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thewillcoleon Ambitious teenagers are flooding into San Francisco

Place in history! I like your vision, Doug.

thewillcoleon Ambitious teenagers are flooding into San Francisco

OMG! You think we're doing "Comedy"?! Thank you sooo much. That's the nicest compliment we've received since my parents said: "We'll love you no matter what you do."

thewillcoleon Ambitious teenagers are flooding into San Francisco

Hi, I'm Will Cole, a random comedian and cohost of Silly Valley, which is definitely a thing. Believe it.

thewillcoleon Y Combinator W15 March Madness Bracket

Thanks! I'm the guy on the right and this is my first youtube show. Suggestions and constructive feedback appreciated. (There's also an anonymous feedback form linked in the youtube comments.)

thewillcoleon An Investor Wanted to Give Me $50,000. Here’s Why I Said No

By your logic (which I don't agree with), it would have been okay ONLY IF the side boob were written into terms of the contract, stipulating that there must be tit for tat. And then we can assume that there would also be an article double d: "$50,000 will be left on the dresser."

thewillcoleon Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant

That comment cost me 1/12 of my hard-earned 12 points. So this is what martyrpun feels like.

thewillcoleon Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant

upvote for the casual "turning your back" pun!

thewillcoleon Comedy club charges per laugh with facial recognition

Aha this is amazing. Would be a nightmare if you were a bombing comedian and the audience was trying not to laugh at you to save money.

thewillcoleon Show HN: Coding Interview Practice

Yes! I got the first question right. Somebody should hire me as a programmer. :D

thewillcoleon Show HN: CodePair - etherpad + codechecker + analytics for interviews

Suspiciously similar. Which came first, CoderPad or CodePair?

thewillcoleon An Ill-Advised Personal Note about "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable"

Bret is probably an awesome teacher.

tl;dr: "Right now, today, we can't see the thing, at all, that's going to be the most important 100 years from now...But whatever that thing is -- people will have to think it. And we can, right now, today, prepare powerful ways of thinking for these people. We can build the tools that make it possible to think that thing."

thewillcoleon Auto-Canceling Subscriptions

Love this! Just discovered that I'm paying a monthly membership to my fiance's old gym when she hasn't been there FOR OVER A YEAR...because she moved and (thought she had) cancelled it.

thewillcoleon Metasploit Rails 3 Remote Code Execution Hours Away

thanks!

thewillcoleon Metasploit Rails 3 Remote Code Execution Hours Away

What's the easiest way to verify that "ActionDispatch::ParamsParser::DEFAULT_PARSERS.delete(Mime::XML)" is handling requests with xml parameters properly? Does one of you beautiful people know of a tool that I could use?

thewillcoleon Multiple vulnerabilities in parameter parsing in Action Pack

But am I protected if I'm currently using a fixed version of Rails? (3.2.11, 3.1.10, 3.0.19, or 2.3.15)

thewillcoleon Multiple vulnerabilities in parameter parsing in Action Pack

Heroku apps rely on Heroku's version of Rails gems (right?), so how does one tell if Heroku has patched these vulnerabilities yet?