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Most people don't know what they want to do with their lives at age 18, whether or not they think they do.

The strongest argument against college is an unmanageable amount of debt, which can haunt you for decades, and I have many friends who suffer from this.

The strongest argument for college is the connections you can make which will be with you for life. I know countless people who can trace their career opportunities back to people they met in college, whether or not they even graduated.

Both factors can be overcome. You can pay off your debt diligently, or attend a school that is so cheap this is a non-issue. You can make connections other ways. But you will pay a price one way or another.

In my opinion those two things are the fundamental factors that determine whether or not going to college is a good idea, and should be the main considerations that help you decide whether or not to go. Every other aspect of this discussion seems like a giant red herring.
I have to disagree as someone who took all AP classes in high school but couldn't afford to take the tests at the end. I guess if your parents aren't poor or you're otherwise able to get them financed sure, but not everyone has that luxury.
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This is the choice I made (UK based) and 5 years later I can say I'm doing fine and have no regrets. But what does concern me is the way college[1] staff reacted to this decision, from warnings in one to one chats down to outright scaremongering that I was throwing my life away even though I had explained that I could not find a course that I felt would be of value or advance my knowledge in what I WANTED to do. This is the same situation my younger sister is currently facing, she would much rather pursue the apprenticeship route to gain practical experience (she is wanting to pursue events management) but her college keeps pushing her back to the university route offering little to no support for her choice and the provided tools for finding apprenticeships or opportunities are next to useless.

Thankfully my family has a history of self-employment so for us convincing family that it is the right path is not difficult, but with colleges acting as very persistent recruiters for universities this will be a very hard decision to make for a lot of people as the advisors parents listen to are saying it is not a viable option.

[1] For those unfamiliar with the UK system college is attended separately before university.
Microsoft Open Sources .NET, Saying It Will Run on Linux and Mac
If we compare with the current private window that users are already using in Firefox, the steps to more security is likely to start with technical transparent solutions rather than large changes to user behavior.

The question I ask: Is tor browser better than the current private window? I think it is easier for a user to disclose private information by using private window, than using a tor browser. I would also claim that traffic generated by a private window is stored and analyzed in a much greater extent than traffic sent through tor or VPNs.

We already got the problem of false assurances thanks to private window. I have a hard time seeing how it can get worse by incorporating privacy tools.
2015 is going to be a year of Microsoft.
My worst comment: "Yep, working less than 30 hrs really gives you a chance to live life. I take less pay and only have to work a half week."

Pretty much all of my "hater" comments were like this. Many were helpful answers to problem.
No way. That was meant as a joke. This is really bad.
Apparently, this is a negative comment:
"What do you with a bunch of books and an empty pod? A racing track of course! http://bit.ly/1wThvTK "
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Theres a much heavier contingent of Asian (specifically Indian) immigrants to the UK. People tend to cling to familiarity in foreign lands. As for the Black/White dynamic i have no idea.

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Great article, But didn't cover the launch of roadster. The whole article was buidling for that ending. Still I wasn't aware of most of the history so was a nice read.
Love this part "Don't call the press, email them with the details"
"To say nothing of the fans who will just turn back to pirate services like Grooveshark."

Grooveshark made the first move in that space. IMO all credit goes to them. They created the business model where Spotify now thrives. The only difference I see between the two of them is Spotify raising $500M vs almost non-existant funding to Grooveshark, who knows what made one triumph and the other fail, perhaps just sucking the right cocks.

Also Daniel could have, more accurately, said "To say nothing of the fans who will just turn back to pirate services like uTorrent."; a company that was once headed by him and whose only purpose of existence is to enable piracy.
Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition now available
College Board offers programs to subsidize the cost of the test. In any case, the AP test generally mirrors the CLEP as well, so you can take that.
As a side note, how did you generate that gif?
Then find someone to partner with that is interested in the idea (I myself find it interesting as a developer) and bring them on as a partner. Be generous with equity. Don't assume the idea and mockups entitle you to 90% of the equity despite them doing 90% of the actual work to make it a reality.
Co-working space and home.
A couple of problems: (1) This resolver has security bugs which have been fixed in the existing daemons. That doesn't matter except that: (2) systemd utilities get an easier route into distros than competing utilities, even where the competition is much better or more secure. This really matters since Linux improves because of the Darwinian nature of the competition between the different components. You can't have one group of packages claiming they are the "one true standard", or this doesn't work.
I feel like a kid, but I wanted so, so many more pictures. This isn't a novel, where there is art in descriptions and the imagination is a key player.

I want to see some battles. I want to see 50k dung beetles battling over a single dung pile landing dozens at a time!

I realize the NY Times isn't a picture book but - oh wait! Yes it is in so many other places. Lemme see some dung battles!!
Microsoft starts to open source .NET and take it cross-platform to Mac, Linux
From other comments it looks like terse sentences, intensifiers and popular brand names are factors, which would explain that comment.
But the article is about people who are high achievers.
I agree with this from a CS perspective but I don't think the argument extends to other fields necessarily.

Part of what college gets you and a la cart self-learning doesn't as easily is the confidence that you know what you don't know. That is also why employers prefer a degree. It tells them you have a complete base of knowledge that was well thought out.

The reason this doesn't work in CS is because practice is so far ahead of the academy in most areas. In other fields, such as physics and history this is not the case.
Quick nit: you can take screenshots with PhantomJS

Sorry, that's my fault for not going into more detail :)

The big issue I have with PhantomJ's screenshots is that it doesn't support web fonts, and so pages don't render correctly.
If you want to get into the US, as a foreigner. A year of college is worth more than a year of work experience.
As far as I know they haven't explicitly said they won't. The "affected systems" lists on the recent advisories currently only go back as far as 2003/Vista, but IE6 is listed in some of them so if they are going that far back with IE (6 dropped out of extended support at the same time as XPsp3) there is a chance there is a patch coming for XP too.

Of course they are under no obligation to.

And some might argue that giving people updates so they can continue to use IE6 is as bad as giving an alcoholic a double G&T to help keep withdrawal symptoms at bay...
Would I rather write a single purpose code formatter like go fmt, or write the equivalent non portable plugin for eclipse or visual studio.

In my mind the answer is very clear.
There are so many assumptions in this response, and so much projection. I think you are mistaking me describing a culture for tacit approval of that culture and/or feeling under its boot. I was describing how we as a culture live, not necessarily how I live. And this is not to imply that I think that this particular culture is bad (or good): there are downsides and upsides. I am undecided as to whether it is overall healthy/freeing/oppressive, etc.

In any case, I'll make sure to inform others of what they're doing wrong, and that they don't need to be be "oppressed" by these "barriers". And to think, what we all wanted the same thing all along; we just needed you to remind us.
I know what you mean.

After I got a bachelor in computer science I made about 4 times as much as before.

Later I started a master while still working. Just on the side, for fun, because the work was kinda boring.

When my boss heard of it, he wanted to promote me.

He didn't even know what I studied or if it was a good master program...
Good, measured comment on a subtle issue.

The difficulty with not going into a formal program for an area you already have exposure to (say, physics, computer science, finance) is that for most people, at 17, you don't know what you don't know. The benefit of a curriculum is that the larger community you wish to enter has already figured out: this is the minimum knowledge people need to work with us.

Personally, I did not know what I did not know, and I sincerely doubt I would have learned on my own what I did learn, without the guidance of course curricula. Even though I work as a computer scientists, and most of my education is in computer science, I am enormously happy that I also minored in physics in college. I learned just enough to appreciate it (hopefully) better than the layman. On my own, I doubt that would have happened.
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If you would have shown me this headline 15 years ago I would have thought it was an onion article. Who would have thought they would have come this far?
This is really a great move. C# is an awesome language and deserves to have a future on Mac & Linux. Microsoft is changing for sure.
> My OS is my IDE.

That sounds like a highly coupled IDE?
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Does this mean that Mono will no longer be necessary for cross-platform C# use?
Right, a college degree unfortunately at times is basically a proxy for an intelligence test, a way to filter out job applicants. It is a signifier - this person did well enough in school to get into and through college. I'm not judging it in itself as bad or good. It does explain why, however, colleges can get away with poor teaching and little learning on the part of students sometimes (see the book Academically Adrift), and why there is of course a huge bias toward hiring students from more prestigious (selective) colleges.
Wow - I have to say I'm impressed. I wonder how extensive the cross platform support is, and what sort of work has gone into targeting iOS? What does this mean for Xamarin and Mono?
"To further support cross-platform mobile development with .NET, as part of their strategic partnership, Microsoft and Xamarin announced a new streamlined experience for installing Xamarin from Visual Studio, as well as announced the addition of Visual Studio support to its free offering Xamarin Starter Edition — available later in the year."

Well that should make a lot of people around here happy.
As a FreeBSD evangelist I actually like systemd :-P
No mention of which license they are using?
Excellent job, Microsoft.
The point is many people go to college and end up at "Enterprise Rent A Car" or T-mobile Store. Is it even justifiable for a person to have take student loans and end up those kinds of jobs. There is true problem here, you do not need college if you are "learning for learning sake" and your college degree does not give bang for a buck if you are going to college to end up in a general job. There are exceptions. I agree with the author.
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-com... returns a 404.
Information Systems, but I had web development skills before graduation. I just didnt have job experience and no one willing to give experience until I had my degree in hand.
Microsoft Endorsing C# as a First Class Citizen in Sublime Text
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2014/11/12/opening...

True to form, the links to github are broken.
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Only if it's easy enough to port, and I doubt it would be. Although Mono will definitely gain from the original source code.
You should consider joining #1 and #2 (#1 and #3).

Take the Self Defense job and help your family. Work really hard after 17:00 everyday and become a great coder. Set a goal like two years to have saved a little money and taught yourself a good programming language.

The Valley will not value the Master or Phd, but if you need it for a work permit that would make sense.
He is probably just making a corpus of negative words, where "less" and "only" probably have negative connotations. This is the problem with this kind of analysis, extracting it properly from context is really hard
.NET Core is on GitHub
The honest truth...There is really no market for someone that is kinda smart, but lacks the follow-through / ability to execute. Personally, I rather have more of the latter and less of the former, honestly.

So, what do you do? Start small. If you want to be an entrepreneur, great! Build small projects. Even the best of us will get overwhelmed if we willy nilly start something unplanned, once the scope starts getting unwieldy. It might be worthwhile to start getting involved in open source, where the scopes of each ticket are very narrowly defined and you can start with easy little things (documentation, simple fixes, trivial functionality). Then, work your way up.

Good luck!
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Thanks for the response. That's all very interesting.

> If I had any actionable advice to offer, it would be to look into this crap now.

Is that still relevant given that I don't have options? My company only offers one plan (and they cover the monthly cost, so I might as well take it). I'm wondering if there are situations where knowing what is covered would change my actions, even if I can't change which plan I'm using.
I think you're probably right from the perspective of a prospective employee.

That being said, having these sorts of discussion may sway employers to have a more open mind to non-traditional ways to become qualified for employment. And if that starts to happen, a B.S. or B.A. will stop being a litmus test and start being one path towards qualification for a job or a career.

This is actually a serious problem. If change in technology and the job market continues to accelerate (will there be long-haul truck drivers in 15 years?), we need to be able to retrain people without demanding four years of full-time education and massive student loans.
Faith in C# restored. Amazing.
Welcome to the Failure Age
I welcome it. And still think it is 10 years too late. 2.0 was a blast and provided higher quality of life and speed of contemporary JAVA. If they had made it multiplatform back then the world would have been different.
I can't find anything but if I remember well almost all other open source project by microsoft are under apache2
It does say that they are "expanding .NET to run on the Linux and Mac OS platforms".
I have been thinking about getting into a master program next year. Been thinking of doing it on the side too but maybe I should let my employer know.

Glad to hear it kinda worked out!
This makes a lot of sense for Microsoft. It doesn't in any way cheapen or lessen the .NET business at all, if anything more things will be built on .NET which will lead to higher sales of things like Azure, which for a lot of non .NET devs has almost 0 mindshare.

I've never heard a Ruby or PHP developer list Azure as a potential deploy target. That is a real problem for Microsoft, even though Azure can do a lot of the same things AWS or Google's cloud does.

Smart move Microsoft.
This is great for anybody who's had the pleasure of using MonoDevelop
Open-sourcing .NET doesn't magically make it work on other platforms (a not-insignificant chunk is Win32-specific, for example). But it certainly makes the Mono team's job easier.
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Actually can't stress this enough: Go JS as @ifcologne said. PHP is the way of the past, JS is the current status quo and (given what people are creating around JS) the future.

That said, programming is not about one language. It's about understanding patterns and program design (most specifically models). But you'll have to time to learn all these things later on.
Here they mention MIT License. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2014/11/12/opening...
"Visual Studio Community 2013 is free for any non-enterprise application development."

What's left out to make it non-enterprise development? Or to put it another way - how are they restricting its usage & preserving sales of Visual Studio?
Link is dead for me.

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What does this mean for ReactOS?
Get in line. We're still waiting on (year+1) being the year of the Linux Desktop.
No I think they are providing open source libraries of the server stack which is written in c#. Still needs mono to compile to linux/mac but now mono won't have to (re?)implement those, they can all share the same MS c# code
I think that it is an MIT license, if I've found the correct project on http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/netcore5
They've announced a .NET core CLR for windows, mac and linux - supported by Microsoft - so sounds like there'll be options (either use Microsoft or use Mono)...

(source: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingNET2015NETasOpenSour... )
Together with the Visual Studio Community announcement https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8595855, this is great news.

I've always missed the power of visual studio when programming for open source platforms. This can change things a lot.
In reading the article, it sounds like they're going to work with the Mono team to bring it everywhere.
I know it's silly but I'm tearing up. I grew up with .NET but neglected it for years because of moving to OS X, iOS and web dev. I played for some time with Xamarin and I'm so happy this is where MS is going. <3 Scott & Miguel, I'm sure they both had a lot to do with it.
It will be interesting to see how this will work in practice.

C# will port over just fine. But the .Net libraries? System.Windows has little to nothing in it, and right now using things like System.IO.* on Linux and Mac is just asking for trouble.

What are they going to do, hack in System.IO.* Linux support after the fact? Or just add Linux.IO.* which is even more of a hack. In either case you're going to get very messy very fast.

The .Net libraries absolutely could have been designed with cross platform in mind, for example if they put the IO libraries in System.Windows.* and several of the other Windows-specific APIs.

As it stands the .Net framework/libraries are very Windows locked. So much so you'd almost have to scrap them and start over to make it more platform agnostic.
Too bad the government only cares about the copyrighted material of the media companies and not the voters.
I was thinking the same. The first thing I do any time I open a BI link (on that rare occasion), the first thing I do is check if they have listed a source, and go read the source.
I would definitely use this but there is no documentation, some of the source code looks non performant, and it is tightly coupled to the canvas element. If you want to use this you should look at the: https://github.com/VincentGarreau/particles.js/tree/master/d.... Looks simple enough!
.NET Framework 4.6 and its Reference Source source is being relicensed under the MIT license, so Mono (and you!) can use the source code to the .NET Framework.

Link: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingNET2015NETasOpenSour...
Announcing Open Source of .NET Core Framework and .NET Core for Linux/OS X
Most ruby developers I know write code using VIM. Of course everybody uses his plugins and '.vimrc' file, but I don't see why an IDE is necessary.

The integrations you're asking can be done easily by glutting the tools you need e.g.: tmuxinator + guard + rspec + vim gives you all that and more...
Since the topic was ".Net" and not "enterprisey web stuff" - my list of top ten .Net books would include "Expert F#" by Don Syme et. all. and Sestoft's "Programming language concepts for developers"(http://books.google.fi/books/about/Programming_Language_Conc...). To me, these are .Net's K&R and SICP.
I had the ability to pick up new skills myself when I was that age. I taught myself how to program at 10. I was making websites at 15-16. I didn't need school to teach me how to learn. But that's not all school offers. Without a degree, you either have to figure out how to demonstrate your worth as an employee to someone by yourself bypassing all the usual social signalling, or you have to figure out how to be an entrepreneur, again without the benefit of the institutions we already have that evolved to fix this very problem.

Evolution doesn't create perfect solutions to problems, college is by no means perfect, but they do create effective ones, whereas designed solutions often aren't effective because they didn't take into advantage some important premise or edge case. Take this into account when you design the path you're going to take through your early twenties.
"To further support cross-platform mobile development with .NET, as part of their strategic partnership, Microsoft and Xamarin..."

I would be pretty shocked if MS just suddenly dropped their won linux/mac implementation. Xamarin and the mono team have been working on this for a very long time. MS is just bringing them further into the "legit" fold
Nope, now I don't have an easy thing to complain about in Xamarin threads.

Joking aside, there are a lot of surprises coming out of MS, this is all quite nice.
They say open source, but not which license they're going to use. It may not be possible to integrate with anything in practice, or as free as developers would like it to be.
>Mostly I'm just angry about having to waste the labor hours moving everything to Freebsd from Debian. Its interesting, but not exactly productive.

It's scary for me, because everything I've done has been in a Linux, but it's also educational for me, because everything I've done has been in a Linux. If the systemd invasion results in a lot of attention going to the BSDs, it's not entirely a bad thing.
Of particular interest:

Binary Search eliminates Branch Mispredictions
http://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2012/07/03/binary-search-star-elimina...
BrowserStack attack post-mortem
Agreed on Jon Skeet's book and CLR via C#. Both are excellent books.
Controlling the Brightness of LEDs with a Spark Core
MIT license according to: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/micros...
According to the announcement on visualstudio.com about the Community Edition, it isn't just for students and open source developers. Basically, only enterprises or companies with more than five developers need to pay.
I don't think it moves the needle off of "irrelevant".