Sounds to me like you're a windows admin at heart, and are tying to do everything from the gui. Really, if you want to administer os x you need to get ok with the unix command line. Also you might want to learn a little more about how to run a web server on unix. (hint: you can have more than one php.ini file)
Our company lets us choose macbook pro or hp windows laptop. Most people seem to go with the mac these days, but we are developing web code that runs on linux machines.
I work at a large internet company. We get to pick either a mac laptop or a windows laptop, plus a redhat desktop to run our code on. The vast majority of new hires go with the mac.
But, we are generally writing php or c++ and many, if not most, use vim or emacs. I would say developers now at my company are about 30% mac, 50% windows and 20% linux. Our production machines mostly run linux. I think the mac is a great development platform, because it runs office, vim, textmate and I can and do run windows in vmware.
The police are not involved in this case. This is a civil case, not a criminal case. There is a huge difference, you see, you have the FREEDOM to say what ever you want. And I have the freedom to sue you for it. Welcome to america!
Unreachable. Some people are just unreachable. I hope you are under 13, because thats the only excuse for thinking that saying there are gay people in san francisco is an insult.
This is the bay area. Ground zero for IT jobs. If you have someone good they WILL get lured away by recruiters. The public sector has to pay competitive salaries, and for a senior person this is what it will cost to make sure they stay.
That said, it is a VERY good salary (but not insane) for the area, I can't believe this moron decided to burn this pretty damn good job (city has sweet benefits too).
Well, if you want to be near paris, Try anything outside of the near suburbs (aka the ghetto). I lived in Garches...which is a little TOO quiet. I recommend Versailles, St Germain-en-Laye and St Cloud, which are paris suburbs I know and find quite pleasant. They are also within 45 minutes of central paris by train. St Cloud in particular is a lovely town, but pretty pricey. Basically the further you go the cheaper, but also the towns get very small town very fast (stores closed on weekends, no supermarket, etc). The towns I listed have a good number of expats as well, so you won't find the language issue to serious. (I speak french, ymmv without it) St Cloud is where the very fancy american school is, so there is a cluster of americans living there. If you go there I promise the first month will be like a living hell while you adjust to the culture and then you will love it. I also suggest the (somewhat outdated, but good anyway) book "French or Foe" which is a good french culture shock book. Have fun!
thats fine. No one is going to take your car away, there are plenty of people that drive in from the suburbs in Paris, they just pay an awful lot for that privilege. As cheap energy goes away fewer and fewer Americans will be able to afford to depend on cars. What I described, transit-oriented small town style suburbs is just going to happen. It already is happening in the bay area. Basically the fact that the future of transportation is going to be mass transit for most trips supplanted with some private car trips does not depend on you liking it. Its just going to happen anyway.
Sometimes these conversations seem at cross purposes because We don't understand each other. Its like people who live in the city think people who live in the suburbs are insane, and vice versa. First of all, I think you need to realize that if you live in the city, or at least in my city (san francisco) a car is so much more of a pain than transit.
Walk to car (5-15min depending on parking karma), start immediately (0 minutes), drive around for 5-15min depending on parking karma or pay $10+ for parking in a garage, walk some distance to your destination, probably at least five minutes. Worry about parking meters, stress about driving in the city...basically if you live in a dense city driving is kind of a nightmare worth avoiding unless you have enough money to pay valets. In general there are few psychos on major transit routes during normal times. Not to say they aren't there, but I mean, we live in the city, we see them all the time and they are more likely to be on the street rather than on transit. So for us, car is a mixed bag at best. For me having a car is a total burden, but still worth having, even if we don't use it all that much.
The other thing worth considering is that walking to things is very common. If I need to pick up some milk I can walk about 20 feet to a store that sells milk. If I want to go out to dinner I have a huge array of options within a ten minute walk from my home. So not only are car trips much more annoying in the city, they are also much less necessary because we don't have to go as far. I walk to my eye doctor and my dentist!
Nobody is going to make you live in the city, I promise. I mean, obviously not everyone wants to live in a city. (You sound a little insecure about the nature of living in cities, but whatever.) Don't live in a city.
The current solution to not wanting to live in a city is horribly broken in the US. The basic plan has been to build huge, sprawling housing developments that literally require people to use a car for every trip. In american suburbs cars are required because the nearest convenience store is two miles away. Because cheap energy is basically over this situation is untenable, sorry. Electric cars are a stop-gap, but we need to stop depending on private vehicles to get you to work, get a gallon of milk, get the kids to school, etc. This is just too expensive.
Luckily the solution to not living in cities but not depending on cars for everything is solved. Its called small towns. Back in the days of Normal Rockwell do you think every family had two cars?
Generally this means getting away from sprawling hierarchal street suburbs and moving towards denser small towns, focused on transit to urban centers. This is what exists in western europe. For example: my cousin lives in a suburb of paris in her own house with a backyard. She walks half a mile to the train station to commute into work in the city and keeps one small car for (rarish) long trips. The town is small but dense, so she can walk to the grocery store, walk to the market, walk to the bank. Her kids walk to school. I promise, promise you that you will like this lifestyle. Its very consistent with the lifestyle you lead now. You do not have to live in an apartment, you do not have to live in a high density city. And once you have the option to take a train to work rather than drive you won't believe you ever spent all that time in traffic.
Dude, you are arguing backwards. You just described how valuable learning a second language was for you, then told someone not to do it unless they do it the right way. That's like telling someone not to learn to cook spaghetti because unless you want to go to culinary school you aren't going to find cooking that rewarding anyway. If a lot of foreign language experience, like you have, is good, a little bit is also good, right? I don't think its a waste of time to take a class almost ever, unless its something you already know.
For most americans university is the only chance they get to really study a foreign language. If she/he really hates it they can drop it after a semester. But its worth a try. Education should be about more than ROI.
I disagree. It might be directly relevent, but the chance to learn a second language (even if you take just a couple of semesters and never get real fluency) is that its good for your brain. Its sort of generic education rather than the trade education. I think it is a bit like math classes...you aren't going to use it much professionally, but the braining training will help a lot later.
(Note, that the poster I am replying to wrote his post in a second language)
DO IT. Seriously, this is your big chance to have the time to take a foreign language. I took french in college, did study abroad had a blast and I am fluent in a second language. If you don't do it now you are going to have A LOT of trouble doing it later. Passable fluency in french took me 3 years of college level french, plus about six months living there (half of which was working, the other half on study abroad). You will have a lot of trouble finding the time to do that once college is over.
I could go on, but basically there is no reason not to do it. You probably need to take some non engineering classes to graduate anyway, and you are going to seriously regret it if you go through college and never take the chance to do something other than what you're going to spend the rest of your life doing.
You are still wrong...this is getting embarrassing. Yahoo offers free, real time quotes. This is a fact. I am looking at them right now. You can continue to believe that they don't, but that will make you a fool.
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For some strange reason time continues to progress at a constant rate.
I would say that os x is not the right os for a server in general.
Sounds to me like you're a windows admin at heart, and are tying to do everything from the gui. Really, if you want to administer os x you need to get ok with the unix command line. Also you might want to learn a little more about how to run a web server on unix. (hint: you can have more than one php.ini file)
Finder sucks. I just use the terminal for everything pretty much.
Textmate FTW!
Our company lets us choose macbook pro or hp windows laptop. Most people seem to go with the mac these days, but we are developing web code that runs on linux machines.
I'm also a developer and I work with numerous developers. We all got the memo. The macs are taking over since it became an option at work.
I work at a large internet company. We get to pick either a mac laptop or a windows laptop, plus a redhat desktop to run our code on. The vast majority of new hires go with the mac. But, we are generally writing php or c++ and many, if not most, use vim or emacs. I would say developers now at my company are about 30% mac, 50% windows and 20% linux. Our production machines mostly run linux. I think the mac is a great development platform, because it runs office, vim, textmate and I can and do run windows in vmware.
search.yahoo.com. The yahoo home page is not a search engine, its a portal.
Crime != tort
The police are not involved in this case. This is a civil case, not a criminal case. There is a huge difference, you see, you have the FREEDOM to say what ever you want. And I have the freedom to sue you for it. Welcome to america!
Libel is a tort, not a crime. This is a civil case. Its not illegal to say "x has herpes". But they can sue you for libel.
Unreachable. Some people are just unreachable. I hope you are under 13, because thats the only excuse for thinking that saying there are gay people in san francisco is an insult.
On behalf of San Francisco, fuck off. That's some fucking hilarious bigotry you have going there.
This is the bay area. Ground zero for IT jobs. If you have someone good they WILL get lured away by recruiters. The public sector has to pay competitive salaries, and for a senior person this is what it will cost to make sure they stay.
That said, it is a VERY good salary (but not insane) for the area, I can't believe this moron decided to burn this pretty damn good job (city has sweet benefits too).
Well, if you want to be near paris, Try anything outside of the near suburbs (aka the ghetto). I lived in Garches...which is a little TOO quiet. I recommend Versailles, St Germain-en-Laye and St Cloud, which are paris suburbs I know and find quite pleasant. They are also within 45 minutes of central paris by train. St Cloud in particular is a lovely town, but pretty pricey. Basically the further you go the cheaper, but also the towns get very small town very fast (stores closed on weekends, no supermarket, etc). The towns I listed have a good number of expats as well, so you won't find the language issue to serious. (I speak french, ymmv without it) St Cloud is where the very fancy american school is, so there is a cluster of americans living there. If you go there I promise the first month will be like a living hell while you adjust to the culture and then you will love it. I also suggest the (somewhat outdated, but good anyway) book "French or Foe" which is a good french culture shock book. Have fun!
thats fine. No one is going to take your car away, there are plenty of people that drive in from the suburbs in Paris, they just pay an awful lot for that privilege. As cheap energy goes away fewer and fewer Americans will be able to afford to depend on cars. What I described, transit-oriented small town style suburbs is just going to happen. It already is happening in the bay area. Basically the fact that the future of transportation is going to be mass transit for most trips supplanted with some private car trips does not depend on you liking it. Its just going to happen anyway.
Sometimes these conversations seem at cross purposes because We don't understand each other. Its like people who live in the city think people who live in the suburbs are insane, and vice versa. First of all, I think you need to realize that if you live in the city, or at least in my city (san francisco) a car is so much more of a pain than transit.
Walk to car (5-15min depending on parking karma), start immediately (0 minutes), drive around for 5-15min depending on parking karma or pay $10+ for parking in a garage, walk some distance to your destination, probably at least five minutes. Worry about parking meters, stress about driving in the city...basically if you live in a dense city driving is kind of a nightmare worth avoiding unless you have enough money to pay valets. In general there are few psychos on major transit routes during normal times. Not to say they aren't there, but I mean, we live in the city, we see them all the time and they are more likely to be on the street rather than on transit. So for us, car is a mixed bag at best. For me having a car is a total burden, but still worth having, even if we don't use it all that much.
The other thing worth considering is that walking to things is very common. If I need to pick up some milk I can walk about 20 feet to a store that sells milk. If I want to go out to dinner I have a huge array of options within a ten minute walk from my home. So not only are car trips much more annoying in the city, they are also much less necessary because we don't have to go as far. I walk to my eye doctor and my dentist!
San Francisco: muni pass $45/month. Car (we have one for both of us): $200/month JUST FOR PARKING
Nobody is going to make you live in the city, I promise. I mean, obviously not everyone wants to live in a city. (You sound a little insecure about the nature of living in cities, but whatever.) Don't live in a city.
The current solution to not wanting to live in a city is horribly broken in the US. The basic plan has been to build huge, sprawling housing developments that literally require people to use a car for every trip. In american suburbs cars are required because the nearest convenience store is two miles away. Because cheap energy is basically over this situation is untenable, sorry. Electric cars are a stop-gap, but we need to stop depending on private vehicles to get you to work, get a gallon of milk, get the kids to school, etc. This is just too expensive.
Luckily the solution to not living in cities but not depending on cars for everything is solved. Its called small towns. Back in the days of Normal Rockwell do you think every family had two cars?
Generally this means getting away from sprawling hierarchal street suburbs and moving towards denser small towns, focused on transit to urban centers.
This is what exists in western europe. For example: my cousin lives in a suburb of paris in her own house with a backyard. She walks half a mile to the train station to commute into work in the city and keeps one small car for (rarish) long trips. The town is small but dense, so she can walk to the grocery store, walk to the market, walk to the bank. Her kids walk to school. I promise, promise you that you will like this lifestyle. Its very consistent with the lifestyle you lead now. You do not have to live in an apartment, you do not have to live in a high density city. And once you have the option to take a train to work rather than drive you won't believe you ever spent all that time in traffic.
Dude, you are arguing backwards. You just described how valuable learning a second language was for you, then told someone not to do it unless they do it the right way. That's like telling someone not to learn to cook spaghetti because unless you want to go to culinary school you aren't going to find cooking that rewarding anyway. If a lot of foreign language experience, like you have, is good, a little bit is also good, right? I don't think its a waste of time to take a class almost ever, unless its something you already know. For most americans university is the only chance they get to really study a foreign language. If she/he really hates it they can drop it after a semester. But its worth a try. Education should be about more than ROI.
I disagree. It might be directly relevent, but the chance to learn a second language (even if you take just a couple of semesters and never get real fluency) is that its good for your brain. Its sort of generic education rather than the trade education. I think it is a bit like math classes...you aren't going to use it much professionally, but the braining training will help a lot later. (Note, that the poster I am replying to wrote his post in a second language)
DO IT. Seriously, this is your big chance to have the time to take a foreign language. I took french in college, did study abroad had a blast and I am fluent in a second language. If you don't do it now you are going to have A LOT of trouble doing it later. Passable fluency in french took me 3 years of college level french, plus about six months living there (half of which was working, the other half on study abroad). You will have a lot of trouble finding the time to do that once college is over. I could go on, but basically there is no reason not to do it. You probably need to take some non engineering classes to graduate anyway, and you are going to seriously regret it if you go through college and never take the chance to do something other than what you're going to spend the rest of your life doing.
You are still wrong...this is getting embarrassing. Yahoo offers free, real time quotes. This is a fact. I am looking at them right now. You can continue to believe that they don't, but that will make you a fool.
Why didn't they lose their user base last week when yahoo started doing this?