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The man with the Y Combinator tattoo

26 points by norvig 19y ago

far33d 19y ago
Wow. That wins for world's dorkiest tattoo. Dorkier than the golden ratio. Dorkier than e^{i\pi} \eq -1, and maybe dorkier than using latex notation in a web forum :)
- naish 19y ago
  +1 for the use of LaTeX notation.
  - kcl 19y ago
    -1, extraneous use of \eq $e^{i\pi}=-1$ : ) http://nirvana.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thuering/php/latex-online/olatex_50776.png http://nirvana.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thuering/php/latex-o... http://nirvana.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thuering/php/latex-online/latex.php?sprachauswahl=2&aufruf=50776 http://nirvana.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thuering/php/latex-o... 'LaTeX compiler' cloud app...very 2.0
    - far33d 19y ago
      It's been a while.. I actually retyped that both ways and somehow decided the \eq was better. woops
      - euccastro 19y ago
        OTOH, gratuitous LaTeX notation is even dorkier.
mdemare 19y ago
Oh, I've got one of those, only in Javascript.
- euccastro 19y ago
  Heh, "I hate you with the radiance of a thousand suns. I wish you get the Y Combinator tatooed, in Java!"
  - centipede 19y ago
    May you live in interesting times?
gms 19y ago
I wonder if he has a wife/girlfriend.
- lambdaknight 19y ago
  Sadly, I do not at the moment. The position is open for any girls who love guys with dorky tattoos. ;)
- ivankirigin 19y ago
  I never understood comments like this. They assume there are no geek girls with similar interests.
  - gms 19y ago
    Relax, was a joke.
ivankirigin 19y ago
I'm thinking about getting a tattoo. The goal is to get something that is aesthetically pleasing in an abstract sense, to avoid thinking something is ugly years later. I was thinking about the great wave, a dragon, a dragon fly or something else made up of PCB layout lines. I think that would look very nice on a forearm. http://www.imakethings.com/2007/09/14/image-to-pcb-app-and-plugin/ http://www.imakethings.com/2007/09/14/image-to-pcb-app-and-p... Most science tattoos are very, very ugly. And what if maxwell's equations or the Y-combinator get invalidated in the future :-P ?
- centipede 19y ago
  Maxwell can get invalidated. Math can't.
  - axiom 19y ago
    Ahem. Russell paradox. Granted it's been a while, but one can never be too careful.
    - kcl 19y ago
      For the truly paranoid only: Witness the evolution of 'V-E+F=2' since Euler's time: http://www.amazon.com/Proofs-Refutations-Logic-Mathematical-Discovery/dp/0521290384 http://www.amazon.com/Proofs-Refutations-Logic-Mathematical-... Is it right? Is it wrong? What does it mean to even BE a 'face' ? Although I guess the worst thing that could happen in this situation is you change your explanation of the tattoo, and not the tattoo itself.
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euccastro 19y ago
Gee, imagine waking up hungover after a total blackout and discovering that on your arm...

26 points by norvig 19y ago

Wow. That wins for world's dorkiest tattoo. Dorkier than the golden ratio. Dorkier than e^{i\pi} \eq -1, and maybe dorkier than using latex notation in a web forum :)

naish 19y ago
+1 for the use of LaTeX notation.
- kcl 19y ago
  -1, extraneous use of \eq $e^{i\pi}=-1$ : ) http://nirvana.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thuering/php/latex-online/olatex_50776.png http://nirvana.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thuering/php/latex-o... http://nirvana.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thuering/php/latex-online/latex.php?sprachauswahl=2&aufruf=50776 http://nirvana.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thuering/php/latex-o... 'LaTeX compiler' cloud app...very 2.0
  - far33d 19y ago
    It's been a while.. I actually retyped that both ways and somehow decided the \eq was better. woops
    - euccastro 19y ago
      OTOH, gratuitous LaTeX notation is even dorkier.

mdemare 19y ago

Oh, I've got one of those, only in Javascript.

euccastro 19y ago
Heh, "I hate you with the radiance of a thousand suns. I wish you get the Y Combinator tatooed, in Java!"
- centipede 19y ago
  May you live in interesting times?

gms 19y ago

I wonder if he has a wife/girlfriend.

lambdaknight 19y ago
Sadly, I do not at the moment. The position is open for any girls who love guys with dorky tattoos. ;)
ivankirigin 19y ago
I never understood comments like this. They assume there are no geek girls with similar interests.
- gms 19y ago
  Relax, was a joke.

ivankirigin 19y ago

I'm thinking about getting a tattoo. The goal is to get something that is aesthetically pleasing in an abstract sense, to avoid thinking something is ugly years later. I was thinking about the great wave, a dragon, a dragon fly or something else made up of PCB layout lines. I think that would look very nice on a forearm. http://www.imakethings.com/2007/09/14/image-to-pcb-app-and-plugin/ http://www.imakethings.com/2007/09/14/image-to-pcb-app-and-p... Most science tattoos are very, very ugly. And what if maxwell's equations or the Y-combinator get invalidated in the future :-P ?

centipede 19y ago
Maxwell can get invalidated. Math can't.
- axiom 19y ago
  Ahem. Russell paradox. Granted it's been a while, but one can never be too careful.
  - kcl 19y ago
    For the truly paranoid only: Witness the evolution of 'V-E+F=2' since Euler's time: http://www.amazon.com/Proofs-Refutations-Logic-Mathematical-Discovery/dp/0521290384 http://www.amazon.com/Proofs-Refutations-Logic-Mathematical-... Is it right? Is it wrong? What does it mean to even BE a 'face' ? Although I guess the worst thing that could happen in this situation is you change your explanation of the tattoo, and not the tattoo itself.

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euccastro 19y ago

Gee, imagine waking up hungover after a total blackout and discovering that on your arm...