nelhage's profile
The easily distracted nap hacker.
Choices
Still up in the air
Upgrade. There are increasingly often new versions of things you want leads over
Stay there. Suspend/resume works ~100% of the time, you're crazy to mess with that. (288 days ago)
Set in stone
I picked
Wait for apple to come out with an SDK. over
Hack it!
(316 days ago)
I tried hacking it but the current firmware patches the hole and the downgrade fails.
I decided to do
Something else rather than
N810+something tiny I can tether via bluetooth.
or
e61i (334 days ago)
I gave in and got the iPhone
I picked
Yes! It'll be awesome!
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No! It's expensive, and generally not worth the effort for a single weekend. (1 year ago)
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Yes! The money's good, it it might be useful for getting involved with a group at CSAIL, since you'll probably want to MEng.
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No! You're a junior, you should be taking more classes! And you don't really need the money, (1 year ago)
I talked to the professor and past TAs, and it's apparently ~10 units of work, and there's no associated unit limit, so I could definitely take four classes as well. And it's a great class. So, tentatively, yes.
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Go join them for this weekend, since they'd like you to. Maybe drag a few friends, since there's space.
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Stay here -- go to the Nethack meetup, and avoid a potentially awkward boring weekend trapped on a small island with family. (1 year ago)
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Finish it! Then you can do ALL your IM in one client!
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God no. Run away. The paradigms don't match up at all. (1 year ago)
I'll probably have a beta in a week or two.
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Reactivate it, it's occasionally useful and fun
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Let it languish in deactivation-land (1 year ago)
bah.
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24 (Philosophy. Already have 1/3 classes)
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14 (economics) (1 year ago)
But will probably take some econ anyways.
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Nah, the matte black is nicer. Stickers would ruin the look.
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Yeah, stickers are fun! (1 year ago)
But a sufficiently compelling sticker could totally still convince me.
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6.825. ``Techniques in AI'', Grad class, more theory, possibly more relevant.
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6.034. The standard undergrad class. Decent, but I hear a lot of complaints about it being broken/pointless. I probably know a lot of the concepts already. (1 year ago)
Unless my advisor or someone/something else convinces me otherwise.
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Nah, just get something cheaper. You don't use the iPod much anyways. over
Sure! The sound quality (especially base) is actually pretty absurd. You'd listen to your iPod a lot more .
(2 years ago)
Looks like I'll be going for something different, but not necessarily cheaper.
I decided to do
Something else rather than
Intern at Google
or
UROP at CSAIL (2 years ago)
OLPC!
I picked
Antichess over
Gizmoball
(2 years ago)
None of us were excited about dealing with 3D
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Nah. If you want a geeky shirt, get more XKCD shirts! over
Sure! What's $10 for a piece of nerd paraphernalia?
(2 years ago)
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auth.mit.edu
over
login.mit.edu (2 years ago)
I decided to do
Something else rather than
Deli Haus: food and people!
or
Tooling: You'll probably be sad later if you don't. (2 years ago)
I managed to get sucked into helping film a matrix spoof for Campus Movie Fest.
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Stick with it. A friend who's taken it says it gets better. And just make myself write the damn papers and stop hating life for the week before each one is due.
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Drop it; I can easily take two some other term, and I already have enough work I don't want to do this term. (2 years ago)
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blogger
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host my own (2 years ago)
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6.046 (Algorithms. Slightly more excited about it, and much more useful for my major)
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8.04 (quantum, lots of annoying math. Not that excited about it, but it's the right thing if I want to take more physics) (2 years ago)
I picked
Crash a House Marathon over
Hack at SIPB
(2 years ago)
I decided to do
Something else rather than
Build my own 2.6.20-rc5 Xen kernel
or
Attempt to backport the IDE driver to Debian's 2.6.17 Xen kernel (2 years ago)
It turns out neither option is anywhere near easy. Oh well, I don't really need my CD drive.
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Start a new blog
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Use my LJ (which I use rarely, but ideally would like to use to keep in touch with old friends &c.) (2 years ago)
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Push as much logic as possible out into the perl
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Do it in the C core, meaning more code, but we can implement protocols in C (2 years ago)
I picked
Ubuntu
over
Debian (2 years ago)
I picked
Software RAID over
Shell out for a hardware RAID controller
(2 years ago)
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Random Hall
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Manic Sages (2 years ago)
I picked
Roll my own off NewEgg over
Be lazy and buy something from Dell
(2 years ago)
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Sleep now over
Stay up and sleep on the plane
(2 years ago)
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Rewrite it sanely
over
Let it be (2 years ago)
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The right way
over
The easy way (2 years ago)
I picked
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad over
Gibson's The Difference Engine
(2 years ago)
I decided to do
Something else rather than
Apply for an internship at google
or
Look for a summer UROP (2 years ago)
I did both. And right now have offers from both -> another question!
I decided to do
Something else rather than
Hack on Jifty or
Hack on Linux
(1 year ago)
yes
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