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Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by ZoF »

jwn wrote: post #46
ZoF wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Literally anything you could want to put on a server...? It's a nice bunch of free trials to commonly needed services for developers. Email delivery, payment processing, hosting, continuous integration, etc etc.. Your question doesn't really make sense. It's a sandbox; we can't tell you what kind of castle to build.

I think calling it a 'trial' is actually a disservice. Most of these are good for the entire time you're a student or two years. Most trials are limited to 30, 60, or maybe 90 days if you're lucky.

True, I didn't mean for it to come off that way.

This is a pretty damn cool offer.

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by maaaats »

xbryanx wrote: post #90

This is great. On an unrelated note, I wanted to give GitHub a big high-five for their non-profit organizational discounts. Tech companies that provide non-profit discounts really help non-profits where technology expenses are often under-appreciated and underfunded.

Yeah, most tech companies do this, and it's awesome!

We get free GitHub plan (but try to run most stuff open source), free Jira by Atlassian and free IntelliJ by Jetbrains. Really helps us recruiting volunteers and makes it a fun and "real-life" experience for the involved students.

And of course we're now hooked on their services when moving to other projects in the future. ;)

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by sampo »

Cshelton wrote: post #89
akx wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So I need to pay money to a big institution to be considered a student? In the US, I guess you do. Here in Finland, all uni/polytechnic/what-have-you students get a school-issued email address and student identification card, and tuition is free. So I guess your criticism is for the US culture? :)

I want to emphasize here a common misconception of 'free'. Your education is not free, some may even argue it is more expensive than the US system. Myself included. You pay an extraordinary amount of taxes for the 'free' education. You pay for it regardless if you decide to attend university or not. Letting the 'rich' pay for it is not an economic solution either. Hence the outrage in the US of moving toward the Euro…

> You pay an extraordinary amount of taxes for the 'free' education.

I once made a rough comparison, in the 60k–100k yearly salary range, for tax rates between Finland and California. As far as I remember, they were quite similar.

Just, in Finland you get (almost) free education, (almost) free health care, better public transportation and worse national defense.

I'd be happy to do this again, if you (or someone) provide the California numbers, I'll do Finland.

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by Cshelton »

dragonwriter wrote: post #113
Luc wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I want to emphasize here a common misconception of 'free'. You've blown my mind. I need to think this through carefully, but your reasoning may very well apply to health-care too. Thanks for setting us straight. I'll be sure to vote for privitization next opportunity! EDIT: Sarcasm!

> I need to think this through carefully, but your reasoning may very well apply to health-care too. I haven't seen the numbers on education, but certainly no OECD country has healthcare more expensive than that in the US. Heck, many pay less in public funds than the US, even though the private healthcare costs in the US are a little bit higher than the public costs -- and this was true before the Affordable Care Act…

Let's go through some simple logic here...other countries have less expensive healthcare, they pay less in public redistributions for healthcare, and that equates to a better healthcare system? If I'm a skilled doctor, from an microeconomic stand point, I'm going to work in a place that has higher compensation. You seem to go under the assumption that less expensive = better...

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by dwild »

neom wrote: post #112
maximgsaini wrote: post #30

Awesome service guys. The following criticism is not for github, but for our culture as a whole. I cannot get myself to agree with how our culture has come to describe a 'student'. An example would be the following: "If you're a student aged 13+ and enrolled in degree or diploma granting course of study, the GitHub Student Developer Pack is for you. All you need is a school-issued email address, valid student identif…

I've thought about this a lot generally. Mostly because I went to college in Canada and didn't have a .edu email address, made it really hard for me to get these kinds of discounts. Plus, who says you need to be in traditional education anyway. If anyone wants the DO portion of this and are not enrolled in traditional education but learning code full time and thinks they should get it regardless: email me: john@do.co

You contact the platform and you tell them. That's what happened with GitHub and Jetbrains, my university domain wasn't accepted by them, some students contacted them and both times they were fast to react. Sure it's harder than with an .edu email address but it's far from being an issue.

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by Cshelton »

Luc wrote: post #111
Cshelton wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want to emphasize here a common misconception of 'free'. Your education is not free, some may even argue it is more expensive than the US system. Myself included. You pay an extraordinary amount of taxes for the 'free' education. You pay for it regardless if you decide to attend university or not. Letting the 'rich' pay for it is not an economic solution either. Hence the outrage in the US of moving toward the Euro…

> I want to emphasize here a common misconception of 'free'. You've blown my mind. I need to think this through carefully, but your reasoning may very well apply to health-care too. Thanks for setting us straight. I'll be sure to vote for privitization next opportunity! EDIT: Sarcasm!

Congratulations! You successfully responded with negative sarcasm and absolutely no constructive criticism or counter points. You sir are the winner of the internets! Enjoy your day.

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by anvarik »

There is a possibility to say that you have graduated in 2013, so you don't even need to be a student?? Didn't get. So if you hold a university mail and you've graduated last year, you can get one?

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by russum »

naiyt wrote: post #101

So if you have an existing DigitalOcean account, it makes it seem like you can't apply the promo code to it. But I shot off a ticket to DigitalOcean's support, and they applied the $100 promo to my account within 5 minutes. So definitely send them a message if you have an existing account that you would like to have the credit applied to. Awesome pack, and great service from DigitalOcean as well. Also of interest is…

Hm, that's nice of them, although this page states you aren't allowed to do that: "Keep in mind that we only allow one promo code per account, so if you’ve redeemed one in the past you may not add another. To see your promo code history please visit your billing page."

https://www.digitalocean.com/help/pricing-and-billing/

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by Cshelton »

sampo wrote: post #123
Cshelton wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want to emphasize here a common misconception of 'free'. Your education is not free, some may even argue it is more expensive than the US system. Myself included. You pay an extraordinary amount of taxes for the 'free' education. You pay for it regardless if you decide to attend university or not. Letting the 'rich' pay for it is not an economic solution either. Hence the outrage in the US of moving toward the Euro…

> You pay an extraordinary amount of taxes for the 'free' education. I once made a rough comparison, in the 60k–100k yearly salary range, for tax rates between Finland and California. As far as I remember, they were quite similar. Just, in Finland you get (almost) free education, (almost) free health care, better public transportation and worse national defense. I'd be happy to do this again, if you (or someone) prov…

Yes yes...Finland and California are the same everything. So interchangeable that one could live in CA or Finland and have the same life style....no. Cost != value. On that though...worse national defense...you realize the US has the largest armed militia in the world...the people. Good luck with Russia!

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by dragonwriter »

Cshelton wrote: post #124
dragonwriter wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I need to think this through carefully, but your reasoning may very well apply to health-care too. I haven't seen the numbers on education, but certainly no OECD country has healthcare more expensive than that in the US. Heck, many pay less in public funds than the US, even though the private healthcare costs in the US are a little bit higher than the public costs -- and this was true before the Affordable Care Act…

Let's go through some simple logic here...other countries have less expensive healthcare, they pay less in public redistributions for healthcare, and that equates to a better healthcare system? If I'm a skilled doctor, from an microeconomic stand point, I'm going to work in a place that has higher compensation. You seem to go under the assumption that less expensive = better...

No, other developed countries have generally comparable results in concrete outcome measurements to the US, as well as lower (per capita and per GDP) public + private costs, and better access (universal, generally) to non-emergency care.

Additionally, several also have lower public + private costs than the US's public costs (which in turn are lower than US private costs).

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