Arach Tchoupani

I don't know what she's saying, but I love the sound.

But in meetings with Apple engineers and marketers over the subsequent year, Rinne and other AT&T executives discovered that Apple wasn’t playing by traditional wireless rules. It wasn’t interested in cooperating, especially if it meant hobbling what had quickly become its marquee product. For Apple, the idea of restricting the iPhone was akin to asking Steve Jobs to ditch the black turtleneck. “They tried to have that conversation with us a number of times,” says someone from Apple who was in the meetings. “We consistently said ‘No, we are not going to mess up the consumer experience on the iPhone to make your network tenable.’ They’d always end up saying, ‘We’re going to have to escalate this to senior AT&T executives,’ and we always said, ‘Fine, we’ll escalate it to Steve and see who wins.’ I think history has demonstrated how that turned out.”

ZANA

A little Serbian Pop to pump you up

love it.

Looks funny.

This is old, as in a few weeks old, but I just wanted to keep a reference to this beautiful video. One day, I'll announce an acquisition in a similar fashion.

Fabrice Luchini: «Moi ça m’déprime, la plage»

I love this guy :)

sometimes.

Where I work

When I first started at BackType, I came into the office¹ everyday. My commute involved taking the BART into downtown SF and then taking the bus to the founders' apartment. I was working a ton, and after a couple weeks I was feeling pretty exhausted.

By this point I was synced up with the codebase and product direction, so I decided to work from home one day. I didn't ask the founders for permission or anything, I just told them via instant message "I'm working from home today". The founders didn't care -- they trusted me to make the right decision for myself.

It was a great decision and I started working from home more and more. I've found that if I work for 8 hours with a half-hour commute each way I'm going to feel pretty exhausted at the end of the day. But if I stay at home I can work for 12 hours and feel fine.

Part of the discrepancy is that when I work from home I am able to easily pace myself. I take mini-breaks to play piano for a few minutes while pondering a problem. In the middle of the day, I generally go for a run at a big park near my house. Being too deep in coding for too long without a change of pace can really unbalance you, so exercising in the middle of the day is really refreshing.

Even though I work a lot more than I have previously at "regular jobs", I find that I'm a lot healthier now. Since I work from home so frequently, I get a lot of exercise and can cook for myself.

I've converged on going into the office twice a week and working from home the other days. Sometimes I go into the office less, and sometimes I go into the office more. It depends on how I feel and whether I feel we have a lot of syncing up to do that's better done in person.

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Geeks ain't what they used to be.