I haven't dropped Dropbox because I was unaware of the appointment of Condoleezza Rice prior to this poll. I've been considering dropping it for awhile for general privacy reasons, but this might be what pushes me over the edge.
My friends, coworkers and I use it constantly (nearly daily) for the same stuff we used to use Venmo for: splitting tabs/cabs/etc. It's just a little more convenient in that a new user can be set up without having to download an app (always annoying when cell coverage is spotty) and there is no separate balance to keep track of other than your normal bank balance. I do find it a little too simple to initiate a transfer, but you can add a restriction that forces you to input your debit card's CVC code to actually initiate a transfer.
In my experience (I'm an instructor at one of these schools), the vast majority of incoming students already have a 4-year degree in a different area. I think for many people who may already be at a point in their life where they are paying off student loan debt, starting a family, etc., going without a significant income for another 2- or 4-years would be completely out of the question whereas a 3-month program is something they may be able to weather.
I don't think he was saying he couldn't pay because he couldn't afford to pay, I think he was saying he couldn't pay because he doesn't have the option of paying with the economic sanctions against Iran.
If your server requires SSL due to security reasons, and you are not capable of using SSL for one reason or another, then I'd rather you don't run that server at all.
Besides, if it's not an cost-prohibitive problem, but rather one can't get an SSL cert due to sanctions, etc... well, that argument doesn't hold water either. Not every country holds sanctions against Iran for example. You may not be able to get an SSL cert from a USA company, but there are many other countries who have CA's available that probably have no sanctions.
In the end, security is not a joke. If your server requires itself to be secure, you'd better do it.
I actually used unirest.rb as one of the tools to teach my students about HTTP requests. I loved the clear syntax and found the experience a lot more straight-forward than many of the other HTTP libraries I came across. Thanks for putting this together!
Wow, I'm still a relative newcomer, but I constantly pull up the CSS and JS for any site that seems interesting. Considering how easy Chrome devtools makes it to play around with sites, I figured most enthusiasts/professionals were doing the same thing.
UMich is not really emblematic of mid-level schools. While rankings don't mean a lot, UMich is still ranked #13 by US News & World Reports for graduate-level economics and thus would be either one of the lower top-tier schools or near the top of the mid-tier. It would probably be easier to get a good job from UMich than the vast majority of other mid-tier schools.
Why wouldn’t the millions of unemployed Americans train themselves to code?
I'd say this is exactly what my friends and I have done. We had been nerds growing up but the majority of us went into liberal arts majors in college. After graduating and finding out that our slips of paper were meaningless, a few of us taught ourselves how to program and a few of us built upon college IT jobs to go into system administration.
When we were younger, I think we generally had some pretty bad misconceptions about the software development as a whole, especially regarding relative difficulty compared to other careers. While the money and job security were the things that drove (most of) us in that direction originally, we've all become completely obsessed with a tech world that we generally misunderstood when we were younger. I've spent a lot of time trying to convince other out-of-work nerds to do what we did but I think most either don't believe you can get work without a CS degree (by assuming that we just got lucky) or think that it is well beyond their mental capacities. I'm not surprised a lot of unemployed americans are scared of trying something intimidating, but I think you'll see more and more young un(der)employed americans start learning code, especially as the learning resources become more and more available and more and more accessible.
I don't know about how other schools approached programming careers, but I know my school tried to make it out like you had to be some crazy math genius in order to do basic programming. Compound that with the fact that my school didn't offer any programming classes for people to even see if it was something they would be interested in, and we're left with me being the lone software engineer in from my school for the past several years. They scared everyone else away.
My experience is nearly opposite. The last time I bought a CD was over 10 years ago, I attend concerts and music festivals often (1-2x monthly) and consider these experiences much more worth the price than buying albums I could easily listen to on Spotify for a fraction of the cost. I have wide and varied music tastes though and the cost of purchasing all the albums that have songs that I regularly listen to would be prohibitively expensive, even compared to going to concerts that regularly cost $50.
