Twitter Teaching The Homeless To Code In Exchange For Tax Break

Kevin Montgomery, Valleywag
Fri, 10/24/2014 - 10:10am

The last time a startup programmer taught a homeless man to code , the naive vanity project failed. A few engineering lessons failed to solve socioeconomic realities and the man was still sleeping in the streets eight months later. But Twitter has higher hopes for its new "learning center" where employees can "teach tech skills" to San Francisco's homeless.Read more...

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