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Comment · 11 years ago
From the page you just linked, Jobs's birth father was "the son of a self-made millionaire".
Comment · 11 years ago
Did you?
Comment · 11 years ago
I suspect it's not so much that he can't take more time off, but that he doesn't want to.
Comment · 11 years ago
It's not impossible to solve those types of problems if you prepare ahead of time. I think that problem just requires dynamic programming/memoization, which is one of the things you're told to study beforehand.
Comment · 11 years ago
Please, tell us how you really feel
Comment · 11 years ago
A PARTICULARLY CAPTIVATING AND COLORFUL ANT FARM
Comment · 11 years ago
I thought the fact that messages and photos are kept was a feature. As in, I can scroll back a decade in my photo albums and look at pictures from my high school graduation.
Comment · 11 years ago
The fact that they are not is the whole basis of targeted advertising.
Comment · 11 years ago
The difference is most people snorkeling for the first time do it with an instructor who is very much interested in their well-being. I don't think the guy who sells you LSD is gonna lose sleep if you happen to develop a lifelong mental condition.
Comment · 11 years ago
I think it's a bit misleading to simply say "LSD is great and you should try it". It can be interesting, but also can be scary as fuck, and you should be in a good place mentally before trying it.
Comment · 11 years ago
Was it ever not normal?
Comment · 11 years ago
My "screw this" moment was when I discovered you needed an internet connection to play Minesweeper.
Comment · 11 years ago
Sounds like it was based on the "terrorist"-ness of his name, i.e. whether the name is on a watchlist, which (rightfully or wrongfully, in the West) correlates with "Muslimness".
Comment · 11 years ago
I dunno, I slept in my office in grad school. It wasn't out of needing to feel like a hard worker or showing off or whatever, it was more that sometimes I just felt like working until I was about to fall asleep, and then I was too tired to head home.

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