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Time to rewrite the site in Blub?
by johnrob 19y ago
Time to rewrite the site in Blub?
- mylostone 18y agoI only expose my children to PG content.
- henning 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, Arc is Blub for him. Paul Graham is so good, he does just simply walk into Mordor. And then he checks into a hotel.
- Xichekolas 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, the parenthesis match themselves. Paul Graham is so good, it's hard to defun him.
- iamwil 19y agoSounds like we should have a Paul Graham Facts, like Chuck Norris. Paul Graham's so smart that inside his brain is another brain. Paul Graham once matched /(x+x+)+y/ in logarithmic time.
- dfranke 19y agoAll lambda expressions terminate in logarithmic time when evaluated in Paul Graham order.
- rms 19y agoPaul Graham is a general algorithm to solve the halting program.
- neilc 19y agoPaul Graham can solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time.
- yinzhen 19y agoPaul Graham's brain is a nondeterministic Turing-machine.
- riffraff 19y agoNP-complete problems are for sissies. Paul Graham can solve any problem in the Arithmetic Hierarchy in O(1).
- MasterOfLambdas 19y agoMatematicians searching for P=NP or P!=NP proof should wait until Paul Graham decides which of these statements is true.
- icey 19y agoIt's a little known fact that the P in P=NP actually stands for Paul Graham.
- ptn 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, his keyboard only has three keys: 0, 1 and Return. No Backspace, because he doesn't make mistakes.
- eru 19y agoThree keys are redundant. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ajwatson/cat-powered.gif http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ajwatson/cat-powered.gif
- eru 19y agoAnything but the Church Numerals is below him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_numeral http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_numeral
- gensym 19y agoPaul Graham can derive S from K
- ptn 19y agoHere's Paul while hacking: http://www.voguehost.com/ims/u/ptn/ptn/pg_hacking.gif http://www.voguehost.com/ims/u/ptn/ptn/pg_hacking.gif
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- breck 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, he yelled at the hackernews server and it fixed itself.
- eru 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, he does not recurse. He uses the y combinator - in Continuation Passing Style - with both hands tied behind his back.
- eru 19y agoWhat's so bad about the y combinator?
- ptn 19y agoPaul Graham could get Hurd to work
- mkull 19y agonerds
- SwellJoe 19y agoPaul Graham's tears have been acquired by Google for an undisclosed sum.
- kirubakaran 19y agoThey bought "Paul Graham's tears" options. Paul Graham doesn't cry.
- lst 19y agoPaul_Graham(R), the well-known Registered Trademark, has finally found how not to die, and integrated and evaluater for this into his brain/organism. So there's really hope for Arc to be finished in his life time, now!
- russ 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, he's not falling for your WFP ass-kissing attempts.
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- jrcapa 19y agoPaul Graham was a hacker and now is a businessman.
- zyroth 19y agoPaul Graham was written in lisp that itself was written in Paul Graham.
- viergroupie 19y agoPaul Graham is the current continuation.
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- andyn 19y agoPaging tongue-ass extraction to item #60357!
- edu 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, he will skip this piece of news. Paul Graham is so good, his DNA has an implementation of Lisp.
- yters 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, good was defined as (+ Paul Graham good), and implemented with tail recursion.
- wensing 19y agoExcept that + takes two arguments, not three--unless you've altered the definition.
- rms 19y agoPaul Graham is always a single argument.
- paulgb 19y agoNo, + takes any number of arguments.
- yters 19y agoOk, here's a better one: Chuck Norris wanted to be like Paul Graham, and tried to learn tail recursion. The best he could do was a roundhouse kick.
- yters 19y agoAw cummon! I thought this was the ultimate cap - tail recursion? roundhouse kick? Chuck Norris? haha?
- hazchem 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, he always tips using $2.56 cheques made out by Donald Knuth.
- drm237 19y agoPaul Graham can divide by zero.
- imgabe 19y agoand the answer is "Paul Graham"
- ptn 19y agoWhen Paul Graham hacks, the Rocky Theme Song starts playing. Paul Graham can find Waldo. Always.
- Novash 19y agoPretty sure he must be laughing itself out right now reading it. PG, you're a hero for many people, you know? How about you giving your own contribution to this list? By the way, I just noticed that there is no way to recover a password if you lost it?
- PStamatiou 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, he regularly comments on Hacker News.
- birdman 19y agoPaul Graham is an 8 foot tall beast-man who showers in grain alcohol and feeds his baby shrimp scampi
- cysh 19y agoBjarne Stroustrup once tried to look upon Paul Graham, but was driven mad. Thus was born C++.
- jdrake3 19y agoPaul Graham needs no forks to dine with Philosophers.
- pius 19y agoPaul Graham when quined is Paul Graham when quined.
- loumf 19y agoAfter a few iterations, Rule 30 draws a picture of Paul Graham
- alaughramp 19y agoPaul Graham can write an essay entirely composed of sweeping generalizations.
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- icey 19y agoPaul Graham beat Duke Nuke'em Forever on Nightmare mode using only Arc macros.
- icey 19y agoHmm, I just thought of another. Paul Graham named his fists: "(" and ")"
- cetaganda 19y agoPaul graham is so good, he multiplies 850 * 77.1 and gets 65,535
- cetaganda 19y agoAl Gore didn't invent the internet, Paul Graham did. And then he invented Al Gore.
- Xichekolas 19y ago... and Al Gore was written in Blub, which was itself implemented in Arc ...
- nextmoveone 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, he can beat corporate death into a submission with his bare hands.
- bluishgreen 19y agoPaul Graham is so good he can count up to 32 just by counting up to 16.
- weiser 19y agoThere is an infinite number of primes, but Paul Graham is the greatest prime.
- zandorg 19y ago... And he is also, at the same time, the smallest prime.
- synthespian 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, he can recurse infinitely. Twice. Just kidding. ;-)
- Nate 19y agoPaul Graham's memory is so good that he doesn't need to have a search box on Hacker News because he can remember all the topics and urls.
- Nate 19y agoPaul Graham is a default constructor. He takes no arguments.
- mango 19y agoHe is also pure virtual class, which needs no overloaded virtual destructor implementations. All dispatches are written doubly, and there are no leaks, whatsoever.
- rubyruy 19y agoPaul Graham can compress ANY data by at least 1 bit, including binary 1.
- ivankirigin 19y agoI have a very reliable lossy compression algorithm for you if interested. It's extremely computationally scalable as well. I just map all values to 0.
- lst 19y ago.tfel ot thgir si GP
- kirubakaran 19y agoJohn McCarthy sent his son Paul Graham to save the world from Blub. (I am agnostic. I googled for this biblical verse... uncannily, it is from the book of John.)
- geezer 19y agoPaul Graham can put n > m pigeons in m holes, each hole having no more than one pigeon.
- nr 19y agoPaul Graham doesn't need Viagra. He is NP-hard.
- jaymaj21 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, he can make the tower of babel from oatmeal and fingernail clippings.
- MasterOFLambda 19y agoPaul Graham funded Kurt Godel's startup and it turned profitable.
- MasterOFLambda 19y agoPaul Graham is the sentence that consistently asserts itself.
- MasterOFLambda 19y agoPaul Graham directly experiences Platonic world of ideas and finds an investor for each of them.
- MasterOFLambda 19y agoPaul Graham partitioned the Banach-Tarski ball, reassembled it back to two identical copies of itself and then sold the other copy to Yahoo for 100 million bucks.
- MasterOFLambda 19y agoPaul Graham is not afraid of going bankrupt. Going bankrupt is afraid of Paul Graham.
- MasterOFLambda 19y agoPaul Graham doesn't date Jessica Alba. On a first date, she didn't know how to implement Lisp in itself.
- rhyde 19y agoWho would win? Paul Graham or Jack Bauer?
- ivankirigin 19y agoPaul Graham's face is always too pixelated for Jack Bauer's image enhancement programs.
- terr 19y agoThere are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand Paul Graham, and those who don't know binary.
- eru 19y agoThere are only 3 types of mathematicans on the planet. Those who can count, and those who can not.
- Goladus 19y agoWhen Paul Graham goes to the cafeteria for lunch, he doesn't sit at a table. All the tables sit at Paul Graham.
- jey 19y agoIN SOVIET RUSSIA, PAUL GRAHAM.... wait, what?
- Xichekolas 19y agoIn Paul Graham, Soviet Russia... er... what?
- CHIEFARCHITECT 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, that C++ is called PG++
- FeepingCreature 19y agoAnd it's 0. Bignum Overflow.
- rugoso 19y agoPaul Graham is so brainy, he has 2 left brains, and uses 0.3% of one of those to emulate Picasso's right brain, only with a better interface.
- tejaswi 19y agoPaul Graham's laptop was built by Cray.
- MasterOFLambda 19y agoLisp programmers call Paul Graham a "godfather" of their "family" and for every parenthesis they use, they pay him a buck for "protection".
- MasterOFLambda 19y agoLisp programmers call Paul Graham a "godfather" of their "family" and for every parenthesis they use, they pay him a buck for "protection".
- big-j 19y agoAny sufficiently complicated developer contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Paul Graham.
- depleater 19y agoPaul Graham can find a third factor for a prime number. And more, if he feels like trying.
- jaymaj21 19y agoPaul Graham made the world in six days, and sold it on the seventh day to become multi-millionaire. There is no god but Paul Graham, and Paul Graham is His prophet. Creationists are baffled by the question: "Who created Paul Graham?"
- thomasswift 19y agoSome of these are great.
- zandorg 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, he carries a needle to burst Dotcom bubbles as he's not affected by them.
- choas 19y agohe just writes (paul graham) and yahoo will buy it
- arun 19y agoPaul Graham is a CIA experiment that went very very wrong....and he has an 'arc' chip embedded in his brain
- ww 19y agoDoctor Who has a real name, but Paul Graham encrypted it.
- BobCat 19y agoPaul Graham can give three young men only $6000 for a whole summer of 'work'.
- BobCat 19y agoPaul Graham ith tho thmart, he hath hith own dialect
- gameguru 19y agoPaul Graham only drives a car when his cdr is in the shop. Paul Graham can be written in ten lines using macros. Paul Graham can make NaN finally equal itself. Paul Graham will resurrect Usenet on Judgment Day. Paul Graham is the World Champion in Ambition.
- qwqw 19y agoPaul Graham is so good he somehow managed to take the credit for this paper. http://robotics.stanford.edu/users/sahami/papers-dir/spam.pdf http://robotics.stanford.edu/users/sahami/papers-dir/spam.pd...
- Morshwan 18y agoThe first virus was a poorly implementation of Paul Grapham's cell.
- jradis1337 18y agoPaul Graham isn't lactose intolerant, he just doesn't put up with lactose's shit!
- GsDGHASG 18y agopaul graham sucks balls.
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