Left two years worth of savings and documents inside a plane. A friend of mine sat on the exact same seat (on the flight back) discovered my belongings and returned it. Do you have any stories of the stars aligning and catching an incredible lucky break?

cukiman · 1 month

How did you clear immigration without a passport?

w_daher · 1 month

I'd really love to see a optware package for dd-wrt. The list of dependencies however makes me doubt the possibility of this happening in the near future.

joeyda3rd · 1 month

Urban sprawl coupled with a lack of decent public transport. I'm constantly amazed at how commonplace drink driving is here compared to the "high" levels of occurrence at home. Context: I moved from Ireland to California

twolf1 · 7 months

they also happen to out-date them by a few decades. CCC is one of the oldest hacker groups on the net.

mrsquare · 9 months

That song sends chills down my spine every time I hear it. Singing it with Ben at his SF gig recently was emotional to say the least.

mrsquare · 9 months

I first heard Grapevine fires around the time I also saw "102 Minutes that Changed America". Needless to say the song has really sad emotions linked with it due to this. Double whammy sadness.

patrickod · 10 months

95% idle and still .92 in the last minute? Am I going crazy or is that not abnormal ?

Getsmethroughwork · 10 months

And you had the added bonus of having already met your mother in law! Crafty

parowe · 11 months

Look for college research labs around the place and just try emailing them asking for internships. After that you might try posting something to HN (you never know what might come of it). Try and find any local companies that you think might offer you something, email and see what comes of it. If all that fails then you could try contributing to an open source project of your choosing. I know it wouldn't be the same experience of working in an office with people while coding but it'll look as good if not better on your CV in years to come if this is the route you'd like to take.

Finally you might look at Weekend Hacker where people are posting their projects looking for help. Try help someone there or even post your own idea if you think you might get interest from others.

B3185 · 11 months

+1 for Python. It's a really capable and easy to learn language. There is very little that you can't do with it. And if you want to expand your skillset later you can look into things like writing C modules for Python and explore new languages that way.

1od1 · 11 months

For more information (if anyone wants it) there's plenty to read in /r/netsec on Stuxnet and other security issues. Some very cool information to be had.

patrickod · 11 months

The Honors Maths paper that is being phased out.

bonkeyfonkey · 11 months

Literally can't believe the LC is finally here. Not that I've been counting the days. Where have the last 6 years of my life gone ?

Definitely_Not_Feds · 11 months

Christ that's a lucky escape. Was it a single car accident? Could you now return to Greece without being arrested or were you charged in abstentia?

ponchopunch · 11 months

I used a VPN to request an invite the day it was announced. Used the same VPN to accept the invite and set it up. After that it seems that you don't have to use a VPN to access it. I've been playing / uploading music from my home IP for the last day without error.

Oh and to get the Android app I used MarketEnabler (root required) to mimic the T-Mobile US settings. Not sure if I'll get updates if I change it back however. I presume not

Anyway that's just my $0.02

facebook_for_android · 12 months

On an related note: has Facebook sync suddenly stopped working for anyone? All my nice contact images have disappeared and adding the Facebook account in the sync settings menu no longer works. Running CM 7.0.3-N1

CYRlX · 1 year

Do any N players remember these sort of tracks? Can't remember what the community termed them.

patrickod · 1 year

I've heard great things about the TCD course; really looking forward to it. I was googling there for the various societies in Trinity and it seems that there are 2 different "computer" societies as such? DUCSS and the Networking Society? There seems to be a little overlap between them so why the fragmentation?

EDIT: 2nd question I guess. Do you guys study security at all or is it more that it's referenced when you're studying various topics ?

patrickod · 1 year

I'm from Dublin. Finishing up my leaving cert at the moment with the intention of studying Computer Science in Trinity this coming year. I'm big into tech, science maths etc. I play the piano to a fairly good standard though it's only in recent times that I've started playing "party pieces" as such. I kayak a fair bit and play frisbee in school with a team. I'm a pretty easygoing guy; always up for a bit of craic.

weisenzahn · 1 year

Switching to vim from textmate has been one of the best decisions I've made in the last 2 years. As the guys say the only way to really get started is to go cold turkey. I uninstalled TextMate and removed the command line "mate" shortcut that I used in favour of MacVim and "mvim". Never looked back.

patrickod

TROPHY CASE

you'll need to login or register to do that

create a new account

login