Nerdlife

As stated in my previous post, I will be starting (or trying to start) a polyphasic sleep cycle, specifically the Everyman variety, while at college and across timezones. Here’s how it’s going to work:

I begin today, Monday, by sleeping from now (1AM PDT) until 5AM PDT and having a short nap at 9AM, [...]

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Well, I just spent the day at SuperHappyDevHouse 19. Some highlights of the evening:

Having an hour-long conversation about dropping out of college, and again finding that everyone in the near vicinity feels that I should
Meeting an entrepreneur in silicon valley younger than I am
Being (easily) convinced by Chris Smoak (who doesn’t seem to have [...]

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// NOTE(mcslee): ok, at this point we know we are going to display the full
// page, so it is time to do a PHATTY PHATTY MULTIGET of all the shit that
// we are going to need to make this page, or at least the most common things
...

Yea, so Simon from Facebook’s legal department sent a very nice Cease & Desist email politely demanding that I take down the code (note that I never implied anywhere on this site that it was Facebook’s code, nor have I broken any laws in obtaining said code), but I figured the above lines, used for the sake of comedy, are kosher. Funny how the last name in those parenthesis matches up with one of Facebook’s (and Google’s, and Motorola’s), though I of course imply no connection.

Sorry Simon for making you log on late on a Friday to send that email.

Completely Random Pretty Code From Nowhere in Particular (Removed due to Facebook’s very quickly sent Cease & Desist)

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We interrupt your normally pseudo-serious blog for a moment of hilarity.
Minesweeper : The Movie
Take a moment and play a game, you’ll have plenty of time for going crazy later.
And since I haven’t posted much of substance lately, here’s what’s coming up for all you eager folk:

A wrapup from interning at Yahoo!
Grad school: Is it worth [...]

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Gizmodo UK : Oops, iPhone Display Needs to Reboot, Runs Windows XP
Gave me a good chuckle over an otherwise boring weekend.

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