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First full day here at indinero. Finished a flex thing, working on a rails thing, learned tons and it’s barely begun. A lot of work though with only some results — mostly because I’m a total rails newbie and they’re helping me to my feet. Jess is an amazing teacher. Oh yeah, and she’s tall. 2 inches taller than me, haha. Really cool. All the people I work with are super cool. There’s Danish Khan, who drives fast and is awesome in general. Also, Andy Su, who actually only started programming in the last few years but is amazing and does everything. And there’s Dylan Field, who makes l33tass meatballs and is the only guy here with the 13 inch macbook pro (haha I drool).

Office is a pretty awesome place at Sand Hill, except that it gets hot at night and the internet there blows — really 4 ev-do cards serving 22 people on the same floor — not good. So yeah, we worked from home yesterday, probably doing the same today. Fancy shmancy dinner tonight with other Lightspeed-funded teams (oh man, steak!) — looking forward to that.

Work is pretty relaxed, but there’s so much to do. Like the company culture is work when you want, but get stuff done. For me, that means just keep reading and working to learn to catch up and get with the game. Gah, it can be stressful. It’s also a little crazy because I’m not used to MVC at all and when I’m debugging I have to look at the ssh terminal instead of actual output, that is, until I figure out views and all. Jess and them are chill though, they know I have a learning curve, haha.

Driving around here is fun too. It’s like driving in NYC except people are chill and there’s like no honking at all. Oh and hills. Yeah, the landlord’s car that I drove is actually the same car I drive at home except green.

Started a Bank of America account too, mostly because I had to test something and needed a bank account that wasn’t TD (td bank is really silly…the login is your social, and I typed it into a terminal when Andy was testing and he was like OMG I have your social and pin — I was like ahehe…wtf)

We went to Berkeley Games and got two chess sets too. I smell bug happening.

I have to get on this with helping finish Niti’s dad’s website. Once it’s 15 hours and the site is done and he’s happy with the quality of work, I should be about $400 richer, which is rich enough to buy a used macbook, actually. I found a good deal on SF Bay Craigslist. Win!

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