My gmail's not working right. -- Hahahaha. I hear this all the time.

There must not be much going on in the world right now. So many headlines have similar grandiose statements recently. The valley is not dead. There are future disruptive companies being ran by two guys in a garage all over silicon valley. Sadly, you have to have the foresight to wait five years while they build momentum. There's never not a next big thing.

Actually, I want to amend that a little bit. Rocket city, spaceport, JPL, etc., I feel space travel is on the same precipice that tcp/ip and compuserve were in the 80's. The next 20 years will be fun.

I grew up in Cape Canaveral and this was awesome to me! We have to work on the naming though. Star Wars deserves some love!

> Star Wars deserves some love!

I disagree. They should sport the Pan-Am logo.

How much time do you have? I see a lot on tumblr just for convenience. It's just super simple and that's really all you need.

What's even worse is that he could have _at least_ faked it with a quick google search. Shows absolutely no effort on his behalf.

Searching for TootTweet or any combination of the words won't yield the same results as searching for FizzBuzz, not until Google crawls this post.

Only then, a test with the words "Toot" "Tweet" will be burned forever for the fakers advantage :)

Not searching for the question or not being able to parse it logically into a program is far more aggravating to me.

There are a lot of people who do this, but there are also many recruiters who are good in their jobs by spotting this self-deluded cockiness.

What amazes me is how far someone can go by in life, asserting their supposed skills, while not being able to parse a simple question related to their profession.

Have any of you HN'ers seen this in other professions? Meaning, have you ever seen someone claim to be a carpenter but having no idea how to cut a piece of wood or use the right nail?

Or you think this can be attributed to someone trying to scam gullible persons into paying in advance for a website that will never be created?

Anyway, I give the guy the benefit of the doubt because I don't know how much time has passed since OP's last e-mail.

12 days :)

Primer. A garage startup accidentally invents time travel. That's pretty inspirational to me ;)

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I have been around the block using these! Springpad, remember the milk, wunderlust, evernote, onenote, outlook tasks, I could go on and on.

i. I carry around a real notepad for quick notes. I fill up about 1 every 6 months, sometimes I take quick notes on iOS Notes app. ii. Short term TODO's I email to myself and flag important. iii. Daily stuff goes in Notepad or Sticky notes on my desktop, open all day, synced in dropbox. iv. Long term stuff goes in Google Tasks under different categories, and relevant web links to those goes in it's corresponding folder in chrome, synced across browsers.

There are other email clients? LOL. (I use the web interface through chrome on ios and osx)

I don't know a single Cs Graduate at my state school with those kind of credentials. My questions is who _wouldn't_ hire him, lol.

I'm working on #5 as well. Including videos and tools. People simply don't know enough about this. But others are right, it's being done on blogs a lot - the catch is doing it with interaction. I think that will break the mold.

I'm also doing #5 with college financial aid, tuition, etc. People don't know enough about this when entering. It took me years, but I know some amazing tricks now. Time to share.