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Ryan Maas

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Lifehacker. 60 Things Guys Should Know About Girls. 60 Things Guys Should Know About Girls 1) For all we talk about how hot guys are. We mostly care about there personality. Though a hot body is a plus 2) We are just as shy as you are about relationships 3) Many of us don't let you see us cry, unless we want you to comfort us 4) We like dropping small flirts, to see if you are interested. 5) Most of us prefer to be call beautiful than hot or sexy. 6) We only wear mini skirts, tank tops and skimpy cloths for you (unless it's REALLY REALLY hot outside). 7) We travel in groups for one of two reasons 1) because we want to share some form of gossip with each other or get advice on something 2) B/c we don't want to get caught by ourselves with you because we won't know what to say and are afraid we'll make a fool of ourselves 9) Girls automatically assume that all guys are ***** and only want to get into our pants until you prove otherwise (and even then some small part of us still thinks that) 15) Scenario time!

31) Girls love confidence. Stereomood. 77 Ways to Learn Faster. MIT Open Courseware. 12 IT Skills. By Mary Brandel July 11, 2007 12:00 PM ET Computerworld - Have you spoken with a high-tech recruiter or professor of computer science lately? According to observers across the country, the technology skills shortage that pundits were talking about a year ago is real (see "Workforce crisis: Preparing for the coming IT crunch"). "Everything I see in Silicon Valley is completely contrary to the assumption that programmers are a dying breed and being offshored," says Kevin Scott, senior engineering manager at Google Inc. and a founding member of the professions and education boards at the Association for Computing Machinery. "From big companies to start-ups, companies are hiring as aggressively as possible. " Many recruiters say there are more open positions than they can fill, and according to Kate Kaiser, associate professor of IT at Marquette University in Milwaukee, students are getting snapped up before they graduate.

(See also "The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills".) App Empire. Chad Mureta runs his seven-figure app business from his iPhone. (Photo: Jorge Quinteros). I first met Chad Mureta in Napa Valley in 2011. Two years prior, he had been in a horrible car accident. He’d lost control of his truck in at attempt to avoid a deer, hit a median, and flipped four times, nearly destroying his dominant arm in the wreckage. While in the hospital for a lengthy recovery, a friend gave him an article about the app market. Shortly thereafter, Chad began designing and developing apps. “In just over two years, I’ve created and sold three app companies that have generated millions in revenue. After finishing rehab, Chad was able to leave his real estate company, where he’d been working 70 hours a week, to run his app business from his iPhone… in less than 5 hours per week.

“Apps” are the new, new thing, thanks to major successes like Draw Something (bought by Zynga for $210 million) and Instagram (bought by Facebook for $1 billion), among others. Enter Chad Mureta. Codeacademy. Reddit. Amusment.