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JPO’s steps for success: 1) find a community that’s technically awesome, and has a real sense of community 2) read, learn, do shit, share it, contribute something of value 3) participate in the community’s form of communication (e.g. mailing lists) (help people out, give feedback in areas you’ve actually learned about and done shit in) 4) go to events of said community 5) surround yourself with people way smarter than you are, shut up, listen, ask questions, take notes, really research the shit you didn’t understand afterwards 6) keep going to said events, speak up, engage, and let people associate your face with your name that they know from your worthwhile contributions 7) repeat from step 2 until the community considers you one of their own, and you’re (at least just barely) old enough to get past HR 8) find someone willing to give you a chance. Some is luck, but luck absolutely favors the prepared. If you want to get stuck by lightening, go climb a mountain in a thunderstorm. Here: go do shit that’s worthwhile and let it be known 9) profit 10) give back to help the next person do the same, and be willing to take a chance on someone when it’s your turn to pay it forward Cost of above: a sacrifice of time (perhaps years of your nights spent hacking instead of sleeping, perhaps a bad GPA), and maybe ~$600/event once or twice a year
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// Discussing weird hobbies. Re-ordered for clarity. jpo: My current hobby is reading about tax law echarlie: Why? haicen: Probably to learn how legal tax evasion works haicen: But realistically, you either have enough money to hire someone to figure that out, or you don't have enough money for it to matter jpo: No. You can hire someone to figure out how much you owe, but I haven’t been able to find someone who'd be able to tell me how to change what I'm doing to minimize future taxes in the first place jpo: Such people give standard advice which may be good for most people, but I am not most people, and am trying to save way more than a typical American and retire early, which means my tax considerations are not standard, and "just max roth" doesn't necessarily make sense jpo: So the best way is of course to write a program in Haskell that expresses tax laws as a directed graph of money-type transformations, express the resulting graph as a matrix, express your desired outcome as a fitness function, reduce said matrix, and out pops optimal tax avoidance strategy jpo: Of course, nobody takes this approach, they just look at single choices in isolation, and so the overall macro-scale outcome is suboptimal because they aren’t considering everything holistically haicen: I was with you except the Haskell part lukas: oh what's this, a real world useful application of haskell?!?!? jpo: actually yes! ;)
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// ca. 2009 < hokietux> ah christ < hokietux> there is UML in this paper < crofton|work> hahahahahah < hokietux> most retarded 'language'. ever. < hokietux> allow me to demonstrate how the idea for UML was created < hokietux> 'HAY GUYZ I HAVE THIS AWESOME IDEA LETS STANDARDIZE FUCKING CLIP ART! FUCKING STICK FIGURES! AND MAKE ALL ENGINEERS USE THEM TO DESCRIBE IDEAS! FUCKING AWESOME WE R SO SMRT! HIGH FIVE!" < hokietux> and then they had a pizza party. < hokietuxz> this probably happened at UVA.
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21:15 <+pew> .urb ricing 21:15 <+Wadsworth> To rice, or to [soup up] a crappy car with the mistaken idea that type 'R' [stickers] and performance [yellow paint] makes it go faster. - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ricing 21:37 <+pconte> ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 21:50 <+echarlie> lol 21:50 <+echarlie> I'm probably not coming; have homework and other stuff to do 21:50 <+pew> sorry I'll be busy using my new 4k monitor 21:50 <+pew> and headphones 21:50 <+pew> also hopefully making coffee tinctures 21:50 <+pew> cc kolhell 21:53 <+Southern_Gentleman> i am teaching class 22:01 <+kolhell> yum pew 22:01 <+kolhell> Also that's gonna be strong af XD 22:01 <+echarlie> I don't fucking understand why 22:02 <+kolhell> Lightly roast beans, grind, soak, then dilute with brewed (and mildly sweetened) espresso. I bet you could get something that equates to a shot of vodka and has 2 cups of coffee in it. 22:02 <+kolhell> That'd be like... fuck breakfast. 22:02 <+pew> oh no what have I done 22:02 <+kolhell> That and a banana and it's fucking go time lol
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19:12 <+echarlie> in the category of random shit I learnt from my safety trainings: apparently the romans used lead as a wine sweetener 19:17 <+Southern_Gentleman> so they died by lead poisoning one way or another 19:17 * pew calls dibs on echarlie's bike 19:18 <+pew> the road bike, specifically 19:18 <+echarlie> pew: what does that have to do with anything? 19:18 <+echarlie> besides, it's too big for you 19:18 <+pew> you drink wine 19:18 <+echarlie> I'm not roman 19:19 <+toocrazzzzy> lol 19:19 <+toocrazzzzy> wtf was that convo. 19:19 <+pew> you're not british either, that hasn't stopped you from speaking like them 19:19 <+echarlie> my question, too 19:19 <+echarlie> I don't speak like europeans; I just write like them 19:20 <+toocrazzzzy> I don't know which is worst. 19:20 <+echarlie> at least I don't use gaol as my prefered spelling of jail 19:21 <+haicen> Yeah. They used lead cups 19:21 <+pew> .ddg openbsd gaol 19:21 <+Wadsworth> pew: https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html 19:21 <+pew> .g openbsd gaol 19:21 <+Wadsworth> pew: https://man.openbsd.org/FreeBSD-11.1/jail.8
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14:13 <gig> i get so much shit at work for being the one guy who is still below drinking age 14:13 <gig> everyone here is a grad student in their mid-20s minimum, except for me 14:14 <pew> has alcohol ever touched ur lips 14:14 <gig> i drank moonshine when i was a kid 14:15 <marcusw> that's the most giggybyte thing I've ever heard