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by cmos 13y ago
I 'dropped out' of my life of making video games this summer, got rid of everything I own and set off on a journey across the US by bicycle. Every day I wake up in my tent and make a conscious decision to climb on the bike, with
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by cmos 13y ago
not quite the same ballpark, but many years ago I helped write testing code for the backend of a states drivers license creation system.. there was a back door for feds/cia to make any license they wanted. I imagine all states probabl
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by cmos 13y ago
This singlehandedly almost and should have killed my startup. And the problem was so evil.. not all mainboards got it at the same time.. it was a bell curve distribution, and it started with simple lockups that a reboot could fix (which re
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by cmos 14y ago
You done good. It's not supposed to be easy. You get an A for effort, and next time when you place your 120% into something you'll thank your younger self for getting the early learning phase out of the way when you were young and had unl
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by cmos 14y ago
It was the small New England town I grew up in outside of Boston. Typically they manage their own power distribution, and purchase power from a utility at a rate fixed by the highest peak usage of the year, which tends to be 1:00 sometime
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by cmos 14y ago
When I was 18 I took out half my towns power for 30 minutes with a bad scada command. It was my summer job before college and I went from cleaning the warehouse to programming the main SCADA control system in a couple weeks. Alarms went of
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by cmos 14y ago
The brilliant jerk will sabotage a growing company. When the company is no longer relying on their expertise the jerk needs to supplement the adrenaline rush of being important, so they create drama around the new people you have brought on
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by cmos 15y ago
... Because (the US at least) spends way too much money on war instead of curing disease, becoming energy independent, and educating our next generation.
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by cmos 15y ago
Friends. The best friends of my life were all in my all male dorm at an engineering school. We would geek out in the computer lab on friday nights, having the time of our lives. The bonding that can happen in an environment where you can
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by cmos 15y ago
I design toys that use magnets.. I end up carving my own tools out of wood so I can epoxy them in proper places. They are super annoying to make stay where you want them.. I would go crazy if I had one inside me.
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by cmos 15y ago
Albany, NY Vicarious Visions, an Activision Studio Come help make the next generation of video games! We have openings for: Software Engineer, Tools Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Network Software Engineer I'm a Software Engineer at V
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by cmos 15y ago
I'm pretty sure everything has a back door. I was a consultant writing test code for software that managed the license creation process for my state's DMV and we had two separate doors for the FBI and CIA. They could just type any informat
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by cmos 15y ago
Bob was taught by and getting advice from one of the best teachers of entrepreneurship, if such a thing can be taught, and he was still falling short. Not only was Bob unable to get away from himself, he wasn't able to take advice from a se
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by cmos 15y ago
The exact same thing happened to me. Non technical family members whom I hadn't contacted in years were now excited to join this 'linkedin' thing. That goddam company made it look like I was reaching out to people I haven't talked to in y
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by cmos 15y ago
Visit as many friends as you can. Road trip every weekend!
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by cmos 15y ago
I want a blog where I can put in IP addresses of my family so they can't see certain posts..
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by cmos 16y ago
normal american diet -> no meat, no dairy, no processed foods. dumb phone -> dumber phone 4 hours TV nightly -> no tv workaholic -> socialholic self doubt -> awesomeness technology lover and collector -> less is more
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Why I Make Dances(ptdc.org)
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by cmos 16y ago
About science fairs: I used to spend my summers working on my science fair project, then in the US (MA) win local and regional fairs to eventually get to the State Science Fair, where you could win $1k-3k in cash 'scholarships'. Better tha
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by cmos 16y ago
Embrace the you that you are and don't assume your broken. Any differences you have can be turned into advantages.
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by cmos 16y ago
I quit linkedin when, while trying to send a single person an invite, it sent one to my entire gmail address book. Since I didn't recall ever giving it my address book, and it was a seemingly almost purposely bad UI design that ended up wi
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by cmos 16y ago
can't it just get one from the server?
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by cmos 16y ago
I started a hardware company at the age of 23 and it was insanely difficult. Everything that could go wrong did. The challenges of designing production capable hardware and software, manufacturing, testing, packaging, shipping, supporting,
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by cmos 16y ago
Making small portable things with long power life can be difficult. Making money selling small volumes of custom hardware is even more tough. Why not make a sensor that clip onto your pillow? Then they could be powered by a wall socket, o
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by cmos 16y ago
What tragic thought! While his path may not be laced with such obvious success as Kevin Smith, the whole point of the tweet is that all it requires is passion and a willingness to follow it. Surely anyone is capable of that.
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by cmos 16y ago
We started in an old mansion, and offered a washer and dryer free at work. amazing results.
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by cmos 16y ago
Drivers Ed was taught by an old irish ex cop who was obsessed with talking about how much alcohol you could drink before you should not drive. His best piece of advice? Keep a jar of peanut butter in the glove compartment so when you get
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by cmos 16y ago
I went macrobiotic 4 months ago, which is similar to paleo in some ways sans the meat part (not an expert in either so this generalization might be somewhat off?) and with no other changes to my life I went from 165-168 lbs to 148-152 lbs.
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by cmos 16y ago
In high school instead of getting a summer job I would work on my science fair project once I learned they give out cash prizes called 'scholarships'. 3 years in a row I won first or second place in the State Science fair, and usually about
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by cmos 16y ago
True dat. Though a rare species indeed.

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