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Re:We changed our apply page to no longer allow students fro... by andrewclunn on Saturday January 14, 2017 @01:19PM (#13399716)
Developer, and long time BSD user who has dabbled in linux. I keep trying to get away from Windows, but it keeps being something I have to use for work. So many businesses use C# and Microsoft SQL Server for their back ends, and IE 11 support is the bane of my existence for web development. Maybe it's different in southern California, but everywhere else Windows is still king.
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Re:We changed our apply page to no longer allow students fro... by andrewfromx on Saturday January 14, 2017 @05:00PM (#13400815)
anyone who gets VC funding from a major Silicon Valley fund, uses linux and mysql, and no ms sql server or IIS or any of that _legacy_ stuff. I want to teach people coding so they are ready to go for work major Silicon Valley companies, not legacy it departments.
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Re:We changed our apply page to no longer allow students fro... by olgeni on Saturday January 14, 2017 @06:05PM (#13401150)
With all that funding they might as well afford a proper PostgreSQL license.
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Re:We changed our apply page to no longer allow students fro... by andrewfromx on Saturday January 14, 2017 @06:10PM (#13401171)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12166585
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