August 2012
11 posts
Brooklyn Hacker: What A Hacker Learns After A Year... →
brooklynhacker:
A year ago last Friday I left eight years cutting code and plumbing servers to take my very first marketing job. Prior to then and even before in college and high school, hard skills were what paid my bills - technical work building stuff mostly for the Internet. Everything I had done up until…
“We want people who can craft both kernel exploits and memorable prose.”
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My roommate certainly knows how to make me feel...
Bill Kowalsky: Also while i'm venting -- (this is the last little bit i promise) -- my neighbor invited me over
Siddarth Chandrasekaran: heh nice
Bill Kowalsky: and he is a BIG TIME believer in astrology
Siddarth Chandrasekaran: oh no
Bill Kowalsky: the most frustrating conversation i've ever had in my entire life. I didn't know they made people that stupid. so i feel ya.
Siddarth Chandrasekaran: hahahahahahahahah
Bill Kowalsky: like it was in fact comical. he was like "I will convert you to astrology" "you're virgo?"
Siddarth Chandrasekaran: lol
Bill Kowalsky: "well you won't believe this—virgo is critical and analytic" #whoa
Siddarth Chandrasekaran: ahaha
Bill Kowalsky: literally retarded. anyway the ironic denouement. after trying to argue with him he finally says "well man, you're virgo, you're skeptical. I'm pices. it's in my nature to just…/believe/ "
Siddarth Chandrasekaran: OH SHIT I'M PISCES TOO I SUDDENLY JUST STARTED TO BELIEVE IN ASTROLOGY
Bill Kowalsky: hahahaha
Hilary Putnam's last lecture at Harvard. →
Terrific read.
