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- 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.
I quit Google after hearing Steve Jobs Speak Eh? Why?
I kind of feel like no one here will care/be able to relate, but these are some of the things I am proud of: * I graduated high school as STAR student and a national merit scholarship winner -- while missing 18 or 19 days of school every year and dragging myself to school sick much of the rest of the time and also being called "lazy" and told I "wasn't really sick". (I wasn't diagnosed with CF until I was almost 36.)…
Congratulations, it looks like you've had a tough deck to play with and you're making the most of it.
* Wrote a 30 day blog that was read by thousands of people and inspired many (several of whom saw fit to befriend me on Facebook) * Work full time as a software engineer with a 6 figure income without having gone to college. * Organizing the Seattle Alt.NET Conference for 2010 (looking to be around a 100 person conference this year) * Was accepted into a class for gifted students in elementary school. * Had a highsch…
I kind of feel like no one here will care/be able to relate, but these are some of the things I am proud of: * I graduated high school as STAR student and a national merit scholarship winner -- while missing 18 or 19 days of school every year and dragging myself to school sick much of the rest of the time and also being called "lazy" and told I "wasn't really sick". (I wasn't diagnosed with CF until I was almost 36.)…
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I built a personal point scoring system where one of the awards was "waking up on time." So +1 for that. +3 if you floss your teeth tonight.
Interesting. Is it posted somewhere? Can we see it?
I died at age 5/6 (am now 26)...well...technically I had a cardiac arrest and my heart stopped beating for 15 - 20 minutes.
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I agree. I'm rather disappointed in HN's readership that they voted my response up higher than patio11's.
That may be because everybody here would agree that in Patricks position they'd do the same thing, but hardly anybody can see themselves even getting to parity with what you've done.
I can't point to anything I've accomplished as being entirely independent of the advantages my parents gave me; what makes my circumstances any different from Patrick's?
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Do it! I've lived in 3 warehouses now, and am looking for a new space this summer when my apartment lease runs out. The key to warehouse living is to find an unassuming, out of the way warehouse (so as not to attract attention from the authorities), with a landlord who knows what you're doing and is fine with it, and to establish really good relations with the neighboring businesses who will otherwise be annoyed that…
I'd love to see some more pics of these warehouses, I've always wanted to live in something like that.
if I dig around I can probably find more, and I'm hoping to do a shoot at that oakland warehouse this weekend, especially the basement :)