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31.
by garret 16y ago
One of the most useful mental habits I know I learned from Michael Rabin: that the best way to solve a problem is often to redefine it. http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html
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by garret 16y ago
I would guess that the more a person drinks, past a certain point, the more likely they are to lie about it.
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Against Eighties Music(jehsmith.com)
3 points by garret 16y ago|0 comments
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What made William James such a good philosopher: he was a good human being(newhumanist.org.uk)
1 points by garret 16y ago|0 comments
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Why Apple Doesn’t Deserve Your Trust(qblog.aaronsw.com)
12 points by garret 16y ago|4 comments
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by garret 16y ago
Scientists are supposed to know better than this. Maybe we shouldn't suppose so much.
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by garret 16y ago
he no longer pays much attention to the blog He pays attention enough to start comment threads about it.
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How Did Sports Get So Big?(moreintelligentlife.com)
1 points by garret 16y ago|0 comments
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Web standards == Safari?(qblog.aaronsw.com)
1 points by garret 16y ago|0 comments
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Mark Twain: A river runs through him(moreintelligentlife.com)
1 points by garret 16y ago|0 comments
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The Itch: a clue to a new theory about brains and bodies(newyorker.com)
2 points by garret 16y ago|0 comments
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Bless This Mess: Wading Through the Shit with the Disaster Masters(viceland.com)
2 points by garret 16y ago|0 comments
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Charles Bukowski, Family Guy(poetryfoundation.org)
1 points by garret 16y ago|0 comments
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What Python Fixes(paulgraham.com)
67 points by garret 16y ago|101 comments
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Find Your Voice: Writing for a Webzine(polaris.gseis.ucla.edu)
1 points by garret 16y ago|0 comments
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Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes(orwell.ru)
1 points by garret 16y ago|0 comments
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First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process(powells.com)
8 points by garret 16y ago|2 comments
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Searching for Jesus in the Gospels(newyorker.com)
2 points by garret 16y ago|0 comments
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Gödel in Hong Kong(nplusonemag.com)
1 points by garret 16y ago|0 comments
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Martin Gardner on Oprah Winfrey: Bright (but Gullible) Billionaire(csicop.org)
39 points by garret 16y ago|11 comments
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Douglas Hofstadter on Martin Gardner: A Major Shaping Force in My Life(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by garret 16y ago|0 comments
52.
by garret 16y ago
Gruber fails to mention the obvious motivation behind this. Maybe because it's obvious. The point of the article is that breaking copy/paste, whatever the reason, doesn't work: "Who, when they paste such text and find this “Read more:” at
53.
by garret 16y ago
the essential complexity of the code ... will manifest elsewhere By using a different language or by writing simpler code, you can avoid every complexity mentioned, so it's not really essential complexity. And programmers in any language
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Museums are obsolescent(jehsmith.com)
2 points by garret 16y ago|0 comments
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No self-respecting professor wants to discuss the soul in class(chronicle.com)
2 points by garret 16y ago|1 comments
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More people die of suicide in King County than from traffic accidents or murder(thestranger.com)
1 points by garret 16y ago|0 comments
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by garret 17y ago
> It is heavily restricted in what you can do with it. And that's what makes it more useful to more people.
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Pageview billing encourages publishers to distract you while reading(marco.org)
1 points by garret 17y ago|0 comments
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What Is 'Non-Western' Philosophy?(jehsmith.com)
5 points by garret 17y ago|0 comments
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Thoughts on paper are nothing more than footprints in the sand(ebooks.adelaide.edu.au)
1 points by garret 17y ago|0 comments

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