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Then why are you doing it? No one is forced to go to college. Nothing is stopping you from doing anything else.
If you want a "job" and a "career" working for someone else, then you probably will need a degree — there just isn't any way around that. You don't want to do it, but that's just what you will have to do because that is what is expected by the majority of people doing the hiring. Of course, if that's what you want, you should probably just get used to it because having a job means that someone else will be deciding what you do long after you are out of college.
If you want to chart your own course and be in control of what you pursue — then go do something on your own. Start something.
I wouldn't go to college with this mindset: "to learn something I already know". If you do, you won't learn anything, because you've already predisposed yourself against it. Go with an open mind. Look for opportunities. Collaborate with others. Find the best and the brightest — those in your class that are on your level — those that are ABOVE your level ... and learn from them, work on things with them, and learn everything you can not only about code, but people.
And never stop learning outside of your official classes. Keep pouring yourself into the things you love. Become an expert.
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” ~ Mark Twain
When it's an email like the one from this blog I actually do feel that they are looking to engage — even though I know the email itself wasn't sent personally.
I like the invitation to reply — I've done that several times with a random question or thought about the product / service. Knowing that the person on the other end expects and welcomes those kinds of random emails is helpful. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't send it — and I expect many others feel the same way, which is why these types of emails are seeing a lot of success.
It limits the number of people who are going to show up and ensures that there is some level of interest by all in attendance. Even if 1000 people go to the first conference, that is hardly a big money maker — $350,000 disappears quickly with costs associated with hosting the conference.
They will make money, but it's hardly a boondoggle. The real benefit for Dropbox is getting 500-1000+ developers all in the same location sharing ideas, creating, giving them feedback, etc. A few days of a conference is worth months of emails/tweets/HN/etc — in both directions.
Those complaining about the price probably don't have any business interest in Dropbox and are unlikely to attend — which should suit everyone just fine.
Or do you want to sell your product?
It boils down to that. Spend your time doing what you are GREAT at and what you WANT to do. Are you great at email deliverability? Do you want to spend your time becoming an expert on that? Probably not.
I know how to change the oil in my car. I know how to mow my lawn. I know how to clean toilets. I don't do any of those things because they are a huge waste of my time that is better spent elsewhere. Same thing goes here.
Your CSS file would like a word.
People are willing to trade a small reward for themselves for a larger reward that a group can achieve.
Well, with only five minutes left they are! Especially if it means they will lose the game if they don't.
I agree with your premise to just keep pushing forward, always making progress — but some things do have deadlines which are unavoidable.
We need to share more like this among entrepreneurs — the Marc Andreessen quote about the entrepreneurial roller coaster of euphoria and doom is spot on.
I'm reading that causes a little bit of downtime and AWS' recommendation for zero downtime is to create a new environment and then switch the CNAME to point to the new environment once it is ready... Seems like a little bit of an ordeal for pushing out changes.
Thoughts?
This should be on a poster.
End-users don't care about any of the behind the scenes stuff that developers sometimes get completely distracted by — they care if it works. If it solves their problem and does what they want/need it to do, then it works ... if not, it doesn't. What goes on behind that? Irrelevant to them.
This isn't 7th grade — come up with another word that really means what you want to say. There are a lot of ways to disagree with someone and/or an idea without the derogatory language.
And FWIW, Snappy >>>>> SnapReply
2) Ignore the haters
For example, the poverty line in the U.S. is around $11,000 — that's in the top 13.1% richest people in the world (globalrichlist.com)
Piers Morgan is a good example (http://bit.ly/12q3n4q) -- he contributes nothing to the conversation or debate because he insults anyone that has a view opposing his.
Didn't get past the line: "I am not a designer... and I don’t mind Comic Sans."
I think regardless of your position we can all agree on this.
It would be useful if we could all see that we really are on the same side of this — everyone wants to prevent another tragedy like this. We just have very different beliefs about how best to go about that.
Is this something that is even attainable by exterior forces? I don't just mean as it relates to gun-crimes, but anything. Everyone has fears — from fear of failure to fear of heights. They are personal and, as such, are yours to conquer personally.
Laws do not necessarily automatically assuage your fears — many people, as you point out, have irrational fears based on emotion rather than in fact / statistic probability.
You can go to a library and read Aristotle or Tolstoy, or you can read the latest romance novel or surf porn on one of the library computers.
Some use the internet to do amazing things, to come together and create, invent, and help society progress. Others play Farmville all day.
Like anything else, what you put in is what you get out.
Then I found these this week:
Skitch to S3 upload (through webdav) — http://brad.me/skitchs3
Skitch to CloudApp upload — http://brad.me/skitchcloud
If you are a CloudApp user (http://getcloudapp.com/) the second one is super slick. Pretty much duplicates the old Skitch functionality and returns a short URL that you can use to post. You can also use a custom domain with CloudApp if you use the paid service.
Totally made Skitch useful again.
Not all conservatives are alike ... just because we have some looneys that vote the same way we do, does not make them our ally or mean that we agree with them. I'd imagine that the same is true on the left as well!
It's not because journalists don't spend their time learning C and UNIX — it's that they (and their readers) don't care.
It's like saying that Mark Zuckerburg shouldn't get so much credit for Facebook because without Rasmus Lerdorf (creator of PHP) it would have been impossible for him to build the site.
The number of people that care about Steve Jobs/iPhones/iPods/Facebook = a lot.
The number of people that care about Dennis Ritchie/C/UNIX/Rasmus Lerdorf = a much smaller number.
Being a genius pioneer in an industry oftentimes does not bring notoriety with it. Bringing a product/service to others not in that industry oftentimes does.
If TSA agents can't overcome the desire to take what is not theirs, they have no business doing that job.