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I'm willing to bet the quality of a lot of these is shite, though. Plus people in the US would most likely want to buy from a seller in the US (faster shipping + implied better quality).

There is a solution to so many problems here (creating usually unavailable parts for machines/devices/products) but the problem is knowing which parts are in demand and currently have no supplier.

A maker would need to have an interest or hobby in such a device & discover a need for the item for it to come into fruition. But just think of how many general 3D printed parts could be printed as solutions for so many products out there that are going unmade.

Sometimes I wish I knew some in-depth physics, take a bunch of LSD, and see what hidden truths would emerge... Does that happen? A bunch of scientists should really take some psychedelics together.

Maybe whoever creates a site that requires compensation numbers will also allow applicants to leave feedback on the employers to reduce chances of that happening. (I can only hope!)

This seems extreme. I've had lasik and do not suffer from seeing halos around celestial objects

A lot of people use the battery argument when it comes to solar, but isn't Musk's home battery pack designed specifically for this purpose?

Even as a US citizen?

This is why you must send the letters certified mail with return receipt. After 30 days, if the creditors do not comply, you "win"

If you cancel on a guest as a host, Airbnb heavily penalizes your listings. They will be outranked by pretty much every other listing for at least a couple of months. (It happened to me and many other hosts I know.)

I took General Assembly's web dev immersive course last March. Truth be told, I had a terrible instructor -- he could code, but he couldn't teach very well. One caveat is that I already knew HTML and CSS before entering.

I appreciated that they try their damnedest to hook people up with jobs if they want one. The instructor you wind up with might just be the most important puzzle piece. People in previous classes with better instructors are now in jobs making 70-110k in NYC. I landed a job at an education startup and they offered me 62k.

A friend of mine who entered the bootcamp a few months ago, based on my experiences, landed a job paying 50k. We both admitted that there wasn't much actual coding going on, though -- my job was working with Puppet configs and building out new instances of cookie-cutter websites. His was mainly messing around on the front-end and putting together email templates.

I'd do it over again if I could. It did teach me a whole lot, and got me started on a junior path, but there is no question that most of us need a bit more experience and work before really being able to call ourselves junior devs. As the previous commenter said, a lot of the knowledge they impart is skin-deep -- until you run with it and make projects with it. The students that stayed up till 3am coding, then made it into class at 8:30am are the ones that you'd define as "successful" with 6-figure salaries now.

There are many threads on Quora that answer this question more in-depth, if you want more info.

I just bought one of the listings here. It claimed a profit of $14.05 with a Buy price of 22.95 and a Sell price of $37.

Some notes:

- The "Buy" and "Sell" locations were the same website. Immediately raised some concerns (why would the same entity want to screw itself over by buying the same book it's selling for more money?)

- Upon inspection, it's because to be eligible for the Buyback price of $37, the book must not have tears, highlighting, or missing pages.

- The books at the Buy price of $23 or less have all been noted as just "Acceptable" condition with missing pages and highlighting. The books at better conditions are all $50+.

- Wasted $3.

I do think it's neat. One feature I expected and was surprised not to find: a "Sort by Profit Amount" feature. Clicking on "Profit" should allow me to sort the listings by amount of profit, from high to low.

Yes, let's point to this one failed example as how the entire company has been misled by Page...

How does it know who you'd want to avoid? How do you get their info and location?

I took the web development immersive. I will say, the experience you have depends mostly on two factors: 1) your instructor, and 2) your own ability to want to learn and the amount of effort you put in.

That said, they did try to fit a lot in the 12 weeks, but there are so many facets of the tech stack they didn't cover (they rushed through html/css quite a bit, so those that don't know it will still feel lost after the course unless they dedicate some time to get it down. They also don't cover things like how to host your app on AWS, only Heroku).

The redeeming quality they have is that they do seem to care a lot about students' outcomes. After the course ends, they try their hardest to get everybody a junior dev position or apprenticeship. There's a great support network for this and people on staff dedicated to students' outcomes.

For me, the course was worth it because:

* I had some background in web design before

* It was hard for me to teach myself, not knowing what to google or what path to take

* I got an apprenticeship afterwards which turned into a full time position

But about half my classmates did not get a job or full-time position. Your mileage may vary.