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Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by sondh »

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…

I have just redeemed the code in my DO account and it worked on the first attempt. I think they have fixed the issue. To any students out there: try first before reaching out to support, they are busy men/women.

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by thekingofspain »

hk__2 wrote: post #110
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? :)

Same in France. I paid €5 for my fifth and last year of higher education that started this September, and I get €250/mo during 10 months to help me pay for food/housing/books. Students in more confortable situations paid 450€ and don’t get any money during the year, but that’s still pretty cheap.

Small tidbit: In English, it's spelled with an M, not an N! Comfortable :) But you probably knew that already.

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by Dewie »

grayclhn wrote: post #72
paradite wrote: post #61

I literally thought they are giving out backpacks so I was like WOW, then I realized it is a bunch of tools. Well, better than nothing, free server from DigitalOcean is pretty useful for me as a student to learn about deploying on an actual server instead of relying on 3rd party services like heroku.

Um... better than backpacks, I'd say.

I already have a backpack. The same one that I've had since I was more of a pupil than a student.

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by Cshelton »

Luc wrote: post #141
dragonwriter wrote: post #130

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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).

Cshelton has got to be a troll. I'm kind of ashamed I fell for it, but oh well, live and learn.

Your maturity is showing. Seriously, all you have done is make sarcastic remarks...at least the other guys brought counter points. I hope somebody in this world likes you...good luck kid.

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by hk__2 »

thekingofspain wrote: post #152
hk__2 wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same in France. I paid €5 for my fifth and last year of higher education that started this September, and I get €250/mo during 10 months to help me pay for food/housing/books. Students in more confortable situations paid 450€ and don’t get any money during the year, but that’s still pretty cheap.

Small tidbit: In English, it's spelled with an M, not an N! Comfortable :) But you probably knew that already.

Thanks, that’s a typo :)

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by Dewie »

freehunter wrote: post #48
Mikushi wrote: post #23

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I personally disagree, it removes the exploration part of learning how to code, which I believe to be vital to educating good programmers. I see all these services listed, and all I think is "they are hooking these guys to a service oriented approach", a "pay $25 and you don't have to worry about X". Thing is, what you learn while trialling technologies is invaluable and should not be replaced by a preselected list o…

The exploration of modern programming is a big factor keeping people out. You don't get a computer with BASIC installed anymore, or magazines that teach you programming from start to finish with code samples included. To figure out desktop programming, you have to download a compiler and hope there is a good tutorial on some random blog which most likely gave up after part two of a five part series. To figure out web…

Is modern programming hard to learn, or is it more that people want to do more fancy stuff than before, and quicker? Making a java app is hard for the uninitiated, but compiling a few java classes just requires a compiler (essentially) and to memorize a few commands (or use something like Dr Java). Making a slick web app in RRails is probably pretty daunting, but writing some HTML doesn't even require a server, just a web browser.

There are a lot of interesting problems that can be tackled with simple tools (how about writing a toy compiler in C, for example). Will such things be useful? Probably not, but the learning experience is very valuable. And that's already a good outcome for someone who is only getting their feet wet.

(That said, I'm a relative beginner myself, and I'm kind of itching to make something that is actually useful, at this point. But things like learning language specific package managers, make tools, and other stuff that are needed can be taxing.)

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by robmccoll »

jonahx wrote: post #64
djb_hackernews wrote: post #38

This really makes something I've been thinking about very clear. I often think about the "everyone can code" movement. It's not something I particularly believe in, but exposing as many people as possible is a great thing. However, the bit I get stuck on is programming is more than just typing characters in the correct sequence. It's deploying, testing, environment issues, metrics, databases, dns, etc. Basically it i…

> It's deploying, testing, environment issues, metrics, databases, dns, etc. Basically it is a lot more complex than "learn to code". I would even go further and say that such things are well over 50% of a working programmer's time. Learning the toolset for modern programming is as hard or harder than learning how to program well. It's a different kind of hard, though -- the ability to slog through tedium and frustra…

Slogging through tedium and frustration has been a cornerstone of programming since the olden times

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by neom »

dwild wrote: post #125
neom wrote: post #112

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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.

Sadly I can only do something about the DigitalOcean part, but like I said above, if anyone wants to make the case I'm happy to apply the credit for those enrolled in the full time study of code/serverz/whatever. :)

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by neom »

russum wrote: post #128
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/

We're making an exception to our existing policy for those who wish to participate in this program.

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by slavik81 »

powertower wrote: post #43

> PositiveSSL from Namecheap (for $9) I have one of these, they work great. The one and only problem they have is they require 2 or 3 intermediary CA certs that need to be "bundled" into a file. After buying one, and finding the Comodo provided instructions lacking the needed info, I put together a howto for both Windows and Linux (for Apache) - http://www.devside.net/wamp-server/installing-comodo-positiv...

My first time setting up a server with SSL was last week after buying a PositiveSSL certificate from Namecheap.

This issue bit me hard. I was extremely frustrated for a few hours when my browser said the site was fine but OpenSSL spat out a generic failure message when trying to get a page in ruby.

Discovering that the browser caches certificates made me realize that it wasn't an OpenSSL or ruby environment issue and lead me down the path to discovering that my server setup was wrong; I needed to explicitly provide intermediate certificates. Prior to that, I figured it happened automatically (as it seemed to with my browser).

I wish I'd seen this writeup before. It would have saved me a bunch of time. In retrospect, Commodo's instructions lacked important information. Your page, on the other hand, actually explains what I needed to do.

EDIT: I should mention that support was quick at getting back to me for an unrelated question about their website. Their lacking instructions notwithstanding, I'd still wholeheartedly recommend PositiveSSL.

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