I'm a Canadian student, but got rejected. Is this american only?
I'm a Canadian student too. You can definitely get this, I got the email this morning. Try one of the alternate "prove you're a student" methods.
GitHub Student Developer Pack
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Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
#182While the value here is nice, I maybe would not suggest investing too much of your time on learning proprietary temporarily free developer tools. There are great open source tools for many developer tasks that are not just good options, but can even be industry standards.
I agree that using free (libre) tools is preferable, but a lot of this facilitates that. For instance, you can deploy a GNU/Linux image using the DigitalOcean credit and gain experience deploying on a LAMP/LEMP stack and doing things like creating iptables rules and things like that, which is good real-world experience that is in no way temporary or platform dependent. Git itself (as I'm sure you know) is a free tool…
>using the DigitalOcean credit and gain experience deploying on a LAMP/LEMP stack
You can one-click-deploy a LAMP stack from DigitalOcean lol.
Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
#183So 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.
Yep, my code redeemed immediately. They even changed the copy to reflect this: "You can redeem your offer code using the link above, even if you have previously redeemed a different DigitalOcean promotional offer, credit card required for activation"
Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
#184So 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…
You could get it! cloud.digitalocean.com/user_payment_profiles and put it in at the bottom!
Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
#185While the value here is nice, I maybe would not suggest investing too much of your time on learning proprietary temporarily free developer tools. There are great open source tools for many developer tasks that are not just good options, but can even be industry standards.
I agree that using free (libre) tools is preferable, but a lot of this facilitates that. For instance, you can deploy a GNU/Linux image using the DigitalOcean credit and gain experience deploying on a LAMP/LEMP stack and doing things like creating iptables rules and things like that, which is good real-world experience that is in no way temporary or platform dependent. Git itself (as I'm sure you know) is a free tool…
Ha, E stand for nginx, how silly of me.
Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
#186This 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…
I would like to defend the "everybody can code" movement a bit. First of all, I'm sure we both support the idea of giving everyone the opportunity to learn coding. Along with that, however, I want to point out that the movement is not intended to make everyone a programmer. Not every child will become a programmer, and I think everyone recognizes that. The point of the movement is that a basic understanding of programming is becoming necessary for many jobs, and that even a basic idea of how to code can get one person a job over another person with no experience. The movement is about raising the baseline coding knowledge above 0, not about making everyone into a programmer.
Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Without that, how would they validate who is a student vs not? What? Why would they need to? Those "perks" are only appealing to somebody who's learning or a hobbyist. They are absolutely worthless to a professional. I will burn through them in a week. Github is just trying to market this to kids. It has nothing to do with learning or providing a better value proposition. It's all about hooking them into your brand…
> It's all about hooking them into your brand early. Yup. That's how Amazon Prime got me. Free Prime for students? Well, four years later I'm hooked and pay full price. Ingenious marketing strategy.
Well it's worked for many years for Microsoft too.
Adobe, do it as well I think, though they're close to a monopoly with Photoshop.
Have people become so accustomed to using your software that it's easier for them to pay for it than to transition to another company's products or indeed to go with FOSS alternatives.
It's the drug dealer model: first hit is free.
Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
#188hmm.. I said I was staff/admin and it said I would get an email within a week. Would lying and saying I'm a student have gotten me immediate access?
Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
#189hmm.. I said I was staff/admin and it said I would get an email within a week. Would lying and saying I'm a student have gotten me immediate access?
yep, I only got a 25% discount--none of the freebies.
damn.
Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
#190We (Screenhero) were honored to be invited to be a part of the program by GitHub :) We've wanted a way to make Screenhero affordable to students, and this helps us do exactly that. Thanks, GitHub!
Screenhero, the most impressive bit of software I've used since licecap. So sad my company didn't subscribe after the free ride ended. Sadly stuck with hip chat and g hangouts.