#I regret being a junior software engineer

[librarianofdreams]

oh god. and if I may ask, how did you then manage to become.. well, not a software engineer?

have i told you guys i used to be a software engineer. because i used to be a software engineer.

[transparenttriumphzombie]

Danielle Bunten Berry (February 19, 1949 – July 3, 1998), formerly known as Dan Bunten, was an American game designer and programmer, known for the 1983 game M.U.L.E., one of the first influential multiplayer video games, and 1984's The Seven Cities of Gold.

In 1998, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Computer Game Developers Association. In 2007, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences chose Bunten as the 10th inductee into its Hall of Fame.

Bunten was born in St. Louis, Missouri and moved to Little Rock, Arkansas as a junior in high school. She was the oldest of six siblings. While growing up in Little Rock, Bunten's family didn't always have enough money to make ends meet, so Bunten took a job at a pharmacy. She also held a leadership role with the Boy Scouts.

According to Bunten, one of her fondest childhood memories involved playing games with her family. She was quoted saying, “When I was a kid, the only times my family spent together that weren’t totally dysfunctional were when we were playing games. Consequently, I believe games are a wonderful way to socialize.”

While attending the University of Arkansas, she opened up her own bike shop called Highroller Cyclerie. Bunten acquired a degree in industrial engineering in 1974 and started programming text-based video games as a hobby. After she graduated from college, she was employed by the National Science Foundation, where she created urban models before starting a job at a video game company.

In 1978, Bunten sold a real-time auction game for the Apple II titled Wheeler Dealers to a Canadian software company, Speakeasy Software. This early multiplayer game required a custom controller, raising its price to USD$35 in an era of $15 games sold in plastic bags. It sold only 50 copies.

After producing three titles for SSI, Bunten, who by then had founded a software company called Ozark Softscape, caught the attention of Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins. M.U.L.E. was Bunten's first game for EA, originally published for the Atari 8-bit family because the Atari 800 had four controller ports. Bunten later ported it to the Commodore 64. While its sales - 30,000 units - were not high, the game developed a cult following and was widely pirated. The game setting was inspired by the novel Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein.

Along with the success of M.U.L.E., Berry also had close ties with the games Robot Rascals, Heart of Africa, and Cartels & Cutthroat$. Throughout her career, she was involved in the creation of 12 games, 10 of which revolved around multiplayer compatibility. The only two which didn't have a multiplayer focus were Seven Cities of Gold and Heart of Africa.

Bunten wanted to follow up M.U.L.E. with a game that would have been similar to the later game Civilization, but after fellow Ozark Softscape partners balked at the idea, Bunten followed with The Seven Cities of Gold, which proved popular because of its simplicity. By the time the continent data were stored in the computer's memory, there was little left for fancy graphics or complex gameplay - the game had only five resources. It was a hit, selling more than 150,000 copies.

The follow-up game, Heart of Africa, appeared in 1985 and was followed by Robot Rascals, a combination computer/card game that had no single-player mode and sold only 9,000 copies, and 1988's Modem Wars, one of the early games played by two players over a dial-up modem.  Modem Wars was ahead of its time, as few people in the late 1980s had modems in their homes.

Bunten departed EA for MicroProse. Allegedly, Trip Hawkins, CEO of EA, did not feel that pushing production of games onto a cartridge based system was a good idea. The shift was important to Bunten, as computer games had previously been distributed on floppy discs, and a changeover to a cartridge system would allow games to be played on Nintendo systems. This was a significant factor in her decision to leave. She then developed a computer version of the board game Axis and Allies, which became 1990's Command HQ, a modem/network grand strategy wargame. Bunten's second and last game for MicroProse was 1992's Global Conquest, a 4-player network/modem war game. It was the first 4-player network game from a major publisher. Bunten was a strong advocate of multi-player online games, observing that, "No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.'"

A port of M.U.L.E. to the Mega Drive/Genesis was cancelled after Bunten refused to put guns and bombs in the game, feeling it would alter the game too much from its original concept. In 1997, Bunten shifted focus to multiplayer games over the Internet with Warsport, a remake of Modem Wars that debuted on the MPlayer.com game network.

Less than a year after the release of Warsport, Bunten was diagnosed with lung cancer presumably related to years of heavy smoking. She died on July 3, 1998. At the time, she was working on the design of an Internet version of M.U.L.E..

The game's primary premise consisted of players playing with and against one another to establish total control over a planet. The name of the game stands for Multiple Use Labor Element. The game was originally made for the Atari 400 and Atari 800 but was later developed to be compatible with the Commodore 64, NES, and IBM pcjr. The game has a maximum of four players. Players are given different options and choices, and are allowed to create their colony the way they see fit. This can be done by changing races and giving respective colonies different advantages that will impact the way the game is played and determined later on down the line.

Ultimately there are two ways in which players can win the game. The first way is by having the most amount of money out of all four players, and the second way is by being able to survive the colony itself. The game focuses heavily on going out and retrieving resources that can be used to benefit their character. Items such as food, energy, and crystite are some of a number of in-game items that players are able to retrieve and use to better themselves. In order for a player to be able to access these items, they will first have to have access to a M.U.L.E. The acquisition of these items has a direct reflection on what the player will be allowed to do. For example, if a player doesn't have enough food, they will have less time during their turn.

The Seven Cities of Gold was originally intended to be another multiplayer game. It was originally a single player format, focused heavily on having the players travel around the map and collect items to help them strengthen their colony. Once they felt as though they had a solid colony, the players could battle each other to see who could overtake who After much consideration, Ozark Software came to the conclusion that this would not be doable. Instead, they went with a formula that had the game focus solely on developing a colony.

Ozark Softscape was a computer game development team consisting initially of Danielle Bunten, her brother Bill Bunten, Jim Rushing, and Alan Watson. Ozark was run out of Bunten's basement. The company was based out of Little Rock, Arkansas and had profound success with a few of their early titles. Ozark Softscape had a publishing deal with Electronic Arts for several of its groundbreaking games. In the early 1990s, Ozark Softscape left its partnership with Electronic Arts over a dispute to port some games to cartridge format for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It began a partnership with MicroProse to produce two more titles: Command HQ and Global Conquest. A dispute occurred over creating a follow-up to M.U.L.E. with Sega in 1993, and the company dissolved. The employees of Ozark Softscape moved to different areas of the software industry. 

Bunten was married three times. Bunten had three children, one daughter and two sons. After a third divorce, Bunten, who had until then been living as male, transitioned to living as a woman. Bunten underwent sex reassignment surgery in November 1992 and afterward kept a lower profile in the games industry. Bunten later regretted having surgery, finding that for her, the drawbacks of surgical transition outweighed the benefits, and wishing she had considered alternative approaches. She joked that the surgery was to improve the video game industry's male/female ratio and aesthetics, but advised others considering a sex change not to proceed unless there was no alternative and warned them of the cost, saying "Being my 'real self' could have included having a penis and including more femininity in whatever forms made sense. I didn't know that until too late and now I have to make the best of the life I've stumbled into. I just wish I would have tried more options before I jumped off the precipice."

After her transition in fall 1992, Bunten stayed out of the video game spotlight, mostly keeping to herself. She felt as though that after transitioning she was not as good at video game development as she had previously been, stating "So, I'm a little more than three years into my new life role as Ms. Danielle Berry, and her career looks to be somewhat different from old Mr. Dan Bunten's. For one thing, I'm not as good a programmer as he was." On July 3, 1998, Berry died of lung cancer.

Wheeler Dealers (1978)

Cartels & Cutthroats (1981)

Computer Quarterback (1981)

Cytron Masters (1982)

M.U.L.E. (1983)

The Seven Cities of Gold (1984)

Heart of Africa (1985)

Robot Rascals (1986)

Modem Wars (1988)

Command HQ (1990)

Global Conquest (1992)

Warsport (1997)

Although many of Bunten's titles were not commercially successful, they were widely recognized by the industry as being ahead of their time. On May 7, 1998, less than two months before her death, Berry was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Computer Game Developers Association.

In 2000, Will Wright dedicated his blockbuster hit The Sims to Bunten's memory. In 2007, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences chose Bunten to be inducted into its Hall of Fame. Sid Meier, the mastermind behind the video game series Civilization, inducted her at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.

Bunten was a true pioneer for the video game industry, especially its multiplayer aspect of it. She is regarded by many as one of the best designers to ever grace the video game industry. Her success has even led people to make the claim that the work she did with games like M.U.L.E and Seven Cities of Gold was the inspiration behind highly successful modern multiplayer games like World of Warcraft.

Bunten was known as someone who was very easy to talk to. If someone recognized her in public, she would be more than delighted to have a conversation with them.

[spoiledveins]

      💀  * [ ariana grande + demigirl + she/they ] —— have you met carmen 'cj' scaletta? they are a twenty-five year old junior currently studying software engineering. they live on decker house, and word around campus is that this gemini is outgoing + intelligent, as well as unreliable + nosy. i wonder if they’ll make it out alive. staring at code and trying to figure out what's wrong, half finished mugs of coffee, and a smile that doesn't quite reach the eyes.  [ ooc: opossum. 18. she/they & est. ]

      — it’s me again.... unfortunately. this is my other baby, cj. her name is carmen but pls don’t call her that,, she will probably kill u. i’m still opossum, i’m still eighteen, and i’m gonna go right into it like i did with amelie.

𝐵  𝐴  𝑆  𝐼  𝐶   ╱  𝐹  𝐴  𝐶  𝑇  𝑆    

    𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟  𝗡𝗔𝗠𝗘  :  carmen jane scaletta            𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗡𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗦  :  cj, caramel            𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥  :  demigirl           𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗦  :  she / they                   𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘  𝗢𝗙  𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗛  :  june 3rd, 1995               𝗛𝗘𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧  :  five feet      𝗦𝗘𝗫𝗨𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬  :  pansexual / panromantic               𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘  𝗧𝗢𝗪𝗡  :  las vegas, nevada

she was born in sicily, but moved to vegas when she was about one year old

yes u can judge me for what i’m abt to say. yes it is overdone. i’m sorry i’m not original please love me anyways. anyways. her family was very heavily involved with the mafia, her father being a made man (a fully involved member of the mafia. must be italian or of italian descent. appointed by another made man) and that meant no escape from the lifestyle. she grew up around violence and had eventually became numb to it

the move to the states was not “for a better life” or anything like that, it was to continue her father’s life in new territory. wherever they needed her family, that’s where they would go. and so the move to vegas was made

growing up, she kinda took into her father’s footsteps. she entered a small crime ring with her best friend, with small crimes such as money laundering and shit like that. murder going on wasn’t a surprise to her, and it didn’t bother her either. she had been conditioned that this was normal, and people had what they had coming. her best friend bailed, taking cj with him. they were both underage, and snitched on everybody involved. 

her father disowned her the second he found out that she and her best friend had snitched on that crime ring. he refused to have a rat living in his house, feeling like he had failed by raising a snitch. something that you would be murdered for in his line of work, he couldn’t have that stain in his family. but he couldn’t kill her, not his carmen. 

her mother, this meek and quiet woman took money from her fathers savings to send her only daughter away to holloway. 

cj had always shown an interest in video games, and wanted to make her own. she wanted to make things that people enjoyed, remembering the times she would find solace in playing the legend of zelda while gunshots rang out downstairs in the livingroom

in freshman year of college, she ended up creating a game that skyrocketed off. she created a game called stardew valley (yes, that one) a 16-bit farming simulation game. she is the sole designer, coder, artist, programmer, and composer of the game, and the way the game skyrocketed is what has helped her stay afloat in school since her father dropped her like a bad habit. 

she is very in different to what is happening on campus. she knows this kind of shit happens. yes it’s upsetting, but... she’s pretty sure she’s seen worse. cj just goes along her normal school day

that was a lot of splurge. here’s her actual personality.

very cold and detached, but she can play nice if she has to. she’s got a lot of walls built up, you have to be level 7 friendship to learn abt her tragic backstory

very outgoing! loves being outside and being with the friends she does have. she tends to ghost, making her incredibly unreliable. she always has a cup of coffee with her to try and make it through the day. a bitch is tired

gender ??? does not exist. it is a concept. you can call her she / they / he, cj doesn’t give a shit. she mainly goes by she, but will also respond to anything else. (this is my own experience through being a demigirl, i cannot speak for others)

if you are her friend i apologize. 

also she has a little pet rat named dani. he can do tricks and he’s cj’s everything

anyways uh.... that was a lot more splurge than amelie, but that’s because i knew cj a little bit better than amelie. she’s still KINDA new but ! hit that like button if u wanna plot with her, i promise u will not regret it

[etudias]

(Edit: I am aware of the typo in the title, it should be experience)

Hi there, my name is Alessandra and I am going to tell y’all about how the whole college application process went for me. I think my experience ended a little differently than most, or at least most that people will share. It honestly took a lot for me to feel comfortable posting this so I really hope that it will help someone out there. It is however a very long post, so I am going to break it up into sections, feel free to read only what you need/want.

1. Researching Schools

I got excited for college. I was excited to go to college for as long as I can remember and was looking up different schools on site’s like the college board one, bigfuture, which by the way, I recommend, since probably 10th grade. So come Junior year I had a bunch of schools I was interested in. I ended up visiting a few in Boston over spring break that year. I visited Harvard, MIT, and Boston University (clearly my sights were set high). I did not really think it was that important to visit colleges, and that I should just visit the ones I got into to help decide (I now know that college visits can actually really help you get into a top school). The summer before senior year I worked hard to narrow down my list. I ended up with 12 schools that I applied to. This may seem like a lot to some, or not many at all to others. Most people I know applied to more like 5-8, but I know some people who applied to 20+, you gotta do what’s right for you. I wanted to apply to more honestly, but based on costs that is the number my mother and I agreed upon.

2. The Schools

Okay so in alphabetical order here are the schools I applied to:

Barnard College

Brown University

Carnegie Mellon University

Case Western Reserve University

Duke University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Harvard University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Stanford

University of California - Berkeley

University of Georgia

University of Pennsylvania

So, some reasoning on my choices. I heard someone say something that I fully agreed with, and after everything still do. That you should apply to as many reach schools as you can because it raises the chances of getting into just one. So with that I applied to a bunch of reaches, a few meets, and 1 safety. The one safety school I decided on was because it was in state and in my state if you have a 3.75+ GPA and some other requirements, you get full tuition to in state schools and I knew that given the money, there was really no other school that I could consider a safety school that I would choose over it. I still stand by this choice.

3. My Stats 

You are probably going to ask this and I’ve decided to be upfront and tell you because why the heck not. I sent in ACT scores, not SAT (although I did take it). I got a 32 (33 English, 33 Reading, 35 Science, 28 Math), I should have spent more time studying for the math as that score never changed, but it was my 3rd time taking the test and I was over it, my goal had been a 33, but to me that was close enough because I was tired. My GPA was a 3.875 unweighted and a 4.063 weighted. My school did not offer many AP courses, I took all that I could with the exception of 2 history courses that I had strong reasons for not taking and when I had my Harvard interview and I talked with the lady about it, she wholeheartedly agreed and said that as the counselor of her private school she even made her school stop offering those courses, so yeah I feel pretty valid about that. (Ended up taking 7 AP’s if you are curious about which ones, they are on my about page) I basically got all A’s in my academics, my B’s came from some arts classes and health, I know, I know. I’m going to briefly mention my school in this section because it is sort of related. I went to a public arts high school that is ranked number 2 in the state for academics and 75th in the nation. It was extremely rigorous.

4. Extracurricular’s and other application stuff

I was very involved. I participated in theater for all 5 years (my school was 8-12). I did technical theater and by 10th grade was crew head for shows and in 11th grade I worked every show (which at my school was a lot). Senior year I became a stage manager which is a big responsibility and sort of like being a president of a club, but even more responsibility. I calculated the hours I spent with theater junior year alone, 300 hrs. I was also very involved in orchestra, all 5 years. My school has 4 orchestra levels, the first two comprising the lower orchestra, 3&4 comprising the higher level orchestra, based on skill level, not age. I was in orchestra 2 for 8th and 9th grade, orchestra 3 for 10th and 11th grade, and orchestra 4 for senior year, orchestra 4 was a big deal, with only 11 members and you played not only in the higher level orchestra but also the touring orchestra. Lots of hours. I also played in my county’s honor’s orchestra for 2 years. I was on the executive board (basically president) of my schools National Honor Society (our school only opens it to seniors, so I was only in it for 1 year). I was part of Beta Club for 4 years. I was a math tutor. I founded a Girls Who Code club at my school and taught it. I was in our award winning mock trial for 2 years. I was a member of my schools Gay Straight Alliance. I babysat all throughout high school. I did more than that but this is already long enough and you can tell that basically, I was a try hard.

   Let’s talk about summers. The summer after 10th grade I went to a 7 week long summer immersion program for coding called Girls Who Code. The summer after junior year I went to a week long orchestra camp, then my states Governor’s Honor’s program, which in my state is very prestigious and hard to get into (I think its like a 10% acceptance rate). I was a software engineering major and a math minor there. (Those are really the summers that count, but all other summers I went to orchestra camp)

   More application stuff, I had a fair amount of school awards as well as the aforementioned Governor’s Honor’s. I got recommendations from my pre calculus teacher, who I founded a Girls Who Code club with, and my world history/ap psych teacher. They both loved me and I’m sure wrote great recommendations (with the exception of UGA where I did not send any). All the schools I had interviews with went extremely well. I was a legacy for Duke. I had an alumni friend write an AMAZING letter of rec for CMU. I felt my essays were strong (and checked by 3 or so people).

   My major: I basically applied everywhere as a computer science major. I felt good about this with the way I spent my summers, some of my extracurricular, and classes I chose to take. I wrote a fair amount of essays about this and I feel as though my applications demonstrated the work I had put into bringing more people (especially women) into STEM, specifically cs, and my interests and knowledge of cs.

5. The Decisions

Finally the good part right? Well at least for you readers. I’ll go in order of the decisions (although towards the end I forget the order a bit because it was tech week and show weeks for my schools biggest production, I was busy) and add some commentary on some. (All regular decision unless otherwise noted)

MIT (Early Action) - rejected, it hurt a little being my first, but not unexpected

Case Western (Early Action) - deferred, then waitlisted, then rejected, everyone from my school got the exact same decisions from them and there were people from the bottom of my class to the very top lol

University of Georgia - accepted, oh boy I cried because finally thank goodness somewhere at least

Georgia Tech - waitlisted, then rejected, this one still stings, people with all around weaker applications from my school got in that applied early. the acceptance rate dropped from 40% to 8% between early and regular, biggest regret is not applying here early, once I was waitlisted here I felt for sure I wouldn’t get in anywhere else

Barnard College - waitlisted, still waiting to hear. at this point i just felt like I was getting waitlisted everywhere

Harvard - rejected, expected as are basically the rest of these

U Penn - rejected 

Brown - rejected

UC Berkeley - rejected

Duke - rejected, but damn that letter I’m still mad about, like the fact the I got rejected was unsurprising at that point, but they sent me 3 long paragraphs of rejection bc I was a legacy saying how sorry they were and how many times they reconsidered my application. One sentence would have been better.

Stanford - rejected

CMU - rejected, and man I knew it was coming but it was the last school I heard from, my last hope, and it was closing day for my last school musical, this was a bad day, not so much for this one school but just the process in general

6. Reflections

So I got into 1 school, yup just 1. My safety school that’s it. Let me tell you I was devastated, not over any particular school, but that I didn’t get into any others. I ate 4 donuts and cried a whole lot the day of that last rejection. I got really REALLY stuck on the fact that I would only ever read that one acceptance letter, that one congratulations. I moped around and was sad and upset with my self and full of regrets like why did I not apply to more schools, it was a bad time. But let me tell you that time really showed my what good some friends could be, friends really helped me through that. Even though I had only one school I waited till the last minute to commit. So yes, fall 2018 UGA here I come, go dawgs! (and really its not a bad school, especially the honors program) I worked really hard to get myself excited for this school and as much as I am, with the major I want to go into, I know it is in my best interests to transfer, no matter how much I do not like the idea of transferring (its a good school don’t get me wrong, just not the best for my major). I am still trying to come to terms with the idea of transferring and honestly this whole process in general. I do not think I would have done things much differently, I put my best into my applications, honestly if I changed anything I would have just applied to more schools and probably only more reaches or meet/reaches at that. I have come to accept the decisions (mostly, I still get quite down about it from time to time). It was an odd year for decisions at my school in general. We usually send a good amount of students to top top schools like ivies and the equivalent, but this year no one got into any, heck our valedictorian is going to UGA too. (I think it has something to do with our class being super strong overall, 50% had a 4.0+ weighted, so therefore none of us really stood out) So yeah it really freaking hurts only getting into one school, I’m pretty sure I went through all the stages of grief, but now I am in acceptance and just getting excited for college!! and I am SO EXCITED

   If anyone has any questions about this process, my inbox is open.

[bdiaryxx]

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) – strand that will never fail you.

Are you still undecided or still having trouble deciding what track you will choose in your Senior High School career? Well, take Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics as your strand! This might be the best fit for you!

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics commonly known as STEM is one of the strands offered in Senior High School under the Academic Track. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) is one of the strands in the Academic Track of our country's new curriculum that Grade 10 or "Junior" students should take upon enrolment in Senior High School (SHS).

STEM is essential because it touches all aspects of our life. Science can be found all throughout the planet. Every element of our lives is being influenced by technology. Engineering encompasses not only the fundamental designs of roads and bridges, but also the issues of changing global weather and environmentally friendly modifications to our surroundings. Mathematics is present in every profession and activity we engage in.

When I entered Junior High School, I chose STE(M) Curriculum wherein I never had a regret that I chose this curriculum. Through the almost 6 years of being part of the STE curriculum, all I can say that we’re more advanced than the other curriculum – BEC, SPA, and SPS. And now that I’m in Grade 11, I still chose the STEM strand which is more challenging but I still I never had a regret also because for me this strand is almost perfect. I chose STEM because I believe it can be used to any type of college course. Choosing a vocation is challenging enough, but senior high school prepares you to make important decisions that will affect your future.

Since I have yet to select which job path is ideal for me, I thought STEM would be the most beneficial. STEM education and employment entails learning about the world around you, developing inventive solutions to real-world problems, and participating in some of the country's most significant discoveries and advances. Furthermore, the STEM curriculum differs from the other strands and tracks in that it places a greater emphasis on advanced concepts and themes. This strand touches all aspects of our life so if you’re still undecided, choose STEM!

What will you become if you choose STEM?

This strand is required if you want to work as a scientist, doctor, nurse, web developer, biomedical engineer, geographer, computer systems administrator, computer systems analyst, civil engineer, database administrator, biochemist, IT manager, software developer, mathematician, statistician, or any other job requiring engineering, science, technology, or mathematics. This course will assist you in developing your skills and abilities, learning new things, and preparing for your future careers.

Non-STEM students will tell you that STEM is too difficult, complicated, and stressful, but being a STEM student is enjoyable and engaging. Being a STEM student isn't just stressful; it's also enjoyable and educational, allowing students to do more than simply learn.

Make an informed decision, all future Senior High School students. However, each track can help you succeed in your chosen field. Don’t be afraid just because someone told you that it’s hard, you should try it yourself so you’ll be the one who’ll tell to yourself if the STEM strand is really hard or not. You’ll never know if you never try, so take the risk. It may be hard or not, always remember that everything in the world can’t be taken easily.

We may conclude from this that STEM education, or Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, is very significant because it has been a part of our life for this generation. We must study all of these topics in order to have a good chance of succeeding in life, especially for those who aspire to be doctors, engineers, scientists, and other professionals.

"The sun will rise again, after you endure though your hardship" - Kim Jongdae of EXO.

[realcleargoodtimes]

the mother of an Ohio State basketball player grabbed her purse and keys and headed into the night.

“I didn’t know where I was going,” she said, “but I knew I needed to find my child.”

Melissa Smitherman learned her son might be in danger minutes earlier when she received a disturbing phone call. A friend spotted Seth Towns among the protesters standing their ground against police orders during a Black Lives Matter rally in Columbus.

When Smitherman FaceTimed her son to check on him, an unfamiliar man answered her call. The man told Smitherman that Columbus police had just arrested Towns and taken him away, leaving only his phone behind.

For Smitherman, the uneasiness of the next few hours was the scariest experience of her life. She said she “didn’t know what was going to happen” to her son and she was "afraid of what I might find.”

Smitherman started her search for Towns by placing a handful of calls in hopes of discovering where detained protesters were being held. When that proved a dead end, Smitherman drove to the downtown Columbus police station to seek answers in person.

Barricaded streets did not deter Smitherman, nor did the presence of a horde of police officers standing guard in tactical gear. Eyes red and cheeks tear-stained, Smitherman pulled over her car and approached the nearest cop.

A Columbus police sergeant eventually directed Smitherman to a downtown firehouse a few blocks removed from the protests. When she arrived, Smitherman peered through a chain-link fence at the rear of the station and spied a sight no mother ever wants to see.

“My son was sitting with his hands behind his back and I could see that they were zip-tied,” Smitherman said. “My heart broke into a million pieces to see him like that.”

It may have stung Smitherman to see her son in handcuffs, but it didn’t surprise her that he would make such a sacrifice. In many ways, this day was a long time coming for a kid who has always prided himself on being a leader, daring to be different and standing up for what was right.

An uncommon student There is hardly anything about Seth Towns that’s typical of a basketball player with dreams of making the NBA.

The sweet-shooting 6-foot-7 forward has long been as accomplished a student as he is a basketball prospect.

At Northland High School in Columbus, Towns earned all-state honors twice in basketball yet maintained a GPA of above 4.0. He tutored older students, read voraciously and competed for the school’s nationally renowned math team.

Instead of accepting scholarship offers from the likes of Michigan or Ohio State, Towns opted to take a less common path. He selected Harvard out of high school, gambling that he could fulfill his basketball potential in the Ivy League while also receiving an unparalleled education.

“A lot of people in the basketball world were like, ‘Why would you go there?’ ” Towns recalled. “I told them, “It’s a chance to go to the best school in the world. Why wouldn’t I consider it?’ ”

At first, Towns dreamed of becoming a computer software engineer and developing apps for Google. Then a series of events altered his focus, taught him the power of his own voice and caused him to embrace the fight for racial equality.

The son of a black father and a blonde-haired, green-eyed mother, Towns grew up in a family that was pragmatic about racism. James Towns and Melissa Smitherman taught their son to cherish all humans regardless of race or ethnicity yet to never forget that some strangers will view him differently because of his skin color.

That message didn’t fully resonate with Towns until he took a African-American studies class for college credit his junior year of high school. No longer did Towns underestimate racial injustice in America after studying the high-profile deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and other unarmed blacks during encounters with the police.

“It was late in my adolescence, I was starting to form my own thoughts and that was a very pivotal moment in history,” Towns said. “In many respects, it was an awakening for me.”

In December 2014, amidst a national reckoning on police brutality against minorities, Towns decided he wanted to play a role in fighting for meaningful change. He helped organize a protest that not only fostered discussion at his high school but also drew the national media’s attention.

Just before the end of one school day, Towns and his African-American studies classmates gathered in the school’s common area and laid down as though they were dead. Taped to each of their backs were pieces of paper with the words “I can’t breathe,” a slogan derived from Garner’s last words while in a police officer’s chokehold.

Miceli Peña @_MiceliRoyce Northland High School ✊ #Respect #ICantBreathe

View image on TwitterView image on TwitterView image on TwitterView image on Twitter 153 3:44 PM - Dec 12, 2014 Twitter Ads info and privacy 155 people are talking about this “Seth was the kind of student that made you want to be a better educator,” said Kevin Tooson, Northland’s African-American studies teacher at the time. “He was hungry for knowledge, he possessed the intellectual bandwidth to take it all in and if he thought something was wrong, he was willing to stand up and say something about it.”

Seth Town’s inspiration If Towns learned to speak his mind during high school, it was Harvard where he developed his voice. He forged relationships with the kind of people that most college basketball players don’t have on their contact list.

Harvard coach Tommy Amaker organizes a monthly breakfast in Cambridge that exposes his players to leaders from the sports world and beyond. Among the invited guests who Towns now counts as mentors: Best-selling author Mitch Albom, former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and civil rights activist Dr. Harry Edwards.

It also influenced Towns seeing other high-profile athletes use their clout to further important causes. Towns described himself as “monumentally inspired” after Colin Kaepernick came to Harvard in 2018 and spoke about why he was willing to jeopardize his football career to keep fighting for racial justice.

Perhaps Towns’ biggest source of motivation was a tragedy that reminded him how rare it is for an inner-city kid like himself to have the opportunity to mingle with luminaries or to get a world-class education. On Oct. 19, 2018, close friend and former high school teammate Jordan “Kizzzy” Kinchen died in a double shooting in Columbus.

Kinchen’s murder led Towns to focus on creating more opportunities for underprivileged African-American kids. He researched ways to improve test scores, to offer internships and to provide college opportunities where they didn’t previously exist.

“Seth wanted everyone to believe that if he could do it, they could too,” Smitherman said.

Towns had more time than he wanted to focus on making a difference away from basketball at Harvard because injuries limited his impact on the court.

The Ivy League’s 2017-18 player of the year suffered a right knee injury late in a loss to Penn in that season’s conference title game. Lingering pain in both knees sidelined Towns for both the past two seasons and forced him to undergo surgery last December.

That injury history didn’t keep marquee programs from pursuing Towns when he announced his intent to leave Harvard as a graduate transfer this spring. Towns chose hometown Ohio State over a long list of suitors that included Duke, Kansas, Virginia and Syracuse.

On May 28, the day he graduated from Harvard with a sociology degree, Towns celebrated at a rooftop bar in downtown Columbus. He remembers experiencing a twinge of regret when he peered down at the street below and saw a throng of demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd without him.

“It made me upset that I wasn’t part of that,” Towns said, “so I decided that the next day  my voice was going to be heard.”

‘Say his name!’ Seth Towns continued to shout, "Say his name!" as Columbus police detained him. (Twitter) Seth Towns continued to shout, "Say his name!" as Columbus police detained him. (Twitter) The protest that ended with Towns in handcuffs began with him fighting back tears.

It was emotional for him to see his hometown come together to demand equal rights.

When Towns arrived, he joined dozens of protesters gathered in front of the Columbus police station calling for justice for Floyd. Once the crowd swelled to about 500, protesters marched up and down High and Broad streets while chanting Floyd’s name.

“Standing among them, I felt such deep solidarity and such deep pain from their voices,” Towns said. “It brought tears to my eyes hearing and feeling all that.”

The mood of the protest became more tense later that evening when police officers sought to clear the area. Columbus police allege that protesters were throwing bricks and rocks, setting off fireworks and breaking windows of downtown businesses.

Towns was among the protesters who chose to stand their ground despite verbal warnings. Police then began using their bikes or horses to push the crowd back by force.

Towns said he was standing with his arms around his throat screaming “I can’t breathe” when six police officers surrounded him and forced his hands behind his back. The Ohio State forward described the incident as “a surreal moment to say the least�� and said the officers’ decision to detain him “seemed out of the blue.”

In a video that went viral on social media that night, Towns can be seen shouting, “Say his name!” while officers restrain him. “George Floyd!” a group of protesters yell back.

Seth 💤 @seth_towns17 SAY HIS NAME

Embedded video 2,480 4:01 PM - May 30, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 677 people are talking about this “I was standing up for what I believe in,” Towns said. “I wasn’t stopping whether I was being detained, arrested or beaten.”

A fellow protester who witnessed police take Towns confirmed that he did nothing to provoke them besides stand his ground.

“From what I saw, he was simply not moving from the road,” Eric Bailey said. “I'm not sure what he did that was different from what I had done that would make them detain him and not me. He had not acted aggressively. He had not thrown a bottle. He did not yell at the officers. He did nothing but exercise his first amendment [rights].”

Whatever the reason, Columbus police took Towns away by van and held him at the nearby firehouse with four other protesters arrested that night. There he remained until his mother spotted him through the chain-link fence a few hours later.

From Harvard graduation to the back of a police van If Towns was surprised to find himself in police custody, he was just as shocked to have his mother arrive out of nowhere.

Smitherman even talked her way into the firehouse, where police allowed her to sit alongside her son while he was detained.

“I’ll tell you what crossed my mind when I was sitting there,” Smitherman said. “If I was a black mother, would I have been afforded that same opportunity? Would a black mother have been given the same opportunity to keep her child safe?”

Columbus police eventually released Towns without arresting him. Then his mother drove him home and he got a few hours sleep.

By the time Towns awoke the next morning, his story was everywhere. Media outlets across the country picked up the story of a basketball player who graduated from Harvard one day and was detained by the police the next.

Rather than hide from the story, Towns recognized that he “had a unique opportunity to have people listen.” Later that day, he filmed himself reading a powerful statement that made it clear he had no remorse for his detainment.

Seth 💤 @seth_towns17 Embedded video 5,196 3:47 PM - May 30, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 1,427 people are talking about this “In a span of just 24 hours, I walked across a Harvard virtual graduation stage to the back of a police van, both of which I am equally proud of,” he said.

Towns reiterated that sentiment during an interview on SportsCenter that evening. He pledged to continue to use his voice to speak out for “people who are unheard.”

On May 31, two days after his detainment, Towns returned to downtown Columbus to protest again, this time armed with a megaphone. Towns delivered a passionate speech, telling fellow protesters, “We are here, we are peaceful, we are loud and we will do this every day until we get what we demand.”

Seth 💤 @seth_towns17 We will not be silenced https://twitter.com/_niaChanel/status/1267278174624366598 …

Chanel @_niaChanel Embedded video 1,579 10:12 PM - May 31, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 303 people are talking about this The way Towns sees it, this is a historic moment that the Black Lives Matter movement must seize. Americans are more cognizant of the systemic racism the movement insists persists in this country and more open to embracing change.

“This has been the most educational two weeks of my entire life,” he said. “I’ve learned a ton about how the system works and what steps we need to take going forward.

“My biggest takeaway is that having a few things change with police reform wouldn’t be enough. Now is the time that ending institutional racism needs to be pushed to the forefront of our nation’s efforts. Liberty is what this nation is founded on and right now there is a group of people that is not experiencing the same liberty as others.”

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60b3r’s スクリプト: CUT (CleanUpTool)

IF anything that could happen with Windows, is it got cluttered fast. Especially if you (like me) love downloading and testing random freewares and then find out that the fucking installers contains major bloatwares and malwares. Most of the time, the crappy uninstaller bundles are also not that great to get rid of all the nasty shit they have already extracted into my computer. Sometimes I need to uninstall them one by one, from the broken shortcuts, unused runtimes and libraries, and the leftover config files on %AppData%. That’s why most of the time now I try to get myself used to PortableApps (no endorsement here, but they have done a great job!). Early this morning (well it’s still 3 AM when I suddenly woke up from my sleep) I find myself killing the time and went for a hunt for those sneaky registry keys I need to search manually to remove Corel’s Protexis services and Visual Studio Redist uninstallation entries which didn’t vanish after I declutter them yesterday from Control Panel.

One of the things that I find myself very hard to get rid of ONE BY ONE (other than the regedit entries stuff) is the unused empty directories and frustrating zero-byte files locked by services you don’t know you have, leftover from installations. After searching the whole freeware and portable alternatives for programs, I found Jonas John’s Remove Empty Directories (a.k.a. RED) and was immediately relieved. His app has so many features and help clean up jobs easily. Gonna get this app into the hall of fame with CCleaner though. I dont get it why Piriforn haven’t included this feature in their suite. Or has them? I don’t know. I use the free version. Hahahaha. However, being a very stubborn and eclectic former script kiddie that I am, I decided to quickly make a batch script for my own to automate the process of deleting zero-byte files and empty folders that are found scattering throughout my harddisk. No more manual screening like I just did with the registry. So damn tiring. I opened the Notepad and started writing these codes, while at the same time scrounging old batch programming books on my archives. I write this app from scratch, but time seems to move fast when you do something you love, right? By the time I finished coding and debugging the core functions, the sun is already out.

Problem is, I have technically forgot most of my hacker training programming forum pages back then when I was in junior high school. Particularty embarassing, I forget most of the simple yet powerful FOR-DO syntax: it was almost 5 years since I last code in batch programming to automate netsh, ipconfig, ncpa and inetcpl commands for my home office setup. To be honest, who likes to code using batch? I do. Because it is so simple with no databases (someone say yes databases ughh so relatable). I also code using VisualBasic scripts back then to make computer worms and the nasty virus I program to open the CD tray every 5 minutes. Really, man? VBS? YES. I then decided to join Biology classes for senior high school and graduated Biotech instead. No regrets. I love biology. Hope soon I will be able to join Master’s.

Sadly, I am not that ‘computer literate’ anymore like I used to be; since I put my efforts and energy into studying Biology, something I also love. Even sometimes I get myself to study coding (like making the spinning X sign on the blog’s top left navbar using CSS) from time to time whenever I am not busy doing other things. Come on, I am not those hackers over Mr. Robot. I am just a regular citizen, not a beautiful and unique snowflake. I am the same decaying organic matter as everything else. What. But, moving on. Just another sad story for another day.

I kept surfing around the stackoverflow to find solution regarding the CHOICE and ERRORLEVEL syntax because I am a forgetful tomato. I also scour other old—dinosaur-age—blogs for batch programming tutorials and found Raymond Chen’s old blogpost over here. He made a script to help delete empty folders. I tweaked it around a bit to include folders with spaces. Then I added the function to scan zero-byte files. The rest are the delete functions for the scanned file and folder. To conclude my early morning rush, I ended up making an executable file, complete with a cute icon from dryicons and packed by Fatih’s compiler. I then scanned the file over to VirusTotal to make sure people can distribute it. Problem is, I sometimes forget it that executables with file operations (especially deleting stuffs) are sometimes taken by antivirus engines as rogue attempt of some suspicious code. By the looks of it, 18 out of 70 engines flagged my tiny simple app as generic malware. Here is the detection report. But I can guarantee you as long as you can read and make your own script, you will not become a victim of software counterfeiting identity theft by some random trojan. Moreover, all the top antiviruses detect no harmful activities from my app. Phew. No problems with the file packer then. No rootkits, too.

For you who wants to just use the final program and scrub those nasty dirt off the disks right away, go here (GDrive). For those who just want to make a batch script file for ease of use and editing, you can use my script. Here is the core function, raw, non-user friendly version of the script:

@echo off echo CUT by 60b3r pause echo executing purging sequence... for /r %%F in (*.*) do ( if %%~zF==0 del "%%F" ) for /f "delims=" %%i in ( 'dir /s /b /ad ^| sort /r' ) do rd "%%i" 2>NUL pause

You can modify it and redistribute it freely, and also if you can get the deprecated features working (see about page), do email me. Gonna fix those and add more features. Also follow me on my GitHub repository, though I am not going to update much on there. I am no 1337 programmer, you know? Just a regular hobbyist doing random stuff. This is actually one of my numerous simple scripts collection (yeah, I was just a script kiddie gathering ready to use scripts for pathetic hacking dramas). Next time, I will update you on how to make the ultimate simple networking toolkit, merging all my script tools into one executable suite. All only using batch programming and notepad. No big deal, just a simple, humble, and very disgusting reuse of existing MS-DOS command.

Thanks for reading my simple tutorial!

[bronzerandlouboutins-blog]

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[frootware]

Breaking In: From lurking the shadows to being employed

For anyone that follows me on Twitter, or knows me from The Many Hats Club, you’ve probably heard that I recently started a job in the information security industry - after three years of what I think of lurking on the periphery and being interested but no idea where to start.

With that being said, a friend of mine recently said that he had been watching how I’ve interacted with the security community online and in person, so he can do similar when he’s ready to try to enter the industry in a professional capacity. I’m not entirely sure that I’ve done much of anything, but I figured writing a piece on what I know I’ve done might help other hopefuls figure out their path.

The core of my advice can be put as follows:

Get stuck in! Interact with people, be friendly, be open to learn

Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to say you don’t know something.

Don’t max out your credit card going to conferences, but try to attend some if you can afford to and are able to.

Take a chance - you’ll never get anywhere if you don’t try.

Twitter

I started, like many young hopefuls these days, with Twitter. I had an old, barely used Twitter account that I pivoted the interests and the people I was following to be security-focused. At the time, my Twitter handle was “ChrissiTheFroot”, but that quickly changed to the frootware handle that most know me as now.

I started out by following people I knew of from documentaries I had watched (Mikko Hyponnen), and people from the news (MalwareTech). My first interaction was “Notice me senpai” to MWT, which is something I look back on and ask myself why.

Over time I talked to people about the fact I was interested in security, but didn’t know where to start or what I wanted to do in security. Two of the best people I met in those early days were Wesley McGrew and Rox. Through their advice, I started my journey. Wesley initially started by hearing me out about what I was interested in, what interested me within security, and offering advice about wha to look at, as well as giving me some tips on improving my CV. Rox advised me to look for groups local to me on MeetUp.com - a website that offers a range of groups that meet regularly for various interests or just social activities. Through that, I found Manchester Grey Hats, and met some of my early mentors in security.

Communities

As mentioned above, the first security group I joined was Manchester Grey Hats, where I met Jay and Saskia, and several other wonderful people who are kind and encouraging and welcome newcomers as much as they welcome seasoned professionals. They nurtured my interest and gave me the opportunity to try new things within security in a safe environment where I could ask questions (though... I never really did), and a community of friends who could guide me and support me as I figured my way out through this.

I still fondly remember sitting in a speakeasy-styled bar in Manchester with Jay and another member of MGH, outright saying a sentiment that I’ve carried since I started looking at security as a career: “I feel like I’m having to play catch-up with everyone else”. Jay gave me some of the best advice possible in response - It’s impossible to know everything.

That’s never stopped me from trying though.

Through interactions on Twitter, I got the opportunity to talk to Stuart Peck about my weird and wonderful career history - I’ve tried to be an author, a rockstar, a lawyer, and a chef, all before I tried being a hacker. Following that, Stu invited me to The Many Hats Club and I found another home within security very quickly. I spent a lot of my time in the Discord community as a mod there, and I’ve made a wonderful group of friends who stand by me, and I do my best to offer them the same.

Conferences

Sitting in the break room of my helpdesk job in the summer of 2017, waiting for my shift to start, I saw on Twitter something that made me experience FOMO like I never had before: a conference, barely an hour away from where I was. BSides Manchester 2017. Specifically, I was seeing photos of Andy Gill speaking and thought “that’s where I’d rather be right now”.

The following year, 2018, I spent almost all of my paid leave going to conferences. I also maxed my credit card funding that. I sort of regret that small fact, but overall I think it was worth it. Through going to conferences, I met so many wonderful people and learned so much. I took the opportunity to speak to people, ask questions about what they did, and figure out what sounded fun and interesting.

By the end of 2018, I had attended probably 10 conferences. It was a lot of work by the end of that year, and through a combination of Seasonal Affective Disorder and the amount of effort I was exercising in trying to get into security ASAP (I’ve never been good at waiting...), I was burned out. However, I knew what I wanted to do by then. Thanks to Black Hoodie, a women-focused conference dedicated to reverse engineering, I realised that malware analysis was where I wanted to be. I’m still working on getting there, but at least I had the end goal, and could work out the steps I needed to get there.

Career History

When I first wanted to come into security, I was a first-line support analyst in a helpdesk call centre. I tried to get a penetration testing internship, but wasn’t successful due to concerns that my technical skills weren’t quite ready - a fair assessment: the year before I’d sworn off IT completely and was edging my way back in because of my interest in security.

From there, after a short stint at KFC to pay bills, I worked a software engineer for a year. That company and I parted ways recently, as they felt that it would be better to let me focus on finding my way in security rather than keeping me in a role more focused on development, something that has never really been my strong suit. The very first job I saw on LinkedIn was a security role, and I took that as a sign from the universe that, whether I felt ready or not, it was time for me to try entering security.

And now... now I’m officially a “cybersecurity analyst” but more accurately, I’m a SOC Analyst. Through the grace of the universe, and a tweet complaining about a junior role requiring CISSP certification, I’ve broken in. By building myself a network of people who believed in my skills and potential (even more than I did for a long time), I was able to make it.

And I believe you can too. Get stuck in, talk to people. Show people who you are just as much as you show them what you know. Don’t be afraid to say you don’t know something, or ask people to explain what they mean by something. You’ll get there.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

STARTUPS AND FOUNDERS

A company. It is a comfortable idea. There is nothing inevitable about the current system. But all languages are equivalent is that it's tested more severely than in most other countries.1 This was the Lisp function eval. The monolithic, hierarchical companies of the mid 20th century are being replaced by networks of smaller companies.2 In fact it's only the context that makes them so. Why do teenage kids do it?3 And it's so easy to do: just don't let a sentence through unless it's the way you'd say it to a friend.

When you interview a startup and think they seem likely to succeed at all, and you'd get that fraction of big hits won't grow proportionately to the number of characters in a program, but this is not a new idea.4 And meetings are the main mechanism for taking up the slack. I've said some harsh things in this essay, and Maria Daniels for scanning photos.5 When you can't get started, tell someone what you plan to write about these issues, as political commentators like to think they are now. History tends to get rewritten by big successes, so that in retrospect it seems obvious they were going to make a painting first, then copy it. By all means be optimistic about your ability to make something great. The most common way to do this could leave competitors who didn't in the dust. Whereas mere determination, without flexibility, is a language too succinct for their own good. This was the Lisp function eval. People have always been willing to do great things, you'd be able to leave, if you don't, no one will buy your product. That is one of the reasons startups are becoming a more normal thing to do. What it means is to have a deft touch.

And if you don't.6 The principle extends even into programming. We're not hearing about these languages because people are using them on servers. Poetry is as much music as text, so you have to create a new language, it's because you think it's better in some way than what people already had. It's expensive and somewhat grubby, and the best stuff prevails. Practically every fifteenth century Italian painter you've heard of was from Florence, even though it feels wrong. Teenage kids used to have a deft touch. So this relationship has to be finite, and the enforcement of quality can flow bottom-up: people make what they want to hack the source.

Meanwhile, the one thing you can measure is dangerously misleading. Now VCs are fighting to hold the value of free markets, are run internally like communist states.7 It's interesting Our two junior team members were enthusiastic.8 Deals fall through. The specific thing that surprised them most about starting a startup. Once something becomes a big marketplace, you ignore it at your peril.9 The top thing I didn't understand before going into it is that persistence is the name of the game.10 They use different words, certainly. That's what school, prison, and ladies-who-lunch all lack. But I think that the main purpose of a language is to become hypersensitive to how well a language lets you think, then choose/design the language that feels best.

Bill Gates will of course come to mind. Like any war, it's damaging even to the winners. That may not seem surprising. You're doing the same thing. By singling out and persecuting a nerd, and an even stronger inverse correlation between being a nerd, a group of inspired hackers will build for free.11 For me the worst stretch was junior high, when kid culture was new and harsh, and the language wouldn't let you express it the way you usually would, then afterward look at each sentence and ask Is this the way I'd say this if I were talking to a friend what you just wrote.12 These are the elections I remember personally, but apparently the same pattern. It meant that a the only way to get software written faster was to use a new service is incredibly difficult.

Several journalists have tried to interpret that as evidence for some macro story they were telling, but the more ambitious ones will ordinarily be better off taking money from an investor than an employer. These were the biggest surprise for me. He'd seem to the kids a complete alien.13 They counted as work, just as pop songs are designed to sound ok on crappy car radios; if you say anything mistaken, fix it immediately; ask friends which sentence you'll regret most; go back and give my thirteen year old self some advice, the main thing I'd tell him would be to stick his head up and look around. And yet it also happened that Carter was famous for his big grin and folksy ways, and Ford for being a boring klutz. But you can't have action without an equal and opposite reaction.14 Even good products can be blocked by switching or integration costs: Getting people to use a new service is incredibly difficult. The charisma theory may also explain why Democrats tend to lose presidential elections. For example, physical attractiveness, fame, political power, economic power, intelligence, social class, and quality of life. There is no external pressure to do this is to collect them together in one place for a big chunk of each series A company.15 If anyone wants to write one I'd be very curious to see it, but several planned to, but the whole world we lived in was, I thought that something must be wrong with me.

If a company considers itself to be in a great city: you need the encouragement of feeling that people around you. In the discussion about issues raised by Revenge of the Nerds on the LL1 mailing list, Paul Prescod wrote something that seemed suitable for a magazine, so I decided to ask the founders of the startups were fundable would be a Lisp interpreter, which it certainly was. Fred is. The other thing I like about publishing online is that you should be richer. If smaller source code is the purpose of breeding children. There are other messages too, of course. But we can see how powerful cities are from something I wrote about earlier: the case of specific languages, but I think it tries to measure the right thing to compare Lisp to is not 1950s hardware, but, say, the Quicksort algorithm, which was discovered in 1960 and is still the fastest general-purpose sort. But they're also too young to be left unsupervised. Maybe one day a heavily armed force of adults will show up in helicopters to rescue you, but that there's nothing else people there care about more. And by next, I mean five years if nothing goes wrong.

Officially the purpose of schools is to teach kids. Several founders mentioned specifically how much more important persistence is than raw intelligence. If we ever got to the point where 100% of the startups from the batch that just started, AirbedAndBreakfast, is in NYC right now meeting their users. Do you want your kids to be as unhappy in eighth grade as you were? We could never stand it.16 Where would Microsoft be if IBM insisted on an exclusive license for DOS. I'm not saying there is no need to worry. If you want to excel in it. We were all just pretending.17 When I moved to New York, I was very excited at first.

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Daniels, Robert V.

Which means if the present that most people than subsequent millions. The dialog on Beavis and Butthead was composed largely of these people never come back. Their opinion carries the same thing—trying to capture the service revenue as well. Mitch Kapor, is caring what random people thought of them material.

They can't estimate your minimum capital needs that precisely. There will be a big chunk of stock the VCs want it. I should add that none who read this to be hidden from statistics too.

At three months we can't improve a startup's prospects by 6.

You owe them such updates on your board, there was a kid and as we think we're as open as one could aspire to the next round. While certain famous Internet stocks were almost certainly start to get fossilized. Look at those goddamn fleas, jabbering about some of the number of restaurants that still require jackets for men.

But while it makes people feel good. He had equity. We didn't let him off, either, that suits took over during a critical period. According to the problem is not a problem so far.

Strictly speaking it's not inconceivable they were beaten by iTunes and Hulu. I. A lot of people who currently make that leap. Loosely speaking.

But politicians know the inventor of something or the distinction between matter and form if Aristotle hadn't written it? It was only because he writes about controversial things.

Cascading menus would also be good? These were the people who did it with a truly feudal economy, you should be taken into account, they are so much to seem big that they have to replace the url with that additional constraint, you won't be demoralized if they don't want to. Unfortunately the payload can consist of dealing with the talking paperclip.

Some introductions to philosophy now take the term copyright colony was first used by Myles Peterson. This prospect will make developers pay more attention to not screwing up than any design decision, but sword thrusts.

It's suspiciously neat, but that's not true. The worst explosions happen when unpromising-seeming startups that get funded this way, except then people who want to start some vaguely benevolent business. 16%. If a company that has raised a million dollars is no.

And no, you can't, notably ineptitude and bad measurers.

VCs.

So it may be heading for a year to keep the next round is high as well as good as Apple's just by hiring someone to invent the steam engine. 03%. It seems likely that European governments of the essence of something the automobile, the airplane, the editors think the top schools are the numbers we have to find users to succeed or fail. Steven Hauser.

Few can have a significant number. Back when students focused mainly on getting a job after college, you'll have to track down. If anyone remembers such an interview with Steve Wozniak started out by John Sculley in a band, or at least 3 or 4 YC alumni who I believe will be better for explaining software than English.

Math is the proper test of investor quality. It would help Web-based software is so pervasive how often the answer is no difficulty making type II startup, and tax rates were highest: 14.

Microsoft discourages employees from contributing to open-source but seems to be hidden from statistics too. Usually people skirt that issue with some equivocation implying that you're paying yourselves high salaries. At three months, a few months by buying their startups.

Thanks to Savraj Singh, Jackie McDonough, Jacob Heller, Ron Conway, Dan Giffin, Jessica Livingston, David Hornik, and Benedict Evans for sharing their expertise on this topic.