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The book that goes with this course, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs , is excellent. It's available online: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
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Do more people forgo education today than did in the past?
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In San Francisco, the Sunset and Richmond districts might suit you. They're (relatively) affordable, popular with middle-class families, and a nice blend of residential and commercial.
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"In effect, every person in the (rich) United States has over the past 10 years or so borrowed about $4,000 from someone in the (poor) People's Republic of China." Uh, no. I get the feeling that the author doesn't really understand how tra
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My Personal Trade Deficit(slate.com)
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Google's guru of giving(economist.com)
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When Apple's Keynote Bounce Is a Thump(businessweek.com)
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Interesting point at the end about the inverse correlation between means-value and ends-value. But I'm not sure I buy it. Health and human rights seem to have more means-value than Rosling gives them credit for. Even an exploitative facto
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Why Apple's new laptop is basically useless(crunchgear.com)
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Totally overhyped language! Why isn't anyone paying attention to Lintel, my new dialect of COBOL?
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Hey, Steve -- you broke the Internet(mathewingram.com)
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Quines(madore.org)
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How to create a language mode for Emacs(two-wugs.net)
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Bill Joy: Why the future doesn't need us(wired.com)
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DrScheme on the XO (photos)(flickr.com)
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Dying in Code (RIP Chandler)(whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
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There is a huge body of literature on cognitive biases. Under the right conditions, people will reliably make stupid bets. For example: "Consider a regular six-sided die with four green faces and two red faces. The die will be rolled 20
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ITA Software's puzzle archive(itasoftware.com)
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"Which was Woz, the perfectionist or the pragmatist?" Over time, I've learned that it's not always an either-or thing. Many -- perhaps most -- people are both, depending on the activity. I'm a perfectionist about writing (code and natural
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The Startup Developer Superstar Detection Quiz(onstartups.com)
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Notes from Isaacson's biography of Einstein(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
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That's a false dilemma. It's like this argument: "Why is the government spending money on scientific research? Its most important job is to ensure people's safety, and dollars are scarce! Therefore, the government should put all its effo
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Good stuff: "When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people e
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"Who cares about laptops when you have problems like that?" It's not an either-or thing. Technology democratizes.
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Yes: as consumers, we're still captive to the wireless carriers. The difference is that now we're captive to the wireless carriers on Apple's terms. That change might seem insignificant for consumers. ("Le Roi est mort. Vive le Roi!") But t
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C++. That way, I'll look forward to my death.
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Not really. The modifications that people get today, usually of the breasts and face, are intended to enhance the visual indicators of youth and health. I don't think they're meant to signal wealth , especially since the people who get t
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I suspect that in a world where people can have their appearances overhauled, people will display their wealth by getting expensive body-modifications.
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The Economist, BBC News, Al Jazeera.
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by __ 19y ago
link plz??????

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