College is totally worthless. Everyone is the very smart entrepreneurial type like we all of course are, and already posses the vast majority of skills that they'll ever need in life. Indeed, college for them would be nothing more than nights spent alone in their dorm room working on their next failed startup and leaving comments around the Internet about how much more successful they'd be if they stayed out of college. Man, now if only they could get invited to a party or talk to a girl.
Assuming that it's priced reasonably, I'd definitely buy it. I'm sure a lot of people would. But it's something that Apple's not going to do as it won't work out of the box.
A degree from a Tier-1 school and high GPA is a signal to potential employers that you are a hard worker and smart. This appears to hold well for "easy" majors who don't really use anything learned in college at work (except thinking and writing creatively) and less so for "hard" majors who do actually need to know stuff about biology, math, whatever to do well.
Point was, yes, I completely agree with you, the brand name of a degree means less than what it is assigned in society-- but our opinion will most likely diverges from a potential employer.
There's no answer to the "why" in the article beyond celebrity mentions and saying that businesses will pay.
A valuation of $5 billion would mean about $200 per user at the 25 million users mark, which would be reasonable were it a porn-site with paying members. But it's not, it's Twitter.
I never said it did, but simply took issue with the fact they tried to back away from "we're not supporting it" when in reality they really aren't supporting it. I use CS3 and I'd be very surprised if it ends up being incompatible.
Oops, sorry. I always forget that support means different things to different people. When I wrote this title it was using support to mean ’Adobe won’t be fixing problems’, not ‘CS3 won’t work’.
I thought about that too. There are programs that can handle making PHP or C beautiful. GNU indent is one of them I think, and there's another one called TidyPHP? Something like that.
So you just generate and then run the code through that if you need it to be human readable. I assume most companies don't give a shit as long as it works ;)
I fear a Scheme to PHP code generator would turn out PHP code that's ugly beyond what any code beautifier could hope to fix. It's not make-up - it would be akin to major surgery.
Lambdas and recursion are only a small part of the decision for a programming language. There are many, many deliberations in picking a language.
Availability on the target platform (cheap web hosters?), availability of libraries, familiarity with the language (of the entire team, both current and in the future), purpose (aiming to get to the market quickly, or trying to learn a new language?), compatibility or integration with an existing code base, et cetera.
All these deliberations taken together may lead to a decision to use PHP. If so, it is nice to have lambdas and recursion. "It's better in another language" is without meaning in that case, because the feature is so small compared to the other deliberations. It quickly turns into the better question: "is it good enough?"
I have been in a situation where this was the case: myself and another guy were the devs, and the non-programmer was the public face of the company: he did customer service, marketing, PR, specs, QA, research -- pretty much anything that we didn't have time to do. Once we got up to a significant amount of users he became overwhelmed so we hired more business people. OR you could use that time to learn how to program.
It's great to know that someone else has experienced this, and hopefully I'll have the same problem you're business partner did! Sometimes its really frustrating and downcasting to feel less valuable than my partners because I can't be constantly programming. Thanks for sharing this.
The whole point of Safebank seems to be to have it be safe. How safe a is a week-old bank started by some guy with a blog who doesn't know the difference between retail and investment banking?
People don't love their banks? I do. Bank of America gives me ATMs everywhere and pretty awesome online banking, and the credit union gives me unbelievable customer service and great interest rates.
On a sidenote, do compare the HN comments with those on the site.
Eugenics, heavier-than-air flying machines, and the luminiferous aether.
Edit: I was trying to be snarky, but I just realized that each of those has been thoroughly studied at one point or another. Just goes to prove your point, I guess, heh.
