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by bdr 19y ago
The problem is that books can be inaccessible. Here are some possible reasons: -[Cost] You can't afford any books -[Geographic] There are no libraries or bookstores where you live -[Rarity] Only 3 copies are extant, and some jerk at Harvard
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by bdr 19y ago
Please write about groups, places to check out, and stuff to do for hacker-types. I just moved to SF and need some advice. :)
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by bdr 19y ago
It's in Plato's Republic, maybe the first chapter. I mean, they don't literally say testosterone, but it's the same idea.
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by bdr 19y ago
Events where I don't know anyone are usually horribly awkward. But what the hell -- that's what the open bar's for! See you all there.
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by bdr 19y ago
suggest "collaborators" instead of "collaberators", "ineffable" instead of "effable"
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Startups with offices: what about phones?
3 points by bdr 19y ago|7 comments
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by bdr 19y ago
PPK
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by bdr 19y ago
I'm doing some screen-scraping type stuff right now, and Forbes has the nastiest HTML I've ever seen on a big site. I don't think it means they'll fail though.
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by bdr 19y ago
Everything is applied philosophy. That's the point!
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by bdr 19y ago
"in fact, it would not be a bad definition of math to call it the study of terms that have precise meanings." What meanings? I think that math is made of structure, not meaning. The latter is a human phenomenon. For example, a proof using
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by bdr 19y ago
"They were in effect arguing about artifacts induced by sampling at too low a resolution." Sampling from what -- "meaning-space"?
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by bdr 19y ago
Q: How does startup by two hackers get a well-designed website? How much does it matter? Paul Graham: Matters different amounts depending on the application. The solution Google uses is just to make pages very bare and functional. They ha
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by bdr 19y ago
But what about Netcraft?