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Fast Crimes at Lambda School

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Re: Fast Crimes at Lambda School

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Post by busterarm »

Fripplebubby wrote: post #240
busterarm wrote: post #31

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Our cohort was 23. 2 people basically scammed AppAcademy by not finding a job for two years but did find jobs after that and didn't have to pay their ISA. Everyone else did find jobs within about 3 months. All but three have moved into senior roles. Of those three, one prefers just being an IC and two moved into product management. I don't know how things are lately but given sentiment I hear about hiring from bootca…

Maybe you're being a little tongue-in-cheek about the crypto thing, but, assuming you are at least a little sincere: I think if you drop the benefit of hindsight and change the proposition to "changing careers to one that you are well suited to (apparently) which the market favors" vs "gambling your net worth with no backup plan", I think just about anyone would say you did the right thing.

Oh completely, but the power of "fuck you money" is a very real thing and I think I would still be doing this, albeit with a very different career trajectory.

I'm exactly the person that would live cheaply and work on open source full time if I could afford to.

Re: Fast Crimes at Lambda School

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Post by mardifoufs »

jonathankoren wrote: post #252
dang wrote: post #193

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Renaming accounts, redacting posts, etc. are all things that we do for users in general. We make no distinction between "high-ranking" users and others. We take care of these requests every day and have bent over backwards (e.g. spending hours writing code) to help people individually in cases where their needs were unusually complex. I can tell you for sure that whether the person is high- or low-status in $whoever'…

This is a trash policy. It's reputation laundering as a service.

Wouldn't it be worse if HN didn't honor its users' requests to delete data? I legitimately don't know, it seems like both approaches would cause issues.

Re: Fast Crimes at Lambda School

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Post by thaumasiotes »

doubloon wrote: post #220
virissimo wrote: post #33

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I did a year of computer science, but ended up going to App Academy with an ISA, because I couldn't really afford another couple of years. If ISAs are indentured servitude, but are still better than going to university, then what does that say about universities?

it says that Universities should be free.

That's solving the wrong problem; sucking away years of someone's life for minor benefits doesn't become a good deal by being free.

Re: Fast Crimes at Lambda School

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Post by mind-blight »

cbsmith wrote: post #284
j-bos wrote: post #215

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Thanks dang

I want to double down on this. I have (unintentionally) run a foul of HN's guidelines, and dang has been extremely polite, patient, and even-handed. I'm definitely not getting preferential treatment. I'm highly skeptical of claims to the contrary.

Ditto. Whenever I messed up, dang always did a great job listening to my explanation and helping to correct. Honestly, he's more lenient in posts that are negative to YC companies to prevent any chance of favoritism (I've experienced this directly when bakinyg posts or comments that are critical of one of them)

Re: Fast Crimes at Lambda School

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Post by toast0 »

vasco wrote: post #46
duxup wrote: post #30

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The frustration factor is a big deal. I took a bootcamp. One day and another student and I were working on something and a third member of our group (who had other issues) was really frustrated and took it out on us and then went to the teacher. She told the teacher "they just get it and I don't". But in truth the other student and I were not "just getting it", we were failing frequently, we had made no more progress…

I know of a couple of people I really trust that tried to explain to me how they feel when they try math or programming and it's more like a physical pain almost than frustration. I always also got frustrated and always thought everyone just has to push through it but I wonder if there's something deeper. Those two people really led me to believe some of us have some harder "blockage" than others to get through, and…

Sounds like cooking for me. By the time the meal is ready, the stress of making it has eliminated my appetite.

Re: Fast Crimes at Lambda School

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Post by dang »

monero-xmr wrote: post #278
dang wrote: post #272

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Thanks! I'm proud of my moderation browser extension with keyboard shortcuts! https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... - which is written in Arc by the way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20179860 . On a good day, that's the kind of stuff I get to work on. But there are vastly more important factors. One is that there are other moderators. They just don't post publicly. By far the most im…

I appreciate your detailed response. If you go on vacation, is there a backup? And if you retire, or God forbid, get incapacitated from some unforeseen event, is there a continuity plan? I assume contingencies exist

I don't go on "vacation" but I go to workshops that interest me and work on the breaks.

Contingencies exist! There are other mods who know how everything works, and have been at it a long time. I trust them and they'll do a great job if I get hit by a bus. It would just be hard on them to weather the public side of the job.

One thing that would suck if I get hit by a bus is that the people who know the code and the people who know how moderation works aren't the same pepole. That's not optimal.

Re: Fast Crimes at Lambda School

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Post by dang »

WireFraudSpammy wrote: post #288
dang wrote: post #193

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Renaming accounts, redacting posts, etc. are all things that we do for users in general. We make no distinction between "high-ranking" users and others. We take care of these requests every day and have bent over backwards (e.g. spending hours writing code) to help people individually in cases where their needs were unusually complex. I can tell you for sure that whether the person is high- or low-status in $whoever'…

Dang thanks for the explanation, it is tough for you being the sole moderator here. Is gnabgib an actual moderator here or did he made a bot account that does regex matching to some words to try to do backseat moderating to farm points? His account made numerous robotic comments that missed the key context which a human would not have missed.

gnabgib isn't a moderator but as far as I know is a genuine user and human being and valued contributor!

p.s. I'm not the sole moderator here, fortunately—just the only one who posts publicly.

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Post by throwaway290 »

busterarm wrote: post #154
jimbokun wrote: post #151

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> and its benefits are largely a forcing function to get you to build a portfolio in a short amount of time and have a peer group to rely on. That is an incredibly valuable service to provide.

Yeah, but 27 percent of your first year's salary in value? I'm not sure. Again, I don't regret it, I just think everyone that went through it could have succeeded without it.

Universities don't do much more but they do ask for much more.

Re: Fast Crimes at Lambda School

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Post by dang »

jonathankoren wrote: post #287
dang wrote: post #286

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I just don't think you would say that if you saw the full range of requests we get. Some feel excessively fussy to me (ok, a lot feel that way) but some are coming from people in genuine distress.

I do not care. People fuck up all the time. It’s not anyone’s job to bail them out from their actions.

Usually when people say that, they're putting more on other persons ("they fucked up") than they would on themselves ("but, circumstances"). If you're not doing that, I respect your position. But that's a hard karmic row to hoe. Personally I'd rather bail people out because I might want to get bailed out myself in the future.

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Post by Scaevolus »

dang wrote: post #299
jonathankoren wrote: post #287

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I do not care. People fuck up all the time. It’s not anyone’s job to bail them out from their actions.

Usually when people say that, they're putting more on other persons ("they fucked up") than they would on themselves ("but, circumstances"). If you're not doing that, I respect your position. But that's a hard karmic row to hoe. Personally I'd rather bail people out because I might want to get bailed out myself in the future.

Why bother with performing edits and customized redactions and renames when it's easier to simply delete the comments or accounts?
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