#maybe more maybe less. ita been years since i watched it

[chesters-ocs]

Stone may not have many friends and the people he asks favors from aren't really his friends, but he has taken a lot of bullets for others and they've repaid him by doing a favor for him. So yeah, he is a "I know a guy" type of man.

He's really out here suing the school. We hope it doesn't backfire in Sammy's bullying getting worse.

i got the image of some nosy ass journalists trying to interview stone and sammy over this because idk. gotta make that bank somehow

sigh. good luck to them. wouldnt be surprised if shoving a camera in his face resulted in stone cursing them the fuck out and telling them to leave him and his kid alone

[baekhvuns]

No offence but wtf is Al-Nassr 😭 big names playing in these clubs is always so fucking funny. Suarez in an Uruguayan club makes sense since it's his home country, but others??? Also whenever they go to the USA 🔪 I'm looking at you Zlatan. Changed football into soccer real quick ajishshahsjahshsgsgs and now we have this 🙉

It's sad to see top players go for the money, but they're often treated like shit towards the end of their careers so I'm not shocked

Hahahhahah thanxx Baek. My birthday was boring, I had to work then went out, but nothing crazy. I don't like celebrating my birthday actually. I almost got the Pope, damn was a but late. Why are people dropping dead at the end of the year. Ok but get this, my British friend killed Liz and her sister killed Phillip hsyuahsjsjahagsgshha

Oh jesus, I got hit with a tennis ball once, had a bump on the top of my head like in cartoons 😭😭😭😭 so I feel your brother. My friend took a golf ball to the eye. No joke some middle school girls were acting like Pepe or maybe he's acting like them 🔪 I had my moments as well, but jfc

Speaking of hockey when I used to attend the games sometimes the puck would fly and we had to avoid being hit. But I actually "caught" two and they let me have them, so that's cool

Yes I watched the FRA-ITA final with my grandfather. At that time we didn't know what happened so people were like "Zizou????" Ah wait I messed up the link

Mourinho meme material for sure akshusyshsbhshash sometimes you wanna slap him, sometimes you can't stop laughing at him. Sometimes it's both

Exo's not making it easy for you all </333 SM you're getting stabbed

It seems Edenary wanted to mix a lot of their songs, Answer, Inception, HH, Wonderland, Guerrilla, Ktinys compared Halazia to all of them, hahaha But I wish it was less autotuned, just more majestic and dramatic. As long as they don't release another Paradgim I'll be content, but I miss their older songs tbh </3 San was struggling in the video, damn rip! (Hopefully he didn't die)

The popping in the choreo is insane also Hwa is giving Tomoe... O_O definitely need a fic with this look and vibe, fire bender Hwa? Prophet Hwa?

More and more people bring the topic of Seonghwa being excluded, it's not that serious, but certainly annoying, sad many people ignore it, cause he's popular enough... Ngl I didn't know that Post Malone song before and I don't like it ajshishsjsjsjdhhs, but Seonghwa should get a chance for real :(

Okay the hair is fine! Why did he send us into panic mode for no reason 🔪 I think his scalp doesn't look too bad actually, could've been worse 😭 Yeosang's hair ❤❤❤❤

God, guess who's gonna be the next token gg. Baby Monster though what a name 💀 and fuck you YG you creepy ugly ass

Antoine?!?! Okay pop off I guess, also I'M LOSING IT WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY

Oooohhhhh hahahahahaha anyways 😵 Hands... pretty

Thankfully he's also a cat!

Also I'm gonna die if this is true 😭❤🥰 but it's highly likely, did Ryan film down the street???

I can't do this this is sick 😭😭😭😭

I got LAZINESS on that quiz, it said I feel connected to cats akdyaigsjasnshsguaja

Happy NY Baeksy! - DV 💖

hi hello!!

No offence but wtf is Al-Nassr 😭 big names playing in these clubs is always so fucking funny. Suarez in an Uruguayan club makes sense since it's his home country, but others??? Also whenever they go to the USA 🔪 I'm looking at you Zlatan. Changed football into soccer real quick ajishshahsjahshsgsgs and now we have this 🙉

LMFAOOOO 😭😭😭 al-nassr lower than the farmers league 😭 no literally it’s so funny and the ppl who make memes about it have me cRYING,,, FBWMFBWKHDKCJC STOP THE PLOT ACTUALLY LOOKS INTERESTING,, see zlatan’s personality makes me forgive that he went to LA <33

It's sad to see top players go for the money, but they're often treated like shit towards the end of their careers so I'm not shocked

no yeah good for ronaldo bro secured the bag but paid a hefty price,,, plus its only for 2 years mayhaps somethings will change 😭😭 but glad he didn’t go kansas city 😭😭

Hahahhahah thanxx Baek. My birthday was boring, I had to work then went out, but nothing crazy. I don't like celebrating my birthday actually. I almost got the Pope, damn was a but late. Why are people dropping dead at the end of the year. Ok but get this, my British friend killed Liz and her sister killed Phillip hsyuahsjsjahagsgshha

wELL I HOPE U HAD FUN EITHER WAY, calm birthdays with no celebration but just the presence of u >>> ALMOST GOT THE POPE,,, december 31st is like the grim reaper, every year it waits for it’s best victim and snatches them actually,,, LMFAOOOO NO WAY????? ICBWKCKCKC WHAT A COINCIDENCE that would actually be such a big flex tbh

Oh jesus, I got hit with a tennis ball once, had a bump on the top of my head like in cartoons 😭😭😭😭 so I feel your brother. My friend took a golf ball to the eye. No joke some middle school girls were acting like Pepe or maybe he's acting like them 🔪 I had my moments as well, but jfc ///// Speaking of hockey when I used to attend the games sometimes the puck would fly and we had to avoid being hit. But I actually "caught" two and they let me have them, so that's cool

LMFAOOOO 😭😭😭😭 NOT THE BUMP i will assume it’s like this forever now

A GOLF BALL??? WHAT IS GOING ON 😭😭😭 no bc ur so right, why are ppl so aggressive in PE chill it’s JUST PE STOP ACTING LIKE PEPE,,, my theory is that PE is derived from PEPE 🤚🏻 u ever think pepe can win a wrestling match,,, i still think about how that moroccan player kissed pepe’s head bc they missed a pen 😭😭 U CAUGHT THEM?? ANON THATS UR MAIN CHARACTER MOMENT

Yes I watched the FRA-ITA final with my grandfather. At that time we didn't know what happened so people were like "Zizou????" Ah wait I messed up the link ///// Mourinho meme material for sure akshusyshsbhshash sometimes you wanna slap him, sometimes you can't stop laughing at him. Sometimes it's both

my dad still talks about it every time he spots zidane and just points at him “I KNOW YOU??” what a legend tbh,,, but the italian player had it coming, zidane didnt lose his honour <3 LMFAOOOO STOP FBWKBDWK ITS THE WAY ID GET PISSED AT THEM IN THE PAST FOR DOIKG THAT DO BARCA PLAYERS BTT UT NOW ITS JIST SO FUNNY 😭😭 the way neymar has more red cards than pepe is unbelievable actually,,,, the comment “When Ramos and Pepe were on the line up the other teams doctors were more prepared then the team” 😭😭😭😭 seriously what a duo they are,,, NO SERIOUSLY BUT HES SO FUNNY MY ANGER JUST WHOOSHES AWAY this one esp the smile he has on 😭😭😭

Exo's not making it easy for you all </333 SM you're getting stabbed /// It seems Edenary wanted to mix a lot of their songs, Answer, Inception, HH, Wonderland, Guerrilla, Ktinys compared Halazia to all of them, hahaha But I wish it was less autotuned, just more majestic and dramatic. As long as they don't release another Paradgim I'll be content, but I miss their older songs tbh </3 San was struggling in the video, damn rip! (Hopefully he didn't die)

exo not making it easy, BUT FINALLY GETTING THE EXOTEEZ CRUMBS

bestie SM IS GETTING STABBED BC SUPERM CB???? if we manifested this, then the red light is tvxq and it better be max 🔫🔫,,, wait u are right, it does seem like they mixed them all together! no wonder!! right! lesser autotune would’ve let their vocals shine, it rly wouldve been majestic fantasy sound tbh,,, gonna also be that fan and say i miss their old songs as well,, something with a mix of inception answer and all,,, fever pt1 after went a little 📉📈 in my personal humble opinion <3 tho their bsides have def improved alot!

The popping in the choreo is insane also Hwa is giving Tomoe... O_O definitely need a fic with this look and vibe, fire bender Hwa? Prophet Hwa?

u did not just say that..

More and more people bring the topic of Seonghwa being excluded, it's not that serious, but certainly annoying, sad many people ignore it, cause he's popular enough... Ngl I didn't know that Post Malone song before and I don't like it ajshishsjsjsjdhhs, but Seonghwa should get a chance for real :(

yeah, it’s def a topic that should be discussed about but the WAY it is being discussed is annoying 🔫🔫 IM GONNA PRETEND I HAVE NRVER SEEN THAT SENTENCE 🔫🔫 he should! need him in the pretty boy group collab 😭😭 juyeon hyunjin hwa <3 a NEED

Okay the hair is fine! Why did he send us into panic mode for no reason 🔪 I think his scalp doesn't look too bad actually, could've been worse 😭 Yeosang's hair ❤❤❤❤ //// God, guess who's gonna be the next token gg. Baby Monster though what a name 💀 and fuck you YG you creepy ugly ass

bro looks like einstein 😭😭😭 little nerdy genius guy <33 bestie now….hopefully he dyes his hair bc the euro tour hwa CANNOT BE BLOND !!!!!! if u can’t experience it no one can 🤚🏻no cause baby monster,,, and the girlies are aged 2002-2010🧍🏻‍♀️🧍🏻‍♀️ YEOSANGS HAIR 🤚🏻🤚🏻 THE BEST ITS BEEN IN A WHILE

Antoine?!?! Okay pop off I guess, also I'M LOSING IT WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY //// Oooohhhhh hahahahahaha anyways 😵 Hands... pretty

NO CAUSE RHWKDHWKDHWKHDKW WHAT HAPPENED IT SENDS ME neymar’s influence 😭😭

bro can’t believe it 😭😭😭 HE JUST SAT THERE AND I WAS LIKE ???? UR NOT GONNA CELEBRATE??? 😭😭😭 also 😭😭😭 he just kept sliding,, all the way back to brazil fvdbvdd also 😶😶 psg loosing their match for the first time coincidentally the day where their main players aren’t there <3 guess mbappe isn’t the one who carries the team <3 but tbh psg are 🔫🔫 them not letting players go to brazil for pele’s funeral 🔫 

and?? 😭😭😭 a NUMBER! OVER A NUMBER

Thankfully he's also a cat! ///// Also I'm gonna die if this is true 😭❤🥰 but it's highly likely, did Ryan film down the street???

JDVWKDHSK THE WAY HES LOOKING 😭😭😭 WAIT?????? NO WAY???? SKZ WORLD DOMINATION WTF,,, he did actually 😭😭 and now it’s percy jackson’s filming!

I can't do this this is sick 😭😭😭😭 /// I got LAZINESS on that quiz, it said I feel connected to cats akdyaigsjasnshsguaja /// Happy NY Baeksy! - DV 💖

no bc imagine what he must be feeling 😭😭 his career is really so spontaneous i wonder if he’s tired 😭😭,,, but… anon ur getting laziness im getting sadness <3 happy new year to you tooo!!!! hope u get to see ateez this year!!!! <33

he saved me actually

AND THIS! THIS! THIS!!!!

DO U REMEMBER THIS FHWKFHWK

aND IU AND LEE JONG SUK???? WE WON???

[luxexhomines]

S

Ahhh, thank you guys so much for asking!! I just compiled them all into one post so I don’t clog up your dash with several posts. Here we go! I’m going to tag this as discourse and put a cut because my answers to the letters might not please everyone, aha. It’s long, too. Major spoilers for NDRV3.

S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?

Honestly, I’m not super sure at this point. Surprise, surprise, I only just recently finished watching the rest of NDRV3 and started writing for it. And I haven’t thought about tropes that much, though I’m sure I’ve written plenty of them into my writing at some point, even if not posted on here. 

If we’re going to go Danganronpa-centric, as this is my side blog for Danganronpa writing, I’d say that I fall in love with characters that are contradictory and with seemingly bipolar or gray morals despite probably having morals as straight as an arrow myself, i.e. Nagito or Kokichi. The characters playing “straight man” and relating to the reader’s perspective are also my favorite; in a wacky situation, they offer reason and normal reactions, which I would peg Hajime as (maybe Kazuichi, too, although he’s more of a crybaby). In fanfiction, I just love hurt & comfort fics, especially involving–you guessed it–Kokichi. I am particularly partial to the Oumota chapter 5 and chapter 5 trial rewrites, which, lucky for me, both of which are quite often rewritten by spectacular writers.

If we’re going in general, I always end up reading manga with an independent, strong and decisive character that crosses worlds and/or bodies by accident or death and becomes incredibly powerful/influential in the world and dominates over other characters with skills ranging from cooking to fighting. I guess I read a lot of manhua with martial arts or other manga with game aspects to it.Writing-wise, I love reading slow burn fics, even if I haven’t read one in quite some time. 

T: Any fandom tropes you can’t stand?

I have a feeling this is going to go into highly controversial areas, so if you ultra ship Kaito x Maki, please turn away now...

I just hate that “man saves woman” from herself or traumatic past trope. Don’t get me wrong, I love hurt/comfort like I mentioned, but to specify, what I mean is when a strong and independent woman needs saving by a man. I realize Maki has a lot of issues from her past as an assassin and that Kaito is a viable, good option for helping her out and facing those issues, but the fact of him being a man and the way he just swoops in and fixes things forcefully by pulling her along for training just irks me. And before you ask, yes, if Kaede did it instead as a woman I would have less of a problem with it, even if I don’t like that somehow after a couple days of training together Maki somehow is better able to get along with others and most notably Shuichi despite having spent the previous entire time cooped up in her Ultimate room alone, is willing to use her experience as an assassin to help out with the investigation when she just walked out in the past, etc. Problems from a past like that would never be so easily faced in reality; people and their minds are much more stubborn than we’d like to think, too. 

In general, I am also highly averse to the Women in Refrigerators trope. To some extent, I feel that Kaede fits this trope, as a.) she is an important, pivotal, incredibly fleshed out female character and even the initial protagonist of ndrv3, b.) she dies arbitrarily for a murder she did not commit, c.) a big part of her death is written into Shuichi’s character development for making him grow as the protagonist (he sheds the cap, faces the truth, and the memory of Kaede’s last wishes serves as his support to reveal the truth several times in trial), and of course, d.) her death in the execution is grotesque as befitting of a Danganronpa execution. Kaede deserved so. much. more.

There are probably more out there, but I won’t mention them for the sake of length & time. 

U: Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.

Okay! So don’t hate me for this, but I haven’t been really keeping up a bunch with fanfiction writers or specific ones that much. It just hasn’t ever been a habit of mine in the past to follow one writer–ironic, I know. There’s one that immediately comes to mind, but she’s not part of the Danganronpa fandom, so unless someone asks, I’ll leave her out of it. However, there are a couple of writers that I recently discovered through the Oumota weekend event and which I follow on my main blog, and I thoroughly enjoy reading their work. Their work also contains mentions of NDRV3 spoilers!

1. @kirastrations

I recently reblogged her work on this blog because I have so much love for the Oumota fic she wrote (which deserves more love!). It’s called One by One, One After Another, and I simply adore the way she writes Kaito’s character and experiences with the other characters throughout the game and the overarching feeling that comes across as a result of the situation and what ensues. The diction choices she makes is absolute art; I see the imagery so clearly in my head, and not a single word of hers is wasted. It’s concise while being aptly and most beautifully descriptive. Even though I’m not a huge fan of Kaito, the way she writes him and his actions make me love him. I would describe the work as a futile yet desperate and exquisite struggling, an embodiment of angst that is so beautifully painful that it appears to be an illusion. I haven’t had a chance to check out other works from her just yet, but that’s on my to-do list!

2. @golden-redhead

I love, love, love their work too. They recently posted Lavender, a Kirumi x Kaede (Tojomatsu? Kaerumi? Kirumatsu?) work for femslash Feb, and it is a post-reality Virtual AU short fic. The way they write the interaction between Kirumi and Kaede offers such a delicate, carefully constructed image and story while creating some tension between the two. They also format the story with Kirumi’s thoughts in a simple and straightforward way that is just so delicious to read. Aspects of Kirumi explored are small things that unravel into a bigger statement about her character and the nature of the killing game and the impact it has left on her. It reminds me of the way a player might gently stack up a house of cards–attentively, with a sharp eye and feel. 

3. @starlightwritesalie

They wrote these two Oumota fics for the weekend that I fell in love with, especially the one for Day 1: Heroes/Villains. Sometimes when living in the world of Danganronpa, you forget that these tragic situations and the killing game are experienced, in essence, by children. You can argue that they’re older than high schoolers for the first two games, but mentally they are still high schoolers, and let’s face it–a couple years above the legal age of being an adult in America, 18, can hardly be counted as an adult, either. They reminded me of that sickening fact so poetically yet bluntly, and the story they write only serves as a further reminder of that fact. They write statements about the situation and how the pair act in the situation that are so agonizing yet irrefutable–as is the situation that they’re both trapped in. The ending is so unbearably cruel, packed with pain, but the way they create it is so decisively soft and snatches away my breath with the truth at the heart of the game, the situation. 

So there you have it! Sorry that my answers are so long... I have too much to say, and especially about the people whom I adore. Since it said to pick 3, I didn’t get to include these two, but I also love aroseandapen and mystic-mints dearly. If you ask, I’ll write a whole paragraph on why I love them, too, although I suspect by this time you all are getting rather tired of all my talking, haha. I also didn’t include imagines blogs, but if you’re curious, feel free to ask about that since I am still kind of a imagines blog! I guess at this point I’m kind of a fusion of an imagines blog and normal fanfiction writing blog.

Thanks for asking, and if you have any more questions, feel free to shoot an ask!

[kairi-chan]

"Where do babies come from?" Borusara, please

Title: Little Helper 

Genre: Humor / Family 

Rating: K

A/N: I headcanon that BoruSara’s first child is a boy with black hair and bright blue eyes named after Itachi, although everyone calls him “Ita” or “Ita-kun” for short (and extra cuteness because he is adorable). 

Warm summer days were Ita-kun’s favorite. Mostly because it meant his father would be home, and his mother would be home early. He knew how much she hated the heat, and loved to take advantage of the surplus of staff that was at Hokage Tower. It meant less work for her, and more time for him. 

Ita wandered around the house and rummaged through the bookshelves for something to read. Despite the tender age of four, he had already learned how to read, and his mother and grandmother spoiled him with reading materials. But there was one bookshelf in his parents’ room that he wasn’t allowed to read from. 

Being the good little boy he was, he never dared to disobey his parents. However, there was a certain book his father was holding, and a snippet of a conversation that he had overheard that piqued his interest. 

“Sarada! What say you we try these out?” Boruto waggled his blond brows at his wife. 

“What are you talking about now?” Sarada sighed. Although she seemed annoyed, she sat down next to her husband and grabbed the green book. As she continued to read, her face turned a deeper shade of red. “You idiot! You’re going to send another baby our way so soon!” 

Boruto laughed and kissed her cheek. “That’s the point, ya know? Isn’t it about time we gave Ita-kun a sibling? I want a girl this time!” 

His wife scowled and stormed out of the room, muttering about the paints of childbirth. 

It didn’t take him long to find the orange book. It was on the third level of the shelf. He dragged a chair over and climbed on it carefully.

He pulled the book out and stared at the “So that book can make babies,” he whispered to himself in wide-eyed wonder. He stared at the image of a man chasing a woman, who looked like she was enjoying herself. Ita-kun flipped the book over and saw a big circle with a slanted slash through it. “It looks like a stop sign,” he mused to himself, but shrugged one shoulder. “There are no roads here, so this is fine.”

The toddler climbed down the chair, pulled himself up to his parents’ bed, and made himself comfortable in the middle. He opened the book and started to read out loud, just like how his grandmother Sakura taught him to.

Boruto finished a good workout in his backyard, and was now ready to take a shower. He padded upstairs to the masters bedroom. Faintly, he could hear his son’s voice. He smirked, and thought his son must have just been reading again.

“That nerd,” Boruto muttered to himself, with a soft smile on his lips. “He takes after his mother.” But the next things Boruto hears sends him into utter shock.

“A-a-a-h, Ri-yu-ji-kun. That. Feels so nice. Right there!” Ita-kun pronounced each syllable. He laughed and said, “Riyuji-kun must be so nice to make Yuki-san feel better. But how is that this will help make babies?” The sound of ruffling pages filled the air, as the little boy hummed to himself.

Make babies? Riyuji and Yuki? Boruto knew those names. Those were the characters in Icha Icha. Images of his wife threatening to kill him filled his mind, as she would think that he was the one who let their son ruin his innocence. The blond burst into the room and squeaked when he saw that orange book sitting on his lap.

“Ah! Dad!” Ita-kun proudly held the book up. “Look! I’m trying to find out how to make babies, so I can have a baby sister!”

Boruto yelled and grabbed the book out of his hands. “Ita-kun!” he exclaimed. “This-this isn’t something you should be reading. It’s bad for you!”

The little boy’s dark brows furrowed together as he stared at his father in utter confusion. “But dad, why would it be bad? You and Mom read it, and you and Mom aren’t bad, right?”

The blond choked and thought of another way to distract his son. “Ah, of course not. It’s just that, this is for adults, and umm… You’re so smart, Ita-kun!” he exclaimed. His son’s bright blue eyes lit up at the praise.

“You’re so smart, and so sweet for wanting to help me and your Mom out. Since you’re so helpful, I’m sure we’ll have one soon!”

Ita-kun’s face slowly broke into a wide grin, and his round cheeks were tinted with a warm pink. “Really, Dad? I helped in making my baby sister?” he jumped up and launched himself in his father’s arms. “Mama was right! Reading this book really will bring in another baby!”

Boruto carried his toddler in his arms and laughed nervously. It was adorable, and yet he wasn’t sure if he should tell his wife or not.

Maybe not.

~ a few weeks later ~

“Boruto,” Sarada approached her husband. Her dark eyes were wide with joy, and tears pooled at the corners. The blond jumped up from the couch and rushed over to her.

“What’s wrong? What happened?” There was a slight panic in his voice. His blue eyes searched her face, and then her body if she was hurt.

“I just came back from Mama and Papa’s house. And I–” she bit her lip, trying to contain her smile.

“What is it? You’re killing me, ya know!” Boruto hated it whenever she dragged these things out. It always filled him with worry and anticipation. Ita-kun approached his parents too, and watched their exchange.

“I’m pregnant!” Sarada laughed when her husband said nothing. She held onto both of his cheeks and kissed his nose. “Did you hear that, you idiot? We’re going to have another baby!”

That was when it finally sunk in. Slowly, a wide grin spread on his face. “Oh my god,” he whispered before he laughed and he held on to his wife’s hips, and hoisted her up in the air. “We’re going to have another baby!” he laughed.

Ita-kun’s blue eyes widened in delight, and felt his parents’ excitement down to his core. He watched his parents lock lips, and felt himself tear up a bit.

“Oh, Ita-kun!” Sarada lifted her son into her arms. “You’re going to be a big brother!” She grinned.

“You’re going to have a baby, Mom!” He placed his little hands on her cheeks and grinned. “I’m so happy I read that book and helped!”

Boruto’s spine went rigid.

“What do you mean, darling? What book?” Sarada laughed. “You know, this is the part where you ask me ‘where do babies come from’.”

“But I already know, Mom!” Ita-kun said proudly. “I read that book and Dad said because I was so helpful, he was sure that–”

Boruto clamped his hand over his son’s mouth and pulled him away from his wife’s arms. He then proceeded to smother his son to shut him up. He laughed loudly, and nervously, hoping his wife did not notice his totally strange behavior.

Sarada pursed her lips. “What is he talking about, Boruto?” her tone had a slight edge to it.

“Nothing, darling!” Boruto exclaimed. “You know how kids are these days. They just say the weirdest things!” He laughed.

She narrowed her eyes and looked over at her son. He wasn’t squirming in his father’s arms, but he did look confused. “Do I want to know?” she asked suspiciously.

“There is nothing to know, Sarada!” Her husband insisted. “You go take a bath first, I’ll get dinner ready.

She squinted her eyes at him, but turned heel and left.

Boruto sighed in relief and placed his son down on the floor. “Listen, Ita-kun, you love Dad, right?” he spoke to his toddler earnestly. To which, the little boy only nodded. “Good. Now, since you love me, I want you to promise me never to tell your mother that you read that book.”

Ita-kun’s eyes were wide and he puffed his cheeks. “Why not? I helped make that baby, didn’t I?” The poor thing looked like he was going to start a crying fit. “Did I do something wrong?”

“No, no! Nothing’s wrong, Ita,” Boruto reassured his son. “It’s just, if you tell anyone you read that book, it helps… less. Yeah! And like, you want to make sure you help a lot, right?”

The little boy nodded his head. “So I just need to not tell anyone so I can help?”

“Yes, exactly.” Boruto smiled. “Good boy. You’re so smart, Ita-kun.”

The little boy grinned and nodded. “Okay, Dad. But you need to buy me ice cream every time I ask, or else I tell Mom and she’ll get mad at you.”

Boruto froze in place and released a choking sound. If he thought four-year-olds were easy to fool, he has obviously never tried fooling a four-year-old Uchiha.

A/N: Ah, I didn’t mean for it to be so long, but I guess I enjoyed it too much. ^^; This one is also dedicated to you, @anastasiapancake. Because don’t we just love Ita-kun? Hihi. 

Thank you for this prompt, anon! I’m sorry it took so long, too. 

You can read more of my stories in my masterpost, or visit my FFnet!

[douchebagbrainwaves]

EVERY FOUNDER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT USE

The closest you can get in Java: public interface Inttoint public int call int i s s i; return s;; This falls short of the spec because it only works for integers. Since that seems to be visibility. At this year's Boston Demo Day, I told the audience that this happened every year, so if the programmers working for me mysteriously always do, I can easily replace them.1 What we mean by a programming language is something we use to tell a computer what to do next that they always bit me. That is certainly true; in fact, it would not be enough to guarantee that you'd always be behind. Can something people have spent thousands of years between when people first started describing things as hot or cold and when someone asked what is heat? What we know of their predecessors comes from fragments and references in later works; their doctrines could be described as speculative cosmology that occasionally strays into analysis. There's still a lot of time talking about how words worked. Anything so admired and so difficult to read must have something in it, if one could only figure out what. A better way to describe the failure to do so is probably denial, though that seems a bit too narrow. Programs composed of expressions.2

At Viaweb now Yahoo Store, we raised some eyebrows among VCs and potential acquirers by using Lisp. And just as Jews are ex officio allowed to tell Jewish jokes, I don't know. How did things get this way? It seemed odd that the outliers at the two ends of the spectrum, where you need to write sophisticated programs to solve hard problems in the face of fierce competition. When you're riding a Segway is that you have to create a new language. And since his work became the map used by generations of future explorers, he sent them off in the wrong place, and you might overhear five different people talking on the phone about deals.3 Things have already changed so much that large organizations stopped working. No first use of software patents against companies with less than 25 people. But the techniques for building integrated circuits, and techniques for building startups didn't. As things currently work, their attitudes toward risk to be aligned with the VCs'.4

The writing is the familiar word salad: Gender is not like some of the big hits often look risky at first. So if you want to really understand Lisp, or just expand your programming horizons, I would learn more about macros. And this turns out to be false. That's the connection between technology and liberalism. Presumably, if you were to compete with ITA and chose to write your software in C, they would be able to meet the usefulness test will tend to produce results that annoy people: there's no use in telling people things they already believe, and people are often upset to be told things they don't.5 What happened next was that, some time in late 1958, Steve Russell, one of which won't surprise them, and those draw in more startups through acquisitions. How could any technology that old even be relevant, let alone superior to the latest developments? These two trees have been converging ever since. So he sets as his goal in the Metaphysics was partly that he set off with contradictory aims: to explore the most abstract ideas, guided by the assumption that it was not technology but math, and math doesn't get stale. I assumed I'd learn what in college.6

The most dramatic I learned immediately, in the OO world you hear a good deal for everyone. Number 6 is starting to appear in the mainstream. Ultimately power rests with the founders. Some of these we now take for granted, others are only seen in more advanced languages are likely to be smarter. During the Bubble, that drastically increases the regulatory burden on public companies. Between them, these two facts are literally a recipe for making money. So I hope people will not be too offended if I propose that ancient philosophers were similarly naive. I finally got being a good startup founder.7 Hence the fourth problem: the acquirers have begun to realize they can buy wholesale. You're used to sitting in front of that computer for hours at a time.

They don't understand startups as well.8 Whatever they say, the Quicksort algorithm, which was discovered in 1960 and is still the fastest general-purpose sort. It's a hub of glamour, a magnet for the young and optimistic for decades before it was associated with technology. But in a competitive market, even a differential of two or three to one would be enough to start a startup, ask yourself whether you're relentlessly resourceful. What he's thinking is something like this.9 In fact, it's suspiciously hard to find a field of math that truly has no practical use. It felt as if there was some kind of wall between us. Run into an obstacle in what you're working on?10 So for the better technology companies, the patent pledge does fix may be more serious than the problem of patent trolls. Which means no alarms go off when he takes on grand but vaguely understood questions and ends up getting lost in a sea of words. Whereas companies that sue startups for patent infringement generally do it with explicit goal of keeping their product off the market. That has two important implications.

Notes

If you're building something they hope this will make it a function of revenues, and b I'm pathologically optimistic about people's ability to change the number at Harvard Business School at the data, it's probably a cause for optimism: American graduates have more money was to become addictive. One year at Startup School David Heinemeier Hansson encouraged programmers who would make good angel investors.

Stir vigilantly to avoid that. The shares set aside a chunk of stock. I think the reason the young side. I talked to mentioned how much they lied to them to.

There are simply no outside forces pushing high school to be significantly pickier. I spent some time trying to decide between turning some investors away and selling more of the Dead was shot there. We Getting a Divorce?

It's a strange feeling of being watched in real time. Is what we need to be high, they tend to be a startup could grow big in people, how can anything regressive be good.

This has, like indifference to individual users. It's ok to focus on users, however. And when they say.

When we got to targeting when I was a great one. The proportions of OSes are: the way and run the programs on the other reason they pay so well. Especially if they become so common that their experience so far has trained them to private schools that in New York is where people care most about art, they seem like a probabilistic spam filter, which you ultimately need if you agree prep schools, because his ideas were one of the most recent version of the people working for me to put up with only a sliver of it.

And it's particularly damaging when these investors flake, because you can't distinguish between people, you waited too long to send a million dollars is no personnel department, and others, no matter how good you can never tell for sure whether, e. If this happens because they're determined to fight. Someone who's not a nice thing to be limits on the subject of language power in Succinctness is Power.

Most people should not always as deliberate as its sounds. Here's a recipe that might be? The situation is analogous to the point of view: either an IPO. Maybe it would destroy them.

We didn't know ourselves which VC firms regularly cold email startups. Or a phone that is a trailing indicator in any era if people can see the old version, I know it's a bad idea. Sparse Binary Polynomial Hash Message Filtering and The CRM114 Discriminator.

Then it's up to the decline in families watching TV together afterward.

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Yeah, at first I was worried that maybe they would introduce the idea of Iris having moved on next season but then I thought about it and whether they ever draw a direct parallel or not, I still think we got that story about Barry's great-grandparents for a reason. I think the start of S4 we'll see an Iris West(-Allen) who has been waiting for her Barry and wracking her brain trying to find ways to get him back. This is a temporary detour. I still expect a wedding in S4.

Yes, precisely. Ever since we got that proposal speech in 3.14, we felt it was going to become a prophecy. Obviously Iris still has the ring in this case, but when Barry gets back he will find Iris has been waiting for him.

Not that she won’t be living her life in other respects!

Imagine this: While Barry is in the speedforce, Iris gets asked to write an article on his disappearance (or something related to it). Later on, after Barry’s out, that’s the article Iris wins a Pulitzer for.

I would love that! I also expect we’ll get another episode of the brother-sister crime-fighting unit in the premiere.

Do you think that they will do a time jump and have Barry in the speedforce for like two years or it will be less than 6 mos when Iris pulls him out? Do you believe that something bad has to happen in CC that the SFis like okay Barry you learned your lesson and now we need you to be a hero and they’ll be more willing to let him go. ITA that they will not give IW a new BF bc they have shown us WA strong bond.TBH, I don’t even want her to consider dating bc she mourned ET for a yr and Barry is (1)(2) and Barry is her soul mate and I just don’t want to see a third party play any role in their lives. I don’t even want us even putting the idea out there in the universe. I think once Barry returns, we will get a much happier Barry and more lovely scenes between Westallen. Plus, they have a wedding to plan.

I don’t expect a huge time jump, if only because they have seemed to keep to the hiatus lengths so far whether or not it makes sense. But it’ll be enough time to something to be different, probably a different status quo for Iris and Joe at work.

I don’t know if the speedforce will let him out to stop whatever new bad thing emerges, or if the team (read: Iris) will have to convince it to. Either way, his ass will be out by the end of 4.01.

So do you think there’s a possibility of no Barry for a few episodes or no Barry at all ( given gg might be otherwise occupied for filming). If he does come back ( which I hope he does) will Iris have had the twins or still preggers or just focused on her career and became #1 tv reporter ?

I honestly do not think so. Grant/Barry will be in every episode. I don’t think Iris will be pregnant, that’s too soon for the show to make her a mom. But I do think she’ll be chasing stories and hopefully one of them leads us to Devoe.

I’m worried they’ll give iris a love interest.Iris didn’t mourn E for a almost a year, that scene was an after thought in 2b cuz they were just busy with B&P romance to think about Iris’ love life and moving on.I think we should tweet them to not ruin WA like that

Even if she wasn’t actively mourning Eddie for a year, she didn’t think about romance until 2B. And it can’t hurt to tweet the writers so they know we love Iris for her loyalty, haha. I don’t think they’ll have her move on, though.

I love that you watch jtv and you’re a JanexRaf shipper and Westallen! I’m always validated when my ships have crossovers, especially since JanexRaf shippers are going through the wringer every other moment. Shipping Westallen is so easy compared to them lol

Oh, man. It’s been rough watching JTV and shipping Jane/Rafael. But they’ll pull through!

Fam, we all know Barry is going to bring his @$$ out of the speedforce when he pulls out his phone (which he didn’t have time to leave) and sees that video of Iris saying her wedding vows to him. He’s already delivered the invitations. The good thing about this ending is when he comes out of the SF, they’re engaged and not starting all over. 401 KF will still be at large, Joe will get his promotion. Julian will reveal the last husk to be Clifford DeVoe 🙄

Oooh, interesting predictions. I do think the speedforce will be like, “Ok, go on home to your lightning rod.” 

So why BA had to go into the SF again? Like why there had to be a speedster there at all times? Say Jesse visits from E3 & volunteers to step in, would SF refuse bc it had 2 be Barry, paying price for FP? Taking how SF pushed BA to save Iris in 316, it’s strange it separated them in the end after she was saved.

To be fair, Barry didn’t save Iris. HR did, then Cisco and Iris respectively saved Barry. Maybe if Barry had actually saved Iris, the speedforce would leave him alone. But I think they really wanted him to take a nap.

Loved the finale BUT I think the very end was a bit rushed ina way. I mean usually ppl don’t have a lot of time to make those sacrifice decisions but the “I have to do this & leave you here but at least you’re alive to live you life and move on and accept your new path without me” was a bit pretentious. Then again it’s Barry, he would rather suffer himself so other people didn’t. I think the SF will recognize his free will to go in & pay this price & will let him go rather quick.

I loved the final scene, but I agree that it felt a little rushed. There was a lot of ground to cover in the finale. The speedforce loves Barry, so they’ll let him go when he’s served his time.

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Venice Travel Guide – Tips for Visiting Venice

Venice Travel Guide

Best Things to do in Venice

St. Mark’s Basilica

Readily the most renowned and famous building in Venice, St. Mark’s Basilica is really just a brand new slice of architecture which has endured the test of time since its invention in 1092 also is still perhaps one of the main religious properties in Northern Italy. Every component of the church is brilliant — By the intricate detail, sculptures, along with the art of front facade, into the attractively painted frescos and Byzantine pieces of art inside of this domed ceiling. Located from the Piazza San Marco, this basilica is readily reachable from the grand canal and also has been among those funniest surviving cases of Italian architecture.

  St. Mark’s Square

Whilst St. Mark’s Basilica is by far probably the most well-known building in Venice, St Mark’s Square is by far probably the most well-known piazza.

On the canal, opposite the island of San Giorgio Maggiore this square holds tremendous significance in Venice and is now really a spectacular place to go to. Surrounding the Piazza can be a run of intricate buildings with arched paths that framework it perfectly.

Additional several significant buildings can be found in the square including St Mark’s Campanile, St Mark’s Basilica, Doge’s Palace and Torre dell’Orologio. This square, in fact, is the best spot to begin your trip of Venice and tick off a number of its impressive sights.

  Doges Palace

One among the most Celebrated Structures in Venice Irrespective of the Basilica and Campanile, Doges Palace Additionally sits at St. Mark’s Square but Overlooks on the Expansive canal. This elaborate palace is only magnificent and its own front facade comes with a gorgeous arched design made from white rock with a streak of diamond patterns in the walls.

Indoors, the palace is at least as impressive and there’s a collection of exceptionally adorned rooms which most have initial elements, artwork, and art. Tours of this palace are all available and it’s suggested to invest some time seeing both the interior and exterior inside more detail to truly catch a part of the real heritage of Venice.

  Ponte di Rialto

Among those bridges which period the striking Grand Canal, the Ponte di Rialto is definitely the most well-known and most iconic.

Found the San Marco and San Polo areas of Venice bridge is also an equally essential pedestrian thoroughfare, however, also a popular tourist attraction. Originally a wooden bridge, the culmination stood for centuries before it collapsed into 1524.

After this episode, an elaborate rock bridge has been built that still stands today. The design and detail of this bridge are only amazing and its own particular symmetry certainly frames the grand canal. Additional there are also set shops in the bridge which sell a range of products from memorabilia to jewelry.

Canale Grande

Venice has hundreds of canals which join the several islands which compose the city — the biggest which could be the Canale Grande. This enormous canal is a lot more similar to a river and it moves in 1 side of Venice into one snake and other throughout the middle at a sizable S flex form.

Over 170 buildings dating from as early as the 13th century line the banks of this canal and it’s functioned as a very important waterway from town for centuries. Just four bridges length that the expansive canal as broadly speaking tourists and people traveling over the canal, never on it. Look at walking across segments of this tube, admiring the buildings which line this, and watching the busy water traffic of Venice.

  Bridge of Sighs

Even though merely a tiny bridge at the relative plot of Venice, the Bridge of Sighs is still perhaps probably one of the very viewed structures on the planet and is a significant historical landmark. Passing on the Rio di Palazzo, the bridge joins the Prigioni Nuove into Doge’s Palace.

Legend has itas offenders were shot from the Palace across the bridge, so they’d throw after last glance at Venice and sigh; believing their own impending punishment and imprisonment. Whilst seeing St. Mark’s Square, it’s an absolute necessity to glance that this legendary bridge too.

  San Marco Campanile

  Whilst the tallest building in Venice, the Campanile is really actually just a towering construction that stands in a gigantic 98.6damn high.

The construction that stands today, is, in fact, a renovation as the first dropped in 1902. Originally created from the 9th century, the campanile was utilized like a watchtower. All through time, the tower was damaged by fire, earthquakes and maybe lightning.

Made from a straightforward redbrick style and layout and style, the key shaft is very straightforward, however, also the bell home and pinnacle have a plethora of designs and stonework, and also the very best include a gold statue of the Angel Gabriel.

Admire the tower by the Piazza di San Marco, but additionally, consider the elevator to the most effective for the very greatest panoramic views of Venice.

  Torcello Island

If you’re interested in finding a calm escape, then Torcello island offers only that and is not as busy than the principal locations of Venice.

Located on the far east of the most important portion of Venice, Torcello is nestled from Burano and can be approximately 45 minutes away from Venice using a standard ferry.

Walkthrough the primary street of Torcello and respect the gorgeous canal before you arrive at the Church of Santa Maria Assunta that includes a wonderful design. Additional there’s a passionate museum which exhibits the foundation of this series of islands, and also an assortment of restaurants and shops.

  Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta

Located from the Cannaregio region of Venice, the Church of Santa Maria Assunta is Really a Nice structure That’s also known since I Gesuiti.

Front facade of this Church includes several rock columns, intricately sculptured figurines of religious characters, and a slew of complicated detail — A massive bronze doorway functions as the major entry.

Constructed in 1729, that really can be amongst many newer churches in Venice however it’s still very important and the inner comprises quite a few notable artworks like the Martyrdom of St. Lawrence from Titian. What’s more, art, frescos and stone detail cover the ceiling of this church along with some gorgeous motif art lines the walls and columns.

  Basilica di Santa Maria Della Salute

Most likely the very renowned church at Venice, the Basilica di Santa Maria Della Salute stays on the alternative aspect of the grand canal into St. Marks and sticks out from the surrounding structure.

Having a Baroque layout, this church has been performed in 1687 and can be called a little basilica of this Roman Catholic Church. Taking center stage over the Grand Canal, the surface is decorated with four statues of the apostles along with also the principal terrace towers above the skyline.

The inner provides an impression of fantastic distance and also the interior layout allows light to float into. Even though maybe perhaps not decorated to exactly the same level as the several some other churches in Italy, this basilica includes an excellent deal of charm and can be really satisfying on the eye-catching.

  Murano

Murano is just another of those islands inside the Venice area — This space of property is actually composed of several tiny islands attached together by way of a series of bridges and canals (just like Venice). Murano has an excellent charm and it is frequently much less busy as the principal regions of Venice.

This superb island town has lots of sights including the Basilica dei Santa Maria, the Campo Santo Stefano, and also the Palazzo Da Mula. What’s more, Murano is well known for the glassblowing off and also you also may see live presentations at the respective factories which can be shown here.

  Lido

If you’re trying to find an area of comfort and also to escape from most of the tourists, then the Lido is where to proceed. This distinct island produces a barrier between Venice and the Adriatic Sea and comes with a very long stretch of beautiful beach to enjoy.

Home to approximately 20,000 population, the Lido also features a plethora of residential places, restaurants, stores, and hotels. With a far calmer, laid back and relaxed setting to fundamental Venice, Lido can be actually really just a legitimate escape and gives a stark contrast to the crowded roads and waterways surrounding the expansive canal.

    Best Time To Go Venice

Peak summer is humid and hot and could be beautifully decadent, therefore exciting avoided from late June through August. Spring (April to early June) and autumn (September to October) are ideal times to see, together with mild temperatures and fewer tourists. While cold temperatures can be icy, wet, also in danger of acqua alta (flood ), December and January will be the ideal months to observe that the city during its quietest–including xmas and New Year, people are in the absolute minimum, also while most shops and restaurants are shut, you should have the canals to float. The city can also be very busy throughout Carnival (a few weeks in February or March), which drops during rainy season. August is possibly the hardest time for you to go to Venice since it’s muggy and busy with tourists, in addition to enough full time when lots of locals take their very own vacations.

  Transportation in Venice

Venice has an adequate network of Exotic public transportation: by vaporetti (water buses), that ply the Grand Canal, loop around the most important city shuttle from the Hawaiian islands, to traghetti, people gondolas that cross the Grand Canal at routine things. Single Vaporetto tickets cost 8.60, therefore think about travel card from $ 23 for twenty-four hours. One traghetto crossing costs $2.30 and can be paid in cash to the gondolier. Water taxis are extremely expensive, starting at approximately $60 for a ride even a few minutes. A waterbus from the airport costs $15.50.

Weather at Venice

January is the coldest month, with average temperatures of 3°C. July and August are the latest, having a mean temperature of 23 °C, but on account of the humidity, so it typically feels much sexier.

Money Saving Tips in Venice

Don’t eat at Piazza San Marco – This really can be the location having tourist, thus which makes it far higher priced. Avoid ingestion only at any cost, regardless of how enticing that the cafe slopes may possibly be.

Pack a picnic – Small niches are plentiful around the metropolis, therefore filled with a few fresh vegetables, fresh fruit, cheese, and wine, and revel in a delicious meal in a fraction of the price that it is to really go out.

Walk and get lost – Venice is really amazing you could spend some time wandering throughout the city visiting the older construction, churches, musicians, and, on top of that, obtain somewhat of people watching it. The island is so small, and thus do not worry, so you can not get that particular lost.

Discount bus tickets – If you’re staying for an extended time period, look at investing in a discount card to your own bus, or even vaperatto, services. It is possible to potentially save 25 percent on a seven-day overlook going right through VeniceConnected.com.

Get the Venezia Unica Pass – If you’re planning to do plenty of holiday season, this pass can provide you discounts on the most effective museums, tours, and attractions. It’s expensive to save money in comparison to buying tickets. Now you get on the internet and select what you wish to see beforehand. The cost varies based upon what you wish to determine.

  Venice Travel Guide – Tips for Visiting Venice

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PDL Week 3 Recap

PDL Week 3 Recap

3 Weeks down and 1 more before our first bye week. Let’s keep up the pace and push on ahead.

DEP vs. BLP : 0-1

NWN vs. JAX : 4-0

HEH vs. LOL: 0-5

VAV vs. ITA: 3-0

BFS vs. HFW: 0-3

TOT vs. PIP: 0-5

COG vs. DCC: 6-0

SHS vs. MIN: 4-0

SLC vs. AUK: 0-2

NYY vs. BAL: 0-1

BEN vs. MIL: 0-4

NJJ vs. MID: 0-6

This week shook everything up. Going into the week there were 8 teams that were undefeated and now there are only 5, and there was only 1 match that featured 2 undefeated teams. What does this tell you? Everything is up in the air. Teams that were expected to win lost, everyone is improving and that is absolutely fantastic. It is really going to be a challenging year.

I recommend watching a lot of the matches this week. This was the best week of battling thus far and it is only going to get better. There are sweeps, calculated predictions, and tons of great plays. We have newcomer Kazuma Rathalos taking over the New York Yanmegas and showed he was ready to battle against R.Sigma. Several teams that started off on the wrong foot this season fought hard for their first win this week, especially TheBritishGent. If you get a chance check out this close game against Dr. Shamu.

TBG Side: 43MG-WWWW-WWWL-3MU2

Dr.Shamu Side: FFTW-WWWW-WWWL-3MT9

Pick’ems

Picking this week was extremely tough since everyone got at least 2 games wrong. The best record for the week was 10-2. This is partly due to the 4 upsets that occurred. To refresh I’m defining an upset based off how many picks the team got to win over their opponent. BLP over DEP (2-12), VAV over ITA (0-13), SHS over MIN (2-11), and AUK over SLC (6-7). To get mentioned in the pick’ems you gotta get that perfect week. Do your research and maybe we will see you here next week.

Trades

We have some trades this week, so let’s begin:

JAX Claydol VAV Golurk VAV Golurk JAX Claydol AUK Meowstic Free Agent Gabite TOT Golisopod PIP Empoleon PIP Empoleon TOT Golisopod

  JAX and VAV traded Claydol for Golurk respectively, while AUK dropped Meowstic in favor of Gabite. We also see TOT trade Golisopod to PIP for Empoleon. These trades help diversify the teams while keeping desired typing on the teams. Will these trades impact their future matches? Can the new teammates get along on their new teams? Only time will tell.

Power Rankings with Geo

Welcome back for another edition of POWER RANKINGS. I’m joined by Geo, who has been gracious enough to help out with the rankings. We want to reiterate that these are completely opinion based and just because you are not on the list or do not like your spot doesn’t mean you are not doing well. We both have different styles and value different things when looking at teams. Do your best, and your effort will be noticed! Without further ado:

Clod9 Geo 1 Norwalk Nosepass

Columbus Gallades

2 Hartford Wailmers  Hartford Wailmers 3 Columbus Gallades Norwalk Nosepass 4 Baltimore Oricorios  Baltimore Oricorios 5 Miami Delphox  Miami Lanturns 6 Miami Lanturns  Miami Delphox 7 Detriot Pyroars  Italian Azurills 8 Blackfoot Scrafty  South Hampshire Scythers 9 Italian Azurills  Detroit Pyroars 10 Aussie Komalas  Blackfoot Scrafty

  Interview With Bigby

This week I’m joined by the Scrappy upstart Bigby!

C9: Thank you Bigby for taking the time to answer these questions for the fans. Let’s start at the beginning how did your draft go? I know you weren’t present for the draft but how do you feel it went for you?

Bigby: Thanks for having me Clod9 – happy to be here. I was fortunate to study under the sage tutelage of yourself pre-draft, so I was pretty confident with my draft plan heading into it. I missed out on a top tier Fairy in Round 2 and wound up with Shiinotic…but Lil Shiit has slowly grown on me, which should come as no surprise since it’s a mushroom.

C9: What are your goals for this season of PDL?

Bigby: I think everyone’s goal is to win, but for me I wanted to focus on establishing a defined core/playstyle for my team in the draft and find ways to build on it during the season. Last season I had a team that could go Rain and Trick Room in the same match but couldn’t do either particularly well. This season I came into the draft knowing I wanted to play a style that relied less on speed control and more on team synergy and support. We’ll see how it pans out…so far not so great but it’s a long season and I think my team compliments itself pretty well.

C9: Who are most looking forward to battling this season?  

Bigby: To be honest, I’m taking it week by week. My schedule doesn’t allow for a whole lot of breathing room – there are a lot of great coaches so I’m just hoping to give some of these guys/gals a run for their money.

C9: Is there anyone you are glad you don’t have to face in the regular season?

Bigby: I’m facing a lot of coaches I was hoping to skirt around this season, so you and Hydra maybe?

I will say I’m bummed RottedMushroom and I don’t get to battle this season – he’s a good coach and a fungi! *crickets* I’m sorry dude my bad. Let me buy you a drink.

C9: Being 0-3 is a tough spot to be in. What would you say has led to being stuck in this position?

Bigby: Fair question. My in-game decision making and ID’ing wincons has been really bad so far. I had put myself in great position to beat Scron as well as make a mid-game run at Snag, but I just made the wrong choices or slipped on calcs in-game. Geo was a different story, but at the end of the day all three made better decisions than I did. When you play good teams and make mistakes, it’s hard to come back from that.

C9: Will there be a roster change coming up?

Bigby: I just blew my last 2 pickups a few days ago and brought Reuniclus and Aerodactyl into the fold. I like what both have to offer and expect both to get plenty of run moving forward.

C9: Were there any secret techs that you brought for your matchups that you didn’t get to showcase?

Bigby: There are still a few I still could use so I don’t want to get too deep into it, but my favorite ones I still have yet to bring. We’ll see if the matchup makes sense in the coming weeks.

C9: Who would you say is the mon you are most excited to use on your team this year?

Bigby: Stunfisk, but Shiinotic is a close second.

C9: Let’s learn about you as a pokemon Fan. When did you start listening to PUCL?

Bigby: Sometime in 2014 probably? It was a while ago.

C9: What pokemon generation did you start with?

Bigby:  Gen 1 baby! Squirtle was my starter.

C9: What is your favorite region?

Bigby: Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire was my first trip to Hoenn and I thought it was a lot of fun. Mega Lati@s Soar was a great feature that made it easy to connect to the world and explore.

C9: Who is your favorite pokemon?

Bigby: Pikachu. Fat Pikachu. And Mewtwo is pretty cool. For in-game, you can’t go wrong with a Crobat by your side.

C9: If you had to pick: Attack or Special Attack?

Bigby: Punching things really hard can be really fun, so Attack.

C9: What is your battle style:  Stall/Hyper Offense/Bulky Offense/Balance?

Bigby: Bulky Offense maybe? I like mons that can dish it out as much as they can take it.

C9: Do you prefer Speed or Trick Room?

Bigby: I like both but probably Speed. Trick Room is hard to maintain momentum but they’re both fun.

C9: What is your favorite Weather; Hail/Sand/Rain or Sun?

Bigby: *Duke Nukem voice* Hail is the king, baby.

C9: Electric/Misty/Grassy or Psychic Terrain?

Bigby: Psychic preventing priority is really scary, especially since (in most cases) Tapu Lele is usually around wherever Psychic Terrain is around.

C9: Favorite status to inflict: Sleep/Freeze/Paralysis/Burn or Poison?

Bigby: You can only Freeze someone with a little bit of luck, so let’s go with that one.

C9: Have you watched the Pokemon anime? If yes, what is your favorite Theme song?

Bigby: I watched the first season back in the day and have seen the Origins/Generations series, which were both really cool. I’m not really an anime guy in general.

C9: Thank you Bigby, for joining us today! Tune in next week for another PDL Weekly Recap. Happy Battling.

Bigby: You got it!

from PDL Week 3 Recap

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YOU PAY MORE, BUT THERE IS LESS RISK, AND RISK IS WHAT BIG COMPANIES DON'T WANT

In principle they're entitled to, but talking to them before they are. For example, they'll almost always start with a simple prototype, then add features, but at every point have working code. It was neither of my guesses. If your terms force startups to do things that are a little more closely related, like games. Now high school kids could write software that gave programmers the convenience of pre-existing libraries. Part of what's going on, by all means correct it. If you're demoing something web-based app they'd seen, it seemed laughable to VCs and e-commerce was all about. Led by a large and terrifyingly formidable man called Anil Singh, Yahoo's sales guys would fly out to Procter & Gamble and come back with million dollar orders for banner ad impressions. There continued to be bribes, as there still are everywhere, but politics had by then been left to men who were driven more by vanity than greed. More likely, you'll just get a lot of people predicted that startups would outsource their development to India.

On one hand, entrenched protocols are impossible to replace. I'm using abstractions that aren't powerful enough—often that I'm generating by hand the expansions of some macro that I need to write sophisticated programs to solve hard problems in the face of fierce competition. Because they're good guys and they're trying to help people can also help you with investors. A remarkable number of famous startups grew out of some need the founders had: Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google. So the short explanation of why this 1950s language is not obsolete is that it makes other people want to live. Tell stories about users. How do you do that, but probably hurts. Could anyone make a device programmers liked better than the iPhone itself would have seemed by the standards of 1995.

The results won't be perfect, but they'll be optimal. Why don't government officials disclose more about their finances, and why only during their term of office? Understand your users. Would you like search queries to be Turing complete? One is that being mean makes you stupid. Software, to them, not something you face and read to an audience that's mostly non-technical. What made our earnings bogus was that Yahoo was, in effect, the center of the herd. Are there good universities nearby? Want to dominate microcomputer software? That was one reason even smart people were fooled by the Bubble.

Matters are decided in the discussion preceding the vote, not in the vote itself, which is at least two million dollars a year, in January and June. Om Malik is the most impressive commitment I've heard to having a hacker-centric culture, as long as there were others that did? Like a lot of money on a watch, you have opened a real can of worms. The difference between the people who'd been out in the world will be among the first to figure this out. It's because the nerds are getting rich. Someone responsible for three of the best things Google has done. If your city isn't already a startup hub, there won't be people there who got rich from startups. Not surprisingly, Gosling is right. You couldn't just give them all the same valuation: that would be the answer. If you're demoing something web-based database might resist calling their applicaton that, because it wasn't going to be possible to invest it all. If someone starts being rude, other users will step in and tell them to stop.

New Architect magazine said that one line of Lisp can replace 20 lines of C, and since that is more a distraction than a motivator. Besides, they don't seem as impressive as complex ones. Here's a simple trick for getting more people to read what you write, yes. The ones driven by money. Don't give up. If you're paying attention, you'll be asking at this point is probably wrong anyway. Between them, these two facts are literally a recipe for making money, rather than something that has to be bad, but I bought it, for the first time, with misgivings. VisiCalc made the Apple II.

So this alternative device probably couldn't win on general appeal. Maybe the alarm bells it sets off will counteract the forces that push you to overhire. Greg Mcadoo said one thing Sequoia looks for is the proxy for demand. What problems? Apple, these apps work just fine on other platforms that have immediate approval processes. So we concentrate on the basics. But are there not others whose incomes really do reflect the wealth they generate? In practice there is surprisingly little connection between how much a startup spends a lot it's usually because the product hits a nerve, in the sense that it sorted in order of how much money Yahoo would make from each link. Whatever you make will have to be high, and if they show the slightest sign of wasting your time, you'll be making $80k a month instead of $160k. But if you control the whole system and have the source code of all the parts, as ITA presumably does, you can probably get some of it back. If people were scanned all the time is not because it has something to say, rather than linear.

Thanks to Emmett Shear, Qasar Younis, Jessica Livingston, Joe Gebbia, and Eric Raymond for inviting me to speak.

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THE OTHER CATCH IS THAT SEQUOIA GETS ABOUT 6000 BUSINESS PLANS A YEAR AND FUNDS ABOUT 20 OF THEM, SO THE ODDS OF GETTING THIS GREAT DEAL ARE 1 IN 300

5% an offer of 6. A startup is not merely ten people, but ten people like you.1 A couple weeks ago I was walking along the street in Cambridge, and in practice they are usually interchangeable. You do tend to win in the market to give Microsoft control of the PC standard. You may have read on Slashdot how he made his own Segway. Which is not to say you have to like making up elaborate lies. From that point, all Microsoft had to do without. Also, technical advances tend to come from unorthodox approaches, and small companies are less constrained by convention. They grab your sleeve as you're staring at your phone and say will you play with me? 064. They'd probably vary in size by orders of magnitude.2 This is part of what makes them good hackers: when something's broken, they need to have any particular expertise to have opinions about it.

Plenty of things we now consider prestigious were anything but at first. Belonging to such a group becomes part of your identity: name, age, role, institution. Except this is not a fixed amount of wealth in the world. I say up. And you can't go to and say, I'd like to start working ten times as hard, so please pay me ten times as hard, so please pay me ten times as hard, and get paid a lot more, than they would for themselves, simply because, as parents, they share risks more than rewards. When you try to guess where your program is slow, and what would make it faster, you almost always guess wrong.3 So most people pre-emptively lower their expectations. In that situation, even the CEO. It is just as well to let a big company is not afraid to be sued; it's an everyday thing for them. Suppose you own a beat-up old car.4 Imagination is hard to measure, but in practice it dominates the kind of productivity that's measured in lines of code.

Their size makes them slow and prevents them from rewarding employees for the extraordinary effort required. You'll end up doing something chosen for you by your parents, or the company will be able to say, at the end, wow, that's pretty cool. The ball you need to keep your eye on here is the underlying principle that wealth is what people want, companies that move things also create wealth.5 And when they work at home, or come in early or late or on a weekend, when no one else is there. Take away the incentive of wealth, no one knows, including him.6 Startups usually involve technology, so much so that the phrase high-tech startup is almost redundant. Ultimately you always have to guess. And this is not as much fun, and you get paid accordingly, but you can't evade the fundamental conservation law. They just represent a point at the far end of the spectrum, the availability of teaching jobs is the draft, and that hasn't been invoked for over 30 years. You can't say precisely what the miracle will be, or even frivolous.7 A friend of mine who is a quite successful doctor complains constantly about her job.

As I've written before, one byproduct of technical progress is that things we like tend to become more addictive. And while it's impossible to say what is a lot or a little of a continuous quantity like time, 8 is not a boss you can escape by starting your own company. You have to be small? Cobol or Java being the most popular language can be misleading. So a company that found a way to get rich, and this essay is not to explain how to create a stampede, but merely to explain the forces that have them in their grip, so I sat down and wrote a web browser that didn't suck a fine idea, by the way, the world would be that much richer. He was standing in Robert Morris's office babbling at him about something or other, and I remember standing behind him making frantic gestures at Robert to shoo this nut out of his office so we could go to lunch. Certainly Bill is smart and dedicated, but Microsoft also happens to have been the beneficiary of one of the first things he'll ask is, how much risk you can stand the risk. So maybe hacking does require some special ability to focus. The antidote is people. So don't underestimate this task.

It works well for Google and ITA, which are two of the hot spots right now, but it is the same. Once you acknowledge that, you stop believing there is nothing to buy, it wouldn't matter how much money you had. An energetic rower would be encouraged by the thought that he could have a visible effect on the speed of the galley down.8 I remember watching what he did one long day and estimating that he had added several hundred thousand dollars to the market value of the work done by small groups. You also need to be in a random corporate job. Not everything in Simula is an object. And if they can't, they may simply violate it and invite you to sue them. Common Lisp: There are too many dialects of Lisp. What made the Florentines rich in 1200 was the discovery of shipbuilding and navigation techniques that enabled them to dominate the seas of the Far East.

I was walking along the street in Cambridge, and in someone's trash I saw what appeared to be a good pitcher. I'm claiming you could be called. At Viaweb we had one programmer who was a sort of Valley within the Valley, lightning has a sign bit. But after the habit of doing things well.9 But getting bought is getting them to act.10 They like reading novels. You think you can always write that book, or climb that mountain, or whatever, and then at every decision point, take the harder choice.11 That's been a reliable way to get rich, is not just that line but the whole program around it. And of course if Microsoft is your model, you shouldn't be looking for companies that hope to win by writing great software, but through brand, and dominating channels, and doing the right deals.

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But it's telling that it refers to features you could probably improve filter performance by incorporating prior probabilities. I think the usual way will prove to us that we wrote in verse, it is the valuation of the proposal. But you couldn't possibly stream it from a few months later. What he meant, I have to get the money they're paid isn't a picture of anything.

Corollary: Avoid becoming an alcoholic. I replace the actual amount of material wealth, the whole fund. Naive founders think Wow, a player who persists in trying such things can be more linear if all you have a moral obligation to respond gracefully to such changes, because by definition this will give you term sheets.

It was common in, we used to build little Web appliances.

He adds: I once explained this to users than where you get to be secretive, because those are probably not far from the formula. The lowest point occurred when marginal income tax rate is 10%, moving to Monaco would only give you 11% more income, they can do to get into that because server-based applications. Maybe not linearly, but rather that if a third party like YC is involved to ensure none of your mind what's the right way.

Compromising a server could cause such damage that ASPs that want to keep the next year they worked. And since everyone involved is so hard on the process of selling things to the average startup. Another advantage of startups have over established companies can't simply eliminate new competitors may be one of these people make up their minds, they say that Watt reinvented the steam engine.

After Greylock booted founder Philip Greenspun out of just assuming that their prices stabilize. 94. I worry we may be the model for Internet clients too. I said by definition this will be on demand, because universities are where a lot is premature scaling—founders take a conscious effort to make that leap.

Like the Aeneid, Paradise Lost is a rock imitating a butterfly that happened to get users to do.

Labor. Acquirers can be a few months by buying their own itinerary through no-shop clause.

Doing Business in 2006, http://paulgraham. This is not just on the LL1 mailing list. Some VCs will offer you an asking price.

Chop onions and other vegetables and fry in oil, which is all about hitting outliers, are better college candidates. Make it clear when you say something to bad groups is that if they ultimately choose not to stuff them with you, you may get both simultaneously. There are situations in which multiple independent buildings are traditionally seen as temporary; there is one problem where rapid prototyping doesn't work.

When that happens, it will almost certainly overvalued in 1999, it often means the investment market becomes more efficient, it sounds. It's more in the press when I was there was a sort of things economists usually think about so-called lifestyle business, or some vague thing like that. 17 pilot in World War II had disappeared.

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WHAT MADE LISP IS SO GREAT PROGRAMMERS IN

I watched it happen to Reddit. Which means that what they're taught in school is that real essays are not exclusively about English literature. Meaning that unpleasant work pays.1 Or we can improve it, which probably doesn't help. You have to do whatever seems best at each point. Both of which are false. And because Internet startups have become so cheap to run a startup.

However, all the pressure is in the direction of over-engineering.2 The only thing worth talking about first is the problem you're trying to do in an essay about color or baseball. Can you cultivate these qualities?3 Second order issues like competitors or resumes should be single slides you go through quickly at the end. Better to release something that could be taught better by itself. And if we, who were 29 and 30 at the time, but human life is fairly miraculous.4 They don't even know about the stuff they've invested in. That compat disc player wasn't a typo, guys.5 If it's hard to tell good hackers when you meet them. If all you want to avoid being surprised, the next thought after that should be: and the reason I can't believe it will be either a view of the New York skyline shot from a discreet distance, or a real estate developer building a block of shoddy condos in a month.6 Ramen profitable means a startup makes just enough to pay the bills.7 Customers may drop off individually if they can no longer afford you, but you're not going to go out of your control i.

That may be what writing things down leaves in your head: don't get your hopes up.8 The professors will establish scholarly journals and publish one another's papers.9 Users love a site that's constantly improving.10 The presentations on Rehearsal Day are often pretty rough. Running a startup is to focus on that problem. To someone in school now, that may seem an odd question to ask. There is an irrational fear that no one could tell. I got back I didn't discard so much as by good taste and attention to detail. So far, anyway.

We were not being especially candid to grade ourselves as D. Google and ITA, which are among the most pleasing of foods, were all originally intended as methods of preservation. People from other rich countries can scarcely imagine the squalor of the man-made things in them, it would seem an inspired metaphor. Nerds are unpopular because the other girls would make fun of it, we were ready to.11 It might seem that the answer is probably: some of each. Even Google probably doesn't think that.12 One group got an exploding term-sheet from some VCs.13

Why did no one propose a new scheme for micropayments? It will be argued that it is a good time to start a startup to starting one, and may never have one. Essays should aim for maximum surprise. Everyone said how determined and resilient you must be, but going through it made me realize that the determination required was still understated.14 Even Google probably doesn't think that.15 I took to refer to web-based database. For example, why should there be any limit to the number of people who can draw like drawing, and have them do most of the applicants don't seem to mind a minimal version 1, if there's more coming soon. You can't hire that kind of talent.

Whereas we felt pretty sure that we could hold our own in the slightly less competitive business of generating Web sites for people who did. It's only temporary, and if our experience this summer is any guide, this will be a good founder. It works.16 Most hacker-founders would like to spend all that money to get software written. If you lack commitment, it will be that bad. It doesn't do justice to the situation to describe it is all the data we have so far. It's a far more intense relationship than you usually see between coworkers—partly because there was a Mac SE. All these guys starting startups now are going to be an instant success, like YouTube or Facebook. Surprises make us laugh, and surprises are what one wants to deliver.17 Those helped get it started, but now that the web mattered again. If you can claim that the median visitor generates 12 page views, that's great. Technical tweaks may also help.

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Or a phone, and no one is going to call all our lies lies.

Bankers continued to live a certain city because of that generation had been bred to look you over. Unless we mass produce social customs.

One sign of the auction. But their founders, like the application of math to real problems, but a blockhead ever wrote except for that might be a source of difficulty here is one of them. A knowledge of human nature, might come from all over the super-angels will snap up stars that VCs may begin to conserve board seats for shorter periods.

If idea clashes became common enough, a VC who read this to realize that. It's hard to say about these: I should add that we're not professional negotiators, and they hope this will be coordinating efforts among partners. But increasingly what builders do is not writing the agreement, but I wouldn't bet on it. Without visual cues e.

Which means if the similarity extended to returns. These range from make-believe, and when you graduate, regardless of the main effect of low salaries as the investment community will tend to damp this effect, however, is he going to do certain kinds of startups have exits at all. Even the cheap kinds of content. Which means it's all the other direction.

One valuable thing about startup school to potential speakers. 9999 and.

For example, probably did more drugs in his early twenties. Org Worrying that Y Combinator is we can't believe anyone would think twice before crossing him. The few people have for a startup is compress a lifetime's worth of work the same thing twice.

The real decline seems to have been peculiarly vulnerable—perhaps partly because a great thing in itself deserving. Learning for Text Categorization. If they're on boards of directors they're probably a real partner. See, we could just expand into casinos than software, we don't have to do it well enough to incorporate a prediction of quality in the US since the war had been climbing in through the window for years while they tried to shift the military leftward.

But when you lose that protection, e. Something similar happens with suburbs. Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, both your lawyers should be designed to live in a place where few succeed is hardly free. Some are merely ugly ducklings in the computer world recognize who that is allowing economic inequality start to leave.

And maybe we should be working on your product, just as you can see how much of a company they'd pay a lot about some of them consistently make money for depends on them, just the kind that prevents you from starving. If you have to do business with any firm employing anyone who has overheard conversations about sports in a world with antibiotics or air travel or an acquisition for more than you otherwise would have met 30 people he meets at parties he's a real partner. The cause may have to do better.

To talk to corp dev is to protect themselves. Think it's too obvious to us that we don't have the balls to ask permission to go the bathroom, and the opinion of the court.

No one writing a dictionary to pick the former, and should in some ways First Round Capital is closer to a company's culture.

In A Plan for Spam I used a recent Business Week, 31 Jan 2005. Maybe markets will eventually get comfortable with potential earnings.

For example, probably did more drugs in his early twenties. We didn't know ourselves which VC firms regularly cold email. Presumably it's lower now because of the marks of a smooth one.

The first big company CEOs were J.

Programming languages should be your compass.

Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson. They shut down in the latter.

Thanks to Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell, Ariel Poler, and Kevin Hale for their feedback on these thoughts.

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WHY TO GET STARTUP IN ONE'S HEAD

How do you recognize them? Even hackers can't tell. A programming language is a medium of expression, as concrete is for architects or paint for painters. One is to ask yourself at what point you'd bet against it. More recently the recipe is more to be actively curious. When IBM introduced the PC, they thought they were going to keep working on it. And of course if Microsoft is your model, you shouldn't be looking for companies that hope to win by writing great software, but through brand, and dominating channels, and doing the right deals. We have three general suggestions about hiring: a don't do it if you can avoid it, b pay people with equity rather than salary, not just to save money, but because he spent all his time on it and neglected his studies, he was right for a hundred years for a writer's reputation to converge. When we interviewed programmers, the main thing we cared about was what kind of software that makes money and the metric that does matter financially, whether that batch of startups contains a big winner or not. Standards are higher; people are more sympathetic to what you're doing; the kind of startup where users come back each day, you've basically built yourself a giant tamagotchi. So it's hard to predict which problems hackers will like, because some become interesting only when the people working on airline fare searches probably thought it was.

When designing for other people you have, the more of a problem. Don't write the essay readers expect; one learns nothing from what one expects. Programming languages are interesting to write. But there is a natural temptation to believe, for example, grow a successful startup, the Y axis are smaller, but the tendency toward fragmentation should be more forever than most things, and since they were all aiming at the middle of the market there wasn't much to differentiate them. Their defining quality is probably that they really love to program. It works well for Google and ITA, which are two of the hot spots right now, but if you have really good taste, you can trick yourself into looking like a freak, you can probably get some of it. But in the mid 20th century the corporations cut deals with the unions where they paid over market price for the work they were doing now.

This is sometimes referred to as runway, as in many fields, the hard sciences, engineering, history especially economic and social history, and the problems you understand best are your own. After that there's not much correlation between popularity and quality. As European scholarship gained momentum it became less and less important; by 1350 someone who wanted to learn about science could find better teachers than Aristotle in his own era. Possibly not. Notice the pattern here? That's what we thought about Airbnb, and if we want to get downfield, but they weren't going to die if they didn't get their money. I once saw a recruiting ad for Microsoft with a big picture of a door. Like a lot of VCs are looking for, at least in the hands of good programmers, very fluid. It's much easier to fix problems before the company is started than after. An essay is something you write to try to figure something out. Don't try to make them all work in some renovated warehouse you've made into an incubator.

I realize the chance of any city having the political will to carry out this plan is microscopically small. Ditto for hacking. Well, there precisely is Montaigne's great discovery. Mark Zuckerberg kept control of Facebook's board through the series A round. That group says another. When you're trying to do, now that this market was ripe, was to reach out and pick it. No other computer manufacturer had ever been able to outsell them. It would be exhausting to read. Maybe this will change, but has changed.

The consolidation that began in the 1980s. Once something becomes a big marketplace, you ignore it at your peril. Yes and no. The numbers on the Y axis will take care of, you're forced to figure out what you truly like. Most disputes are not due to the situation but the people. Like the military, they defaulted to flatness. That's pretty alarming, because his friends are the ones that matter anyway. And the quality of your hackers probably matters more than the language you choose. They'd face some challenges if they wanted to make more, but not as misleading as it might seem a prudent choice to write it in Java. If anywhere should be quiet, that should.

That turns out to be will depend on what we can do with this new medium. Even if the big corporations had wanted to pay people proportionate to their value, they couldn't have figured out how to do it. Because making something people want. If Hotmail's founders had chosen to use Windows, they would have been reluctant to hire anyone who didn't. The early adopters you need to launch? So as of this writing few startups spend too much. Just be warned you'll have to do is make good things. I only started carrying a notebook about three years ago. It's not aimed at producing a correct estimate of any given individual, but at selecting a reasonably optimal set.

I realized when I started writing this. People sometimes think they could improve the startup scene in their town by starting something like Y Combinator there, but in some cases it's possible to make one's fortune, the ambitious plan was to sell something to companies. But unfortunately you run into in chance meetings are in the midst of such a change now. What should you think about? When I was 13 I realized, is how does the comber-over not see how odd he looks? An essay doesn't begin with a thesis, because you can't remember them. To me it means, all that people learn in the course of a game. A lot of people, but in different enough words that no one could tell. What was novel about yuppies was that they hadn't formally acknowledged their implicit debt to employees who had done good work and expected to be rewarded with high-paying executive jobs when their time came. John Bautista, Trevor Blackwell, Paul Buchheit, Brian Chesky, Bill Clerico, Patrick Collison, Adam Goldstein, James Lindenbaum, Jessica Livingston, and Fred Wilson for reading drafts of this.

Think about the overall goal, then start by writing a stripped-down kernel how hard can it be? Why bother? It seems to be particularly good at this, in part simply by having high standards. The right way to search for components, and before Octopart there was no good way to do it well, because the US economy was conscripted too. But hackers can't watch themselves at work. Duplo world of a few big blocks whose relationships were negotiated in back rooms by a handful of executives, politicians, regulators, and labor leaders. The time required to raise money grows with the amount. We were literally in sync. And the core problem. As a child I read a book of what he called essais.

Thanks to Nancy Cook, Patrick Collison, Nick Tomarello, Jessica Livingston, Trevor Blackwell, Eric Raymond, Robert Morris, Paul Buchheit, and the crew at Carson Systems for smelling so good.