College is nothing more then a 4 year $100,000 vacation. Yes it sounds like a lot of money, but if you get scholarships, grants, loans, or your parents to pay, then you make out pretty good in the deal.
Name another time in your [adult] life where it is acceptable to sleep till noon, get drunk every night, "date" as many people as possible, and skip a day because it is just to sunny outside to concentrate or to cold to walk to class.
I think that it might be time for grad school.....
About 6 months ago, I was in need of a domain hoster for a personal/family site (I really only wanted it for email). My needs were a simple and small web page, unlimited email forwarding and a few pop email boxes. I started with hostsave.com (like $6.95/month with quarterly payments). I had no major problems with this service, but I wanted the ability to telnet and host database stuff.
I switched to your-site.com (more features and less cost). With a yearly prepay, it comes to $5/month. With this you get good basic features (5 pop email, email aliases/forwading, web space, CGI ability). You can also add database hosting for cheap (like $2/month). So far I hve been pretty happy. The transfer was quick and painless (I requested my account friday afternoon and it was transfered on a saturday).
From their demo, I am not too impressed with the search at all. It seems to be lacking many advanced options. Also, what is up with this??
>> first fully automated crawler that can reindex all 800 million World Wide Web pages every three months fully available to the public for a nominal two year subscription fee.
Does that mean that they give away the search engine but you have to purchase the database???
I think that there are better options out there right now. One GPL'd search engive out there that I have liked a lot is HTDIG (http://www.htdig.org). It does not have the horse power the the juggernautsearch "claims", but it is great for intranet/corporate/university website search.
If you are looking for a good search engine, you may also want to read the ask slashdot thread from last year on this topic. (http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/98/10/24/1756224. shtml)
I just went through all of this same stuff myself being a recent college grad. I pretty much looked at the large consulting companies. It seems that most companies will start coders at $42,000 range with a signing bonus of ~$2000. The is the "middle ground" though. I have seen some start at $55,000 with a $5,000 bonus (in NYC) to salaries as low as $37,500 + $1500 bonus (in RI where the cost of living is a bit lower)
These figures would be for a entry level job into some type of large consulting company. AS far as startups go, you can probably squeeze more money out of them if you have "mad skills."
Now salary is very important, but there are also many other factors to look at when choosing a company that will effect your finances. Other important factors are out of pocket expenses for medical, dental and vision. How much will your company match for a 401k plan? How many years until you are vested?? If you go away for business will they pay to put your pets in a kennel?? (It can get expensive!) Is there a profit share/stock option plan. These "fringe" benefits can add up to be a lot of extra money.
This guy is FUBAR! His ultimate goal is to get the blood of a hibernating bear. If that bear decides to wake up, his suite better hold up to the challenge. Even if his suite holds up, the bear may not decide to let him go. His head would end up as a trophy in the bears den.
His suit is pretty amazing though. Right now he funds a lot of his research through selling various types of armor as sports equipment. Even if no amazing bear research gets done, a lot of good will come from his armor breaktrhroughs.
In theory it sounds like it can be a good idea, but what many people forget about is the culture clash that must be worked out with companies that are bought out/merged/divested/"whatevered."
It would end up being a management and communication nightmare. You can read this for more information about this problem: http://www.hewitt.com/news/pressrel/1998/08-03-9 8.htm
spend those four years as an apprentice and make twice the money of any grads!!!
Do this and you run the risk of being an apprentice for the rest of your life. College helps to build skills beyond what the job requires. College is about learning how to learn, not how to master a skill.
College also gives you a great chance to learn what you want to do with the rest of your life. Four years ago I was set on being a finance/business major. It took me two years to decide that I loved computers and did not want to do anything else.
Finally, please do not forget that college is a hell of a lot of fun! When else can you take off for a rode trip at 11 PM in the middle of the week without telling anybody? When else is it acceptable to party until the sun comes up?
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College is nothing more then a 4 year $100,000 vacation. Yes it sounds like a lot of money, but if you get scholarships, grants, loans, or your parents to pay, then you make out pretty good in the deal.
Name another time in your [adult] life where it is acceptable to sleep till noon, get drunk every night, "date" as many people as possible, and skip a day because it is just to sunny outside to concentrate or to cold to walk to class.
I think that it might be time for grad school.....
About 6 months ago, I was in need of a domain hoster for a personal/family site (I really only wanted it for email). My needs were a simple and small web page, unlimited email forwarding and a few pop email boxes. I started with hostsave.com (like $6.95/month with quarterly payments). I had no major problems with this service, but I wanted the ability to telnet and host database stuff.
I switched to your-site.com (more features and less cost). With a yearly prepay, it comes to $5/month. With this you get good basic features (5 pop email, email aliases/forwading, web space, CGI ability). You can also add database hosting for cheap (like $2/month). So far I hve been pretty happy. The transfer was quick and painless (I requested my account friday afternoon and it was transfered on a saturday).
From their demo, I am not too impressed with the search at all. It seems to be lacking many advanced options. Also, what is up with this??
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first fully automated crawler that can reindex all 800 million World Wide Web pages every three months fully available to the public for a nominal two year subscription fee.
Does that mean that they give away the search engine but you have to purchase the database???
I think that there are better options out there right now. One GPL'd search engive out there that I have liked a lot is HTDIG (http://www.htdig.org). It does not have the horse power the the juggernautsearch "claims", but it is great for intranet/corporate/university website search.
If you are looking for a good search engine, you may also want to read the ask slashdot thread from last year on this topic. (http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/98/10/24/1756224
I just went through all of this same stuff myself being a recent college grad. I pretty much looked at the large consulting companies. It seems that most companies will start coders at $42,000 range with a signing bonus of ~$2000. The is the "middle ground" though. I have seen some start at $55,000 with a $5,000 bonus (in NYC) to salaries as low as $37,500 + $1500 bonus (in RI where the cost of living is a bit lower)
These figures would be for a entry level job into some type of large consulting company. AS far as startups go, you can probably squeeze more money out of them if you have "mad skills."
Now salary is very important, but there are also many other factors to look at when choosing a company that will effect your finances. Other important factors are out of pocket expenses for medical, dental and vision. How much will your company match for a 401k plan? How many years until you are vested?? If you go away for business will they pay to put your pets in a kennel?? (It can get expensive!) Is there a profit share/stock option plan. These "fringe" benefits can add up to be a lot of extra money.
This guy is FUBAR! His ultimate goal is to get the blood of a hibernating bear. If that bear decides to wake up, his suite better hold up to the challenge. Even if his suite holds up, the bear may not decide to let him go. His head would end up as a trophy in the bears den.
His suit is pretty amazing though. Right now he funds a lot of his research through selling various types of armor as sports equipment. Even if no amazing bear research gets done, a lot of good will come from his armor breaktrhroughs.
Are you ever going to cut yor hair short?
In theory it sounds like it can be a good idea, but what many people forget about is the culture clash that must be worked out with companies that are bought out/merged/divested/"whatevered."
9 8.htm
It would end up being a management and communication nightmare. You can read this for more information about this problem:
http://www.hewitt.com/news/pressrel/1998/08-03-
Do this and you run the risk of being an apprentice for the rest of your life. College helps to build skills beyond what the job requires. College is about learning how to learn, not how to master a skill.
College also gives you a great chance to learn what you want to do with the rest of your life. Four years ago I was set on being a finance/business major. It took me two years to decide that I loved computers and did not want to do anything else.
Finally, please do not forget that college is a hell of a lot of fun! When else can you take off for a rode trip at 11 PM in the middle of the week without telling anybody? When else is it acceptable to party until the sun comes up?
>they don't get a lot of snow in LA, do they
I thought that Linus was in Santa Clara, not LA. And just for the record, the last time Santa Clara had snow was 1976.
There already is a programming language called COOL and
it is cobol based (COBOL object oriented language).