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I found Engadget's auto-refresh to be very slow. gdgt was much better about it.

Exactly. If you can afford it without an issue, then I'd go for it. A good design can help quite a bit.

Reminds me of http://twitter.com/pooptag

This is why RailsCasts is awesome. Every article links to ASCIICasts, which has the exact same content, just written down.

How is ampersand a joke name?

What's the reward of contributing to open source at all? Some personal satisfaction and perhaps a bit of reputation?

This is very true. However, just because college does exist doesn't mean something better can't show up. It seems to me college is the best place to get all of these things in the same place quickly.

It's educational and gives you a place you could meet future co-founders as well. I feel like people look at college from a purely educational perspective, which isn't exactly correct. If you're going to college just for the education, you're in the wrong place, if you ask me.

And how many people didn't go to college with aspirations of doing something great and failed?

I wasn't really trying to make a point past pointing out that the comment I was replying to didn't really say much.

And Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg both went to college and dropped out. So perhaps college does give some benefit, but the degree isn't necessary.

I don't see this that often at Georgia Tech. The one class where I know someone who asked for extensions, extensions were almost always granted, however, you took a 30% grade deduction for an extra day.

And this is why having the main Ruby gem repository completely open source rocks :)

And they don't list prices. I feel like this could easily be too expensive to make it worth it for many people.

Spring 2009.

Just last year. Taught by the fantastic Bill Lehey.

Best set up if you ask me. Large external monitor, with a keyboard and mouse, but still portable, and only one machine, so I don't have to deal with keeping my code or environment in sync.

And a browser other than Internet Explorer!

I had a similar class. CS2110 at Georgia Tech. I will never forget it :)

I'm down. Name a time & place and if I can make it, I'll be there.

1) Sophomore Year in HS 2) IRC

Not just the one she liked the best, the one that made the most money. Company paid $650 to give a 3 minute pitch to the students.

If they want to rebuild it in .NET, it's a lost cause.

I think more hackers need to watch more movies so they understand some movie quotes.

It's not 1900x1200 though.

What great timing, I'm working on a Sinatra & MongoDB app as well. Quite useful.

Before this I didn't use any package management on OS X, because I didn't like Fink and Macports. But Homebrew is just plain awesome.

I'm limited by money as well. Perhaps startup school scholarships?

http://www.icombinator.net/ works great for me, and costs nothing. Also has nifty instapaper functionality which I've grown to live on.

Use it to point to HN.

This is exactly right. This is why I don't understand many of the "just learn online" posts on HN. If you're going to college for only the information, then I think there's no reason to come. However, there is much more offered than just information.