bgutierrez

Broadband caps are a drag, but I would enjoy thinking of ways to deliver cool web-apps that are light on bandwidth usage.

Agreed. Communications devices can't be distributed without also sharing their method of communication. This is why we all know the number 0x09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0 as the key to decrypting HD-DVD movies.

It's an example of management that knows their business and takes knowing it seriously. In Joel's mind, this is good.

Where are you located? The companies I'm in never seem to fill all their developer positions.

Agreed. A couple of weeks as a bare minimum, to give engineers a chance to make fixes and test thoroughly.

Agreed. I had some hope that earlier issues could give me some perspective on the progress of AI research.

I listened to Taleb speak at the Long Now and all he really said was, "The future is hard to predict." He was either underestimating the crowd and pulling his punches, or he had very little to say in the first place. Either way, I'm passing on The Black Swan.

Congratulations, Paul!

I had a kneeling chair. It was great for 10 minutes, but after several weeks I got fed up with the strain it put on my lower back.

Absolutely.

This is a great example of a major benefit of extending human life: Having people that have witnessed history to guide us through future problems.

Seeing "Best blank ever" on Hacker News scares the hell out of me.

Even if it's about user manuals.

I lost 10-15 pounds since I started biking five miles to work and back. I have no patience for exercise for the sake of exercise, so it is the only thing I can consistently do to get my heart rate up.

That is cool. My username returns my profile here as the number one hit. I had no idea it would score so highly.

I once dated a girl who said to me: "Barnes and Noble? What's that?" and "I've only read two books in my life."

But she was the one that broke it off.

Now I'm marrying someone that I worked with in a bookstore.

Whatever day it is, count me in.

I highly recommend watching the actual lecture. Those are just Vinge's notes.

http://www.wholeearthfilms.com/vinge_vernor.html

Living in San Francisco:

$1000 is the starting price for rent on a decent studio and can get as high as you want, depending on the neighborhood.

Food can be cheap enough if you shop at Trader Joe's and eat out at Tommy's Joynt. (Say, $300 a month.) I like to eat out more often and spend $600-$700 on food each month for me and my girlfriend. We don't go out drinking very often, but when we do, it's easily $100 a night for several drinks, pizza, and a cab ride home.

I don't own a car, but when I did it was $150/month for a spot in a garage and $40 for parking tickets. Public transportation is great and the city has a strong bicycle advocacy group, so that's what I choose.

I highly recommend living in the city if you aren't bothered by crowds, and there are plenty of software companies here. (For anyone that is a PHP and JavaScript pro, I can pass on a resume to the hiring manager here at Trulia.)

Let me know if you have any questions!

No. Now I read Hacker News.

No degree, some CS classes, lots of books.

Not lately.

Yeah. I'll send you an email.

Trulia. Someone else's startup. It's amazing, and I highly recommend it.

I've never done acid, but the more I look at these, the more I think that the entire story is bullshit.

Just the last few years of high school.