Just a heads up, in the apply form ( https://www.recurse.com/apply?r=homepage ) you still refer to Hacker School.
Fixed; thanks!
I still see "Hacker School" in three different places on the apply page.
Hacker School is now the Recurse Center
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#32Quick anecdote: A close friend of mine had recently graduated college and after a series of interviews got in Hacker School. When he went for the visa interview (in India), the officer got really wary of him on learning that he's going to US, right after graduating of college, with no job to a place called "Hacker School". He had open the website and spend a long time in explaining him in what HS is about. Quite expe…
I had very similar experience, but was able to convince the immigration officer that Hacker School has nothing to do with Hackers nor Schools (which require F1 visas). That was a fun experience and added to the charm of the original name :)
I had no problems at all. I would be interested in the correlation between rejection and skin colour.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fixed; thanks!
I still see "Hacker School" in three different places on the apply page.
Ack, yes, thanks for pointing that out! Fixing now.
(This is the problem with carefully grep'ing your code base and then completely forgetting about some of the parts of your site stored in the database :\)
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#34I love Hacker School (the entity, not the name) but Recurse Center is a strange choice. "Recurse" does not bring to mind the word "recursion" by itself, and while "School" is a meaningful word, "Center" isn't. It has no umph as a phrase. The reason for the change is completely sound, but the new name is just a little strange to me.
You aren't fond of the name, but you try it on for size anyway. You wince as you feel the name tighten around your body. The name is (re)cursed!
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#35My brain jumped to "curse" and "legal recourse," not "recursion." And I'm a software developer. Hacker School seems fine. I think you guys are over thinking it.
I keep reading it as Recluse Center...
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#36I love Hacker School (the entity, not the name) but Recurse Center is a strange choice. "Recurse" does not bring to mind the word "recursion" by itself, and while "School" is a meaningful word, "Center" isn't. It has no umph as a phrase. The reason for the change is completely sound, but the new name is just a little strange to me.
Perhaps not having meaning is the meaning, although I do not know. What would you have thought of Inception Center?
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#37I love Hacker School (the entity, not the name) but Recurse Center is a strange choice. "Recurse" does not bring to mind the word "recursion" by itself, and while "School" is a meaningful word, "Center" isn't. It has no umph as a phrase. The reason for the change is completely sound, but the new name is just a little strange to me.
You aren't fond of the name, but you try it on for size anyway. You wince as you feel the name tighten around your body. The name is (re)cursed!
And the verb recurse is used in the name as an adjective when we already have a perfectly good adjectival form of the word—recursive—that is also more immediately familiar. People who consider recurse an ugly back-formation (preferring to recur) will wince, cringe, and decry the gramatical turpitude all at once.
But enough criticism—here's an attempt at something constructive: How about "Recursity"? The .com address is unregistered, and you can pretend it's a portmanteau of recursion and university suggested by a high-dollar naming consultant.
The Recursity is a free, self-directed educational retreat ...
Hmm. Maybe a mashup with the word sabattical could work.
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#39Quick anecdote: A close friend of mine had recently graduated college and after a series of interviews got in Hacker School. When he went for the visa interview (in India), the officer got really wary of him on learning that he's going to US, right after graduating of college, with no job to a place called "Hacker School". He had open the website and spend a long time in explaining him in what HS is about. Quite expe…
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#40It's interesting how a term like "hacker" can both be considered too exclusionary and too inclusionary, depending on who you ask and what their expectations are.