It also sounds as though he never discovered common keyboard shortcuts. He complains about command-tab behavior being different from Windows, but I've found that command-tab for switching between applications and command-` for window switching within application windows on that desktop works even better for me. I'm almost never guessing what the order of windows will be.

I do wish that command-` switched back and forth between windows before cylcing through them, like cmd-tab does.

Yep this little inconsistency still annoys me after years of using Mac OS X. Most of the time when I'm toggling windows with the keyboard I want to go back and forth between two windows. With the Mac I have to remember to use Shift with Cmd-` (or not) depending on which window I'm on.

Well, I just learned something new. Didn't know about the shift option.

Though I still prefer the initial back and forth behavior used by default with cmd-tab for programs.

Maybe it's because I use a browser all day but I actually prefer the consistent forward/backward cycling behaviour (with command-shift-` for back).

> I've found that command-tab for switching between applications and command-` for window switching within application windows on that desktop works even better for me

I constantly get frustrated because it's so hard to get windows of different applications side by side. Cmd-tab raises all the windows of an application above everything else, so I can't easily pull windows of two different applications to the top at the same time, unless I carefully apportion screen space so nothing is overlapping. For example, I often like to fill the screen with two terminal windows side-by-side, but then every time I cmd-tab to either terminal window Chrome gets hidden so I can't see what I was researching on the web.

You'd profit a lot from a second screen.

For those interested, she expressed her rationale further on the Huffington Post[0].

[0]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-patton/why-i-told-female...

This has come up repeatedly on HN in various forms, but it looks like women in all walks of life are seriously underserved by current online dating systems, and there is likely a big market opportunity there despite all the incumbents.

"It doesn't address how unsatisfying it is for exceptionally well educated women to be with men who are not their intellectual equal." -TFA

This is what is wrong with the class system in the USA.

Unfortunately it is not. New Deal era laws such as this one existed to help prevent a flood of excess food ruin the market for farmers during the Great Depression in the United States. Unfortunately, nobody is keen to revisit any laws from the New Deal, no matter how outdated, because of the kind of scrutiny it might bring on programs like Social Security.

Yes, the Great Depression, when our foremost leaders reasoned that we could become more prosperous as a nation by destroying crops and making food more expensive to a population facing an unemployment rate of 20% (and devoting a far greater portion of their budget to food than you or I do).

FDR came up with the most toxic economic policy ever experienced in this nation, bar none, and easily added seven years onto the Great Depression. And no, it's wasn't the fault of Social Security: it was the fault of nonsense like this.

They say in high school history classes World War II led the US out of the Great Depression. It's only true because that's what finally convinced the idiots in charge that they needed to get their act together if they actually wanted to muster enough industrial output to fight a war.

If there is a God, Mr. Roosevelt, may he have mercy on your soul.

Not all is fault of the Great Depression legislation, take for example one that came to the forefront during the "Fiscal Cliff" negotiations. Read about the 1949 Agricultural Act on Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Act_of_1949

Remember that seven or eight dollar a gallon milk scare? That is the source of that mess. Follow the links at the bottom of the article for all sorts of farm bills.

Its pretty damn scary how much the government meddles in the industry because we have 400 plus experts.

What's good about that Act?

Even at the time the laws were harmful and unconstitutional. Many people were barely able to afford food or even going hungry, and meanwhile the government was doing everything it could to raise the prices further and reduce production.

I feel like the title might be a bit misleading. Nowhere does the article say how this is going to stretch out and impact the workforce over the next 10+ years, but instead sticks to the same discussion of serial internships that has been tread with numerous other articles.

I do think it hits the nail on the head with: "So here's another chasm in the 20-something cohort: the one between the liberal-arts kids and the engineering and science majors." There's plenty of anecdotal (as well as hard) evidence out there that supports that claim.

One thing that I think would be helpful in posts like these would be database configuration with Postgres. While Heroku has made it incredibly simple on OSX[0], figuring everything out on Ubuntu was a nightmare in comparison.

Also, fun story: I've been working on both my MacBook and my Chromebook, and I've been deploying to Heroku. This resulted in me accidentally ending up with three versions of my settings.py. Always a pleasant sensation to runserver only to end up staring at a database error. Not at all terrifying.

[0]: http://postgresapp.com/

You are right. I forgot to mention Postgres.app! I use that all the time. Thanks! ;)

Out of curiosity, how do you develop on the Chromebook?

I used a script called crouton[0] developed by a Googler to install an Ubuntu chroot. I get to use Chrome OS as my browser (and it's a very good browser) and I get a fully powered Linux instance to develop with locally in crosh (and it's a very good-looking shell). I use vim, but if you want a GUI, it's very easy to install your DE of choice, since it's the same as it would be as any other Ubuntu machine.

I haven't run into any problems using it this way that many other people seem to have. Judging from online forums, many people install a chroot, Unity, and then everything falls apart for them because Dropbox/Sublime Text/something isn't ARM compatible. Sticking with just a browser and a CLI has made development on the Chromebook simple.

[0]: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

I am a student, and I can completely empathize with how you feel. I can tell you that a lot of what I've seen is that it's one-hundred percent completely worth the stress and fear of rejection if even one long-shot (in your mind) pays off. I've had that happen to me firsthand, and I've seen it in other people. The more experience you have dealing with tough problems, the better you'll be thinking about them, and tough interview problems by extension. Just make your interview count as best you can, and step back and wait. I promise it's worth it.

Yeah. I've had several interviews, and am currently working as an intern at a startup, but I've never experienced any difficult algorithm-heavy/trick problems in interviews. One of the things that deters me from applying is just the fear as you've said but I'll definitely be trying for jobs that I feel are a little out of my comfort zone next semester, and I know it will be worth it.