Hacker School is now the Recurse Center
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Hacker School is now the Recurse Center
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#2This reminds me of when I was learning how to program. I would frequently curse at the same sections of code repeatedly.
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#3While somewhat attached to the name, I think this is a good decision on the part of the higher-ups at the Recurse Center (formerly Hacker School).
The new name makes it far more accesible to people outside of the community.
P.S. I love the recursive link up top.
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#4> “School” is bad for us because it implies the trappings of traditional schools – teachers, classes, and curricula – instead of simply a place where people learn, which is all we intended by it.
This is a perfect example of focusing only on the negative aspects of something. Furthermore, I find it at odds with the goals of Bootcamps such as this (and yes, this is a bootcamp, no matter how they choose to label themselves). Are there not instructors? Is there not some form of curriculum? Are members not evaluated in some way?
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#5Frankly, I'm still confused about what "recurse center" means even though I know what recursion is. I wonder what it will first mean to people outside of industry. I also can't unsee the substring "curse center". :/
Slightly off-topic: How would someone structure a study to predict the effectiveness of a rebranding?
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#6> “School” is bad for us because it implies the trappings of traditional schools – teachers, classes, and curricula – instead of simply a place where people learn, which is all we intended by it. This is a perfect example of focusing only on the negative aspects of something. Furthermore, I find it at odds with the goals of Bootcamps such as this (and yes, this is a bootcamp, no matter how they choose to label themse…
> Are there not instructors? Is there not some form of curriculum? Are members not evaluated in some way?
There are no instructors, there is no curriculum, and members are not evaluated. It is not a bootcamp.
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#7I like the new name! another reason that I would consider: try to explain to the immigration office that you are going to "Hacker School" first of all, they will freak out and then ask for your student visa.
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#8I like the new name! another reason that I would consider: try to explain to the immigration office that you are going to "Hacker School" first of all, they will freak out and then ask for your student visa.
This was not even a theoretical problem. There were batch-members who had problems getting into the country because of "Hacker" being in the name.
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#9While catchy, “Hacker School” has always been an actively bad name for us. Both words are problematic and misleading. “Hacker” is bad because so much of the world thinks of hackers as computer criminals and not clever programmers, which is the meaning we intended. And even for many people familiar with our use of the word, “hacker” can feel exclusionary. (“Hacker” was also not exactly helpful to the roughly 30% of each batch who cross the U.S. border to get here.)
I present this as Exhibit A in the reason why words are important. Think about this the next time you give someone ad-populum crap for correcting someone that misuses "hacker".
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#10Frankly, I'm still confused about what "recurse center" means even though I know what recursion is. I wonder what it will first mean to people outside of industry. I also can't unsee the substring "curse center". :/ Slightly off-topic: How would someone structure a study to predict the effectiveness of a rebranding?
In my technical writing class in college, the professor made the point that "recursion" is based on the verb "to recur", and that "to recurse" means "to curse again".