djb

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by djb 15y ago
I've had the opportunity to speak with Gerry on a couple occasions. He's an incredibly nice and brilliant man. He pulled a postdoc into his office and they talked to me for about an hour on a huge variety of topics. He taught me the Y Combi
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by djb 15y ago
This is a nitpick but I think the pledge should read "No first use of software patents against companies with fewer than 25 people," since people are countable: http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000214.htm
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by djb 15y ago
There are some other essays of his in this directory: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/essays/
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Gerald Sussman: The Legacy of Computer Science(groups.csail.mit.edu)
3 points by djb 15y ago|1 comments
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by djb 16y ago
I think Feynman may have used this book. He mentioned having a calculus book that had the same quotation that this one begins with: "I don't believe in the idea that there are a few peculiar people capable of understanding math, and the res
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by djb 18y ago
SICP and learning calculus.
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Kevin Kelly: The Origins of Progress(kk.org)
2 points by djb 18y ago|0 comments
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by djb 18y ago
"SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing." —Philip Greenspun, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2005/03/07/how-long-is-th...
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The Art of the Job Offer: Encourage Candidates to Turn You Down(summation.typepad.com)
24 points by djb 18y ago|21 comments
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by djb 19y ago
Transcript: http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/importance.pdf
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by djb 19y ago
Thanks for the advice (and thanks to the others who responded to my post). I think I'll still give K&R a shot, possibly with the notes a13x recommended (I haven't had the time to check them out yet), because I don't want to buy another
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by djb 19y ago
I'm one. Coincidentally, I'll also be starting to learn how to program tomorrow. I'll be learning C from K&R. I wish you the best of luck with Python.