FAKEGRIMLOCK seems very relevant to this site as he created a brand out of nothing and I find most of his short comments insightful. So the interview is a nice read on his tactics even if it's a bit shallow.
I just hope we don't have tons of clones of his persona. It works only once or twice.
I'm of the impression, that for the most part, college is about networking. The material is a side benefit that you could pick up on your own. It feels like he picked up on that(joining the fraternity) and decided the rest wasn't worth the debt.
This reminds me of a situation when I first signed up for linode... my password on my account inexplicably changed one day(I use lastpass so no I did not type the randomly generated password wrong). I contacted support and they fixed it, but I still remember questioning why or how...
The annoying popups on the bottom of the article actually get in the way of reading it, to a point where I just close the page. They are definitely not following their own advice.
This article touches on asking questions. There's a distinct separation between people that won't learn for themselves and those that have the focus to learn for themselves. You need the knowledge on how to seek things out for yourself if you want to be successful at a computer related occupation in general. Asking questions is fine, as long as you ask the right questions. And finding out the right questions to ask is solely on the person.
A good example is in the article itself, with the person asking how to use Google. This is an example of a bad question. Using a search engine on the internet is trivial, but it does require the person to have the drive to read and think for themselves. Learning how to identify the right questions will help you immensely in understanding the concepts(for rails or otherwise).
How did they know about my Facebook usage habits? Is this a thickly veiled privacy article?
Though seriously, it's easy to look back in retrospect and summarize webapps like this. It would have been more interesting if they discussed what the future could hold for Facebook. They are in a bit of a "serves no real purpose" limbo for me and I'm sure many other people. I have some fuzzy ideas on where they can take it to become more engrained in everyday real life, but I don't think society is ready for what I have in mind yet...
The advancement of artificial intelligence, not sure where to start, but I guess that's the point of this. If I had no concerns about money I would devote most of my free time to it.
I had nothing listed under the demographics, which baffles me because I use chrome, always logged in search, gmail, g+, picasa, etc
Very quite odd that they don't profile me.
With that said, I obviously do not care if they know all this information about me. So the article is true in this case as I do not browse that way (too inconvenient)
Gestures are one thing, scrolling is another. To get a look at the immense difference in usability, check out an app like flipboard vs feedly, one uses vertical-scrolling and the other uses side-scrolling. I very much prefer the vertical scrolling, but I won't speak for everyone, just giving an example to try out.
I think that the author of this post might be missing that he could be a bit biased because generally people surround themselves with others that share the same hobbies and opinions. I still find many of the people I meet daily are completely computer illiterate.
/speculation
Beware of a Chrome extension called "Hacker News Sidebar", it presumably got me IP banned this week. It cross checks every page visited with HN to see if it has a thread and if so, displays the thread.
I own a touchpad and without a developed app base it feels so rigid to me. I don't want to share links by email I want to share them through my various online accounts. I don't want to multitask by navigating to cards I want to have in-app multitasking through swipes. Even reading a PDF on it is painful because the font rendering is so poor. I don't think HP really "got it". It was barely worth the 99 I paid for it. I installed the new update today. And while this update increased the responsiveness it didn't address the fundamental workflow problems... But since they are abandoning it anyway I probably shouldn't expect anything anyway.
This has everything I've thought to ask Siri and more... I'm very impressed. I hope Apple plans on supporting and iterating Siri rather than forgetting about it like they occasionally seem to do...
I can do simple boilerplate stuff I've done many times over without an internet connection... but anything more and I can flip flop around with it for days
I still dislike the way Android forces you to pull down a very small strip of the screen on the top, so I was slightly disgusted when I saw iOS5 does the same now, hopefully the gesture picks up a much larger area for Apples implementation