I started playing Go at 4 with dad and played a while of IGS (the Panda net thing) and got pretty high (around 2D). But felt in love with Starcraft which is for me, GO+Chess and in real time :p
I try to keep only 50 friends max.
I use to have like 300+ friends which was totally useless and definitely not good for me because I was always checking every pages, answering comments, chatting etc. but I wasn't "that" connected to my true friends.
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-a goban that I still use sometimes
-a water filter for my turtles
-an helicopter with Lego and the engine found in the broken typewriter (no, it can't fly BUT the helices turns :D)
-a laser gun with the laser found in my DVD driver
-my BED ! :D <-most proud
and if "art" counts, I've made with folks from my startup this 4-page comics http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5247526/Nouveaux%20soleils.zip !
First, we put the Russian Anthem in the office to motivate everyone (it really works ahah)
Then, everyone listens to their own stuff on PC. I'm now fan of Chinese pop songs! The lyrics are super-lame but it makes me full of joy ahah
LOL, this is what we talked just an hour ago with my CTO! I'm happy one of you guys raised this up, makes me more confident :)
eDole or eDol is a good name :p
We are actually repositioning eLive as eDole: the first social Karaoke webservice.
Imagine: you just have the largest music catalog for cover songs EVER : Youtube :D
And the subtitles thing is definitely a good point.
Thanks so much folks !
I have 4-5 a day and I have no trouble in sleeping (sleep well from 1am to 6-7am).
Actually, I work better when I wake up early and work during the day then working at night and sleeping in the afternoon.
When I was younger, I use to work late, at night, but I was wasting my time procrastinating and doing side-stuffs than just focusing on my task.
Being introvert doesn't mean being antisocial and being social doesn't mean publishing your life on Facebook and high-5ing every dudes you meet.
Just be yourself. Talk to the ones you want to talk and share things you like to share with friends.
Be nice to the people you care and never be an ass even with people you don't really admire.
That's the basics and it worked pretty well for me since I've met the girl I love and the friends with whom I've actually started our company lol
I was born in China and all my first memory is about little me saying "I'm going to join the red army and become a scientist and save the world". The world, which is China.
And then, I've moved to Europe in the early 90s. I've discovered something new: my dad's mac. First, I was only playing Go and dark castle on it but then, I've started asking myself how to make my own games.
My parents are all engineers and they told me a lil' about Dos, FreeBSD but also Linux.
I've received my first PC at 11 and the first thing I did is playing Fallout. The second thing I did is using a hex-editor to crack the save to get the best weapons :p
And I've also received Internet at home! Life changing! I've actually met people "like me". Very smart people indeed. And I've learnt much more on the web than at school and I felt I was apart of another world. IRC was more real than IRL.
And thanks to the Internet, I've read a lot of tutorials and ABCs so I started writing my first lines in C/C+ and ASM at 12 and never stopped... well, I've actually stopped.
One day, at 21, I discovered I wanted to do something else. I mean, I still like technology in general but I've actually stopped reading hackers blogs, cookbooks and I stopped trying every crackme challenge over the web.
I was fed up with all of these things. I felt I was just a rebellious kid trying to prove to himself how smart he was.
So I stopped.
And so I've asked myself exactly this question same question: what now?
Well, "now", after 3-4 years, I'm doing a business degree. I've also met the girl I love. I've also played in a French TV series. Oh, yeah, I've also been all around the world. Actually, I did many things. Much more than expected. I thought, when I stopped living before my PC, that I'd maybe find a new "hobby" and just farm it like I've farmed C/C+. Nop, nothing about farming just "one" thing but doing, sometimes casually, many, many different things.
But guess what? I've started a Web-startup (elive.pro)!
Just like that.
Because I can. And because I still like technology. And because if I was fed up with the hackers' environment 4 years ago, now, it's pretty different for me: I don't know much about the so-called Web 2.0 and I want to learn, to do something. And meet new people. Smart people.
You know what? It's all about love. Technology is for many of us, our first and our real love.
You will rekindle the flame. But sometimes, even if you really love something or someone, you have to let it or her/him alone.
So, let the technology stuffs alone. Try new things and one day, you'll automatically come back to your first love.
Maybe not as a developer but definitely come back somehow.