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Been using Final for a while. Love it and love you for building it.

There is no collaboration between VA and the streaming services. This is a rogue third party service that is not sanctioned by any of the streaming service providers.

MasteryConnect | Software Engineer | Salt Lake City, UT

MasteryConnect began when an experienced educator was inspired to focus on mastery learning and formative assessment, but was frustrated by a lack of time and tools. He wanted a way to get out of tracking mastery in spreadsheets, speed up the time to grade and provide feedback to students, and provide a way to share great formative assessments with educators around the country.

At MasteryConnect, we believe that through 21st century technology and tools, obstacles to mastery learning are removed. We believe in the power of the common standards and it’s ability to unleash the collective knowledge of teachers all across the country. We believe in data and teachers driving the conversation around assessment and what students are learning. We believe all students can learn.

Job Description - We're looking for a mid-level and/or senior level engineer.

Important To Us - Good experience with ROR (Ruby On Rails) desired - but if you have PHP or Python skills and want to learn Rails, let’s talk Experience with other frameworks either in ruby or some other language Excitement and experience around JavaScript and JS frameworks Up-to-date with current technology trends Experience with the entire stack of a web application *nix experience and familiarity with shells Everything from database to html5 and css3 goodness Self starter - has started something on their own, like: a framework a company a product an open source project Have an opinion on the preferred code editor Some experience with cross platform mobile frameworks (like phonegap) a plus AWS (amazon web services) experience a plus The DNA to be part of a startup company culture and work in a startup environment

Send an email to holdy@masteryconnect.com

I've heard good things about Brackets. But haven't fired it up with Yosemite yet.

Because mainstream news is garbage.

Wow. Impressive sleuthing.

This is the program I went to, http://www.devpointlabs.com/ And I now work for MasteryConnect.

Went to a 3 month code school. Had multiple, full-time job offers after the program was done. Took one of them. My company has gone back and hired 5 more people from the same program.

Worked out well for me, and I learned much more attending in person than I would have just doing the online stuff (many of which I had pounded through before going to the bootcamp)

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Great post Matt. Thanks a lot. Vivint is a super shady company in just about every way possible. It's no surprise that they resort to shady SEO.

If only Google could get rid of their Doucebag salesman as well...

amazing.

'Ideas belong to the people who bring them to life.'

-- This. A million times. This.

Build it yourself. If it takes off, hire that dude to work for you. If his buddies are worthwhile, hire them too.

Sitting around dreaming shit up in no way qualifies someone to run a company.

Go build it.

I think that if your current employer tries to make you feel bad about taking a job taking twice as much money THEY are the douchebags, not you.

Great article as always. I can't believe people aren't throwing money at you to come work for them.

I'm sorry that your wife had a bad experience, but your statement "that's the right way of starting [your] career in computer science" is ridiculous. There are many paths my friend.

This is too bad. As a graduate of a similar bootcamp program who is currently working as a Jr. Developer it makes me really sad to see this kind of interference from the Government. As with everything else in life, situations that sound "too good to be true" usually are, and consumers need to exercise due diligence before giving people money they aren't comfortable losing.

I hope the schools are able to work this out because my Bootcamp absolutely changed my life.

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Are you planning on verifying that people leaving reviews have first hand experience with a school? Do you allow people affiliated with the school to respond to the reviews in order to share their side of the story?

As someone who has participated in one of the bootcamps you list on your site I can tell you that your data will likely be skewed by a vocal minority, and a request to "open the books" and provide the data on graduates is a faulty proposition.

When I was researching which bootcamp I would attend, figures about job placement after graduation were extremely important to me and my decision process. However, having attended one of these programs and having worked closely with the other students in my group, I started to understand the flaws in that statistic as a measure of the program. Really, all that it measures is how selective a program is of the students it accepts. Programs that choose the top <1% of applicants are obviously going to place more people into better jobs because they are starting with smarter, more experienced people to begin with.

The type of person that is successful in these style of learning environments has a few very specific personality traits. They are extremely motivated, and they have the ability to learn quickly. No bootcamp program can force a lazy person to learn how to code. Just like no company wants to hire a lazy coder. It is not the fault of the program, the instructors, or the curriculum.

Obviously, there are some programs that are more thorough than others, but I really found that one of the most valuable things I gained from my program was access to the network of the founders. The people they invited to hiring day and as mentors were awesome, and forming those relationships on my own probably would have been harder than learning how to code.

TL;DR If nobody from a program gets hired, then there is a problem with the program. However, if several people do get hired, the others have no business crying "This is a scam!"

Javascript. Then Rails.

Great idea. Pretty sure I wouldn't get much done with limited internet access though. Maybe I'll try to simulate limited connectivity for a while a see how it goes...

I think a better question to ask is: "Do I know somebody who is proficient in this language that can help me learn when I get stuck?" A real life friend that will explain things to you when you need help is going to be infinitely more useful that an online tutorial.

Go with Python.

Regulation. In a true "free-market" system, like we would have if the HN Libertarians were in charge, running a business of this type would be much easier and more profitable. In Colorado, for example, the only reason they have recently "legalized it" is to tax the hell out of the sale of marijuana. The licenses to run a weed-selling business are expensive and almost impossible to get, the taxes you pay on each sale are the highest of anything in the state (more than gas, cigarettes, ect...), and they have crazy regulations regarding the way you are allowed to acquire inventory (the majority of your inventory must be home-grown, all your workers documented and screened, grow-space must be separate from retail space, ect...)

Selling weed legally is a logistical nightmare. Not worth it, in my opinion.

Well Done! The naming convention updates are going to be very useful.

I'm getting a little sick of the term "Growth Hacking" but this article is spot on.

Although, the strategies read more like good old fashioned elbow grease than growth hacking tricks.

Cool idea. Joined the que.

http://learncodethehardway.org/ This is a good place to start.

http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ This is another excellent resource.

Good luck.

...because we all know the way to make your start-up successful is to begin by looking for the easy way out for every possible decision...

...and if you don't have something good, you'll figure it out a lot faster with marketing than without. With a short runway, like when you're living out of your car or something crazy, figuring that out is pretty important.