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You might or might not care, but your first two wishes can be achieved with third-party tools. Path Finder has cut-and-paste for files, and MercuryMover can resize windows to full-screen size.

But the lack of development of the Finder is one of the worst things about OS X. It's been rewritten in Cocoa for Snow Leopard but with only a few minor new features. Hopefully the rewrite is a harbinger of bigger improvements in the next version.

I'm just going to plug Path Finder one more time: it's completely replaced the Finder for me. Info at http://cocoatech.com.
Classical violin, as well as acoustic and rock guitar.
I don't believe that "unemployed" in this sense means "without paycheck." I considered myself unemployed after graduating from college because I was making my money by catering. Not exactly why I went to college...

So, with that interpretation; I was making barely enough to pay what little bills I had, I was able to do one of the things on Seth's list: I taught myself HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL, and PHP. I built a couple simple DB driven websites for a friend's band. I then started messing around with the Asterisk PBX and foolishly tried to sell one to a company in the area and fortunately was saved a lot of pain and was hired by them instead.

The whole time I was told that I should be trying to get this type of job or the other, but I was dead-set on ending up in doing something technology-based. I think it was a good 18 months before that happened.

I don't think Seth is saying anything revolutionary. A piece of paper alone doesn't make your a good hire. If they aren't biting with what you have, then work on making it into what they want to see. Over simply; stop wallowing, get over any feelings of entitlement that may be lingering, and do something productive.
Trumpet player, played lead in jazz and principal in orchestra when i was in college. Also done some random shows with local rock bands looking for a horn player and church cantatas at the holidays.
Good overview of design patterns in PHP
Are the first two items things you miss from Windows? They were for me, but I wouldn't want them added to 10.6...
Phil Schiller said all Intel Macs, past and present, so I would say it's most likely that the 32-bit Macs are supported.
I'm working full-time, so I've had to look into something like this, too. Troy University has a great one online that I'm taking: http://www.troy.edu/ecampus/

The most attractive part to me is that it's not "Troy University -- ONLINE CAMPUS ZOMG" on your degree; it's just a straight degree from the university that you earn from an online campus. A lot of other ones I looked at were very obnoxious about it being from an e-campus, which is pretty undesirable to me.
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I'm a classically trained musician (Royal College of Music) and played professionally for a couple of years before getting into software development. My brother is also a musician turned developer and this seems to be a common career path among former college friends.

I play all sorts of music (not just classical) and will listen to most things.

A life without music is truly empty.
Thanks I'll have a look at Path Finder but I'm always reluctant to add any apps interfering with the Finder.

I've already tried a few freebies to maximize the windows (Stoplight...), none of them would work at 100%.
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At least a quarter of the programmers that I work with have a degree in something non-computer related.
Some of those Cobal people bill 500$ an hour which is worth putting up with a lot of pain IMO.
They do something like that with userid's. Used to be incrementing and now they have gaps.
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I'm not sure what this would actually accomplish. I've been seeing articles lately where bullies are just ignored by schools even when repeatedly reported by parents. It seems like universal advice on this topic is unreasonable to begin with. I recall in high school where the school would only get involved when something too big to ignore came up like some kid getting thrown through a window or something (this happened twice). I think the only advice I could give a child going through this is to fight back and fight back hard even if that means more short term pain. I don't think this is necessarily good advice but it might be the only option when the schools ignore these problems as a matter of de facto policy. Of course you could always home school and avoid this problem entirely :)
I played Violin for 5 years, but quit two years ago. I just don't have the time to practice anymore, going to GATech.
Completely replaced? It handles the Desktop and SMB UI as well? Those are the only things I really dislike about the Finder, actually.
Hmmm...when you say that the more interesting jobs use the BS to weed out people, can you elaborate? Specifically, are you assuming that they weed out based on that because it's listed in the requirements, or because you've seen it firsthand?

I would think that years of experience in the field would trump the specific degree you have. I've heard a lot of people on HN who hire people without a degree at all, or who have been hired without having a degree.
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Poll finds companies still worried about open-source security
We need a name for this thing. Something like scancam or scamera.
A BS from a well-respected CS program indicates a certain level of knowledge and understanding that helps potential employers sift through resumes more easily. It's not perfect, but it is to be expected. As long as we are faced with going through HR departments, that slip of paper has big value.

I would try to go to a legitimately quality school even if it is not a top-tier one like Stanford or MIT. A decent school will definitely kick start your learning, but you still have to face the fact that some of your most important learning will be done solo (imo).

I'm definitely with jeremy on the fact that a real university which offers distance learning is far superior than most "e-campus". I seem to remember the University of Florida having a fairly good online program, but they, like many other distance learning variants, do require that you actually come to school once in a while for finals and such.
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I have a hard time seeing a search engine toppling Google anytime soon. For the average joe, if they are used to using it and it works reasonably well, there's no reason to switch. Sure, power users may be wooed away by slightly superior algorithms or more accurate search results but fact is, search is a utility for most people. If you electrical company keeps the lights on, why would you ever switch to a different one?
Looks nice, but (due to issue #1, #2 and #6 below) not yet ready for public consumption.

1.) Slow. I clicked on burndown and waited for it to give me info. As I type this, I'm still waiting. If I actually needed this program, I would have given up by now.

2.) I had to create a trial account to figure out what it actually did. Your front page could explain a bit more (but maybe I'm not in the target audience).

3.) What's a story? Why not call it "Project"? And what is a story point?

4.) Lots of wasted screen real estate. The table looks like this:

[Add new story] empty empty ...

story 1 tasks in progress ...

All that empty space next to [add new story] is annoying. I can close the "add new story" frame to free it up, but that's confusing.

5.) I just finished all the tasks in a story. But the story is still there. How do I mark the story as done? Can I do this?

6.) I'm still waiting for the burndown.

[edit: added this right afterwards]

7.) I closed the tab, and reopened to take another look. Now I see the signup page. At the top of the page, to the right of the logo, I see the words "Access Denied\ You do not have access to that domain.\ log out".
What the US needs is a really good vocational-level school system. We have a huge gap between universities and trade schools. If we were to formalize vocational/trade schools it would bring much more legitimacy to those careers.
It takes thousands of hours to get a computer science degree and people are worried about the wording of the piece of paper they get at the end. I find that chilling. It also kind of shows you how useless that piece of paper really is.

Just to be clear, I believe a degree is extremely valuable but only because of the knowledge and skills you gain from the process. The end result isn't nearly as important.
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I feel dumb for not doing that. But it's as I thought - we're nowhere near the top if you look at it this way. I bet a lot of the money we spend military is 'wasted' due to the high cost of things around here, anyways.
You might be better off learning to network and growing a fat rolodex. Lack of degree is today's excuse, tomorrow's will be another (age, recent graduation, lack of experience, etc.)
The thing i don't like about articles like this, is that there seems to be a cadre of haters out there explicitly bent on tearing Google down unjustly.

There are things that i criticize Google upon (the capriciousness of algorithmically generated decisions, say on flagging Google Checkout accounts), but the stuff that articles like this point out are intentionally bad indicators.

The fact that you are being sued, does not indicate that you are a monopoly. It means that someone has enough political cover for the government to go after you. Both Microsoft and Google are large tech companies, and the fact that their battles are being borne out in government is not a surprise.

It also does not mean that Google is guilty of bad, abusive, or monopolistic behavior. If someone were to invent a better ad system, and/or a better search engine... i don't see Google going out and trying to stomp on the competition.
It might be because he has a script to mirror milw0rm - line 1387 states "If you by any means mirror milw0rm / exploits, you are a target and you _will_ be rm'd. only a matter of time."

Maybe not the primary reason, but probably a contributing one.
You have an awesome point here and an excellent story.

One thing that Seth does not mention that may be worth considering is actual grad school. It is true that a master's will never replace experience, but it can help you get interviews and stand out in a stack of resumes. Certifications also help if you are interested in tech.

A certification will never get you a job (certainly not one you would really want), but it can help you get interviews. I say this as someone that was told point blank I got one of my earlier job interviews because of my certifications when I was starting out and who later used them to help weed out stacks of resumes when they were on my desk.
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This extract was posted last week. Well worth a read...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html
Yeah, it seemed to me that the ability of his organization to rapidly process paperwork was more important to his bottom line than the bad-assery of stealing aircraft.

Most of the time they just fill out the paperwork and go get the plane. But getting the paperwork straight and finding the thing are really hard to do unless you've got a good team of experts ready on a moment's notice. Which he has. But that would make for boring TV.
Why can't you just redirect the writes to a new temporary table and join the original and temporary on reads? (I'm not a database admin)
I am an ex-trombone, bass singer, and arranger of the Gamer Symphony Orchestra, an 80-person student orchestra at UMD College Park that plays exclusively video game music. Check us out here: http://umd.gamersymphony.org/

We've done a wide range of songs. Stuff from Mother 3, Zelda, Kirby, Halo, Tetris, the works. We've got recordings on the site. Our last concert attracted 1100 people. I'm very proud to be a part of it.
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I don't know about you, but I don't learn as well from reading and studying online. When I first learned how to use my 3D animation software in highschool, I read the manual cover to cover multiple times (600 plus pages). I got to the point that I could flip right to the section I needed to reference by feel. I could also study "offline" on the bus, or sitting outside in my treehouse or hammock.
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I think you misinterpreted the sentence. I understand it to mean: These tasks can't be automated by a computer using an algorithm; the tasks require intuitive knowledge that comes from long experience and repeated encounters with difficulty and failure.
If you have extensive experience programing why not go for an MS in CS? The number of required courses is only 10 or 11, and would give you the CS pedigree you desire with the benefit of being an advanced degree.

What area are you in? Are there any schools that have part-time programs?
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The moral decision I am referring to is whether we choose to use a pirate copy of the book.

"Our intellectual property system very desperately needs to be reexamined in light of the way technology is changing creative production"

I totally agree with you point. However, we do realize that legal system is always catching up to the real world. Before legal decision arrives, we need to decide ethically based on our judgement.

This is a model I learnt at uni on computer ethics. And I think it applies to most cases in technology field.
The cut-and-paste thing is really a basic feature for me and I think it was working in Mac Os 8+, we already have a copy-and-paste. I can't understand why they couldn't implement the cut-and-paste.

I don't understand how you can't miss it, unless you "mv" everything.

The maximize thing is not entirely Windows, I remember seeing it on some Linux distros. I hate to see the clutter behind my windows, especially if I have a browser open on some webpage with a blinking ad.

I find it much harder to focus on the app on which I'm supposed to work if I have other stuff behind.
I recently got the HTC Magic (G2). It's pretty sweet. The battery life is good, too. It lasts me all day with heavy use.
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Perhaps I missed the link, but a video demo would be very useful to get a better idea of your product.
I once traveled to Africa with a documentary film crew. One of our battery packs broke and a local was able to whip out a soldering iron and take the whole thing apart. He quickly identified the fuse as the offending part. Rather than asking if we happened to have a spare, he simply heated the fuse, teased the metal end caps off it and used a bit of similar-gauged wire to rebuild the fuse itself. This all happened in under ten minutes in a dark hallway while he was sitting on the floor.

Sure, lots of people in lots of places are handy with various things but here in the states we rarely HAVE to fix things with no possibility of acquiring replacement parts, so I think sometimes it doesn't even occur to us to try.
I completely agree as well - after asking here on HN about online degree programs, I ended up selecting Troy University. It's a real, respected university, with local offices in my city (Augusta, GA) if I choose to take a course or two that aren't offered online (physics, for instance).

They use Blackboard, which I loathe, but you're not going to get any other choice when it comes to distance learning.

Instructors are smart and fair and classes are reasonably sized so that you actually remember students names and personalities. The program is pretty well-rounded and they offer a multitude of electives to really focus in on a specific area of Computer Science (programming, in my case) while still earning enough credits to declare a minor (I've yet to decide on Math or Political Science).

On the business side of things (books, tuition assistance, advising, etc) it feels like a real university and not an online business (like University of Phoenix and American Military University, my two previous attempts, did).

Highly recommended - just wish they offered a Master's in CompSci (although I hear, it is beneficial to attend a different school for graduate courses). Guess it shows your ability to adapt, adventurousness and interest in experiencing differing cultures.
Actually, I think it's more than just semantics. Stress makes it harder in a quantifiable way. Stress impairs both memory and abstract reasoning. For the language composition portions it narrows your thinking, and strips out creativity.

Something fun like a pub quiz is measurably easier than something like the GaoKao, even if the questions are the same.
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so you want the government to put money into a experimental research type program, like Darpa with the caveat that it won't get to own and capitalize on the inventions/innovations that are created?

can you see how this will never fly?
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This supports the observation that the 4 scariest words any homeowner can hear, "You have a problem," are much worse coming from your plumber than from your computer repair person.
The name on the degree is very important as that name portrays what knowledge and skills you were given the opportunity to gain from the process.

A degree that reads [Insert State or Ivy League] University shows a much higher level of opportunity for the student to learn and experience than a degree from [Insert City or Random Rich White Man's Name] University Online.
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It's not nearly as important to you as a programmer, but it's plenty important to you as a job-seeker.
That's exactly what I'm thinking.

I'm looking at this one:

http://www.cs.illinois.edu/online/programs.php

I don't know if my work experience will make up for having no compsci bachelors courses on my transcript.

The prices are crazy steep, though! Wah! It's online, though.... A friend of mine says that this program has a really good name, though... not that the entrepreneurs here would care about that. ;)
Yeah, I don't use Twitter for news. I unfollow people who tweet as if they're little breaking reporters. Who the hell cares about what other people consider news?

It's for people who care about relationships, not the hype cycle or news (altho those can be kinds of relationships).
That article is no older than the one linked! There's also a rails plugin that can serve mobile views to various mobile browsers including opera mobile. Sorry, on mobile at the moment and I can't remember the name but try searching github.
Oh... and that's a Software Engineering certificate that can turn into a Master's if you decide to later.

(Baby steps to the class... baby steps to the bank... baby steps to the bank...)
Is it just me or is anyone else saddened when data like this is accumulated in a non-shareable manner?

We have the capabilities to crowdsource and replicate IMDB with free data, but the continued existence of IMDB removes the impetus. Now the same will happen with concert history.

Given the explosion of creativity unleashed by open source software I'm disappointed whenever we're not building the same for data.
Great advice. I'd like to add that some (most?) distance ed programs will allow you to take exams and finals locally. They can coordinate with a local university or testing center to ID you and proctor the exam on their behalf. So you've probably got a lot more options than you might think.

I attended NCSU in person, but they have a great distance ed program: http://distance.ncsu.edu. Worth checking out.
I tried Path Finder and used it for maybe a month, but too many OS X applications are too tightly integrated with Finder and don't work with PF, such as Time Machine.

Also, PF is buggy. The latest build wouldn't show mounted DMG images :S

I'm hoping that the new Finder brings some improvements, we'll see.
The original posting of the study, by HBR, went on and on about the male/female split... but admitted that it was determined by using the "strongly gendered" Real Names of the twitter users.

And yet, not once did the article suggest that perhaps the male/female split might be because women aren't as cavalier with their Real Names, or that a significantly greater number of women have gender-ambiguous names or nicknames than men? (Girls named Charlie vs boys named Sue?)

Maybe the original study does, but it's not available thru my subscription to ACM.
Right, and maybe you're right that I was deluded, but my recollection is that the original motivation for Firefox was "Mozilla (and IE) are bloated and slow, let's fix that"
The domain (probably) infringes on Google's trademarks.

I wonder what legal recourse there is for someone sticking your site in an iframe though. IANAL, but the engineer in me says that's perfectly legal (and a little scummy).
I feel the same way about maximize. If you complain about it, someone who defends every Apple decision will say "why would you want to do that? It doesn't make sense."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=600389

Anyway, I downloaded something called Right Zoom that changes the behavior of the zoom button (which I find practically useless).

http://www.blazingtools.com/downloads.html
No way - don't go that route. Insanely expensive - their prices are on par with the UoP ripoff and you aren't even getting a degree at that rate. Just stepping stones to the degree.
But then again, Google's argument (saying they only influence 2.66% of the advertising market) is also correct, given they also do TV advertising

http://www.google.com/adwords/tvads/

...and have dabbled in radio ads

http://google-tmads.blogspot.com/2009/02/google-exits-radio-...

If they didn't do either of these things, I would find fault in their argument, but lucky for Google, they have.
matt, sorry for the misspell, annoying im sure. a young guy indeed.
Those are upgrade prices from Leopard.
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Cross Browser Compliance?
I have a couple of sites, and just realized that they do not function in ie6/ie7 (borders are funky, links are not clickable, etc), but looks fine in Chrome and FF. Is there some service that makes pages look good in all the browsers?
This article made me feel much better about the sense of creeping doom I've developed when I have become unable to think of the English word I wanted. (I'm an American expat who moved to Austria.)

Who cares about the science... I feel validated! :)
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I agree - I don't understand the purpose in getting a second bachelors. Sounds like you absolutely have the background experience necessary to start a Masters.

A BS in Comp Sci would basically put you on par - from the perspective of those only looking at what degrees you have - on the same level as a new college grad. And you're close to a decade beyond that.
I currently play guitar in a rock band called Shipyards (www.myspace.com/shipyards). We're based in NYC.

I used to play in a band called First Aid Kit (before the swedes used the name) and before we broke up we had the amazing experience of spending a month opening for Finch (punk rock from California) playing to between 300 and 1000 kids.

I've played guitar since I was 12 and start with Metallica and Nirvana. I also play drums.