neodude

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by neodude 18y ago
I don't think I'd be able to survive corporate. I had a summer job doing IT-ish things in a small accountancy a couple years ago, at the end of the two months I was about to kill myself from the boredom and monotony. That expert advice is v
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by neodude 18y ago
Interesting - it is definitely an awesome time to be in publishing. I redid (as all freshmen tend to do) the paper's website, which was a huge learning experience. A lot of publications seem to have problems getting themselves online - coll
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by neodude 18y ago
Fleeting thoughts, constantly. Spending a lot of time bringing myself back from mini-tangents inside the brain; in mid-sentence, distracted by thought/sight/sound/smell and hence lost train of thought (dozens of time a day). I seem to do re
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by neodude 18y ago
I come from Hong Kong (luckily not too damaged by deafeningly unindividualistic culture) - and spent the two years before college in Norway ( http://www.uwc.org ). Also quite constrained by financial difficulties.
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by neodude 18y ago
I'm involved in two things: the newspaper, and this 'programming' group. The newspaper's been fun - I'm quite interested in the whole gambit of publishing. The programming group hasn't done anything because no one wants to spend time in it
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Ask HN: What should I try to do while still in college?
24 points by neodude 18y ago|92 comments
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by neodude 18y ago
I similarly found pre-university studies rather boring, rarely did the 'busywork' and skirted "on intuition" across most of it. Got me into a fancy named university, but only then to realise my ignorance of what 'work' was. I'm just about h
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by neodude 18y ago
To back up the food argument, I decided to become vegetarian a year or so ago (to the chagrin of my mother), and definitely noticed an increase in clarity and 'calm' mind. I changed in part because of this rumoured clarity effect, so placeb
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by neodude 18y ago
I 'have' ADD, and I'm able to focus perfectly fine, thank you. I don't want to derail the thread, but lately I've been thinking that ADD is more about a faster attention 'cycle' than pure inability to focus.
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by neodude 18y ago
Who are you? Are you my twin? I have exactly the same problem with programming, do the little tidying up actions almost reflexively now, AND I climb as well. Absolutely love that climbing all in your head. Joking aside, I'm a sophomore in c
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by neodude 18y ago
Probably the latter. Having Firebug IN the IDE would be invaluable and (r)evolutionary. A lot of the times I 'develop' by writing CSS in Firebug, then copy-and-paste the result into the actual CSS file. Hm. That means I want a WYSIWYG, actu
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by neodude 18y ago
I have a similar problem. A lot of the time I merely find myself developing infrastructure instead of developing features. Part of the problem is writing in PHP without a framework (or, rather, a semblance of my own); a more significant par
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by neodude 18y ago
Clearly, CSS is crying out for a good IDE. Not the Dreamweaver/WYSIWYG variety, but serious text editing features that are pretty standard to programming IDEs.
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by neodude 18y ago
YMMV, but it was absolutely fasinating for me, especially because I spent a significant portion of my teenage life swimming in a team, going to meets, etc. The antidotes in the article - even the subjective ones - resonate so well with my m
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by neodude 18y ago
There was this guy, I think his first name was Donald..
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by neodude 18y ago
The best bit of that speech was the business of looking in the mirror every morning and asking if you want to do what you're going to do that day. The trouble is, I'm going to college, I am saying "no" an awful lot of the time, but I'm not
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by neodude 18y ago
I'm a 20 year old college student - slap bang in the middle of your demographic - and I care they have a crappy OS, enough to move to a Mac. But that might also be because I'm also part of the tech community - by the virtue of reading YC?