von Mises to Ayn Rand:

"You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you."

that's right, plebes. Can't afford college? Then you obviously aren't good enough than the sons and daughters of the rich. Grovel, plebe, grovel.

I have no qualms with this condition.

Can I have a million dollars? I have no story or noble cause. I just think a million dollars would make my day more amazing.

Most of my career has been bumbling along doing systems programming in c, perl, python, and lately c# writing a lot of console apps/utilities. Unfortunately, everyone now wants web developers and the like, so I find myself in the unenviable position of playing "catch up" and facing the possibility of having to return to a jr. role due to "lack of experience", but I'm not so proud to do these things if it gives me a steady paycheck with room for advancement... I digress...

I'm going through Eloquent Javascript at the moment with a look towards the SImpson "You don't know" series to get a little more in-depth in some of the areas that I see people having issues with.. followed by working with node and angular (basically, the MEAN stack). I don't know where this would put me vs "beginners", but it's the route I'm headed down.. :P

Shit. Things have gotten so bad the quarks have to get on the pole to make a living.

because we gotta show everyone how big our dicks are.

Citation, Please.

We grow plenty of food. The problem isn't the quantity of food. It's distribution. We have plenty of space, as well. We just need to change our (American) notion of what "space" is.

But I would whole-heartedly support a "stop making fucking babies" measure.

Black Hole's mother is chastizing it to "stop playing with your food!"

See everyone? Apple doesn't invent anything! They just do it with more polish.

There's a huge number of small fish that love eating mosquito larvae, with a large number of fish (and birds, frogs, snakes, etc) that eat those small fish, etc, and even larger animals that eat those fish...

Youtube flint knapping.

for .NET dev.

I like the IntelliJ family for other stuff.

My 15 year old me is kicking me for saying this, but learning how to integrate into society, listening to other people's thoughts, and learning how to agree and disagree without going all Fox News screamy-shouty goes a long way. Learning to know how to build consensus or at least know when to build consensus (and when to go your own way).

Competition: learning how to win and how to lose without making a complete douche of yourself in either instance. You won't win every battle in the workplace, in your academic endeavors, in your love life; learn how to deal with it, learn how to learn from it, etc.

Learn how to set goals and how to take steps to achieve those goals.

These aren't tech specific, but I'd wager if a student can master any of these, they can do well in whatever field they wish to enter.

So... how many years would you have given it, at a cost of a billion dollars a day? Hrm? And how would you pay for it, hrm? 12 fucking years in the hole and yet YOU STILL WANT TO STAY THERE. Fuck off and die.