201–210 of 253 posts
I've successfully conditioned every manager I've ever worked for to accept rolling in around 10:30 as normal.
I always aim to come at work at 10, yet always, I end up coming at 10.20-10.25.
I am always punctual and late at the same time. The Mediterranean clock on me still running even in the west coast.
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.
It sounds like that's taking a significant productivity hit on you, which is not worth it.
* Graduated university at age 16, Math PhD at age 20 (RPI) * Performed with New York City Ballet * Sang with Placido Domingo * Founding investor in Napster * Credited as a pioneer in social networking, founding pioneering one in 2001, which heavily influenced Friendster which led to myspace, facebook etc. * Acted in Sundance Feature Film competition selection * Now doing next big thing, hehe ;)
You, sir, are an inspiration. Graduated at age 16? Wow. I only managed to drop out twice (undergrad) but some how ended up in graduate school (took my first midterm today (MS CE)).
* Graduated university at age 16, Math PhD at age 20 (RPI) * Performed with New York City Ballet * Sang with Placido Domingo * Founding investor in Napster * Credited as a pioneer in social networking, founding pioneering one in 2001, which heavily influenced Friendster which led to myspace, facebook etc. * Acted in Sundance Feature Film competition selection * Now doing next big thing, hehe ;)
Just out of interest, what was the one in 2001?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You, sir, are an inspiration. Graduated at age 16? Wow. I only managed to drop out twice (undergrad) but some how ended up in graduate school (took my first midterm today (MS CE)).
Thank you. The biggest items helping me with this were 1) never enrolling in high school, 2) RPI gave me credit for coursework I had done but had not officially received credit for outside the system, and 3) careful management and fine-tuning of graduation requirements, along with a slightly higher than average courseload. It would have been nice if I'd thought ahead a little more as I was not well prepared for grad…
* 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…
Shamelessly copying that warehouse idea is very tempting.
I was just in one a few nights ago over in Oakland that a friend is living in now. We did some exploring and found an old boiler-room, remnant of an old structure that the warehouse was built over. You'd never find something that fun in some yuppy live/work loft. http://twitter.com/mhalligan/status/10614020589 has a photo of their main living space.
* Appear in the background in a movie scene with Judd Nelson (John Bender from the Breakfast Club).
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…
Dude, I saw Dan_Sim's comment below and I think you're headed for a world of hurt pretending that you are GST exempt if you ignore Canadians. You need to speak with an accountant - if CRA decides to audit you (as they would seeing that you are declaring income with no GST remittance) you could be in a world of hurt. See here: http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/are-you-billing-gst-correctly... Oh, and your list makes me f…
* 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.)
* I was also inducted into Mu Alpha Theta in 11th grade (the earliest you can be) and was state alternate for the Governor's Honors program in the subject of Journalism.
* I have a 22 year old son with cystic fibrosis who has not been on antibiotics in 12 years and has needed no medication at all in 3 years or so.
* My sons and I live without a car and walking is our primary mode of transit, in spite of two of us having CF which means we are supposed to be deathly ill.
* My divorce was amicable in spite of my family background. (In contrast, when my two siblings got divorced, their spouses made attempts on their lives.)
* As of last summer, I am drug free, having gotten off about 8 or 9 prescription drugs and then gotten off the OTC drugs that replaced them.
* I genuinely like men, as friends and lovers, in spite of having the kind of childhood that tends to produce women with multiple personality disorder.
* I am the one who decided to get divorced, not my husband, even though I was deathly ill at the time and had been a homemaker almost my entire adult life.
* Now that I am basically well for the first time in my life, I think my best years are ahead of me, not behind me. I'm 44. :-)