I came out of school with very little commitment to other people other than my student loans (~50k) and started working at a startup company. There is a huge risk working with a startup company, but I have my stock, I have my salary, and I have my seniority (I'm employee #4). 2 years later and now we do a couple million a year in business, and have 18 employees. (And as a side note I am typing this from my new private office in the new facility we just had built and moved into today.)
only 1 of the 3 washington mutuals in my area still have the traditional teller layout. the new design feels akward to me. when it is busy there are no defined lines to wait in. plus i've already left the bank with my money still in the tray that automatically dispenses it because it was low and out of sight.
I hope you are going to a school that offers a wide range of degrees. I always liked taking spare electives in non-technical classes. Also I would get into a good research program, usually this means paying your dues by volunteering your time until you prove yourself useful. I worked in 2 research centers and they offered enough diversity where I could change gears every couple of months. Also my current job has been a commercial spin-off of the research lab I was working in. So it can be pretty rewarding.
Back in the days of Windows 3.1 when I was 14-years old I didn't have the resources to by a lot of software. For me I switched over to Linux because out of the box I had a web, ftp, and telnet server and a half-decent compiler in GCC. I also liked that if I wanted to know how a certain program did something I just had to track down the location in source that did it. Now over the years as I have gotten a job and money in my pocket, and XP Professional comes with similar features I would say that I split my machines 50/50 over what runs Windows and what runs Linux based on what I want to do with them. But initially it was the lack of advance software that kept me away from Windows.
Because I drive 100+ mph all the time. They tried to take away my license, fine me, throw me in jail... but damn it driving less than 100 mph is for grannies and whimps.
i'm not the PS expert, but wouldn't that allow for some device independence? i wouldn't want web pages coming in as bitmaps (although i've seen some that do...)
Actually, if you watch the bonus features of the Back to the Future DVD the first movie wasn't suppose to be continued. Only after its huge commercial success were parts 2 and 3 even written.
Fuzzy Quote from one of the writers: "If I had known there was going to be a sequel I would never have put Jennifer in the car at the end of the first movie."
i am a year out of school and working at a high-growth startup thanks to 2 words "open source" (to be more specific: slackware, libnet, tcpdump / libpcap, ghex, gcc, dd, and kate)
i don't write open source code at work, i just use it to get the job (application security testing / dd'ing fresh images of XP and.NET onto the hd) done better.
Speaking of tortured nights, when I am sick in bed I have dreams of trying to write C programs to make the pain stop. Maybe I should try functional programming languages instead...
Back in the late-70's or early-80's some person responsible for data entry at the NCIC was given their 2 week notice. A few months later when that persons superior was on vacation they were pulled over on a routine traffic stop. Before long the guy was face down on the ground being handcuffed. Sometime during those 2 weeks the person being fired entered data into the system that their boss was wanted in several states for child molestation, rape, assault, etc etc. It took a lot of phone calls and explaining to get that guy released from custody.
The new policy after that was that people being fired were escorted out of the building.
did anyone else have a flood of nostalgia when reading this list? for me the best memories were from River City Ransom and Double Dragon. Willy Beamish was also up there on the list.
I noticed that Commander Keen was available a while back and I was actually going to buy it. But they wanted $15!!! for a download only game. The price point for a 13-year-old-download-only game should be about $5. I'm sure if I dug through the bargain bin at Toys R Us I could find a boxed version for $5.
The first time I was in a real chemistry class was 8th grade not too long after the Pentium was released. The first day I kept scanning the periodic table to see what the symbol for Pentium was.:)
The server connected to the cable modem under the end table in the living room was running for 167 days until my roommate was dusting and accidentally hit the power button (and even then acpid did a clean shutdown). I had it connected to the stereo and the TV, had 3 NICs in it, routed between 2 subnets, had a webcam, apache, smb, nfs, named, pure-ftpd, cups, and VNC running on a Duron 750 with Slackware 8.1.
Not that Slackware is the only distro that could do that, but still, it can keep up with the latest and greatest.
i know a company that is always making incremental upgrades to their 'legacy' software to take full advantage of newer hardware. it also allows them to do things like consalidate 5 old machines into 1 new machine with 20x the power so there are cycles to spare.
yeah, server companies benefit, but so do engineering and scientific institutions. some of my code runs faster on a 500 MHz Alpha than a 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 (with rambus memory)
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I came out of school with very little commitment to other people other than my student loans (~50k) and started working at a startup company. There is a huge risk working with a startup company, but I have my stock, I have my salary, and I have my seniority (I'm employee #4). 2 years later and now we do a couple million a year in business, and have 18 employees. (And as a side note I am typing this from my new private office in the new facility we just had built and moved into today.)
/me still isn't seeing the error... ?
I was thinking the same thing, thats an average of 100GB per employee. WTF?
only 1 of the 3 washington mutuals in my area still have the traditional teller layout. the new design feels akward to me. when it is busy there are no defined lines to wait in. plus i've already left the bank with my money still in the tray that automatically dispenses it because it was low and out of sight.
I hope you are going to a school that offers a wide range of degrees. I always liked taking spare electives in non-technical classes. Also I would get into a good research program, usually this means paying your dues by volunteering your time until you prove yourself useful. I worked in 2 research centers and they offered enough diversity where I could change gears every couple of months. Also my current job has been a commercial spin-off of the research lab I was working in. So it can be pretty rewarding.
Back in the days of Windows 3.1 when I was 14-years old I didn't have the resources to by a lot of software. For me I switched over to Linux because out of the box I had a web, ftp, and telnet server and a half-decent compiler in GCC. I also liked that if I wanted to know how a certain program did something I just had to track down the location in source that did it. Now over the years as I have gotten a job and money in my pocket, and XP Professional comes with similar features I would say that I split my machines 50/50 over what runs Windows and what runs Linux based on what I want to do with them. But initially it was the lack of advance software that kept me away from Windows.
hey, i'm in mel-b!!! i hardly have any spare time these days, but it sounds like fun.
+5 Informative to the first person who can supply a .torrent link...
top speed isn't even over 100
Because I drive 100+ mph all the time. They tried to take away my license, fine me, throw me in jail... but damn it driving less than 100 mph is for grannies and whimps.
i'm not the PS expert, but wouldn't that allow for some device independence? i wouldn't want web pages coming in as bitmaps (although i've seen some that do...)
Actually, if you watch the bonus features of the Back to the Future DVD the first movie wasn't suppose to be continued. Only after its huge commercial success were parts 2 and 3 even written.
Fuzzy Quote from one of the writers: "If I had known there was going to be a sequel I would never have put Jennifer in the car at the end of the first movie."
i am a year out of school and working at a high-growth startup thanks to 2 words "open source" (to be more specific: slackware, libnet, tcpdump / libpcap, ghex, gcc, dd, and kate)
.NET onto the hd) done better.
i don't write open source code at work, i just use it to get the job (application security testing / dd'ing fresh images of XP and
Speaking of tortured nights, when I am sick in bed I have dreams of trying to write C programs to make the pain stop. Maybe I should try functional programming languages instead...
Does it run Linux?
Back in the late-70's or early-80's some person responsible for data entry at the NCIC was given their 2 week notice. A few months later when that persons superior was on vacation they were pulled over on a routine traffic stop. Before long the guy was face down on the ground being handcuffed. Sometime during those 2 weeks the person being fired entered data into the system that their boss was wanted in several states for child molestation, rape, assault, etc etc. It took a lot of phone calls and explaining to get that guy released from custody.
The new policy after that was that people being fired were escorted out of the building.
USA! USA! USA!... oh wait.
I went to internationals last year, it was a blast. IBM knows how to host a programming contest
did anyone else have a flood of nostalgia when reading this list? for me the best memories were from River City Ransom and Double Dragon. Willy Beamish was also up there on the list.
I noticed that Commander Keen was available a while back and I was actually going to buy it. But they wanted $15!!! for a download only game. The price point for a 13-year-old-download-only game should be about $5. I'm sure if I dug through the bargain bin at Toys R Us I could find a boxed version for $5.
The first time I was in a real chemistry class was 8th grade not too long after the Pentium was released. The first day I kept scanning the periodic table to see what the symbol for Pentium was.
Coming soon to a McDonald's no where near me...
I remember the day that I was saddened that the /slakware directory didn't fit on a single 100MB Zip disk.
The server connected to the cable modem under the end table in the living room was running for 167 days until my roommate was dusting and accidentally hit the power button (and even then acpid did a clean shutdown). I had it connected to the stereo and the TV, had 3 NICs in it, routed between 2 subnets, had a webcam, apache, smb, nfs, named, pure-ftpd, cups, and VNC running on a Duron 750 with Slackware 8.1.
Not that Slackware is the only distro that could do that, but still, it can keep up with the latest and greatest.
i know a company that is always making incremental upgrades to their 'legacy' software to take full advantage of newer hardware. it also allows them to do things like consalidate 5 old machines into 1 new machine with 20x the power so there are cycles to spare.
yeah, server companies benefit, but so do engineering and scientific institutions. some of my code runs faster on a 500 MHz Alpha than a 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 (with rambus memory)