electronslave

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by electronslave 17y ago
Having noticed a slight trend along these lines, I tend to avoid people who are violent and have under-developed social skills, as poor anger management strategies seem to ride along in the same bucket.
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by electronslave 17y ago
Drill. Like "drill down". It seems that trepanation might be a good response to someone using this word. "Could you drill down into my data set and shift some paradigms?" "Yes, and while I'm at it, I'll equalize your humours." WHIRR "
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by electronslave 17y ago
In all seriousness, this is why therapy and medication can seriously help a young person who's addressing difficult issues. When I was working on GNOME, we all knew _why was different. He used to come into #smooth and argue about colors a
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by electronslave 17y ago
It's been discussed a few times in the past, and always gets me thinking. Personally, I like the keep-away-caveman scenario: (somehow) engineer a structure to generate low-frequency harmonics for as long as that radioactive material's arou
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by electronslave 17y ago
Having watched a dear friend lose all his social capital, put his entire savings up his nose and nearly burn us both to death in a house fire, I can safely say that I'm disgusted. However, from a third world entrepreneurial standpoint, I ca
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by electronslave 17y ago
It's amusing to see all the nitpicking here. Heh. At the end of the day, it's about the people. Does this company actually care about the people working for it? Do you care about them? Honestly, all these "warning signs" seem like a gu
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by electronslave 17y ago
So, basically: the sort of person who loves to fling all their mental resources at a problem is, at the end of the day, a person without mental resources. And while competition is a great way to feel like you're showing up everyone else, y
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by electronslave 17y ago
Yeah, booth. Like a photo booth. Not like John Wilkes.
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by electronslave 17y ago
Must be one of those guys who doesn't ask for directions.
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by electronslave 17y ago
I'd be interested in seeing your proof for this claim. My experience has been the opposite: a stateless individual must entirely vanish from the map.
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by electronslave 17y ago
To reiterate other sentiments on this site: don't. Just. Don't. And if you're going to do it, get a prescription for Adderall. A physician is a valuable resource, even if you have to go out of pocket. Your average street dealer is guar
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by electronslave 17y ago
Also, from the Bing mention, buying Powerset != basic research. Yes, other stuff probably went into Bing, but that spade's a spade.
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by electronslave 17y ago
Read the Update: at the bottom, and you'll get a feel for the technical / journalistic aptitude of the writer. It really smacks of Mike Angelo's noisemaking at the early part of the decade: http://everything2.com/title/MozillaQuest Edit:
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by electronslave 17y ago
Roost.com has a JS/frontend open, and I would be grateful if you applied. (Yes, you!) The site hasn't been updated yet, but here's a link with a relevant email address: http://www.roost.com/web/jobs.action We're well-funded (Sequoia, Sha
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by electronslave 17y ago
Exactly. It's not that there are 39 Awesome Icebreakers For Hackers, but rather that I have stories and experiences that (more or less) relate to almost anyone I'm likely to meet. And yes, the stories are often more fun in the telling than
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by electronslave 17y ago
Point: You will be utterly lost. Counterpoint: So, too, will everyone else be lost. Use your time to maximize your experience as best you are able. If you are studious, study your brains out. If you are a doer, find a lab and camp out the
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by electronslave 17y ago
Dropping out is not an option. You 100% will have a much harder time with acceptance with most colleges (and asian parents.) I enjoyed turning on, tuning in and dropping out, fwiw. It's not for everyone, but life experience has fine-tune
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by electronslave 17y ago
Two syllables thoroughly trounce this and all other comers: BitJam http://podcast.bitfellas.org That is all. Go in peace. Edit: Less cryptically, this is all demoscene music -- the best minds of the last 25 years, remixed and mastered.
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by electronslave 17y ago
I was raised in Austria, and German was our home language. More than full immersion, it trained me to have an accent. That said, the best (not really fastest, persay) way to learn language is between the sheets. You learn SO much better w
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by electronslave 17y ago
I've had enough of this real-time web silliness. Threading and networking on the client side is exactly what it seems. "Real time" is something entirely different than a client-server metaphor, which is all this browser thing has ever been
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by electronslave 17y ago
As of right now (20090722 0700UTC) CodingCrypto has won. The programmer on both CodingCrypto and hashbreaker? Why, none other than our good friend -- and my personal hero -- djb! I have no doubt that the race was actually between seibert
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by electronslave 17y ago
I'll chime in. I won't say how I'm involved with Tom, but we've been associated in the past. Let's just say that the impression I had upon meeting him was that he's basically a tax-dodging former child star with an ongoing microfinance sc
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by electronslave 17y ago
First "job"? Hmm, probably one of those phone book delivery schemes at the age of 13 in rural Virginia. Paid $7/hr, all said. I split the take with a few car-owning friends and paid them less of the commission than I got ($5/hr, maybe?)