Given that you need a google account to access YouTube in the first place, shouldn't google already have all the data they need here? They don't seem to gain much with this...

You don't need a Google account to access YouTube. You might need one to post comments, upload and access private videos - but it's not a necessity.

Almost positive you need one to thumbs up and down, which is where this becomes an issue.

I'm curious how this will work with google play music. if we can now upload songs through drive instead of that terrible slow desktop uploader, spotify may have just lost a customer...

I was in a similar place two years ago.

Everyone around me totally out classed and outsmarted me. I made friends with a guy who was freelancing on the side for a local company. I offered to help him in exchange for some tips and help. He said yes. I learned a bunch of front end stuff, and took on some freelance work of my own. One of my projects impressed a local company I met at an event and that turned into a full time job doing Android Development. I got called by one of my 4.0 classmates just last week asking if I could help them find an internship. It's funny how these things works.

Hang in there man, keep your head down and don't be afraid to ask for help. Its a hell of a lot more attainable than you think.

I googled the good doctor, and wow, you weren't kidding.

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html

He really does see the H1-B as some sort of Ragnarok for the American programmer.

I thought this was going to be about an apple printer...

The comments on that article really make me appreciate hacker news. I had forgotten how bad internet comments could be.

I had to use "PerfectScript" for something once. It was an awful awful experience.

This got me thinking... Are there any startups that are doing something similar with physical mail? I can picture a large centralized mail room with a bunch of industrial sized scanners, mail gets opened, scanned, and uploaded. Customers could access pdfs of their daily mail through a Web interface and could search through archives. Through in some super OCR and I think you'd really have something...

You know, when I started working on Postmark I thought that would make a fantastic April Fools joke.

then I discovered there really is a company that tries to do that. I can't remember the name though…

Earth Class Mail?

http://www.earthclassmail.com/

Whats the name of the book? I'd like to read it.

Yeah, it's not fair to make claims about a book like that without naming it!

I'm really not sure how well this kind of thing can scale. Without some formal accreditation process for instructors I can't see this bringing in corporate workshops and seminars which are where I'd guess the money is. Having to evaluate every instructor and every curriculum is going to only get harder as these sites grow.

Sadly, I think this kind of thing is going to stay firmly in the realm of the hobbyists.