You might try not viewing school as simply another stepping stone on your career path, the lack of which is "preventing" you from getting your next 50% pay increase. There is more to life than making money and doing things as fast as you possibly can. I know a lot of people will disagree, but I view school as something that makes you a better person all around (more well-rounded, more disciplined, more open to cross-pollination of ideas from different fields, etc.), rather than just filling you with knowledge of a specific field, handing you a degree and sending you off.
If you really want to go to school, I would suggest taking your time, and maybe taking some interesting non-CS classes.
I too remember the days when sites were distinguished mostly by what they had to say and what content they offered instead of who has the prettiest graphics or the coolest Flash.
It would also be nice if every site could drop back into that mode and still be usable, which is entirely possible using stylesheets, standards-compliant markup, etc. If I can look at a site with stylesheets and images turned off, in black Times font on battleship grey background, with blue and purple links, and the site still says something to me and gives me a reason to go there, then I know it's a worthwhile site.
You can make a fairly spiffy looking web page by starting like that and using stylesheets to add color, change fonts, and do positioning.
Like building a house and then painting it, instead of trying to build a house out of paint.
I used to always download the whole tarball too, until I discovered/usr/src/linux/scripts/patch-kernel. Now all I do is grab the patches, verify the signatures, drop them in/usr/src/linux, run that script, and compile.
It's a fairly intelligent script and makes things painless.
Slashdot Mirror
You might try not viewing school as simply another stepping stone on your career path, the lack of which is "preventing" you from getting your next 50% pay increase. There is more to life than making money and doing things as fast as you possibly can. I know a lot of people will disagree, but I view school as something that makes you a better person all around (more well-rounded, more disciplined, more open to cross-pollination of ideas from different fields, etc.), rather than just filling you with knowledge of a specific field, handing you a degree and sending you off.
If you really want to go to school, I would suggest taking your time, and maybe taking some interesting non-CS classes.
I too remember the days when sites were distinguished mostly by what they had to say and what content they offered instead of who has the prettiest graphics or the coolest Flash.
It would also be nice if every site could drop back into that mode and still be usable, which is entirely possible using stylesheets, standards-compliant markup, etc. If I can look at a site with stylesheets and images turned off, in black Times font on battleship grey background, with blue and purple links, and the site still says something to me and gives me a reason to go there, then I know it's a worthwhile site.
You can make a fairly spiffy looking web page by starting like that and using stylesheets to add color, change fonts, and do positioning.
Like building a house and then painting it, instead of trying to build a house out of paint.
I used to always download the whole tarball too, until I discovered /usr/src/linux/scripts/patch-kernel. Now all I do is grab the patches, verify the signatures, drop them in /usr/src/linux, run that script, and compile.
It's a fairly intelligent script and makes things painless.