Uber POP has been against the law for one year now, this was bound to happen. Even if what the Taxis did is insanely wrong and should be condemned, Uber POP is illegal according to the french law and even trendy tech startups have to obey the law.
It's now up to all the actors to find a way to make this work.
"Look at what I've done. Here are my projects" is definitely not the Y-intercept "Look I went to <fancy school>" is the Y-intercept. With projects and experiences you can start to plot someone's work according to it's own Y-intercept and guess the slope. The hard part is assessing someone's slope when all you have is it's Y-intercept ( freshly out of school ).
Concerning asking tricky question, you can do it the Google way ( How many frogs does it take to build a space elevator ) but even they decided to stop these kind of questions or take a lot of time and find something your candidate can work on, even if the technology is known to him, seeing how fast he can appropriate himself the codebase is really a good way to judge your future new recruit potential
Didn't knew about the HTML part, which is not such a bad news, when most of the self taught programmers I knew started (real) programming it was either on a calculator or because HTML was no longer enough. Even if I don't consider HTML to be real programming, it's enough to be a first step in the rabbit hole, and we all know how deep this hole can be if you care to keep digging.
As for the outside of class hour part, as far as I know it's not 'outside class hour' literally but more reserved hours for non standard class activities ( back in my time that's were I was first taught English which was not a 'standard' class ). Besides, in primary school you only have one teacher, which means most of them will not be half decent at teaching CS, relying on volunteering teachers and/or parents seems like the good way to present CS to young children.
I totally get your point, when your passionate about something, as a student you need someone really good to teach you. And thus the issue when non passionate teachers ends up teaching something because they have to and not because they like it.
In the end I believe the point of CS lectures at such a young age is not to actually teach people programming but more let them know that this field exist, how it basically works and light the spark for some students. I've seen a lot of people when I was in engineering school going 'Ho my god I wish I had knew about CS before, would have saved me a lot of time' ( And some going the other way ). Having these kind of revelation 10 years before can only be something positive .
The french government wants to add non compulsory computer science in primary school ( age 6 to 10 ) where the lessons are up to the teacher.
For secondary school ( age 11 to 15 ) programming will be added to the schedules, these lectures will probably be made by math and technology teachers.
Personal opinion :
While this is a nice step forward, I really fear the teachers will lack formation resulting in poor lectures made just to follow regulations ( and squeeze some extra hours ).
Since you just graduated, remember to factor in the learning experience, I'm not familiar with the rails ecosystem but if you are working with some really good developers, you are gonna learn so much which is IMO worth way more than equity. Especially since equity is kinda random ( remember 9 out of 10 startups fails ).
As said in another comment, ask them how they value the equity by bargain, can you raise your wage and take no equity or have more holidays.
A last thing : Try an do some maths, like if you could get +1k/year how high must the exit be for the 0.5% equity to be worth more than the wage raise.
Couldn't this problem be solved by a shift to a video game consulting industry ?
In tech companies it's quite common to have a period of 'inter contract' between two missions where you can do trainings or even self training. Is the video game market hostile to this kind of organisation or has it just not been tested yet ?
I have no idea how close the chrome/chromium and the angular dev teams are but this is clearly a great synergy.
This is an interesting time for the browser / web framework duo, I wonder what would happen if chrome/angular become really faster but anotherBrowser/angular ends up having poor performance due to chrome specific features. Will developers turn to a more evenly supported framework to avoid performance issue or will the other browsers be forced to ensure good performance to avoid being considered as "slow" because of angular apps ?
Has someone made available some statistics about average donation / day on crowd funding platforms ? Like what's the average percentage of a project backed after the first day ? after a week ?
I only managed to find this article partially related => http://blog.indiegogo.com/2012/02/indiegogo-insight-aim-to-r...
It's now up to all the actors to find a way to make this work.