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Using an inflation calc [1] that amount from 1970 today would be worth approximately $6,273,872,679,045. So that would be $125,477,453,580 spent on R&D, and we actually spend close to $132,600,000,000.

So it's seems to have been a set amount just adjusted for inflation the whole time.

1 - http://www.dollartimes.com/calculators/inflation.htm

Awesome, good to know! I'll be diving into this tonight!

I've been trying to learn mandarin for a while now, and have just been using some HSK flash cards with anki for a while now (about 2k/3.5k through the cards for level 1). I'll have to give this a try.

For someone who isn't entirely new to mandarin will this feel like I'm drudging through basic concepts again?

I don't know about the rest of the US, but I know in the midwest a pretty decent portion of the population get their water supply from the Ogallala Aquifer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer). According to that link it's as much as 82% of the High Plains population.

Egghead.io has some good stuff so far. https://egghead.io/technologies/angular2

I will say I have helped ta at General Assembly after I finished, and there is a reason you don't see those stats, they don't have them. My individual campus has them now, and the outcomes people kind of had their own list, but there is no one major list in GA for that info.

Also you will hear wildly different GA experiences because every campus tackles the curriculum differently. Mine went JS prework, first 3 weeks of HTML/CSS/JS, next 3 Ruby/Rails, next 3 full MEAN stack, next 3 either random lessons about things like web sockets, comp sci topics, or any other thing the instructors found important. I talked to a LA grad though, and it was completely different. They had Ruby prework, and then day one started learning about Angular.

It's really all about the campus. If you want to go to GA, find out about that campus, not GA in general.

I actually just went through General Assembly's Web Development Immersive course and finished in July. I'm in a similar situation to that. I learned HTML/CSS/JS, then ruby on rails and MEAN stack.

After I finished I was at the point to know enough to know I don't really know much of anything, and got hired into an apprenticeship program a local company was running, even though the majority of the stack I learned at GA isn't even used. He hired me with the knowledge that I am teachable and willing to learn.

Everyone but one person from our cohort now also has a development job. General Assembly at least does a ton to make sure you are prepared to fight your way into the job market. The only thing I am worried about is what the market will look like for people coming from bootcamps 5 to 10 years down the line. Is this going to start to bring out the people opening ma and pops bootcamp to get a quick buck?