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From the page you just linked, Jobs's birth father was "the son of a self-made millionaire".

Did you?

I suspect it's not so much that he can't take more time off, but that he doesn't want to.

It's not impossible to solve those types of problems if you prepare ahead of time. I think that problem just requires dynamic programming/memoization, which is one of the things yo…

Please, tell us how you really feel

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I thought the fact that messages and photos are kept was a feature. As in, I can scroll back a decade in my photo albums and look at pictures from my high school graduation.

The fact that they are not is the whole basis of targeted advertising.

The difference is most people snorkeling for the first time do it with an instructor who is very much interested in their well-being. I don't think the guy who sells you LSD is gon…

I think it's a bit misleading to simply say "LSD is great and you should try it". It can be interesting, but also can be scary as fuck, and you should be in a good place mentally b…

Was it ever not normal?

My "screw this" moment was when I discovered you needed an internet connection to play Minesweeper.

Sounds like it was based on the "terrorist"-ness of his name, i.e. whether the name is on a watchlist, which (rightfully or wrongfully, in the West) correlates with "Muslimness".

I dunno, I slept in my office in grad school. It wasn't out of needing to feel like a hard worker or showing off or whatever, it was more that sometimes I just felt like working un…

Back in the day, I think many people equated AOL with "The Internet".

Why don't we ask the people who currently have no internet what they'd prefer?

I mean, if you wanted to be sure you wouldn't get caught with your mistress, you basically would have to wear a bag on your head, no? Or at least her meet her indoors. You certainl…

There's a big 'X' in the upper right corner of the box you can click to make it go away.

A quick Google yielded this: http://www.poseidonsaveslives.com/

Psychedelics have never helped me solve a complex mathematical problem, but they did help me solve some complex social problems.

Perhaps the point isn't that people with these traits always succeed, but rather that people who succeed all have these traits.

For me, the only use case of cash is "The tiny fraction of vendors who don't accept debit." Oh, and I guess under-the-table payments.

It's probably worth pointing out that Good Educator != Good Author. I have heard from people who would know that your guess is not so far off, but having taken classes from him I c…

IMO the best choice for a calendar is three separate boxes clearly labeled "MM", "DD", and "YYYY" in some order, preferably with the property that once the second (or fourth) chara…