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Verification is a very time consuming process. If you want student verification, an integration with the Github Student Pack is probably a great way to do it.
I don’t see any reason why a student would need more computing power or storage, afterall, 200 MB is more than enough for the average developer. Aren’t students also supposed to learn how to make optimized applications that doesn’t need 1GB to work?
Underestimating them would be to expect them to use less space and memory. I mean, every developer wants their packages or programs to be as small and efficient as possible.
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