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The payback period begins when you get paid at a qualifying job, and pauses if your work does. (ie. Lose your job, or decide to move and takes a month or two to land new gig, etc)

The five year payment window clock starts on graduation. So if you don’t get a qualifying job within 5 years of finishing class, you pay nothing.

The LDS Church builds temples in an area _after_ there is a large enough group of members in the surrounding area to ensure the temple will get used.

There are very specific numbers used to determine where temples should be built. It is only an endorsement that there were enough nearby members to justify building one, not that members should move there.

This venture has nothing to do with the Mormon (LDS) Church other than the fact this guy is a member.

The leadership of the Church will not acknowledge or encourage the project in any official capacity, and will definitely not 'dispatch' members to live there.

The only exception being if there are actually 20k people, there may be a single pair of missionaries assigned to visit every now and then.

This post is directly addressed to the tech industry in Utah, but the ideas are universal.

It makes the argument for investing in junior tech talent. Thought it'd make for great discussion here on HN.

What is the right balance between investing in senior level developers, and investing in junior talent?

I love working in an industry where it's about what you can make or build on your own, not necessarily what your degree says.

As a past junior high teacher, I'm really excited about the new ideas around practical education.

Great question. I've been in public education for 4 years, and am transitioning to working at an iOS/Javascript bootcamp.

My experience from both has given me a firm belief that the best learning happens when the learner and teacher understand what the learner should know, and what they actually know, and helps bridge that gap.

If you can scale that, do it. If you can't, you're losing an essential element of what makes your program great.

I don't disagree. In fact, I agree completely with the author of the linked post. The symptoms he writes about are very real, and very damaging.

I just think it's hard to expect every teacher (even fresh ones, 4-6 years out of high school themselves), to remember these specific causes of what made high school a subpar learning environment.

Remembering that it was awful isn't the same as remembering, or appropriately identifying, why.

I'm in my 4th year of teaching, yet I graduated from high school 10 years ago. How well do you remember your daily schedule from 10 years ago? Do you remember what made you restless? What made you tired? What made you stop paying attention? And were you so meta cognizant that you recognized the source of that restlessness?

Doubt it.

It is rare for teachers to have the time to truly consider the student's perspective in their class, and the context of how that fits into the entire school day experience.

EDIT: I should note that I read this article a few days ago. The entire staff at my school held a discussion on how to make school better in that regard. This blog post alone will at minimum affect the 1400 students at our school, but given the number of places I've seen it shared, it will have a much larger impact than that. Always a good reminder.

The Big Nerd Ranch books are fantastic. Definitely check them out. I know they'll get something out for Swift sometime soon, but the iOS programming one would be a great foundation even with Objective-C as the sample code.

Some of the bootcamps will do financing. I'm against financing things that depreciate, but if you can get a decent job out of, it's not a terrible option.

Great question. I really love what I do at the junior high. I teach business and teen entrepreneurship. I love going into work in the morning.

But I loved my experience this summer. I love the thrill of writing, building, and seeing my code work. The creator's high.

My current plan is to take a year off from teaching next year and pursue an entry-level development job with a good local company. I'm only 27, so while I'm not sure development is the full-time career path I want to take, I definitely want to try it out. In the end, it will boil down to whether I enjoy waking up and going to work as much as I do now.

I love what Ben Thompson at Stratechery wrote on this.

Pleco: Building a Business, Not an App http://stratechery.com/2014/pleco-building-business-just-app...

Hey hey Tanner. Long time no talk. I've seen some of the stuff you've been putting out lately, great stuff.

Apple has definitely made great tools in helping newbies learn. There's still room to improve, and iOS 8 tools are a huge help.

I agree with you. The iOS market is maturing. It's no longer a gold-rush of simple one-off apps. The quality needs to be there. So whether that means putting in years as an indie, or working in teams to build high-quality stuff faster, that's what it's going to require to be successful now.

I read all of those same posts. Definitely concerning news for indie developers.

But the reality is that even junior developers are making very good money working contract or full-time.

$4500 is less than a semester of required classes at University. And it was a good way to dive in.

Of course. No one's going to learn a thing by just showing up and listening to an instructor. Whether that's an iOS Dev Bootcamp or Physiology.

I put in hundreds of hours beyond regular class time. And yes, definitely working through struggles on StackOverflow and online tutorials.

I chose this because, for me, it's a lot easier to sit back and watch TV or play around without the financial, time, and personal commitment of signing up for a class. I had somewhere to be. My wife and kids knew I had somewhere to be. So it was a full family commitment that made it work.

I think I addressed this in the post itself.

So to say I’m entirely non-technical may be unfair. It just depends on the context. Neighborhood barbecue? Technical. Startup Weekend? Non-technical.

Where does the HN crowd fit on that spectrum? My guess is most people here would still consider me non-technical, even with what I've built so far.

Thanks Austen. I'm excited to be working on it.

Great review of Trevor's second year in the App Store.

Last year I wrote a post about the first year but here's a quick summary since you're busy: I made a Spanish Bible app for $500. It did $1,500 in revenue the first month and has grown ever since.

Trevor's history is pretty well documented here on HN. This is another great segment for those looking at how a one-man-shop can put together a great business on the App Store, even without coding experience.

Nice work Trevor, and congratulations.

Congrats Randall. Very cool. Here's to a great 2014.

Great questions.

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We're looking at building hosting into this as well. For now, we're helping make it easier and pushing it to your FTP or S3 buckets.

A group of us got together and put this together.

We decided that Wordpress sucked for us. Then we stepped into static blogging with Pelican. Then we realized that static blogging kinda sucks too. Setting it up and the dearth of themes are rough.

Can you give us some feedback? We're still working on this together, and would love to hear what you guys think.

I know some of the designers involved in this project, and they are really good.

I run my own Pelican site, and these guys are revving for Jekyll right now. Once they get Pelican up and rolling, I'll start moving clients over too.

That's a fair point. I remember buying 'up' on a road bike for the color I preferred. So you're right there.

Maybe I think it lasts a shorter time because I was almost entirely apathetic towards which color I got this time around. I ended up with black (space grey) because that's what the store had when I got there.

Apple didn’t release something out of style to which mindless sheep are flocking because it’s new. Apple released something in-style to which millions are flocking because it’s attractive.

I'm sure there are plenty in each camp. There are people flocking towards it because it's now. And there are people buying it because it's attractive.

Sometimes new is attractive. I know at least 3 people on my own Family Plan are getting silver or gold because they are 'tired of black'. No big deal.

I think a lot of people get too worked up over other people's personal opinions. And in the end, I'm not sure that anyone will really care about the color (gold, black, or whatever) in 2 weeks.

Very interesting idea. However, Apple and Amazon have very distinct ways of doing business that would stop any potential purchase talks dead in their tracks.

1) Apple makes and sells everything itself at very high profit margins. They also work with some retailers to extend reach. Meanwhile, Amazon makes nothing (except the Kindle) and sells millions (billions?) of small items at a miniscule profit margin. Completely different models here.

2) Apple is notorious for not trusting other parties to do their business. Amazon depends entirely on it.

3) The parts of Amazon that overlap into Apple's interests -- digital content and AWS -- are irrelevant. Apple already has a huge content distribution channel, and does not need the help of Amazon's agreements with creators. AWS could be intriguing, but if Apple thought AWS was worth using, they'd already use it for iCloud, iTunes, etc.

While Apple and Amazon are two of my favorite companies in the world, I see very little that would give way to a potential acquisition.

Which cable do you use for dual external monitors on the MBP?

I've used DailyBurn.com for much of what you are talking about, as far as tracking what I eat. But I haven't used the specific mail planning feature as I am not a paid member.

I'm with the other commenters.

Take advantage of the travel. You have forever to work. But life will get in the way of future opportunities to get out and see the world.

Quickest way I'd be able to make $100 today is to sell something I already own and no longer use.

Another way would be to get someone to prepay you today for a job you will do over the course of the week or something similar.

If you want to maintain your wealth... I'd suggest cashing out as fast as you can.

Sure, things may go well and prices may rise more. But it's only a matter of time before governments start going after BitCoin.

Oh, wait. That started yesterday: http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/08/government-crackdown-on-bi...