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* I am the webdev for the alumni committee of my college (the first freshman to do so).
* A turn to man for circuitry for the robotics club.
* Beat MTech Students in debates and Treasure Hunt in a recent techfest at our college.
OK nothing glamorous in there but Just wanted to add something.
* started my first 'gig' translating books/magazines, printing them in a borrowed dot-matrix printer and selling around the town (at age 9). Also wrote original pieces about videogames and stuff (sold around 100-200 copies, heh)
* got my first programming-related 'prize' at school (age 11): won a couple of books because of an RPG game I did in LOGO (self taught) for a science fair
* rooted two ISPs back in the 90's - one by going through their garbage bins and finding password info, other by cold-calling at night and convincing the security guy to hand in some info. No harm done, but it was fun fun fun
* founded and leaded a programming 'association' (PBJug, a Java User Group) - the first one in my hometown's region (now with 500 people signed up)
* got a couple of articles published as reference material on PhD and Msc thesis of people I don't even know. I'm a college dropout, btw
* had access to a lot of prototype mobile phones from two different makers. Now THAT's something to brag, for a gadget-addict
* programmed an easter egg into a very popular mobile phone - you'd see me (and the rest of the dev team) by pressing 666# while in the file browser app. They've added easter eggs on new phones after that, to keep up with the 'tradition'
fixed a bug in a finance system that saved 4mi euros from one customer. Got a "thank's from noticing" from middle management and that was about it
* went from nothing (born in a small town w/ a relatively poor family) to live and work abroad, in some very respected companies (IBM, Siemens and the like), despite everyone saying I was crazy for even trying.
* went from working to high profile companies to starting up, despite everyone saying I was crazy for leaving those jobs behind
* founded 4 companies so far, all on software (different areas - one still open, just starting the 4th one)
* survived from death at least a dozen times: one from drowning at sea, one car crash, couple of very strong electric shocks, mugged (with a gun) twice, jumped into a pool with some electrical wire hanging on and almost drown/got electrocuted. Still alive and very proud of my nine-lives syndrome
* travelled 100k miles in a single year
* lost 40kg in 6 months
* drove at 200km/h in a German highway. Priceless!
* married an amazing woman and got the cutest dog on earth (named Frodo) :-)
Hacker News > Lists > Most Active Theads > "Ask HN: Cool Things You've Done (Brag Thread)" 187 Comments in 9 hours haha I guess everyone's favourite subject ultimately is themselves
I strongly believe in initiative, achievement, and success, but for some reason, I find this thread a little troubling. Not because it's bragging, but because it's seems to be mostly about "me me me". I'd rather hear people brag about what they've done for others. At the time I write this comment, most other comments are about "me". Noteable exceptions: - jgrahamc obtaining a government apology for the mistreatment o…
I'm very interested in reading about the accomplishments of others, especially when they're particularly unique -- and I was happy to share my own. I don't want my contribution to this interesting discussion to be read as "me me me", so I've removed it.
Sure, telling stories about what you've done for others is great but that shouldn't preclude telling your others accomplishments. I can't understand why someone would take these comments as "me me me" when they were solicited and there's clearly a very interested audience.
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You forgot "I started Tarsnap."
I don't really consider Tarsnap to be in the same category as those. Sure, I think Tarsnap is a fantastic online backup system; but that's rather subjective. If/when Tarsnap becomes wildly successful, I'll be able to make the objective claim of "I started a company which (is making $X/year profit | I sold for $Y | has N customers | etc. )" but until that happens, Tarsnap isn't really something to "brag" about.
I don't normally mention this stuff, but since you asked... * I started at university when I was 13. * I won the Putnam Competition. * I hold a world record for computing Pi. * My bsdiff binary patching tool is used on tens of millions of computers and has saved several hundred human-years of waiting for software updates to download. * I found a security bug in an Intel CPU. (Osvik/Shamir/Tromer also found it, but I…
Whoa, respect to you Sir. It's funny how reading people's comments on HN makes me feel I "know" them. Your comments are usually excellent. But I would have never thought you were so good. Ok, back to centering that bloody div.
div.centered {
width: *x*;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
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Whoa, respect to you Sir. It's funny how reading people's comments on HN makes me feel I "know" them. Your comments are usually excellent. But I would have never thought you were so good. Ok, back to centering that bloody div.
> Ok, back to centering that bloody div. div.centered { width: *x*; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; }
oh, this isn't the css-bashing thread? whoops.
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> Ok, back to centering that bloody div. div.centered { width: *x*; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; }
i just went through this myself. that will center the content horizontally, but only if you can declare the width. why can't i just say "use the width of the longest element in the div?" and if you want to center vertically, forget it. might as well use a instead. oh, this isn't the css-bashing thread? whoops.
You can add as many column divs as you like.
Note that the html { height:100% } is needed when in HTML5 mode.
html, body { height:100%; margin: 0 auto; }
body { display: table; vertical-align: middle; }
.column { display:table-cell; vertical-align: middle; }
p { text-align: center; }
holy cow!
it worked!
Trying to raise a start-up since last two years with a laptop, which is broken in the middle and I have to use a support each time when i work on it. Needless to say it's also a v v v very slow one.
That sounds like a horrible decision. If there's any way you can scrape together even like $400 for a cheap, but actually functional and fairly fast, computer, do so. It's a poor workman who blames his tools, but partially because a good workman will realize when investing in good tools is well worth it. It sounds like that's taking a significant productivity hit on you, which is not worth it.
I think you misunderstood my point by assuming it as a decision. Im from india and those things dont cost cheap in here specially when i wasn't earning anything had only debt to pay to.
(P.S. I wish I could delete my thread now, wasn't worth it. Completely stupid!)
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i just went through this myself. that will center the content horizontally, but only if you can declare the width. why can't i just say "use the width of the longest element in the div?" and if you want to center vertically, forget it. might as well use a instead. oh, this isn't the css-bashing thread? whoops.
Here you go. Should work in all browsers except IE7 and earlier. You can add as many column divs as you like. Note that the html { height:100% } is needed when in HTML5 mode. html, body { height:100%; margin: 0 auto; } body { display: table; vertical-align: middle; } .column { display:table-cell; vertical-align: middle; } p { text-align: center; } holy cow! it worked!
i was afraid that your method would screw up lists the way most of my attempts did, where the bullets would wind up stuck to the left margin while the text strings are goofily centered in the middle, but no, your way presents lists properly as well.
your code snippet is going into production for my iphone card game, to replace this awful hacked-together menu i made:
http://www.platinumball.net/hearts/png/orig_help_large.png
thanks!
