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by bcater 18y ago
I wonder how many sheets of paper it would save annually. I also wonder if we should gzip books before they're printed.
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by bcater 18y ago
I really enjoyed Guyton: http://www.amazon.com/Textbook-Medical-Physiology-Arthur-Guy... I wasn't a biology major, but from what I understand, this is a standard in the field.
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CoralCDN: positive experiences?
1 points by bcater 18y ago|0 comments
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by bcater 18y ago
This makes all of my random cutting/pasting into .txt files obsolete. Bravo!
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by bcater 18y ago
It's remarkable that this was on the front page with the TechCrunch article citing the Tweets concerning the Mumbai bombings. Yes, there is a point.
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by bcater 18y ago
It has already been linked here, but I think it's worth noting that Cathedral-soft is working on it: http://research.microsoft.com/Terminator/default.htm
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by bcater 18y ago
He writes with a very entertaining style. Bravo.
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by bcater 18y ago
http://www.danga.com/memcached/ It's like magic, but real.
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C.A.R. Hoare's Turing Award Speech(web.archive.org)
3 points by bcater 18y ago|0 comments
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by bcater 18y ago
Do something - anything - even if you know it's wrong. You're bound to hit upon something eventually. Just don't waste good time.
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by bcater 18y ago
Incidentally, Gilbert Strang is an engaging lecturer and quite a nice guy, though he has an unhealthy love of linear algebra.
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by bcater 18y ago
WebFaction blows me away. They are, quite simply, awesome.
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by bcater 18y ago
Is programming easier than ever? You're right; I don't want to write scripts to rename a bunch of files in asm. Still, programming isn't easy, as evidenced by how few people there are to look up to in the field relative to the number of par
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by bcater 18y ago
Start-ups are great for your health, or at least mine has been for me. I don't have enough money to go out to bars all the time, so I don't drink much, and I would really rather pay rent than buy cookies at the grocery store every week. On
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by bcater 18y ago
"A sprinter in a race almost immediately enters a state called 'oxygen debt.' His body switches to an emergency source of energy that's faster than regular aerobic respiration. But this process builds up waste products that ultimately requi
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by bcater 18y ago
"Find what race you belong in, drive yourself ruthlessly to win that race. If you win, great. If you lose, go read some comics and do some beers as there's no use winning if you can't smile all the way to the finish line." It's from a coach
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by bcater 18y ago
That sounds fishy.
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by bcater 18y ago
NOTICE: The following message contains hearsay. I heard that Justin from Justin.tv sold his first startup on eBay, but that could be entirely fictional. You might want to e-mail him to find out.
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by bcater 18y ago
LaTeX is the way to go.
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To the TracksRuns guy
1 points by bcater 19y ago|0 comments
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by bcater 19y ago
Co-founding a family, eh?
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by bcater 19y ago
I would love to solve one of Google's problems, particularly if they would pay me to do it. Your point seems to be more about understanding the problem.
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by bcater 19y ago
The one in BioPython is pretty good.
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by bcater 19y ago
But I LIKE functional programming.
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by bcater 19y ago
I'm a big fan of http://www.mattmaroon.com .
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by bcater 19y ago
Dale Carnegie wrote about guys working in a foundry who, the experts calculated, should be able to carry 47 tons of pig iron per day, yet they were only actually able to carry 12 (or something similarly smaller than 47). Upon closer inspect
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Ask YC: Which web host do you use?
27 points by bcater 19y ago|45 comments
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by bcater 19y ago
I said the same thing in a job interview once, and I believe that I got the job because of it. The key is to be able to say it with absolute conviction; you cannot fake it.
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Ask YC: Is there a solution better than advertising?
4 points by bcater 19y ago|5 comments
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by bcater 19y ago
I've actually been working on this idea for a bit. Pending holiday busy-ness, I'd like to have it out by the end of January.

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