffering you have to go through just to get permission to spin up a EC2 instance is unbearable. Compounded with a ton of restrictions and 60-minute sessions, it'll make you unlike AWS real-quick. I would instead suggest to use the $300 GCP credit (since there's no restrictions for that) if you nee…
Practical question: how the heck do people manage subscriptions for personal (not enterprise) use? Do you know all the services you subscribe to, how much you paid(whether the amount reset to a higher number after the introductory offer), whether you’re being auto-billed for something you’ve barely used, etc? Further, have you cancelled subscriptions as a result of such analysis? I wonder how many people would pay a…
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Also if you created an account before, even if you never used it, you'll be prevented from redeeming your student developer credits... Pretty disingenuous to offer free credits to verified students For educational use, but put the stipulation they can't have an existing account. Makes the thinly veiled ploy to lock in "new blood" all that more transparent.
You can contact support and they'll add it for you.
It was a pretty awful support experience, including patronizing responses and being accused of just demanding free credits from DO.
"It appears that you have already tried out our platform and decided that you did not wish to pay to use it."
"I was attempting to introduce you to what I'm faced with here and a bit of a background on why other people have forced my hand toward being skeptical of people's intentions from time to time."
"The bottom line is I have people begging for free credits outside of the promotion rules constantly and I wanted you to give me a reason to skate around those rules for you."
All this over $50 of credits... cost them a lifetime of recommendations and lost business.