> The other thing I would say is to stay close to professions that create and make things, and stay away from derivative professions like finance. I think makers increasingly have the power in our society.
Wow, interesting words from someone who works in finance.
GCD is fantastic—one of my absolute favorites. We're trying to solve a problem one level above that: exposing an API that doesn't require every view developer to know the details of managing GCD queues and updating a UICollectionView.
As for Autolayout, it's very powerful but isn't performant enough for layouts as complex as Facebook's News Feed. We tried it first before developing ComponentKit.
pngquant is great. I make an iPhone app that displays transit maps. Transit maps are ideal candidates for quantization (limited color range, large blocks of color that are perfect for RLE) and I saved a lot of file size by quantizing the map tiles. Thanks pngquant!
Windows 1.01 feels much closer to Mac Classic than Windows 3.1 does. (Button appearance, close button on left, menus must be held down to stay open, "Get Info" instead of "Properties".)
"Out of 86 guests, I've only had problems with 15 guests."
"only"? n.b.: If your business model is renting out luxury condos to people on the Internet, you're going to have a bad time. People will use them for parties.
BART jobs are quite supply constrained. Sure, union jobs are great if you can get one, but there aren't many to go around.
Plus, who would really enjoy working in a workplace where everyone doesn't care? I couldn't stand it even if I were paid more, couldn't lose my job, and had more vacation time.
That's precisely what he argued though: "A 2010 study by the Goldwater Institute identified "administrative bloat" as a leading reason for higher costs. The study found that many American universities now have more salaried administrators than teaching faculty."
What's more he doesn't propose eliminating federal aid or loan guarantees, he advocates letting you discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy and putting colleges on the hook for some percentage of that default.
Sounds like a great idea to me. Schools that equip their students for well-paying jobs have nothing to fear, but diploma mills out for easy loan money will suffer.
If the NSA was MITMing SSL communications on a wide scale, presumably the companies would notice that the cert fingerprints were not what the companies expected.
I took Brian Kernighan's class when I studied at Princeton. As part of the class I developed www.itrans.info which set me on my way to being an independent app developer. I'm enormously grateful for his class, his involvement with students at Princeton, and just how genuine he really is as a person on campus.