Does this make Github's acquisition by Microsoft imminent?
Nope.
Github Student Developer Pack includes Visual Studio and Dreamspark
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#12"real world tools can be cost prohibitive"?! It really depend on how poorly you choose which real world you want to live in.
Some of us don't mind paying for our tools.
Don't mind? Are you so detached from reality?
For most CS students in the world, 'don't mind' is not an option, they simply don't have that money.
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#14"real world tools can be cost prohibitive"?! It really depend on how poorly you choose which real world you want to live in.
Some of us don't mind paying for our tools.
I don't mind paying for good tools either but the "real world tools are expensive" mantra has not been true for quite some time now.
I have paid for Windows licenses, for MSDN subscriptions, for Visual Studio, for Oracle databases, for ERP tools, for Solaris, for Red Hat and countless others but, quite frankly, I haven't felt a compulsion to pay for tools for a long time now (PyCharm is sweet though).
We have from excellent compilers, IDEs, databases, operating systems all the way to datacenter automation solutions that are free. And, in the case of students, they are also open-source so they can be studied (which used to be an important part of life for students) and extended (which is a nice advantage not necessarily but usually associated to tools you don't have to pay for.
So, what prohibitively expensive real world tools are you thinking of?
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#15"Microsoft acquires Github" - with the other recent announcements of .NET framework and Roslyn moving to Github, and now this, it may seem the day is not too far off for those headlines to become reality.
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#16Real URL: https://education.github.com/pack
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some of us don't mind paying for our tools.
Don't mind? Are you so detached from reality? For most CS students in the world, 'don't mind' is not an option, they simply don't have that money.
My universe isn't penniless college students, it's businesses with the funds to shell out for good tools.
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#18Isn't the VS Community edition free now anyway?
This is professional edition. https://www.dreamspark.com/what-is-dreamspark.aspx
The GitHub page explicitly says Community Edition though. Might give a link to Community Edition if user can't enroll in Dreamspark as not all school participate (albeit most do).
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#19Is kinda of off-topic, but I might be able to get some visibility here.
I have been trying to register my "free .me domain" for a couple of days now, and is impossible, since I'm not from the US, Canda or UK. I already tried to contact Namecheap and they basically told me they couldn't do anything.
Does someone know what I should do? (other them using a fake Address and Zip-code)
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#20Is kinda of off-topic, but I might be able to get some visibility here. I have been trying to register my "free .me domain" for a couple of days now, and is impossible, since I'm not from the US, Canda or UK. I already tried to contact Namecheap and they basically told me they couldn't do anything. Does someone know what I should do? (other them using a fake Address and Zip-code)
It's really funny you mention this because I just spent all weekend trying to get the free .me while actually living in Canada and going to a Canada school. I tried with my own school email, and they took forever to send the confirmation email, so I requested it again. This invalidated previous emails and sent a new one, but every time I re-requested, the email I would get would already be invalid, perpetually out of sink. I opened a ticket, talked to customer support, they didn't really do anything useful. In the end I used my girlfriends email to confirm I was a Canada student, then used my private email for the actual namecheap account.
The whole thing was not very fun, but in the end you seem to need the US, UK, or CAN email for the initial confirmation.