Nerdlife

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
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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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I’d like to touch on something that seems to be lacking lately, something very necessary to most aspects of life. The last 10%.
It’s incredibly easy to release a product. All you need to do is design something, manufacture it, and bam, you’re done. But releasing a really good product, the kind the [...]

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Just put in the finishing touches on my Facebook App, Conversations. Go check it out! The goal is to crash my webserver within the next month :).

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So yea, I’m currently at SuperHappyDevHouse for the next 10 hours. Maybe I’ll do something cool, maybe I won’t. Either way it’s bound to be awesome.
I’ll be updating this post with arbitrary info/comments as the day progresses.
4:59PM: Trying to figure out what to work on…already finished my Facebook app (details coming soon).
6:15PM: Wow, [...]

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