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Anyone familiar with "42" university?
May 04, 2017, 06:05 PM
OldChimneyAnyone familiar with "42" university?
Anyone have any experience with this program? As I understand it, invitees attend a four week intensive coding boot camp and top performers are selected for further training, all free.
I know someone who is headed to the boot camp but I'm leery of the "free lunch" aspect of this. Is there a catch somewhere?
https://www.42.us.org/
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May 04, 2017, 09:42 PM
SFCUSARETLast time I attended a boot camp, some asshole with a strange looking hat shoved a rifle in my hand and told me to sing "I Want to Kill Charley Cong!" What's this other boot camp you're talking about? And yes there were free lunches after about 200 push ups and some crab crawls.
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May 04, 2017, 09:47 PM
Skins2881Nothing I have confirmed for my self, but it is my understanding that they will teach your the meaning of life.
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Sic Semper Tyrannis May 04, 2017, 09:58 PM
mrbill345quote:
Originally posted by Skins2881:
Nothing I have confirmed for my self, but it is my understanding that they will teach your the meaning of life.
As well as the universe and everything.
“Agnostic, gun owning, conservative, college educated hillbilly” May 04, 2017, 10:04 PM
ZSMICHAELI do not like their website. Looks like a scam or informercial to me. I like accredited universities. They can be a ripoff too, but less so.
Anything that screams FREE!!! is a turn off to me.
May 04, 2017, 10:28 PM
Rightwirequote:
Originally posted by SFCUSARET:
Last time I attended a boot camp, some asshole with a strange looking hat shoved a rifle in my hand and told me to sing "I Want to Kill Charley Cong!" What's this other boot camp you're talking about? And yes there were free lunches after about 200 push ups and some crab crawls.
Damn...what did dinner cost?
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There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. May 05, 2017, 12:31 AM
SFCUSARETDamn...what did dinner cost?[/QUOTE]
Afternoons of marching in the rain and hours of gorrilla drills in the mud!
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May 06, 2017, 10:12 AM
FundmanThat website looks like a cult recruitment. Very odd.
I think it’s amazing that a French billionaire (Xavier Niel) wants to help students get a free tuition. To develop engineering skills without being in debt or worrying about money is an incredible improvement of the current model of education in the US. They even have a great video with a lot of popular faces, from SnapChat’s Evan Spiegel to Facebook’s David Marcus, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey etc.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...s-us-alexei-chemenda
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May 06, 2017, 12:12 PM
braillediverquote:
Originally posted by Fundman:
That website looks like a cult recruitment. Very odd.
Some tech companies are cult like themselves.
Identifying new talent is worth money.
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May 06, 2017, 12:43 PM
FenderBenderas 41 (how apropos) points out it's backed by a french billionaire, I have a feeling he's looking for innate talent for some other project.
May 06, 2017, 01:45 PM
Rey HRHI wouldn't be surprised if it's legit. The other place I've seen where tuition is free is that you sign an agreement to pay back your tuition from your future earnings. It's a percentage of how much you earn capped up to the amount of the tuition. In a way they're saying their training is good enough to guarantee you a job.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
May 06, 2017, 05:35 PM
redleg2/9quote:
they will teach your the meaning of life.
You don't have to go there - just watch the movie.
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