monroepe

I started the Wheel of Time series and am currently through book 3 and I am loving it.

Wow. Deleting account now.

While I agree they do get lost quickly, there is an "ask" link in the header. I check there every so often, but maybe I am in the minority.

If you want a bunch of recruiters to contact you. Put your resume on job boards like monster.com, indeed, careerbuilder, etc. It might not be the best way to get a job (as others have mentioned), but I guarantee recruiters will contact you.

I don't like the look quite as much in Sublime 3 and the ColdFusion plugin doesn't seem to work (obviously not going to be a problem for most people). Otherwise I haven't seen any issues. But I also haven't noticed much of a reason to switch if you aren't having any problems with Sublime Text 2. I installed Sublime 3 after Sublime 2 started failing to search properly and had issues opening some of my projects.

One thing you can do is contact the organizations and ask for some documents about what they are doing with the money and other data. All organizations waste money or use it ways you might not like. But I think you have to do some research. Ask for the data from the given organization and make an informed decision from there. Any non-profit should have this data available in some form for you.

You can't really control how they use it. But you can see what they accomplished in the past. Look at what they are planning for the next few years. And then evaluate at the end of the year and see if you feel like they did what they said they would.

I believe the saying is, "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors."

But seriously I do still have problems naming things. And when working with other developers we can never seem to agree on a good name. The name he or she chooses is usually way different that what I would choose.

Yeah I find it hard to believe that Amazon isn't #1.

It's never too early if you really hate it. You just don't want to get in the habit of leaving companies after working there less than a year. A lot of companies get turned off by that. The advice I got from multiple people was to stick with your first company at least a year. I am not suggesting staying a year, but you should plan to be at your next company 2-4 years at least.

The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie

I entered not knowing what I wanted to do at all and ended up with a history major, which hasn't really been all that useful to me. I discovered too late that I loved programming for me to switch majors to cs.

Now I am not saying that waiting a year or two would have helped me pick a better major, because I still might not have found my passion for programming. But I do know that I would have studied harder and learned more during those years. My grades were fine, but I really did just enough to get good grades. I didn't take advantage of the learning opportunity because I was immature. I would love to go back now and really learn.

>But many people are vastly overpaying for this benefit.

Exactly. I don't have any issues with getting a degree. I think it is very beneficial both financially in the long term and emotionally. But you shouldn't overpay for it. There is nothing wrong with community college. There is nothing wrong with putting off college for a year or two to save money. Obviously every situation is different, but I think we should be educating high school students about their options and their prospects.

I see what you are saying and there are definitely certain fields where it makes sense to take on more debt than the $10k-$20k I suggested. I think another factor to take into account is financial maturity. Some people are better situated to handle larger debt than others. I am fairly frugal at this point in my life, but I am not sure I could handle the pressure and the need to budget with an extra $744 payment towards loans every month like mentioned in the article.