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Comment by adamnemecek | Hacker News Reader

Okay I signed up to see what it's all about. But I can't get rid of the feeling that this is a joke of some sort.

1.) There is not a single name of anyone involved in this endeavor.

2.) The sing-up confirmation is a simple alert box? It seems like an XHR request does go out but no email is sent to the email address provided. Also they don't even check for email uniqueness. That seems somewhat...strange.

If it is a joke, I will be pretty sad :-(.

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Also there is this announcement message https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/comp.lan... where they say "For press information contact support@cppgm.org". Nevertheless, the domain has no associated MX record. I'm calling it, this is almost definitely not real. And the class has a start date but no end date?

Well, the lack of an end date could be a recognition of how seriously big this effort is expected to be.

If a domain doesn't have a MX record, it fallsback to the A record.

The IP pointed to by the A record does have a service running on the SMTP port.

It's probably a recruiter phishing scheme.

Or someone wants a fully C++-11 complaint compiler for free. ;)

Maybe, but why not just start with Clang?

For what kind of job would you recruit people who think single handedly implementing a fully compliant C++ compiler is suitable coursework?

Hopefully nothing involving project planning.

Anyway, I signed up, too.

(If it's a joke we might organize a study group ourselves^^)

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