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Re:Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's f... by austenallred on Monday August 14, 2017 @04:21PM (#15012488)
We only take a percentage if you get a career in software engineering, so we have built that kind of risk into our model.
Re:Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's f... by koolba on Monday August 14, 2017 @04:39PM (#15012640)
Is there a time limit after which the debt is forgiven?

What prevents someone with no intention of finding a job of signing up for the free education?

EDIT: I'm entirely serious about part two. I know quite a few people that would love to learn programming but, AFAIK, have no intention of working in the tech world. I could see them taking advantage of something like this. Most of them work in non-tech functions in an office environment. So learning programming would be useful to them but it's not their actual job.

Re:Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's f... by austenallred on Monday August 14, 2017 @05:21PM (#15013036)
The income share is forgiven after five years. Hopefully we can weed those types out in application process.
Re:Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's f... by Amygaz on Monday August 14, 2017 @08:33PM (#15014349)
You know me? I'am considering taking CS as a part-time education, but I have no intention of becoming a software engineer.
Re:Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's f... by koolba on Monday August 14, 2017 @09:10PM (#15014527)
Exactly. There's tons of people like that. Not sure how they'd filter them from the rest. There's a lot of careers where it'd be incredibly useful too. Even just basic data munching with awk/sed puts a person light years ahead of people stuck with Excel copy pasta.
Re:Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's f... by boomer1204 on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @09:50PM (#15024364)
I'll say this if it's just for "fun" for someone I don't think it would work that well. I took the first PT bootcamp (I paid) and that was a HUGE undertaking. They are only going FT in the near future until they can figure the other options time wise, so if that person has a day job that would make it tough and if they didn't have a day job I would imagine "most" people aren't going to complete the whole thing anyways. I'm sure a couple of people will squeak through but I don't see that being a huge issue with the course work being on the more difficult side of things especially for someone coming from a non programming background.
Re:Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's f... by acchow on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @01:53PM (#15020602)
They still need a job to pay the bills, don't they? As long as that job pays over $50k, I'd assume they'd have to pay the commission.