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Time revisited

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While searching my blog for something, I ran across this previous post: http://padsterprogramming.blogspot.ch/2008/08/times-curious-thing.html In particular, the first part - August-2008-me talking about 2013-me looking back at August-2008-me. So to reflect on August-2008: I don't think I was too much of a fool. Maybe a bit. Not a huge amount though, thankfully, except for thinking that 2013-me would be odd - 'weird' is a much better word. I was a bit more...emo/whiney I guess - posts like this and this remind me that, after all, I had only just graduated back then. Still, that balances out with posts on credit or inverse darwinism  that seem fine, and I'm still thankful that past-me took a photo of the rubbish bin (or not) at uni. The treachery of rubbish bins To August-2008-me, I say: I wrote more posts than you thought I would. I think back then I already had a job offer at Google, and thought I'd be a researcher in New York by now, so working in Zur