Batboys and Internships
“…not all jobs offer internships, and those that do don’t teach you much more about the work than being a batboy teaches you about playing baseball.” From Paul Graham on Finding Something You Love.
“…not all jobs offer internships, and those that do don’t teach you much more about the work than being a batboy teaches you about playing baseball.” From Paul Graham on Finding Something You Love.
OS X Tweak of the Week: Turning Dock magnification on, but setting it just slightly above the Dock’s set size. Gives me a little “pop” when I mouse over icons, but doesn’t make them so big that the relative movement of the icons when moving the mouse makes me sick. (A Dock on full magnification makes […]
Just another reason I love TextMate and the users who use it with me: odds are, if you’re trying to solve a specific problem or configure things just so with the editor, someone else has all ready done it. Start searching Google with site:lists.macromates.com instead of re-inventing the wheel. I had wanted PHP and HTML syntax […]
At the airport, you’re asked to show a government-issued ID along with your boarding pass before going through a security screening checkpoint. You can elect not to show an ID, but you’re required to submit to a more rigorous (read: fairly invasive) search if you do. There’s a few basic problems with this approach. First is […]
Because I’m lazy, because I’m seeing how well I write in a quick and dirty draft, and because I all ready have enough barriers to posting something. Storing something as a draft post, then having to dig it out later, re-read it, edit it, and post it is going to eliminate what little productive flow […]
I have only four home football games left before I graduate. It will be a sad, sad day when this season ends. But, on a brighter note, the final regular season game is at UVA, on my 21st birthday. I’ve all ready got plans to watch the game with some friends and enjoy some good beer. […]
USB 2.0 versus FireWire 400 has been an interesting battle to follow. The original iPod was a FireWire-only device: USB 1.1 was too dog slow to even think about using it to fill a 5 GB hard drive. FireWire first appeared on a Mac in January of 1999, while USB 2.0 didn’t even appear on […]
After reading waffle → The Universal Solvent, I got to thinking: why do Java desktop apps piss me off? Whether it be SmartSVN, Eclipse, or Azureus: I can stand using them on a PC, only because they’re fast and do the job well, while on my iBook, I’d rather suffer a piecemeal solution than put […]
No matter how bright an idea it may seem at the time, setting “days of saved history” to 500 in Camino is a Bad Idea. It was nifty to have a huge history of autocomplete URLs, and speed didn’t seem to suffer much for it, but the folder organization within the History viewer isn’t conducive to […]
Reasons to keep a key under your car: You lock yourself out of the car while it’s running (done that). You lock animals in the car by mistake (done that). You take your key, sans keychain, to rugby practice, then proceed to carry it in your cold, muddy hands (just did that). Here’s to AAA and neighbors that don’t […]
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