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Hi I'm John Elder, an entrepreneur, writer, and web developer in Las Vegas. You can contact me at:

johnelder.org

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

C9.io Requiring a Credit Card to Sign Up Now - WTF?

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teach.udemy.com 10y ago

Udemy Announces New Lower Course Pricing

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Udemy Took Down My Coding Course with No Advanced Warning For an ID Check

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www.startupfool.com 10y ago

Rails for Non-Tech Founders Book – Head Shave Challenge

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www.reuters.com 11y ago

AT&T-DirecTV deal unlikely to be blocked – wait, what?

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www.flatplanetmedia.com 12y ago

How I Started My Own *Profitable* Online School

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www.elderacademy.com 13y ago

Video Course Teaching PHP To Affiliate Marketers

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www.flatplanetmedia.com 13y ago

What Was Your First Coding Language?

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www.flatplanetmedia.com 13y ago

Protect Your Kids From The NSA – Teach them To Code Early Here

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www.flatplanetmedia.com 13y ago

How Young Is TOO Young To Teach Kids To Code?

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www.kickstarter.com 13y ago

Help Me Build an Online School to Teach Kids to Code

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www.kickstarter.com 13y ago

PHP Programming For Children Kickstarter Project

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www.marketingfool.com 13y ago

My PHP Book Just Hit #1 At Amazon - Grab It Free

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www.amazon.com 13y ago

PHP Programming For Affiliate Marketers - Free Today At Amazon

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www.amazon.com 13y ago

Kindle Publishing Unleashed book free today 1/26

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www.amazon.com 13y ago

Show HN: "Follow Me: Social Media Marketing Unleashed" Free Today At Amazon.com

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www.flatplanetmedia.com 13y ago

Am I (Un)Hireable As A Coder?

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www.flatplanetmedia.com 13y ago

Should Marketers Learn To Code?

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www.marketingfool.com 13y ago

My First Attempt at Writing A Beginners PHP Kindle Book (free today)

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www.amazon.com 13y ago

Show HN: PHP For Affiliate Marketers Free Today at Amazon.com

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www.flatplanetmedia.com 13y ago

I’m Learning Ruby On Rails Because I’m Weak-Willed And Stupid

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www.johnelder.org 13y ago

Entrepreneurial Time Management Hacks

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www.flatplanetmedia.com 13y ago

That’s John – We Don’t Know What He Does Here…

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www.flatplanetmedia.com 14y ago

How Often Did You Study In College? Does It Matter?

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www.flatplanetmedia.com 14y ago

What Was Your First Coding Book?

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www.marketingfool.com 14y ago

Adsense Content Writing Guide

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www.flatplanetmedia.com 14y ago

I'm (Re)Learning C Before It's Too Late

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www.flatplanetmedia.com 14y ago

Facebook IPO Most Successful In History – You Idiot

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www.flatplanetmedia.com 14y ago

Recursive chmod Fun From The Shell

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www.introzmedia.com 14y ago

Finding Your Co-founder On...POF.com?

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I don't know...if you can't figure out how to install python on a local machine...maybe you don't have any business being a coder to begin with. I mean, come on...

edit: the downvotes from the delicate snowflakes crack me up...

So disappointed with this!

I teach coding courses online...I've published dozens of courses teaching many different programming languages to thousands of students. In every single course, I recommend and use c9.io as the dev environment.

In one stupid swoop, Amazon has made all my courses obsolete.

Now people watching my videos can't create an account on C9, they have to sign up for aws and use the completely different interface. People can no longer follow along with the thousands of videos I've created.

I get that you bought C9 and want to integrate it. But why close down c9.io to new accounts? Why can't they both exist?

So very disappointed...

That's incorrect. He wrote a blog about what he was personally doing to get hired at Google... he wasn't claiming to teach people how to get hired.

You miss the point...

C9 still offers their service for free...they're just asking for a credit card to verify identity or some such nonsensical thing...

And no, I don't just expect them to offer it for free...if they want to charge, that's perfectly fine. But don't say that it's free and then require a credit card...