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Re: My Story as a Homeless Developer

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Post by austenallred »

acover wrote: post #169
austenallred wrote: post #166

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https://lambdaschool.com/outcomes are our outcomes - not bad at all for a free-upfront school. We see about one student hired per day at this point. To be clear, we can do better. Our company-wide goal is 90% hired within 90 days. More work to do. We're still working on Canada; have him/her email me austen@lambdaschool.com

Thanks. This model seems much less predatory as you have a stake in their success. The school they are considering has a 97% success rate which seems too good to be true.

...what school is that? Sounds like classic code bootcamp accounting where they do something funny with the denominator

Re: My Story as a Homeless Developer

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Post by user5994461 »

swyea wrote: post #151
user5994461 wrote: post #139

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The company could still figure out that he can't attend an on site interview and he's in Russia. By the way, Russia is a particularly bad choice. Russians are not permitted to work in London, it's outside of Europe and there is no immigration agreement. The resume won't survive the first pass from HR.

I don't think that's true. In my experience there are many Russians moving to London for software positions. The parent is also not Russian from what I understand.

The company could sponsor a working VISA. It takes a fair amount of paperwork but it's doable.

Remember that you're competing against 300 million Europeans who can move to and work in London overnight. You better have a great profile to be worth the hassle. Forget about low level roles and smaller companies.

Let's ignore for a minute that the parent was not Russian. Having a Russian number is a red flag that the candidate may be abroad and not have the right to work in the UK. It's definitely screened out by HR.

Re: My Story as a Homeless Developer

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Post by alexbecker »

baby wrote: post #144

I'm not from the US but can't the state help you with money and a shelter? If you have problem in the US the streets is your only option?

Pretty much. Shelters are either provided by charity or the local government, and state/federal money is only for very sympathetic classes like women with infant children.

Re: My Story as a Homeless Developer

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Post by chrisseaton »

eric_b wrote: post #24

As the author discovered, reliable transportation and a permanent residence are often prerequisites for many office jobs. However, I do know that in Iowa there are many other kinds of jobs, lots of which would pay a wage sufficient to get back on one's feet, and have more lenient requirements. Perhaps the author needs to get any job vs. a programming job? Establishing a place to live, getting consistent income, and t…

> have more lenient requirements

I guess those jobs have stricter requirements.

If I turn up an hour late for my white-collar office job, nobody cares (not that I do that.)

If someone turns up an hour late for their blue-collar warehouse job, they get fired.

Re: My Story as a Homeless Developer

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Post by chrisseaton »

holtalanm wrote: post #33
jrockway wrote: post #12

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I can't wait until the MTA gets so bad that people tell me, "you take the subway? sorry, we're not interested." But in some sense, having a reliable vehicle is a microcosm of a particular location and mindset. Nobody I know owns a car. We still mostly get to work on time, though.

He's in Iowa. In these midwest states (Nebraska for me), public transportation is very scarce. Most jobs out here require we own a car, or have some way to reliably get to work. Most of the time that does not involve public transportation in any way.

So how do for example blind people who cannot drive find work?

Re: My Story as a Homeless Developer

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Post by [deleted] »

baby wrote: post #152
holtalanm wrote: post #33

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He's in Iowa. In these midwest states (Nebraska for me), public transportation is very scarce. Most jobs out here require we own a car, or have some way to reliably get to work. Most of the time that does not involve public transportation in any way.

Does everyone have a driver's license there? In France none of my friends (and I) have one and we never really needed one.

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Re: My Story as a Homeless Developer

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Post by yesenadam »

patientplatypus wrote: post #67
fipple wrote: post #32

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No house and staying in Airbnb’s isn’t “homeless.”

You are objectively wrong. A homeless individual is defined in section 330(h)(5)(A) as “an individual who lacks housing (without regard to whether the individual is a member of a family), including an individual whose primary residence during the night is a supervised public or private facility (e.g., shelters) that provides temporary living accommodations, and an individual who is a resident in transitional housing.…

You rudely preach kindness, for some reason assume that HN and its users are entirely located somewhere in the USA, and seem to think what a word 'objectively' means is how it's defined in some US law.

Re: My Story as a Homeless Developer

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Post by fouc »

freddy418_sc wrote: post #42
dragonwriter wrote: post #25

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> "My interest in computers and programming was more like an intense obsession. It affected my ability to focus at school." It makes perfect sense; an obsession makes it easy for you to focus on the subject of obsession, and hard to focus on other things. As school likely mainly consisted of things other than programming, an obsession with programming would naturally adversely impact overall focus at school.

Maybe that's the issue. For him, programming is an abstract notion. Whereas it's really just a practice. You work on it, figure out where you are being dumb, then go home and take care of other stuff.

It seems like you're making up a definition of "programming" that happens to describe your particular circumstances/abilities.

For example, It doesn't sound like you have ADHD. A classic symptom of ADHD is the ability to hyper-focus on one thing, to the exclusion of anything else. Such as being stuck so deep into a book or project that you'd barely notice if the building was burning down. Any sort of school/life balance would be extremely difficult to achieve.

Re: My Story as a Homeless Developer

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TimTheTinker wrote: post #157
drb91 wrote: post #88

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It seems wrong that faith-funded organizations are allowed to discriminate based on religious belief. This also seems like a different scenario than, say, paying for birth control.

> It seems wrong that faith-funded organizations are allowed to discriminate based on religious belief. Not that I think it's morally acceptable for faith-funded charities to turn away some people based on their lack of faith, but: a) Individuals acting on their own founded and run the organization. It would be a violation of several important rights (theirs) for a government to regulate how they choose to run their…

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Re: My Story as a Homeless Developer

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Post by acover »

austenallred wrote: post #171
acover wrote: post #169

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Thanks. This model seems much less predatory as you have a stake in their success. The school they are considering has a 97% success rate which seems too good to be true.

...what school is that? Sounds like classic code bootcamp accounting where they do something funny with the denominator

I don't think this is the place but they boast 96% employment of which 97% are in tech.

They must be fudging something.

https://lighthouselabs.ca/studentoutcomes

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