Jimmy Miller

Yeah. Yeah. I, when I, when my brother was gone to a friend's house, this is when I would go and, you know, sneak on and go do this and get things working. Uh, so yeah, I mean, he was, he was nice. If I really asked him to let me have computer time, it's like, he completely kicked me off, but you know, your older brother, right?

Yeah. Yeah. I, when I, when my brother was gone to a friend's house, this is when I would go and, you know, sneak on and go do this and get things working. Uh, so yeah, I mean, he was, he was nice. If I really asked him to let me have computer time, it's like, he completely kicked me off, but you know, your older brother, right?

Like you, when you're, when you're that age, it's like, ah, I can't, I can't bother him too much. Uh, so yeah, I got it working and that was my computer for. probably five years. It had like 128 megabytes of RAM. It was, you know, at that time, it was quite a bad machine. But with Linux, it ran super smooth. It was great.

Like you, when you're, when you're that age, it's like, ah, I can't, I can't bother him too much. Uh, so yeah, I got it working and that was my computer for. probably five years. It had like 128 megabytes of RAM. It was, you know, at that time, it was quite a bad machine. But with Linux, it ran super smooth. It was great.

Yeah. I had only really, I mean, I'd written a lot of code in my spare time. You know, I did a bunch of like projectoiler.net stuff. I don't know if you all are familiar with it, but it's like for anyone who's not listeners, it's a bunch of math problems that you do have to use programming to solve. So it's a bunch of like number theory kind of stuff I'd solved.

Yeah. I had only really, I mean, I'd written a lot of code in my spare time. You know, I did a bunch of like projectoiler.net stuff. I don't know if you all are familiar with it, but it's like for anyone who's not listeners, it's a bunch of math problems that you do have to use programming to solve. So it's a bunch of like number theory kind of stuff I'd solved.

They're like they get really difficult, really fast. Like I think I've solved all of them I will ever be able to solve in my lifetime because like as they continue on, it's just like graduate level math. And so I had done a bunch of those. I had played around with like Mozilla had had a new extension method called Jetpack that they were playing with.

They're like they get really difficult, really fast. Like I think I've solved all of them I will ever be able to solve in my lifetime because like as they continue on, it's just like graduate level math. And so I had done a bunch of those. I had played around with like Mozilla had had a new extension method called Jetpack that they were playing with.

I had made some of those and released some and people used them out in the wild. They were all like super small programs. I had written a program for my school. I had a great programming teacher. Miss Johns was her name. She was fantastic. I love her. She did not know programming, but she was a great person who would teach from a book and recognize that I knew more programming than her.

I had made some of those and released some and people used them out in the wild. They were all like super small programs. I had written a program for my school. I had a great programming teacher. Miss Johns was her name. She was fantastic. I love her. She did not know programming, but she was a great person who would teach from a book and recognize that I knew more programming than her.

So I just was a tutor in the programming classes. I took the Java AP exam, never took the class, got a five on it. I did a bunch of stuff in my spare time. So I learned Java, I learned Python. I just loved programming. It was my main hobby. I'd skip my calculus class to go program. That was the kind of... Failed a lot of my classes because I would just skip them to go programming.

So I just was a tutor in the programming classes. I took the Java AP exam, never took the class, got a five on it. I did a bunch of stuff in my spare time. So I learned Java, I learned Python. I just loved programming. It was my main hobby. I'd skip my calculus class to go program. That was the kind of... Failed a lot of my classes because I would just skip them to go programming.

Yeah, Miss Johns was actually the reason I got this job. A few years after high school, she had reached out to me and said, hey, there's this company looking for interns. And she told them about a story that I'm happy to tell about a time that the Secret Service busted in my door for hacking.

Yeah, Miss Johns was actually the reason I got this job. A few years after high school, she had reached out to me and said, hey, there's this company looking for interns. And she told them about a story that I'm happy to tell about a time that the Secret Service busted in my door for hacking.

Uh, and they were impressed enough to give me an interview despite, you know, not going to school. So, right. Um, so yeah, happy to tell that story, but, uh, I also, you know, no, we're, we're here to talk about the code base.

Uh, and they were impressed enough to give me an interview despite, you know, not going to school. So, right. Um, so yeah, happy to tell that story, but, uh, I also, you know, no, we're, we're here to talk about the code base.

Uh, okay. So yeah. So for people who don't know, like the secret service also deals with like, uh, internet security. You think of the secret service as just being the president, which is what I thought when they busted in my door. I worked at a local or regional grocery store as a cart pusher when I was in high school.

Uh, okay. So yeah. So for people who don't know, like the secret service also deals with like, uh, internet security. You think of the secret service as just being the president, which is what I thought when they busted in my door. I worked at a local or regional grocery store as a cart pusher when I was in high school.

And the system to check your schedule was the most convoluted, annoying system you could possibly imagine. You had to get on a VPN. Then you had to log in four times. And then you could finally traverse these links to go check it. And they would publish the schedule Saturday night for the Sunday morning.

And the system to check your schedule was the most convoluted, annoying system you could possibly imagine. You had to get on a VPN. Then you had to log in four times. And then you could finally traverse these links to go check it. And they would publish the schedule Saturday night for the Sunday morning.