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Books That Have Shaped How I Think(tim.oreilly.com)
8 points by antiform 18y ago|0 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
There's also a nice pdf version here: http://www.changethis.com/6.HowToBeCreative
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by antiform 18y ago
I haven't been to noisebridge (yet), but from the people I've talked to at relatively large events like SuperHappyDevHouse, there's a quite a few smaller, informal groups of hackers getting together to work on stuff. It's just that most of
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by antiform 18y ago
If you're in the East Bay, there's Berkeley Coworking ( http://www.berkeleycoworking.com/ ) near the Ashby BART station. It's not all techies, and not open all the time, but it's a damn good place to get some work done.
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Minimal Advice to Undergrads on Programming(cscs.umich.edu)
6 points by antiform 18y ago|7 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
It certainly depends on what you're interested in. This is more of an encyclopedia of mathematics than a textbook. If you want an broad idea of many different fields of mathematics and the history behind them, presented in a well-written an
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by antiform 18y ago
This is a very insightful article, and I'm impressed with how much work the author put into getting something onto the front page of digg. If I were looking for somebody to do effective online PR, I'd be looking for somebody like this. I th
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Why Learning Haskell/Python Makes You a Worse Programmer(lukeplant.me.uk)
66 points by antiform 18y ago|50 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
I have a suggestion for what to read: the posts that make up Joel Spolsky's Introduction to Best Software Writing I. [ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BestSoftwareWriting.h... ] Most of the entries included in the book are solid arti
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by antiform 18y ago
When I first moved to the Bay Area, my roommate told me that the best way to find good places to eat and drink was to go onto a foodie forum like Chowhound and say something along the lines of "At [X], I had the best [Y] I've ever had!" bec
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by antiform 18y ago
What you say in your last statement is true and helps to clarify a subtle point. I tend to shove all of that stuff (logic, set theory, problems of undecidability, etc) into the nondescript box labeled "philosophy of mathematics." When I mea
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by antiform 18y ago
I rather enjoyed the book, but it is largely because I knew what I was getting into. It's a pop science book, written by a person with a philosophical background, and embellished in the Hollywood-esque fashion, pitting the good guy--Goedel,
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by antiform 18y ago
This is exactly the kind of thinking that the article argues against. Remember that Goedel is speaking within the context of formal systems, so there is relatively little impact to any area outside of the small field of philosophy of mathem
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by antiform 18y ago
Playing with Lua is a blast. I don't have much experience in using it for anything but a third-order language (e.g. writing programs that write programs), but it's very lightweight, fast, and easy to pick up. I view it as a language that
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by antiform 18y ago
There are a slew of fascinating recent advances in CS and I discover more with every passing semester, but for brevity I will pick three things that have been occupying my mindspace as of late. 1. It seems that lazy functional programming l
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by antiform 18y ago
Why argue with the MIT folks? Because even MIT changed its intro programming class's language from Scheme to Python. That said, I would still have liked to learn Scheme or a Lisp as a first language. It's a tiny language at its foundations
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by antiform 18y ago
Granted, Scott Adams does have an Economics degree and an MBA, but it is much more convincing (and productive) to attack his arguments rather than his qualifications or credentials.
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The Sophist and the Open-Source Baking Farce(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by antiform 18y ago|1 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
If it's so important to you personally, what is stopping you from going after it now?
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by antiform 18y ago
To make things more interesting, the book Black Romance paints Wareham as a pretty unsympathetic character. He pisses people off for seemingly no reason, he cheats on his wife after they had a baby, he lives the stereotypical rock 'n' roll
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by antiform 18y ago
I'm curious about your Ted "Kazinsky" comment. Are you talking about the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski? If so, I would like to know why him, of all the brilliant people in recent history? I know he was a precocious mathematician, and very gifted
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Journalism Scholarships Available for Programmers/Developers(medill.northwestern.edu)
1 points by antiform 18y ago|0 comments
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by antiform 18y ago
Steve Jobs to John Sculley: "Would you rather sell sugar water to kids for the rest of your life, or would you like a chance to change the world?" [ http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s... ]
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by antiform 18y ago
I'm of the belief that it doesn't really matter for the type of people you are talking about. If these "lost" people are as talented and ambitious as you claim, they will have no problem succeeding at whatever field in which they choose to
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by antiform 18y ago
Also, at least in math, while there is certainly more content than one can learn in a lifetime, with more content being created every day at an increasing rate, many different abstractions have been developed and clever analogies applied in
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by antiform 18y ago
He's been doing great stuff for a while. I've been a big fan since I first installed Blosxom as my first Perl script on my first webserver with CGI scripting what seems like ages ago. It seems like he would be a great fit with the whole Twi
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by antiform 18y ago
Ditto. Especially if become capable of using TeX-editing software like Ultra-TeX in Emacs or Vim-LaTeX, with their auto-completion features, you'll be able to write properly typeset text documents in a fraction of the time it takes to write
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by antiform 18y ago
It's not a race. Don't forget to slow down and enjoy life sometimes. Learn to appreciate friends and family, because the times you spend with them will be the ones that you cherish the most later.
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by antiform 18y ago
It's hard to escape your environment, strip everything away, and see your life from 10,000 feet. It's hard to see what it's like at the bottom if you're on top and there's dozens of layers between you and the people that actually get their
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by antiform 18y ago
I generally agree with what you're saying, and it's amusing how she proceeds to do something that is essentially what she is criticizing Gladwell for doing himself, but I give benefit of the doubt to the critic, because there is a remarkabl

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