itsthomson

### Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

  * I am itsthomson on github.
  * I am itsthomson (https://keybase.io/itsthomson) on keybase.
  * I have a public key ASA_R_NEDPNgizcNpp4wHuF4VNtV8u0lz6iEfY9JXKPs2Ao

To claim this, I am signing this object:

itsthomson

1f8b 0800 0000 0000 0003 8be0 6260 6060
6260 e267 6460 6206 3185 8104 3394 6604
625e b03c 18ac 9063 6060 6102 8bb3 3070
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38bf b424 2320 3fa7 323d 3f0f 28f2 0f6a
1c03 443b e37f a80e 0688 1c03 17d4 2a46
3479 66a8 899c 6589 4599 8949 3940 ab20
025c 45a9 69a9 45a9 79c9 0891 e4fc dc82
a2d4 e2e2 d414 90a1 0028 a3c8 c1d6 0000
00

itsthomson

city,speed,pop
Brno_CZ,0.341948,4.81
Prague_CZ,1.092759,5.88
Corte_FR,0.005491,3.31
Bastia_FR,0.49375,4.90
Munich_GE,1.340,5.62
Psychro_GR,0.000365,2.76
Itea_GR,0.0025,2.27
Iraklion_GR,0.782,3.85
Athens_GR,0.867023,5.21

itsthomson

cipher <-
  c("y",
    "h",
    "e",
    "s",
    "o",
    "c",
    "v",
    "x",
    "d",

itsthomson

Selected moments from volunteering at 826

Kid 1: Can you show me how to do this math problem?

Me: Okay. *shows her how to find the Greatest Common Factor 
    of two numbers*

Kid 1: I'm just kidding, I already know how to do this. If I 
       had to give you a grade based on your description, I'd 
       give you a D. Can I go to the park now?

itsthomson

But the thing that bugs me about this is that nobody seems to think that I'm anything 
more than a code monkey. They don't realize that, in addition to engineering, I actually 
started something new, managed the product, a whole team, did a fair bit of design, 
promotion/press, successfully exited, all sorts of stuff that doesn't really fall 
under "Objective-C developer."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3429376

itsthomson

Hello OCF members,

Last night OCF's volunteer staff unanimously decided to close lab
services, including free printing, after Spring 2012.

OCF, as with other student groups in Eshleman Hall, will be moved out of
the building in August before it is demolished as part of Bears
Initiative. Until new space is obtained elsewhere on campus, we have
been allocated temporary space in Hearst Gymnasium basement for the
duration of Lower Sproul construction, which is projected to last for

itsthomson

"I’ll look at them and see the same feeling I felt. It’s not 
a feeling of incompetence. It’s a feeling of a lack of belonging. 
That they’re not ready to be indoctrinated into the special Club 
of People Who Are Ready.

Being Ready is only accomplished after you’ve done something. 
Before you’ve done something, it’s daunting. After you’ve done 
something, it’s easy."

(from http://zachholman.com/posts/improving-yourself-is-easy/)

itsthomson

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do 
creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the 
first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it 
has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is 
still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get 
past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went 
through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it 
to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in 
this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a 
lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. 

itsthomson

[19:56:06] thomson@ada ~> history 2000 | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
995 vim 
434 ls
149 cd
105 git
89 rspec
78 rails
63 rake
53 tmux
20 exit