kylec

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   by kylec 18y ago

   It's Wordle - here's a link to the create page: http://wordle.net/create
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   by kylec 18y ago

   I like how prominent the words in the Grahamism "make something people want" are - it really shows his commitment to that philosophy.
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   by kylec 18y ago

   Neither, unfortunately. It's a website that generates beautiful word clouds, so I decided to make one of pg's essays.
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   by kylec 18y ago

   The colors, unfortunately, don't represent anything - they're generated by the applet to easily differentiate between words
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   by kylec 18y ago

   If the applet doesn't load, here's a screenshot: http://modos.org/pg.png
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   Word cloud of Paul Graham's essays (applet, see comment for png)(wordle.net)

   66 points by kylec 18y ago|39 comments
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   by kylec 18y ago

   Why can't my professors be like this? I cracked up when he pulled out the bowl.
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   by kylec 18y ago

   They even teach about the Y combinator This is great news. In his essays, pg has repeatedly expressed interest in the Y Combinator enabling younger people to start startups - why not 11 or 12 year olds? They can grow their service functio
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   by kylec 18y ago

   I would even go so far to venture that the performance slowdown is deliberate - Apple's goal is to sell you hardware, and to that end it would not surprise me if the PPC version is intentionally slower to give the illusion that you'll need