ThePanda

I keep meaning to post, but never really get around to doing it. This is somewhat of a general post, glossing over some of the stuff I have been meaning to post about. In reverse chronological order even. We had this startup talk today, and this thing was probably better attended than any recent CS talk in recent history. The free food helped, but considering all the other people give out free food too, that couldn't be the only reason for attendance. It's interesting to look around the room to see who's attending one of these things, for instance today's was attended by quite a few CS professors, professors who don't normally attend these things. And then there were all the other people I had never seen, and the usual CS department attendees at these things. But this in general fits in with Itay and other people's observations about how everyone in the class below us seems to be infected with the startup bug. Well not everyone, but the people we happen to be close to, and it is sort of interesting, since most people my year seem to be looking for more traditional jobs. Traditional jobs with exciting work, but traditional large companies nevertheless, and one wonders what changed between now and then.

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