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Haha came to the comments looking for this. Mirth is love, Mirth is life.

I'm not an expert in this field, but I did want to say that I had an Asus Zenfone 2 (x86 phone) for a brief time, and app compatibility was never an issue. I ran into 0 apps that I couldn't run.

Totally. I'm not looking for sympathy or an explanation, I completely understand. Was just explaining that most of these candidates from NYC bootcamps are conditioned for NYC jobs, and seem to have very little desire to move out of that area / except different pay ranges. I feel college students are different in this regard. Probably because they live on campus and have to change where they live anyway.

I get it, just kind of writing about my experiences.

We're not looking, they are applying. Like I said, I understand why they aren't a good match COL/salary wise, just kinda of was writing about how I think it's interesting that they teach what salary they should be seeking minimum. That was never brought up in my BS degree.

That's good to hear about the SQL. Honestly, we sort of didn't even bother with AA candidates because I went to the website to check it out, and first thing it says is "graduates earn an average of 89k in NYC". Instantly knew that whatever they were telling the students, we couldn't afford em.

On Indeed, we get a lot of crossover because of our proximity to NYC. I think we come up if you do a 50mi radius and search junior, not sure honestly. I totally get it, but it's getting to the point where we see NYC on the resume, we pass them aside cause we know we can't afford them. Probably better for both parties.

I'm in the process of hiring a junior position and have no bias towards college grads or bootcamp grads. The only negatives towards boot camp grads I've seen so far is:

1) One candidate had no idea what the terms "Class" or "OOP" even meant. I'm FINE with them not understanding stuff like sorts/advanced data structures, but he ACTUALLY had 0 idea what an int was. No lie!

2) I wish there wasn't such a heavy reliance on MongoDB in most of these programs. Some do have SQL as well, but I feel like 80% of workplaces will be dealing with SQL, so I'm not sure what the focus on Mongo is all about if the purpose of these programs is to make you hireable. I think it's that it's an easier concept to relay since you're working with JSON everywhere already, but I've seen a bunch of people have a very strong bias towards Mongo to the point where they seem to not understand why you even would use SQL.

3) This part might get me in trouble here, but we are a small company in NJ and budgeting 50k for the junior 0 experience position. Most of these bootcamps in Brooklyn or Manhattan instill that you minimum should be making 60k and not to even look for anything else. I disagree with that personally, but I realize it is possible for grads to make this (especially in NYC). I've just come across a few that scoff at us for the pay we have, and I do understand it, but some of my higher ups who don't really feel comfortable with the bootcamp concept don't think they are worth it.

Obviously there are a lot of pros with hiring them as well. I think typically they are the more qualified candidates skill wise. None of the ones we've come across have been a great fit so far though, but I think it's because of how close to NYC we are. These programs are based there, and we have trouble competing with the salaries there. That's why we have been having more luck finding college grads from the NJ area though, they don't have these kind of higher expectations.

I hope it works with Server 2012 non-R2....

You forgot to remove the vowel.

This really is a neat machine for consumers. I would never buy one, but I'm always really impressed at the size / build quality whenever I see one. The price tag is definitely up there for what it is hardware wise, but I think it's one of a kind build makes it justified. Just not my cup of tea :)

Do you still have a working warranty for your Nexus 4?

It literally is what I said. I'm unsure what you're reading.

"$40 a year is obscene for what they offer IMO". Please feel free to show me the exact time I said "Paying $40 a year for any type of software is ridiculous".

That would be a great point if it wasn't competing in a marketplace with other products. None of those pro features make me go "wow, this saves me so much time" compared to other offerings.

My argument isn't that paying $40 for software a year is obscene, it's that this particular feature set in the competitive space is not worth $40 to me. And correct me if I'm wrong, but if I actually wanted to use these features with my girlfriend, would we not have to both spend $40?

Used this service last year, and it was insanely outdated, glad to see they rebuilt for the ground up.

That being said - $40 a year is obscene for what they offer IMO. Luckily I am able to use basic without needed the extra features.

I'd love to pay to support this product, but probably not more than $10 a year. Call me cheap, but this is a nice to have, and competes with free services such as Google Keep.

Maybe I'm wrong here, but my major issue with Groupon is how you're treated as a customer when you go to the establishment. In my experience, I always get treated worse than a "normal" customer. Either they just care less about you, or it's always like a "what is this? I need to go ask my manager".

That's hard to manage as it's out of your control, but I would love a focus on making people care equally about you (not more, I'm asking to been seen as a normal customer rather than a burden).

Not sure if this is a dumb question but I haven't been able to find an answer anywhere.

I currently use underscore 1.8.3. Can I just swap lodash in, or is refactoring involved? I know it's a fork, and I want to move over, but was curious if anyone know off the top of their heads if a lot of work as involved.

Sorry, maybe I'm misunderstanding?

What argument for pro-acceptance of migrants does this article/fact make?

See that is actually differently entirely. This article is specifically about the offspring of migrants, not of the migrants themselves. Steve Jobs was born and raised in America, under very different circumstances than 5 year olds that want to leave Syria.

Once again, I am not arguing one way or the other, just that this argument is no more silly than "This baby will grow up to cure cancer, but was aborted so cancer will never be cured" ads.

Is the argument here "don't worry about immigration because children of immigrants have potential to be great people"? Steve Jobs Syrian nationality has 0% to do with how he was raised, or the life he lived.

I am not trying to argue one side or the other, but I find this more of a "fun fact" than something that should matter at all for this topic.

Not even good Apple knock-offs. The build quaility on machines like things like the ASUS Zenbook is no where near Apple, and business machines are always think/bulky. This thing is amazing.