Bloomberg BusinessWeek, May 11, 2015 (II)

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(4) John Lauerman, The New Anti-College.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... ho-want-better-jobs

Quote:


"The [80 coding ('80' according to 'The bottom line' at the end of this article] schools took in a combined $59 million in revenue, or about $9,833 per student, estimates Course Report co-founder Liz Eggleston. * * * A 12-week boot camp at Hack Reactor in San Francisco costs $17,780; that’s $1,482 a week, about the same as a week’s worth of tuition at Harvard. The cost covers an 11-hour, six-day-a-week program

"Six months after finishing, 59 percent report a salary increase, averaging $23,000 annually, according to SwitchUp, another rating site.

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Pricey coding classes are attracting college grads who want better jobs
(b) summary in Table of Contents: Oh, sure, Harvard’s great, but where’d you go to coding camp?
(c) The “anti-college” is modeled after “antichrist,” antithesis.
(d)
(i) "Dev Bootcamp, now owned by Kaplan, the SAT-prep and education company, was founded in San Francisco by a former Microsoft engineer"

Founded in 2012, Dev Bootcamp offers a 19-week course.
(ii) "General Assembly started as a co-working space in New York’s Flatiron district in 2011 and evolved into boot camps"

General Assembly (based in New York City. 8-12 weeks)
(iii) Hack Reactor (founded in 2012; based in San Francisco; 12 weeks)

(e) "Fifteen stories above Wall Street [in Manhattan], students in Dev’s open-plan office break only for lunch and occasional snacks"

open plan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_plan
("floor plan")
(f) "Vivek Ratkalkar, 26, a Pace University communications graduate"

Pace University
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pace_University
(private; founded by Pace brothers in 1906
(g) "Anna Taberski, an alumna of Dev’s New York school who now codes for Web designer Blenderbox. She graduated in 2012 from the University of California at Berkeley, which has a top-ranked computer-science program, but she found the programming classes there forbidding. Instead of comp sci, she majored in comp lit."

"Instead of comp[uter] sci[ence], she majored in comp[arative] lit[erature]."

How do I know the latter?  Well, "comp lit" is not common knowledge. I know, because the print has photos of four people mentioned in this article, underlain with their major and alma mater, as well as which coding boot camp they are attending or attended. For Ms Taberski, the caption says “comparative literature,” not “comp lit.”

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(5) Stephan Faris, 3D-Printed in Italy; How rapid prototyping is saving the country’s artisans.
www.bloomberg.com/news/features/ ... the-italian-artisan

Note:
(a) The cover of this issue says, “The Design Issue.” Eleven articles are in this category. Only one is intriguing.

(b) "Northeast Italy’s industrial heartland stretches roughly from Milan to Venice, along the floodplains of the Po River all the way to the Adriatic."
(i) Milan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan
(the second-most populous city in Italy [population of city proper: 1.3m; compare Rome's 2.9m] and the capital of Lombardy; section 1.1 Toponymy: uncertain)
(ii) "The [Po] river is subject to heavy flooding. Consequently over half its length is controlled with argini, or dikes."  Wikipedia (which basically says, at section 5 History, the name origin of "Po" is unknown)
(iii) floodplain (n): "level land that may be submerged by floodwaters"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/floodplain
(iv) Adriatic Sea
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriatic_Sea
(section 5 Name)

(c) "Selvaggia Armani, an artist and designer"

The Italian surname Armani: "from the medieval personal name Armanno (Latinized as (H)ariman(n)us), a Lombardic name, from Germanic hariman ‘freeman’ "
(d) "Verona, the traditional center of Italy’s quality printing business"

Verona
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verona
(straddling the Adige river [qv; which is separate from Po watershed]; Three of Shakespeare's plays are set in Verona [including] Romeo and Juliet; section 1 Etymology)
(e) "With his business partner, Tommaso Cinti, 33, [Nicola] Zago bought a set of 1950s-era printing presses, made by the German company Heidel­berg [name of a college town]"

Thomas (name)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_(name)
(section 2 Variants: Italian: Tommaso)

(f) "Simone Segalin, a third-­generation cobbler * * * Most of the technology he uses—wooden lasts, pliers, a hammer—would be familiar to his grandfather."
(i) last (n; etymology)
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/last

In his Web page, there is only one noun--with its own illustration.
(ii) pliers
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliers

(g) sunglasses designer Rosa Topputo "took her inspiration from traditional Italian themes: hard angles taken from Italian rationalist architecture, a curlicue pattern derived from lacework typical of an island in the Venetian lagoon"
(i) hard (adj): "characterized by sharp or harsh outline, rigid execution, and stiff drawing"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard
(ii) Rationalism (architecture)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalism_(architecture)
(iii) curlicue
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curlicue