Pick an open source project that you find interesting and get involved in it. It will give you experience in coding, working with people, and look good to the type of employers you would probably want to get hired by.
I'd recommend that you start learning Python. I moved away from PHP to Python in late 2008 and have NEVER, even once, looked back. Its just a better engineered language and the community is more deliberate and professional. SQLAlchemy is the best database library/ORM ever! And there are plenty of web frameworks to choose from (start with Flask or Pyramid).
Here are some thoughts from 2008 that got me moving away from PHP towards python. The python web community has grown a lot over the last few years, so my comments about Python being hard to get started in can be considered somewhat deprecated:
Finally, Python is much more general purpose than PHP, so the Python skills you learn while doing web development can be put to use in other programming areas (I do a lot of scripting and data manipulation with Python).
Stop giving your email address out to every bozo website that wants it and spam will virtually disappear. Stop subscribing for every stupid news feed and commercial website and your mailbox won't fill up. I've had the same address for 3 years at this point and I get 15-30 emails a day, most of which are important and valid. The ones that aren't are from my mom.
How about when you want to share folders w/ other people? And, you want them to be able to modify the content? And, it needs to work on Windows, Linux, or Mac? And, it needs to work for technically challenged individuals? And...
Yes, encryption has its place, but also has its problems.
Seriously, you are going to compare Dropbox to "a basic website with webspace", and this gets modded Insightful? I have lots of websites, there is a reason I use Dropbox, its a great product. I'm just concerned the terms are overly broad.
You are incorrect on both accounts. My goal was to make the TOS terms known to a wider audience in the hope of getting DB to change their TOS to something less permissive. The following is from box.net TOS, as noted by another commenter above:
By registering to use the Services, you understand and acknowledge that Box.net and its contractors retain an irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, copy, and publicly display such content *for the sole purpose of providing to you the Services for which you have registered*.
I realize they need some copyright assignment to provide the service, I just think its unnecessarily broad.
Sigh - The universe expanded from a singularity, a singularity is not nothing.
interesting, I agree that I misrepresented that point. So, it sounds like the big bang theory is not an "origin of the universe" theory at all. Its an "evolution" of the universe theory. That point escaped me until now.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth
I know most of you don't like that answer, but its much more sane than arguing for a giant explosion out of nothing, some accidental joining of proteins in primordial soup, and billions of years of accidental gene mutation and natural selection culminating in the world as we know it. Believing in either option requires faith, but believing in God takes less faith than believing in that!
I use Evernote, and so do a lot of my med students. It is cross platform, the free version is quite functional and stores PDFs, rich text and graphics. It is searchable and shareable.
Evernote does not work on Linux, so "multi-platform" might be more correct than "cross-platform."
Well, at least for HTTP certs, the price is coming down considerably. The Planet has $15 certs:
https://ssl.theplanet.com/
With 99% browser acceptance rate. I used to avoid SSL for my customers b/c of the cost. Now, I don't have any aversion to using them. The low cost certs are just as secure, but they lack some of the "frills" like badges for your site. For most of my customers and their user base, all that matters is the lock icon in the browser and no security warnings when the page loads.
Seriously, why on earth would you want to defend yourself or a cargo ship worth millions of dollars with a compressed air "rope" thingy that can also shoot golf balls? Install 50 cal machine guns, a few rocket launchers, and teach the crew how to use them.
"Reversing an eight-year-old limit on potentially life-saving science..."
Currently unproven to save even one life, but proven to destroy human embryos.
To back up my post:
After nearly ten years of research[14], there are no approved treatments or human trials using embryonic stem cells.
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What would you recommend as my next course of action?
Nothing. Seriously. You tried, they didn't listen. Typical. Now find something more deserving of your attention to spend your time on. :)
Pick an open source project that you find interesting and get involved in it. It will give you experience in coding, working with people, and look good to the type of employers you would probably want to get hired by.
I plan on getting a Geek Desk: http://www.geekdesk.com/ It won't allow me to walk, but its better than sitting all the time.
I have to say I agree totally. I read it honestly interested in what it might have to say and came away thinking, why even bother writing that!
How about the next poll asks who is interested in video on Slashdot. I don't care if its there, but I doubt I will ever watch them.
I'd recommend that you start learning Python. I moved away from PHP to Python in late 2008 and have NEVER, even once, looked back. Its just a better engineered language and the community is more deliberate and professional. SQLAlchemy is the best database library/ORM ever! And there are plenty of web frameworks to choose from (start with Flask or Pyramid).
Here are some thoughts from 2008 that got me moving away from PHP towards python. The python web community has grown a lot over the last few years, so my comments about Python being hard to get started in can be considered somewhat deprecated:
http://old.nabble.com/Creole-is-Dead,-long-live-Python!-p20488959.html
http://propel.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1093&dsMessageId=88191
Finally, Python is much more general purpose than PHP, so the Python skills you learn while doing web development can be put to use in other programming areas (I do a lot of scripting and data manipulation with Python).
I know there might be negative ramifications, but I'm glad to see this day arrive. The sooner old IEs die, the better.
Stop giving your email address out to every bozo website that wants it and spam will virtually disappear. Stop subscribing for every stupid news feed and commercial website and your mailbox won't fill up. I've had the same address for 3 years at this point and I get 15-30 emails a day, most of which are important and valid. The ones that aren't are from my mom.
+1
How about when you want to share folders w/ other people? And, you want them to be able to modify the content? And, it needs to work on Windows, Linux, or Mac? And, it needs to work for technically challenged individuals? And... Yes, encryption has its place, but also has its problems.
Seriously, you are going to compare Dropbox to "a basic website with webspace", and this gets modded Insightful? I have lots of websites, there is a reason I use Dropbox, its a great product. I'm just concerned the terms are overly broad.
Agreed, I have concerns about that sentence as well.
You are incorrect on both accounts. My goal was to make the TOS terms known to a wider audience in the hope of getting DB to change their TOS to something less permissive. The following is from box.net TOS, as noted by another commenter above:
I realize they need some copyright assignment to provide the service, I just think its unnecessarily broad.
mod parent up!
Sigh - The universe expanded from a singularity, a singularity is not nothing.
interesting, I agree that I misrepresented that point. So, it sounds like the big bang theory is not an "origin of the universe" theory at all. Its an "evolution" of the universe theory. That point escaped me until now.
So where did the singularity come from?
I know most of you don't like that answer, but its much more sane than arguing for a giant explosion out of nothing, some accidental joining of proteins in primordial soup, and billions of years of accidental gene mutation and natural selection culminating in the world as we know it. Believing in either option requires faith, but believing in God takes less faith than believing in that!
Really, think about it.
I use Evernote, and so do a lot of my med students. It is cross platform, the free version is quite functional and stores PDFs, rich text and graphics. It is searchable and shareable.
Evernote does not work on Linux, so "multi-platform" might be more correct than "cross-platform."
Try it. The PyWin32 mailing list is also very helpful.
It seems that the age demographics of twitter users wouldn't be very representative of the population as a whole.
That's an awful lot of opinion that many on this site will agree with...but its just that, opinion.
The bible has more textual/historical evidence to prove it is accurate than any other historical work: http://www.carm.org/questions/about-bible/manuscript-evidence-superior-new-testament-reliability
If you disagree you will need more than opinion...
Well, at least for HTTP certs, the price is coming down considerably. The Planet has $15 certs: https://ssl.theplanet.com/ With 99% browser acceptance rate. I used to avoid SSL for my customers b/c of the cost. Now, I don't have any aversion to using them. The low cost certs are just as secure, but they lack some of the "frills" like badges for your site. For most of my customers and their user base, all that matters is the lock icon in the browser and no security warnings when the page loads.
+10 for python. Here is a great python tutorial for kids his age: http://www.briggs.net.nz/log/writing/snake-wrangling-for-kids/
Seriously, why on earth would you want to defend yourself or a cargo ship worth millions of dollars with a compressed air "rope" thingy that can also shoot golf balls? Install 50 cal machine guns, a few rocket launchers, and teach the crew how to use them.
Yes.
Step 1: call school and ask questions
Step 2: post to slashdot if paranoia is justified
"Reversing an eight-year-old limit on potentially life-saving science..." Currently unproven to save even one life, but proven to destroy human embryos.
To back up my post:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell#Embryonic
Indeed, and now that a reliable method of making stem cells WITHOUT KILLING has been invented.
Yes, precisely! There are proven stem cell treatments accomplished without killing human embryos: