Yeah that's really annoying. The search box in finder should apply to the current folder by default. Also I'd really like the option of just searching filename instead of filename and file contents. Instead I get like 100s of PDFs, binary files, crap. Anyone know an easy way to search a folder and it's subfolders for a partial filename?

Glad we all agree that Mac's finder is terrible. But yea, I just use terminal to navigate instead

Yikes! How much did you pay for this laptop? I didn't even know they still make hard drives less than 40 gigs.

Sounds like you bought a used laptop and someone installed windows 8 on top of it.

I didn't either - that's why i didnt even bother to look at the specs. It's brand new, i ordered it online from MS. It's supposed to be their "chromebook killer" priced at 170 or something crazy. It's sleek and light and the battery life is pretty good but ffs 20 gigs, lol.

That sucks. Yea those are netbooks. It will be terrible to program with since it probably has a small screen and keyboard. I would just put linux on it and use vim to code in c++. Then when it's time to turn in things with visual studio, just copy the files over to a windows computer.

Great thing about them is that they are light, small and cheap. And if it breaks or gets stolen, you won't have to break the bank.

Well, last semester I had this really horrible problem where every class I had had a ****load of stuff online. 2 online courses, obv online, and calculus had 30-50 problems a week on webassign. I work full time so I was completely unable to do anything while I was at work unless I printed out pages then transcribed them later back onto my computer at home. This was a huge PITA and last semester money was tight because I bought a car, this semester I decided not to repeat the same mistake again and obv none of my classes have anything online whatsoever. I just purchased the cheapest thing I could find.

soo the netbook is just for programming when I am at work, which serves its purpose pretty well. It's not as small as a lot of the smaller laptops I've seen.

Sweet, looks like I can help some guys out here to get more used to the weird parts of finder et al.
So let us gogogo.

Sounds like you're talking about moving items in the Launchpad?
Maybe I'm just blind to that wiggliness over time...

Finder does take some time to get used to. For moving stuff, I typically just open a new finder window with the destination, then drag across.
A single context menu shortcut to cut and paste would be useful. Pretty sure there is a way to get those, I just haven't bothered looking for it, yet.*

* Just did a quick search. Looks like you need to create scripts and a temp folder to be able to do that. So, ya, not looking pretty.

System Preferences -> Mission Control -> Hot Corners...
Have a look around there. That's how I do most of those things.
Alternatively, show desktop should be CMD+F3 (or fn+CMD+F3, depending on mac and setup.)

Having said that, I am totally comfortable tabbing between apps and windows with the provided shortcuts. So you may want to customise some additional ones.

Drag home to favorites, first thing I do on any new installation.
Change which one is shown on a new Finder window under (Finder) Preferences -> General

Ture dat.
If you're comfy with command line, this will beat Finder at just about anything.

Ya, that is pretty bad.
I use AppCleaner. Drag app onto that, it'll (almost always) find the files that should be trashed with it.

You can change that under (Finder) Preferences -> Advanced

Default folder, see above.
If you want to search for names only, you can wait for the drop down to appear, then select "file name matches", or prefix your search with "name: " ; e.g. "name: myfile.txt"

Anyone have experience with Scaldi or any other Scala DI frameworks (or for that matter Cake pattern or other DIY methods)?

We also used it for sales so adding ticket tracking in wasn't that big a deal and was better than what we were using before. We worked around the issue at the time and now we rarely send emails out of SF cause the business changed. We put in the request because we could not because we expected it to be addressed immediately. The people laughing were people I worked with who left and went to work at SF no the actual SF company.

**** finder, also **** having to override the default to remove finder from the taskbar.

I use TotalFinder. It's pretty awesome. I like having the visor come up from the bottom instead of having to find my finder window every time, and the split window makes dragging files around much easier. Also easily toggle between view system files and not view system files. A bunch of other stuff I don't use.

I'm getting the impression that recruiting companies are really just a bunch of sales people sitting in a room making cold-calls. I take it this is the "bad" recruiters?

I imagine that's how new recruiters have to start out. They don't have an existing client base of software developers to tap into.

Are you getting lots of calls?

I like it when a recruiter says "Even if you aren't looking for a job right now, I'd love to establish contact" or something like that. Then when you reply "Yeah sure I'll talk, not really looking right now though" - they never reply back. Ever.

Why would you ever say this over email? I have talked to recruiting and told them up front not looking right now. They still follow up and tell me about the team and reconnect months later.

If they're just going to blow me off the minute I'm not immediately interested I'd rather do it over email.

Mostly from people looking for Clojure, but all of it is from San *. I'm not interested in relocating to any of those areas nor do I want to waste my time traveling 100s of miles for an interview I'll bomb.

Others call and they say stuff like "Would you be interested in working for N?" Sure. "N is looking for someone with X years of experience."

Others are looking for Erlang, GoLang, or Scala, all of which is obviously up my alley. I got a call for Python a few weeks back, but eh.

Did anyone read my resume at all?

Anyways, I've been getting a lot of calls from the 408 area code, and I honestly don't know what to say to these people. It would have to be a 90% lock before I'd even consider relocating. But , for the most part, once they learn about my experience, they are like "How do you know these langauges... Uh, sorry, I though you were a good programmer, but I'll talk to my client and see what they say."

I do get local calls, which I don't know how to navigate. I feel like it is a huge waste of time though.

grep or find. very simple with old school unix tools

There is also mdfind, the osx command line version of finder search

I'd rather not have to go into terminal just to search by filename. Because now I'm stuck in terminal with a hard time dragging and dropping my files around. There's a reason why GUIs won out over the command line. Macs are better than windows at most things, but this is not one of them.

Why are you dragging/dropping files around? Seems terminal would be way more efficient for that kind of thing. Time spend organizing files/folders seems like a waste of developer time.

Search for
name: <part of or full file name>
Or if the prefix is too much to type wait a second for the dropdown to appear and select "name matches".

What I personally like about finder is the ability to quick preview selected files, and creating smart folders. Both options I have not seen in windows before switching over several years ago.
Yes, if you're used to windows, you'll struggle to get used to it. No doubt about that.
The only thing I still miss is the option to cut and paste files. I think TotalFinder has that added. Heard a lot of good things about it, haven't used it, yet, though.

Yeah I pretty much have iTerm2 open all the time

+1 on the installation issues. Once again I might have been ultradense but it was far from obvious that I had to drag an icon somewhere to finish the install process. It's also pretty ununified. Some installers just install away, sometimes you have to drag stuff, sometimes doubleclick.

I wonder if recruiters are becoming extinct actually. What value do they provide is the question that demands an answer.

For the client company the thinking I guess is that they don't have to spend as much money in filling job reqs. That seems debatable to me but admittedly I don't know for sure. Fees client companies would have to pay seem pretty high but again not sure.

For the job seeker they can get better access to the client companies but I have my doubts about that too. Many job reqs seem to be wish lists often with recruiters having little knowledge of what is really important to the client company. Then there are the fees the client company has to pay.

I'm having some major problems and wondering if anyone has done this before:

- I'm trying to install several python packages on a production cluster for a client. the OS is RHEL. the cluster has no access to the internet so no pip install. everything is manual
- specifically I'm having trouble with numpy, scipy, and scikit-learn because of the underlying linear algebra packages BLAS and LAPACK

the libraries import ok, e.g. 'import scipy' words, but 'from scipy import linregress' throws an error related to the linear algebra packages.

I got one node to work after hours of work and am having trouble replicating the work. the problem seems to be linking the packages.

specifically, on the nodes that don't work, I run the following:
import numpy as np
np.__config__.show()

I'll be more specific with error messages if anyone might be able to help (which I'd really appreciate!)

and everything is NOT AVAILABLE

I have compiled those packages so I'm not sure how to go about linking the numpy (and all others) install
to the right location for these packages.