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by davidmathers 16y ago
The best overview I've seen is Mathematics: Form and Function by Saunders Mac Lane: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0387962174/ It has the benefit of being written by one of the top mathematicians of the 20th century. There are downloadable copi
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there are a number of adult content tube sites that have some really quite excellent taxonomy, categorization and deeper search functions - surfacing the content that each viewer wants is a unique experience for each person Many of their
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we are about halfway from trough to peak That sounds reasonable. It was the implication of full recovery that sounded crazy to my mental model.
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aggregate demand has recovered Wow. Ok, I lean left and you lean right so obviously we're going to differ on some things. But, conceptually, you'd think those things would all be values-related things. In this case what you're saying conf
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The amount of logical and economic fail in this article is overwhelming. The Atlantic version was better, probably because it didn't have an axe to grind: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2072200 Disclaimer: I lean socialist but not na
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This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but the sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13] that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, not the earth. Whenever I see that quote I picture Martin Luther as the "Get A BRA
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people prefer larger volumes because it gives them the warm fuzzy feeling (tm) that they're going to find whatever they need inside That's how I felt when I was a novice. It didn't take to long to realize that most large books are padded
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Best sentence: "As rivals such as Yahoo! that have access to all their other internal resources catch up, what will the competitive pressure on Google be then?"
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Sorry, I don't understand your message. What's going to happen in 4 months?
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This feels a lot like 1995 or 1996 to me. Me too. Ergo it could produce another bubble. But here's why I'm doubtful: 1. Wild prediction: our free money era will be over in 3 years. Last time the money got cheaper as the bubble got bigger,
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Aside: Here's an example of what "new paradigm" language actually sounds like. This from the real estate bubble (and Bob Toll is Bertrand Russell compared to what the "new economics" people were saying in the tech bubble). New York Times: I
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Calling this a bubble would make the word bubble meaningless. Alan Greenspan said "irrational exuberance" in December 1996. He may have been right, and we may be in a similar period now. But when most people talk about the bubble they mean
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Q: "There was an article in the Post the other day about trivia now being trivial because of the ability to look up everything in an instant..." A: "...in a not-too-distant future where nobody knows their state capitals anymore, maybe trivi
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Sounds vaguely similar to http://www.activeinboxhq.com/
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Request for Typestate, Part 1: Typestate-oriented programming and Linear Types(requestforlogic.blogspot.com)
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If you're still around: did you evaluate flapjax? And if so did you find it lacking, or just not a good fit for your needs? I'm curious about FRP, but don't have any experience with it.
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No no no no. It didn't occur to me that my words might be interpreted this way: people you don't respect -- you think their "minds" are weak enough to need "vaccination" against a "disease" -- remedial text for political idiots I resp
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Short version: A Lunascript application specifes a data model and a function from the model to the view or user interface, annotated with handler functions from user inputs to model mutations. From this the Lunascript compiler produces a f
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"1984 successfully manipulated a lot of [gullible] people" 1984 successfully vaccinated a lot of people and helped stop certain diseases of the mind from spreading and causing more damage to civilization. Like Jonas Salk and polio. Althou
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That's it. The bit about the shim is what I was specifically thinking of.
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It was back in 1990 that I set out on a project in memetic engineering. The Nazi-comparison meme, I'd decided, had gotten out of hand - in countless Usenet newsgroups, in many conferences on the Well, and on every BBS that I frequented, th
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How is it a security problem? The article doesn't say anything about a security problem. On the contrary it says the security of some older fare cards has been compromised possibly allowing someone to alter their balance, though I am unawa
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you can't really say (although many have) that he's anti-christianity He wrote a book called The Anti-Christian . What else can you say?
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There's a great portrait of hacker vs non-hacker mentalities which I think is on pages 15 and 16. I just went to Google Books to see if I could pull a quote from it but those 2 pages are missing.
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Orwell is revered precisely because he was both simple and correct. Whoever told you that Orwell was supposed to be some sort of intellectual challenge or deep philosophy did you a great dis-service, because that's entirely missing the poin
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This was on the front page 2 weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2130501 Unfortunately that news item linked to a blog post and not to the project itself.
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Nice. You're about to start doing payment processing (among other things) for Hot House, my best client. Seeing you here gives me great confidence!
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Apropos: Why I Love Al Jazeera by Robert D. Kaplan http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/10/why-i-lo...
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Two things I wasn't expecting: Argentina vs Brazil & Spain vs Portugal. What's up with Portugal? And I didn't think France vs Germany/UK would be so drastic. Amazing. Some of the dots are in strange places. Like the 2 dots off the coast
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We haven’t talked to Sequoia, and it’s possible the partners don’t agree that Milner and Conway’s deal is a no-brainer. Come on Sarah. Seriously. Not only does the post not tell me how Yuri outfoxed Sequoia, it doesn't even make the claim

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