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* I found unreleased Atari and Colecovision games at a flea market in 2008 on bare EPROMs.
* My writing has been used to teach at Harvard, yet I flunked out of college.
* I've arranged big underground raves with international DJ's * I've successfully started a bar in Ibiza from scratch * I learnt PHP, javascript, SQL, CSS and HTML from scratch without any help * I hold three patents * I've done three startups * I survived an English boarding school * I bought a boat that I live on, which I've totally refurbished and redone without ever having had a screwdriver in my hand before. * I…
* I learnt PHP, javascript, SQL, CSS and HTML from scratch without any help I saw a few "taught myself [such and such]" in this thread and wonders what that means exactly. What do you mean by "from scratch without any help"? I wouldn't believe you didn't read anything at all about the languages because you can't just guess stuff like that :), but did you pick up a book and learn? did you read the documentation? If so…
Essentially, yes. Although, I've seen people who "learned" how to program from taking programming classes, and I'm starting to believe that, ultimately, the only way to learn to program is to learn it of your own volition, outside the context of an official class.
I've seen code from grad students in computer engineering (!) which was buggy, uncommented, poorly formatted, unindented, untested, poorly designed, and sometimes meaningless. Meanwhile, people who went out and learned how to program instead of having the knowledge taught at them manage to produce much better code, consistently.
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Metropolis and Asado are kind of hard to get to if you don't live on the North Side. Intelligentsia is nice for those of us who live/work in the loop.
Metropolis is worth the hike. They serve a great macchiato (a real one, not a starbucks monstrosity). I love any place that will throw away a shot if it doesn't look perfect.
(One time, a friend of mine who is from Seattle ended up behind me in line. I wondered for a second what city I was in :)
* I've arranged big underground raves with international DJ's * I've successfully started a bar in Ibiza from scratch * I learnt PHP, javascript, SQL, CSS and HTML from scratch without any help * I hold three patents * I've done three startups * I survived an English boarding school * I bought a boat that I live on, which I've totally refurbished and redone without ever having had a screwdriver in my hand before. * I…
* I learnt PHP, javascript, SQL, CSS and HTML from scratch without any help I saw a few "taught myself [such and such]" in this thread and wonders what that means exactly. What do you mean by "from scratch without any help"? I wouldn't believe you didn't read anything at all about the languages because you can't just guess stuff like that :), but did you pick up a book and learn? did you read the documentation? If so…
Basically my approach was to find a project I wanted to do, then simply do it, and ask Google as I went along. There were a few problems along the way, primarily in the beginning where I didn't have a clue as to why things didn't work and didn't have sufficient knowledge to know the right search phrases. It took me a long time to find out that your indexpage has to be called index.html for instance.
Later I found out that the project I was doing was actually much more complicated than first anticipated (it involved the entity-attribute-value model: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity-attribute-value_model and was rather ajax heavy) and I had some problems finding out how to tweak code, use objects properly, etc. It was a great learning experience though - and maybe a good product will come out of it.
* I've traveled to several continents * I've seen the olympics on TV * I've built a start-up from scratch and it's indexed by Google * I use consumer eletronic devices used by over 10m * I've watched feature length motion pictures [Many Titles] * I've had a lot of funny life experiences * I've seen pictures of Vladimir Putin
- I quit Google after hearing Steve Jobs Speak. - I won an IBM thinkpad from IBM. - I wrote a program that could sing. - I was slapped by a girl at the streets of Kolkata for wishing her good night. I was drunk. - I am doing what I love.
Eh? Why?
* I rented out a warehouse, filled it up with 1/2 dozen hackers and musicians, built some bedrooms, a stage, a sound system, a recording booth, a server closet, got a fractional T3 installed, and threw bi parties which covered 60-70% of our rent, essentially lived rent free for three years. * Built an application hosting & management firm with 4 employees and $1m+/year of gross-revenue, sold my half of it earlier thi…
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I believed the first one (7 continents) and paused on the second (Olympic gold medal). I never knew Michael Phelps used HN! (I'm glad I'm not the only one who made this mistake)
One member of the team I'm in (a freelancer) actually has a bronze olympic medal, so I wouldn't consider it impossible... =-)
I have lived 13 years within a 5-minute-walking distance from the beach. I still can't swim, but I always go deep.
I was a bartender in a private club and got to mix drinks for several individuals. I met Senators, actors, tech founders, multinational executives daily. I missed Angelina Jolie one afternoon by 10 minutes because I decided to go home 10 minutes earlier.