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- NicK 13-Mar-2022 09:52 AM

The real test of sincerity is to see whether a person will help you even if he knows he will get nothing in return from you.
The truth is anyone can help when there is something to gain in return.
But to help when there is nothing to be gained shows true love and a beautiful heart.

- NicK 08-Mar-2022 11:32 PM

लौटते वो हैं जो रूठकर चले जाते हैं

टूटकर जाने वाले लौटा नहीं करते___!!

- NicK 08-Mar-2022 02:46 PM

You know what the worst thing is

Trusting the one that don’t deserve to be trusted

Loving the one that don’t even deserve to be loved.

- NicK 08-Mar-2022 12:26 AM

मुझे लिख कर कहीं महेफ़ूज कर दो

तुम्हारी याददाश्त से मिटता जा रहा हूँ मैं

- NicK 08-Mar-2022 12:25 AM

The Hidden Billionaires

Billionaires are some of the most important political figures in the country, but they are unelected, which means the public has no direct way of holding them accountable. Furthermore, their activities are often clandestine and difficult to trace, which means that even if we could easily take them to task, we wouldn’t always know what for.

happy monday cat

I was browsing TechCrunch this morning, and came upon this article, addressing the idea of regulations for the new industry of ‘learn-to-code’ bootcamps. The article makes some great points in both the pro and the con columns, and in reality there’s a bit of both to the argument.

On one hand, these bootcamps are fantastic. The ones that have hit the mainstream, like App Academy, which boasts a 95% offer rate for its graduates, with an average salary of $91,000. Damn. That’s super impressive, especially when you consider that it’s free unless you get a job.

So some folks might be hesitant to allow bureaucracy and the pervasive inefficiencies of government into the very successful, brave new world of bootcamps.

Then on the other hand, private, non-post-secondary education can really start to get dangerous. It can be an easy industry to abuse– it’s definitely in good taste to ensure a certain level of quality of instruction, so that vulnerable potential-students don’t get roped into an expensive, worthless program.

No special treatment

The tech industry is my darling, and I hate to see old money and old politics get in the way of its success. Tech is the source of the future, and anything that gets in its way is just an annoyance. But it’s important to remember that this regulation isn’t really getting in the way.

It’s not getting in the way of a solid program with awesome instructors and a great curriculum and fair pricing strategies. It’s not getting in the way of successful organizations delivering impressive results. It’s getting in the way of the handful of jerks who think that they can abuse the system to make a quick buck.

As technologists, it’s important to embrace some of the little hurdles like governmental regulation, in order to ensure that nobody is able to cheapen the wonderful ideas spewing out of silicon valley or silicon beach or whatever silicon-embedded location you prefer.

We don’t want Silicon Valley turning into Wall St. We don’t want any Wal-Marts of the tech industry. We, as a generation and population of tech-enabled activists, should hold ourselves to a very high standard, and this is one example of that.

And I’m not alone in this opinion:

Ultimately, Anthony Phillips ( the co-founder of Hack Reactor ) said that he welcomed regulation of the “learn to code” world, and in some cases, would recommend that the BPPE hold schools to even higher standards.

The bigger picture

I suppose this comes down to a larger debate over the overall role of the government in business. I don’t want to get political, but if we accept that the way that it is done now, where consumers are protected from potential corporate and financial corruption, then this is clearly a good direction for the bootcamp world to go.

As the startups of today become the behemoths of tomorrow, we’ll have to address a lot of questions about the role of government in these new, highly-efficient, customer-centric companies.

There will be a lot of debates to be had, but I personally believe that our generation has a responsibility to hold our brainchildren to a far higher standard than our parents’ generation did.

The generation before us paved the way for McDonalds and their quality, recently-discontinued, employee benefits program.

We should aim to create a system where solid businesses like Costco and In-n-Out are the model, keeping prices low through good company culture, efficiency, and quality. The myth that business and humanity are somehow at odds with one another should be eradicated, and the tech industry is the best place to do just that.

Again, this is all my own opinion, and perhaps this will be the most divisive article I will have written, but I believe it’s an important issue to face. As millennials and technologists, we are responsible for creating the future, so let’s create a future that makes sense, rewards success, and tramples out inefficiency.