Very cool. I was doing a pretty straightforward website a few months ago that I would've used something like this for if I knew about it.

It would be helpful if there were a page on the site that described how it works in more detail, or maybe just a FAQs page linked to in the footer with answers to questions like "What kind of website files does Yoozon support?" and "What do you mean by dynamic? ...will Yoozon support my Ruby on Rails site?"

Thanks for the feedback, we sure need a FAQ page and a more detailed description on how Yoozon works. Will create them ASAP. As per your questions, we will support PHP files on the beta version, but Python and Ruby are on our roadmap.

I liked that part where I made the character dance.

Wouldn't an electronic receipt serve that purpose just as well?

FWIW, as a non e-commerce person, I always read POS as "piece of shit," so this did make me chuckle at first read ...carry on.

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San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua is spectacular. For something a little more remote, Cahuita, Costa Rica is great too and is not far from the surfing mecca of Puerto Viejo. I bet you can find wifi in either spot, at least in San Juan del Sur and Puerto Viejo. There's some beautiful spots in the Philippines as well. Try El Nido or Dumaguete (great diving and both definitely have wifi).

Awesome suggestions, thanks.

Np. Would love to hear about your travels. Feel free to ping me for more ideas/details. I've traveled pretty extensively in Central America and Southeast Asia, and a bit in Europe.

I just got back from two weeks in Puerto Viejo. It's a nice area. All the establishments speak English and a few are fully owned by Americans. Half the time it didn't even feel like living in a foreign country. Though, if you walk on the street a few hours after sunset you will get held up at gunpoint. Don't take your phone or more than 5,000 with you in the evenings.

Beds are $8 to $10 per night in a hostel (La Ruka was great. Don't stay at rocking j's or hotel puerto viejo.) I had a reliable 2 Mbps-down wireless signal at La Ruka.

It was a great trip, but I'm enjoying being back in the land of air conditioning and large grocery stores.

Huh. Never had any trouble there and I stayed out every night. Maybe I just looked like a enough of a sloppy backpacker, although I don't think I was traveling with valuables and it's hard to store a laptop in board shorts and a v-neck. I'm pretty big too, so even having lived in rough areas and wandering around in the "bad" parts of cities/the world, I've never had any trouble.

Public loans are discharged upon death, so there's that. Private loans are not though, and there can still be tax consequences for public loans.

I think the most important theme to this article, aside from the individual story of debt and irresponsibility, is that this looks an awful lot like the way the housing bubble came about. Cheap debt that the borrowers are unable to afford long term. The difference here is that student debt cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, so it seems there would be more people defaulting.

As a side note, the price tag of a degree should not be so high that a career with that degree cannot pay back the debt. This story is unique in that the debt is much older and ballooned due to interest accrual, but there have been a lot of recent graduates with high debt right out the gate with degrees that are much less employable than they used to be.

She had a 6 figure job, but quit because she was miserable. Not to sound Callous...but she should have kept that job and made paying down those loans the first priority.

If that debt was dischargeable in bankruptcy, then the money wouldn't have been lent, and the schools would experience some kind of price pressure.

> Private loans are not though

Really? Who takes responsibility for the deceased person's loan?

The estate, just like with other private debt.

Thank you for the insightful response to a comment that frankly felt a bit baiting. I admire how you're approaching the problem at HireArt, and am thankful that the current wave of disruption in education should hopefully keep society from feeling the full fallout of the education bubble. It will be interesting to see what the world looks like in 10 years.

However, I think the bubble will persist even if all degrees were viewed as equal due to the economics around cheap financing of degrees and disincentives among universities to compete on price and incentives to compete on ancillary concerns like luxury housing, amenities, facilities, and the like. Of course, even without this warped structure of incentives, the university model is one with huge overhead, a rigid and inflexible structure, slow to adapt to change (though they are trying), and not nearly as well positioned to take advantage of economies of scale as the likes of Udacity, Coursera, or even UOP.

This entire topic fascinates me, and I don't think we've even begun to unravel all of the causes and implications of what these changes mean for society and the future of education. Exciting times!

I think it's a failed attempt to set up a poll by the OP.

I've heard that companies will sometimes pay candidates they know/like to go to one of these programs to learn to code. Seems a bit risky, but I'd like to hear whether someone has had success doing something like this.