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by manny 18y ago
some backgroud behind #4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_point_combinator
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by manny 18y ago
This makes me want to learn Japanese /that/ much more.
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by manny 18y ago
No Perl fans here? Shame. :( I, then, humbly suggest Perl. You might like it, and with your Ruby background it shouldn't be hard to pick up.
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by manny 18y ago
This is hacker news, not script-kiddie news. Sorry.
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by manny 18y ago
man you all really hate this idea. why? I hope its not just because its a thought experiment you guys are afraid to think about. I personally love this thought experiment and the consequences one can reach from it.
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by manny 18y ago
irssi and finch (terminal app that comes with pidgin)
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by manny 18y ago
Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Rules of Life, Catch-22, 1984, Brave New World, and An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning (by Peter Eccles)
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by manny 18y ago
my response: so what?
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by manny 18y ago
1st step towards von Neumann Probes! ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_probe#Von_Neumann_p... )
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by manny 18y ago
Now /this/ is an area of science that I am extremely interested in. By the off-chance, does anyone know where a mathematician by trade (read: math major) could focus his efforts to get involved in this type of research?
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by manny 18y ago
One step closer to creating a Dyson Sphere ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere )!!
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by manny 18y ago
C, Perl, bash. Currently on my way to buy SICP so I can learn Scheme LISP. edit: it may interest you to know that I do absolutely no web development.
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by manny 18y ago
Is this Hacker News?
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by manny 18y ago
If you truely want a really great, small, book, purchase Peter J. Eccle's An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning. http://books.google.com/books?id=ImCSX_gm40oC&dq=an+intr...
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Getting the "Free" Business Model Wrong Doesn't Mean the Model is Flawed(techdirt.com)
4 points by manny 18y ago|0 comments
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by manny 18y ago
Also, ZFS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS ) might be worth looking into.
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by manny 18y ago
One way of defragging your files: moving all your content over to a fresh partition and moving it back equates to a completely unfragmented file system.
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by manny 18y ago
I stopped reading when she wrote about her math woes.
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by manny 18y ago
The obvious question to ask here is: how can I find one?
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by manny 18y ago
First time reading this. I found it completely amazing.
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by manny 18y ago
*Understand math Thank you for also realizing this. It is just mind boggling to me how many IT people are so utterly inept when it comes to basic mathematics. I truely believe that the fact that so many IT employees don't know math is leadi
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by manny 18y ago
The link doesn't seem to work. :|
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by manny 18y ago
bumping because I agree with this good list of calculus books.
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Milw0rm - exploits, vulns, videos, papers, shellcode(milw0rm.com)
1 points by manny 19y ago|0 comments
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by manny 19y ago
Sounds like an interesting idea, but what is to stop someone from just upmodding every comment in a thread?
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by manny 19y ago
Banach-Tarski paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach–Tarski_paradox This has always blown my mind. From Wikipedia: "The Banach–Tarski paradox is a theorem in set theoretic geometry which states that a solid ball in 3-dimensional spa
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by manny 19y ago
This book is great. Cryptography. Pirates. Finux. Battle scenes. Fantastic wit. What more can you ask for? Definitely a must read.
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by manny 19y ago
All I do is constantly think about the next project-euler challenge (www.projecteuler.net). ...Religiously.
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by manny 19y ago
Does anyone else here affiliate themselves with the cyberpunk movement? Is anyone here interested in cyberpunk ideas? Glossy fashion and role playing games allowed, I guess, but I'm more interested in people who actually code and have a lit
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NYTimes: The Evolution of Cyberpunk (1993)(query.nytimes.com)
6 points by manny 19y ago|5 comments

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