Nate

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by Nate 19y ago
The Open Library is also a non-commercial source of information about books, i.e. an alternative to Amazon.com. See this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6924022.stm
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by Nate 19y ago
There are always two underlying themes in all Wolfram's writings: 1) Wolfram is a genius: the next Newton. 2) Buy Mathematica.
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by Nate 19y ago
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
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by Nate 19y ago
Hi Paul, Did you ever read Joel Spolsky's guide for User Interface Design? Users don't read anything. You need to design your UI with that in mind. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000062....
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by Nate 19y ago
There's a professor at Stanford, Robert Horn, who wrote a book called "Visual Language" which seems interesting. You can view sample pages here: http://www.macrovu.com/VLBkExmplPgsMenu.html
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by Nate 19y ago
If you really like visual mathematics, then there is a book called "Proofs without words": http://www.amazon.com/Proofs-without-Words-Exercises-Classro...
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by Nate 19y ago
Paul Graham is a default constructor. He takes no arguments.
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by Nate 19y ago
Paul 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.
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by Nate 19y ago
I'd like to see pg provide more info about Arc. In particular, I want to know how Arc handles concurrency, e.g. native threads, Erlang-style concurrency, etc.
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by Nate 19y ago
If you want the stats for YC, you can look them up on Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=http%3...
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by Nate 20y ago
This is just another company offering to "help" you with your credit card debt. Probably, the only reason that you can talk to the CEO is because there aren't any other employees to talk to. It's likely the company doesn't have many custom
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by Nate 20y ago
Have you taken a look at the Croquet Project? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_project http://www.croquetconsortium.org/index.php/Main_Page There are some videos of Alan Kay demonstrating an early version of it.
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by Nate 20y ago