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1806 points JustSkyfall | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

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fn-mote ◴[18 Sep 25 02:24 UTC] No.45284378[source]▶

I was ready to be unsympathetic - too bad for the company - but then I read TFA and it's a rug pull on a nonprofit teaching coding to kids....

https://hackclub.com/

(They do help clubs sell things, taking "7% of income", so they do have a revenue stream, but the money that Slack wants would pay a veritable army of student interns.)

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Traubenfuchs[dead post] ◴[18 Sep 25 07:40 UTC] No.45286737[source]▶

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1. cess11 ◴[18 Sep 25 07:58 UTC] No.45286850[source]▶

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Programming is much, much bigger than writing and maintaining stuff for businesses.

It's a way to create many forms of art, solve everyday problems and automate a plethora of machines in our homes.

You sound like an accountant whining about kids learning about calculators and statistics.

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