One of these, because my employee discount on it is insane.
A new video card and display for the Mac Pro, also using my fabulous employee discount.
A new turntable so I can actually listen to my records that I haven’t touched since the Technics died on the way back from NYC.
Stuff I will not buy this co-op cycle
Anything else. There, I’ve committed to it publicly. No speakers, no sound cards or audio interfaces, no microphones.
seen on Gearslutz (of course)
Some Advice for Young People | The Awl
I could have written this very article, and if I had, it would have been subtitled “Why I Left San Francisco.” The place is practically founded on an unwillingness to call bullshit.
(via buzz)Then again, New York is founded on saying “no, who the hell do you think you are? Do you know who I am?” to everything, so neither is perfect.
Can do, boss.
Every cute, colorful little bubble on your phone’s home screen is a room (with hardwood floor and concrete ceiling) full of young men and women with Cinema Displays on IKEA desks sitting in fancy chairs who leverage (and often contribute to) the work of thousands of volunteers spread out all over the world, and every two weeks someone who did what they’re doing long ago and got rich from it and wants them to succeed pays them enough to cover their living expenses in their pricey major city of choice and save a little away, too.
It’s a very nice machine, all told. And in just a few more years I get to be a cog in it. But sometimes it feels like they’re all the same (“Millions of users! Hard problems! Free dinner!”) and that it almost doesn’t matter which one you pick. Put stuff on github, ooze some passion into an email, and you’re pretty much in. Vest, rinse, repeat.
I think I just need to stop reading startup job postings for a while (damn you, Hacker News) or at least go spend some time with some BigCo job postings to remind myself how much more depressing those can be. I’m definitely going to stop watching TechCrunch Cribs, too.
NAZIS FROM THE MOOOOOOOOON
This is going to rock so hard. Fuck yeah, independently financed science fiction!
The 30-second ad opens with the sound of a gong and shows the Asian woman riding a bike on a narrow path lined by rice paddies.
Stopping her bike, the woman smiles into the camera and says, “Thank you, Michigan Senator Debbie Spenditnow. Debbie spends so much American money. You borrow more and more from us. Your economy get very weak. Ours get very good. We take your jobs. Thank you, Debbie Spenditnow.”
The scene shifts to Hoekstra, who says, “I think this race is between Debbie Spenditnow and Pete Spenditnot.”
The website… I’m appalled. In 1982, Chinese-American and Detroit-resident Vincent Chin was beaten to death by two unemployed autoworkers who were angry about competition from Japan. Have you forgotten, Hoekstra?
Pretty unbelievable.
NATVE CODE. LEARN IT, USE IT, LOVE IT.*
*unless you’re happy forever writing code that runs slower than mine. In which case, enjoy your virtual “machine.”
